ANODE 16.2: Weston Olencki
FOCI Arts’ series ANODE (“Artistic New Orleans: Discussions and Extensions”) returns in 2016 with San Francisco-based contemporary music trombonist Weston Olencki. Olencki specializes in hyper-extended instrumental technique, intensive performance physicality, and re-definition of the performing body. His ANODE 16.1 program will feature some of the most imaginative music of today, including work by Aaron Cassidy, Andrew Greenwald, Evan Johnson, Michelle Lou, Timothy McCormack, Philip Schuessler, and Katherine Young. Olencki’s severe commitment, unimpeachable focus, and stunning technique make him one of the most thrilling young performers in American contemporary music. He has performed with some of the country’s most significant new music ensembles, including Ensemble Dal Niente, Fonema Consort, and Wild Rumpus, and is a recipient of a prestigious Stipendenpreis from the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. His visit to New Orleans promises to explore the very outer reaches of the musically and humanly possible.
ANODE 16.1 will consist of a performance and preconcert talk by Olencki and New Orleans-based composer Ray Evanoff at Southeastern Louisiana University on April 7, 2016, and a concert presented in conjunction with Versipel New Music in New Orleans on April 9, 2016 at Coup d'oeil Art Consortium. Details and full program to be announced soon.
