Oct. 10, 2010 Sunday Evening     High Wire Acts: music for small ensembles     Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with program annotator Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert   Laura Elise Schwendinger High Wire Act — flute, violin, viola, cello, piano Witold Lutoslawski Partita — violin, piano Diego Luzuriaga Tierra, Tierra — two flutes Henri Lazarof Duo-2004 — harp, percussion Paul Moravec Cool Fire — flute, two violins, viola, cello, piano Lutoslawski Lazarof Moravec Luzuriaga Schwendinger

	Dec. 5, 2010 Sunday Evening     The Music of Xi Wang World Premiere of the Voices of Change commissioned work Echo. Poem. Image. by SMU composer Xi Wang. Featuring guest artists Carol Leone, piano and Andrés Díaz, cello   Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with Xi Wang & Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert   Steven Stucky Four Album Leaves — solo piano Xi Wang Between — percussion duet Chen Yi At the Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert           — string quartet Xi Wang Rhapsody — solo cello Xi Wang Echo. Poem. Image.           — flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion Xi Wang Stucky Leone Chen Yi Diaz

	Jan. 23, 2011 Sunday Evening       And Legions Will Rise — MUSIC FOR THE NEW YEAR   Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with program annotator Laurie Shulman     7:30 PM concert   Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo Elliott Carter Enchanted Preludes — flute, cello Kevin Puts And Legions Will Rise — marimba, clarinet, violin Fant de Kanter 3 Lieder on Poems by Ingrid Jonker             — viola, mezzo-soprano, piano Poul Ruders Horn Trio — horn, violin, piano Ruders de Kanter Puts Carter Stravinsky

	Apr. 9, 2011 Saturday at 5pm   Piano Puzzlers: NPR's Bruce Adolphe       a Voices of Change BENEFIT FUNDRAISER with composer & pianist, Bruce Adolphe, star of NPR's Piano Puzzlers           Location:                               Martin Lawrence Gallery MAP at the Galleria – Level 3, between Nordstrom and Saks   Join us for Wine and light hors d’oeuvres as we experience the sparkling wit and fascinating musical inventions of Bruce Adolphe. Enjoy his fiendishly clever PIANO PUZZLERS: Guess "What Tune" in the style of "What Composer" and win a gift. Attire: Cocktail Casual     Prizes: Elegant Raffle

	Apr. 10, 2011 Sunday Evening       The Tiger's Ear: music of bruce adolphe       Special guest composer, Bruce Adolphe, star of NPR's Piano Puzzlers Featuring guest artists Marija Stroke, piano, Lucille Chung, piano, Willa Henigman, oboe, and Elizabeth Racheva, soprano   Caruth Auditorium at SMU MAP 6:30 PM pre-concert forum — with Bruce Adolphe & Laurie Shulman 7:30 PM concert   Bruce Adolphe Three Secret Stories — violin, piano Bruce Adolphe Wind Across the Sky — soprano, violin, cello, piano Bruce Adolphe The Tiger’s Ear:             Listening to Abstract Expressionist Painters             — with slide show Adolphe Stroke Chung Henigman Racheva

	Board of Directors for the 2010-2011 Season Jack Waldenmaier, President Habib Loriot-Bettaieb, Vice-President Development Harvey Stiegler, Vice-President Operations Francis Osentowski, Secretary William F. Barstow, Treasurer Heather Carlile Alexander Djinov Arend Julius Koch Karen Moyer Terry Thompkins Ex Officio: Maria Schleuning, Artistic Director Eileen McKee, General Manager Advisory Board: Jo Boatright, Artistic Director Emerita Emanuel Borok, Concertmaster, Dallas symphony Orchestra Phillip Collins, City of Dallas, Office of Cultural Affairs Liason Dr. Robert Frank, Composition Chair, SMU Meadows School Herb Levy, Artistic director, Other Arts Dr. Paul Phillips, Composer & Conductor, SMU Meadows School Mary Alice Rich, Composer and Educator Dr. Laurie Shulman, Annotator and Author

Voices of Change is the Southwest's premiere professional chamber music ensemble dedicated to the performance of music of our time. Now in its 36th year, Voices of Change fills a unique niche in the music world by performing small ensemble works by 20th and 21st century composers, encouraging and preserving the impulse of musical creativity and imagination.

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Founded in 1974 by pianist Jo Boatright and clarinetist Ross Powell, Voices of Change is one of the longest-lived and most distinguished new music ensembles in the United States. In 1999, Voices of Change was a finalist for the prestigious Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Small Classical Ensemble. The CD, Voces Americanas, features works of five living composers of Hispanic descent. The Grammy nomination is a first for any Dallas/Fort Worth area chamber music ensemble. Voices of Change has been awarded the annual ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming an unprecedented five times and has recorded LPs and CDs on the CRI, Crystal, Innova, Albany, Centaur, and Redwood labels.

The artists are first-tier professional musicians playing music written by well-known and up-and-coming professional composers. The music of living composers is challenging and requires the skill and dedication of accomplished classical musicians to be played.

The ensemble has been privileged to host more than one hundred composers who have come to hear, discuss, and often participate in the performance of their pieces. Voices of Change has presented over 75 world premieres (more than 25 of which were commissioned by the ensemble), performed music by over 300 composers, and made numerous recordings, including five CDs. Voices of Change is also dedicated to commissioning new works and recording them. The ensemble co-produces an annual young composers competition to introduce and support the music of promising college and high-school composers.

Voices of Change is supported by: The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Aaron Copland Fund for New Music, Target Corporation, the EPIK Foundation, TACA, Automotive Advertising, Inc., The Dallas Foundation, the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), Times Ten Cellars and WRR-101.1 FM.

“The Beethoven, the Debussy, the Corigliano of tomorrow – they are all out there. We deserve to hear them, and they deserve to be heard …Voices of Change, Dallas’ enduring new-music chamber music ensemble, has built its reputation and educated area audiences with an eclectic approach, programming a strong mixture of 20th-century classics and new, innovative works by living composers.”
— Wayne Lee Gay, FW Star Telegram

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