Eco Ensemble

The UC Berkeley Music Department's ensemble in residence devotes its winter concert to works by alumni of the university's prestigious composition program, praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a constant source of challenging and arresting new compositions." In recent seasons, the adventurous ensemble has performed the music of visiting composers Kaija Saariaho and Toshio Hosokawa, as well as faculty members Ken Ueno, Edmund Campion, and Cindy Cox to great acclaim. This season, director David Milnes leads the group through acoustic and electroacoustic works by recent and distant graduates, including Jimmy López Bellido and Mason Bates, among others.

Artists

Eco Ensemble
Best of Berkeley
David Milnes, director

Program

SIVAN ELDAR
L'eau la colonne le fer for fixed multi-channel electronics (2023)

DIDEM COSKUNSEVEN
Dawn Chorus for vibraphone, marimba, bass drums, and electronics (2023)

MAIJA HYNNINEN
...sicut aurora procedit for solo violin and electronics (2015)

JIMMY LOPEZ
Warped Symmetry for solo flute (2011)

OREN BONEH
Her Majesty the Fool for solo accordion, and electronics (2020)

MASON BATES
Digital Loom for organ and electronica (2015)

KEERIL MAKAN
Mercury Songbirds for alto flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello (2008)

EDMUND CAMPION
Le Sillage (WAKE) for improvising cellist, ensemble, and live electronics (2024)