8:30pm.

Nate Wooley used a Foundation for Contemporary Art award, received in 2016, as the seed money to begin For/With, a commissioning project to expand the solo trumpet literature with pieces that value collaboration, the spontaneity of improvisation, and exploring beyond the tradition of the instrument. American composer Sarah Hennies, known initially for her psycho-acoustic percussion works, wrote Monologue to close the last of For/With’s annual festivals in 2018. The piece, first intended to be comically performative, as the trumpet player slowly dismantles the horn and mimes its destruction, is underpinned by a feeling of a slow rite to failure, a meditation on everything gone wrong. The piece was premiered at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room October 16, 2019. Straw, by Canadian composer Martin Arnold, was commissioned in 2022, the result of funding from the New York Foundation of the Arts. Arnold’s music presents a fuzzy, warm, and slightly askew combination of extreme contemporary extended techniques with hummable and intimate folk melodies. The piece was premiered in Bergen, Norway on September 30, 2023, and this performance marks its American premiere.

Sarah Saviet is a violinist based in Berlin and dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician and is a member of the Saviet/Houston Duo and Ensemble Mosaik. She will give the US premier of British composer Bryn Harrison’s

A Coiled Form (2020/2022) for solo violin. It was commissioned for Saviet by the Riot Ensemble, with funding provided by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. She premiered the piece as a 15-minute version in Wigmore Hall in September 2021. She and Hrrison met to rehearse before the premiere and both felt that the material was calling for expansion. Over the following months she built a new route through the piece, winding through circular forms of holding and releasing through loops and slowly changing timbre. The construction of this path was informed by the different physical states and perceptions of time she experienced as it unfolded.