About this Event
This is a "save the date" event for now. Yes, we set up ticket sales because, what else do you really need to know? We will have more details soon.
Chris is a world renown composer who has been celebrated in symphony halls all over the country. He is a Wash U. professor who teaches music to young people that will define the next generation of classical music. He is young himself, at the ripe old age of "under 50". His goal is to present chamber music in a non-traditional setting. Well, Joe's Cafe does that pretty well! There are folks who have come before him doing similar things at Joe's so we know it can work!
This is fun, folks. This is a serious composer who writes for full orchestras, and he is gonna hang out with us at Joe's Cafe for a couple Saturday nights in 2022. September 3 (this show) is the first and there will be another in November. The two shows will differ so it would be fun to go to both. Buy these tickets now and buy the others when they come out.
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The below bio was shamelessly stolen from an Ivy League publication.
Christopher Stark (b. 1980, St. Ignatius, MT) is a composer of contemporary classical music deeply rooted in the American West. Having spent his formative years in rural western Montana, his music is always seeking to capture the expansive energy of this quintessential American landscape. Stark, whose music The New York Times has called, "fetching and colorful," has been awarded prizes and commissions from organizations such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, Chamber Music America, the Orléans International Piano Competition, ASCAP, and the Barlow Endowment. Named a 2017 "Rising Star"by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his music has been performed by such ensembles as Alarm Will Sound, American Composers Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Piano Quartet, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Momenta Quartet, New Morse Code, FLUX Quartet, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. In 2012, he was a resident composer at Civitella Ranieri, a fifteenth-century castle in Umbria, Italy, and in June of 2016 he was awarded a residency at Copland House. Recent highlights included performances at the 2016 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the 2016 NY Phil Biennial. Stark recently completed a three-month residency in Bergen, Norway where he worked with members of the BIT20 Ensemble from the Bergen Philharmonic on a new string quartet, and in 2019 he will write a new work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to be conducted by John Adams at Walt Disney Concert Hall. His score for the feature-length film, “Novitiate,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2017 and was theatrically released in October by Sony Pictures Classics. Stark is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis.
Normal Joe's rules apply.
BE VACCINATED
• Doors 7pm, show 8pm.
• $15 Eventbrite advanced tickets
* $20 at the door, night of
• Bring your own food and drink.
• Please don't park on Kingsbury.
• No talking over the music.
• Try to be over 25
Thanks for following these simple rules, it makes it work for everyone.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Joe's Cafe & Art Gallery, 6014 Kingsbury Avenue, St. Louis, United States
USD 15.00