NEXTET, the contemporary music series at the UNLV School of Music features 20th and 21st-century concert music performed by faculty, students, and guest artists. Directed by Jennifer Bellor, Ph.D., NEXTET’s November concert will feature music by Virko Baley, Jennifer Bellor, Viet Cuong, Michael Torke, Diego Vega, and guest composers Carl Schimmel and Erich Stem. The composers will be at the event to talk about their music and meet with the audience.

Program

Michael Torke: Nave (2023)

• Arr. by Shawna Pennock
• Shawna Pennock, soprano sax
• Jennifer Bellor, piano

Viet Cuong: Suite (2010) for two oboes and English horn

• Stephen Caplan and Nicholas Carozza, oboe
• Garrett Dutcher, English horn

Erich Stem: Re:CONNECT (2023)

• Bryan Conger, clarinet
• Shawna Pennock, alto saxophone

Jennifer Bellor: Cuatro Canciones de las Últimas Horas (2024) (Four Songs of the Las Hours)

• Song cycle for bass – Spanish settings of love sonnets by Pablo Neruda
• Norman Espinoza, bass
• Jennifer Bellor, piano

Carl Schimmel: Elemental Homunculi (2005)

• Shawna Pennock, tenor sax
• Timothy Hoft, piano

Diego Vega: Double Reed or Nothing (2018)

• Nicholas Carozza and Isabella Westlake, oboe
• Garrett Dutcher, English horn
• Dillon Eagar and Liz Valvano, bassoon
• Kaylynne Cantwell, contrabassoon

Virko Baley: “Adam’s Apple” from Dreamtime: A Masque for seven instrumentalists (1993-1995)

• Tyler Gordon, conductor