The new music duo Transient Canvas will visit Mizzou next month for a residency and concert.
They’ll perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, February 4 at Whitmore Recital Hall, presenting a program of electroacoustic music by contemporary composers Brian Sears, Kirsten Volness, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Marissa Hickman, Dan VanHassel, and David Ibbett. The concert is free and open to the public.
While they’re on campus, bass clarinetist Amy Advocat and percussionist Matt Sharrock also will present master classes on their respective instruments and make a presentation to student composers. They’ll wrap up their residency by reading new works from Mizzou student composers at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 5 in Room 112 of Loeb Hall.
Advocat and Sharrock started working together as Transient Canvas in 2011, and since then have premiered more than 80 new works, performing across the United States and abroad. Based in Boston, MA, they have released two albums on New Focus Recordings: their debut Sift in 2017, and Wired, which came out in November 2018.
Transient Canvas has performed at the Alba Music Festival in Italy, Music at the Forefront (Bowling Green, OH), Composers, Inc. (San Francisco, CA), New Music at the Short North Stage (Columbus, OH), the SoundNOW Festival (Atlanta, GA), and more.
Reflecting their ongoing interest in educating young performers and composers, they’ve presented masterclasses and composition workshops at Baldwin Wallace, Cleveland State, Franklin Pierce, Fresno Pacific, James Madison, Kennesaw State, Kent State, Northern Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Rutgers, and San Jose State Universities, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, University of Maine, UNC Pembroke, University of the Pacific, UW Green Bay, and UW Madison
They’ve also done residencies with the composition departments at Harvard, Northeastern, Brandeis, Otterbein, and Tufts Universities, the University of Georgia, the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
You can hear some of Transient Canvas’ music on their SoundCloud page, and watch a selection of past performances on their YouTube channel.