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TACTUS is a Manhattan School of Music contemporary ensemble dedicated to providing students with opportunities to study and perform works composed during our lifetime. Students from the Contemporary Performance Program (CPP), along with other MSM students interested in new music, work directly with living composers and learn both masterworks and lesser-known pieces of the 20th and 21st Centuries. A flexible ensemble, TACTUS performs both as a chamber orchestra and as smaller unconducted ensembles. Orchestral performances are often conducted by CPP faculty member Jeffrey Milarsky, one of New York's foremost conductors of new music. Chamber groups are coached by CPP's distinguished faculty. The 2009–10 season will feature the inauguration of the new CPP Concerto Competition, with a concert devoted to competition winners. TACTUS performs frequently both at MSM and in New York City, appearing at such venues as The Tank and Waltz. Past seasons have included music by Giacinto Scelsi, Michael Gordon, Radiohead, Luciano Berio, George Rochberg, George Perle, Elliot Carter, Tan Dun, Raymond Scott, Steve Reich, Edgard Varèse, John Cage, Martin Bresnick, Frederic Rzewski, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe. TACTUS has performed commissioned works by all MSM faculty composers and has featured occasional performances of works by MSM student composers. TACTUS has been invited to play at Oberlin College, Princeton University,
Queens College, and Cooper Union, and was the ensemble for the American
premiere of Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison’s multimedia event
Decasia for ensemble and film. |
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