Violinist Sarah Plum performs at Constellation in Chicago
May 29 concert will be live-streamed worldwide
"I can't think of a better flag bearer than Sarah Plum who is quite brilliant" — The Whole Note
The ever-adventurous violinist Sarah Plum has long been a champion of contemporary music. Her May 29 recital at Constellation in Chicago celebrates the forthcoming release of her new recording, Personal Noise (Blue Griffin Records, released June 2022).
The concert is streamed worldwide on Youtube and Facebook at 9:30 pm EDT (8:30 pm CDT), for a suggested admission of $5. Tickets to view the live-stream, or to attend in person, are available here.
The program focuses on music for violin and electronics, most of which was written especially for Ms. Plum, including works by Kyong Mee Choi, Osnat Netzer, Mari Kimura, Mari Takano, Charles Nichols, and Jeff Herriott. The highlight of the program is the world premiere of the deeds by the multi-media sound artist Laurie Schwartz. The work is for video (taken from Suffragette), spoken word sound files and improvised processed violin. Violinist Charlene Kluegel joins Ms. Plum for Mari Kimura's Sarahal.
Calendar Listing
May 29, 2022
at 8:30 pm CDT (9:30 pm EDT)
Sarah Plum, violin and viola
with Charlene Kluegel, violin and Laurie Schwartz, electronics
Constellation
3111 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL
PROGRAM
Osnat Netzer (arr. Sarah Plum): Olive Cotton for solo viola
Charles Nichols: Il Prete Rosso for violin, live electronics, and motion sensor
Jeff Herriott: after time, a resolution for violin and live electronics
Mari Takano: Full Moon
Laurie Schwartz: the deeds
Kyong Mee Choi: Flowering Dandelion
Mari Kimura: Sarahal
$15 (and $5 live-stream) tickets available here
Biography
The "adventurous indie violinist" (New York Music Daily) Sarah Plum’s career centers around championing new music, commissioning composers and bringing contemporary music to a wider audience. Her "consistently stunning” playing (Third Coast Digest) has been featured at festivals and venues worldwide, from Ankunft:Neue Musik Festival at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof to the Cube at Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, and many in between.
Plum’s discography includes her 2022 release, Personal Noise, an album of works for violin and electronics written for her by Kyong Mee Choi, Eric Lyon, Jeff Herriot, Charles Nichols, Mari Takano, Eric Moe and Mari Kimura. Album releases in 2011 and 2015 feature music by Bartok, Sidney Corbett and Christopher Adler.
Sarah Plum is on the faculty at both the Music Institute of Chicago and their elite Academy program and teaches at the Zodiac Music Academy and Festival and University of Oklahoma Summer String Academy. She was Professor of Violin and Viola at Drake University from 2007-2018. Plum earned a DMA at SUNY Stony Brook, after graduate and undergraduate studies at Juilliard.