Talea Ensemble Incorporated

Silent Auction: Talea at 15!

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We are hosting a silent auction in honor of Talea's 15th anniversary season! Our musicians, board, and staff have generously donated items for the auction, from food and drink to private lessons to a house concert. The auction opens on Thursday, May 30th, 2024 at 6:30 PM ahead of our Encores: 15th Anniversary Celebration concert at the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew. It closes at the end of the weekend on June 2nd at 11:59 PM EST.

All funds raised from this auction benefit Talea's operations and upcoming projects. Your support especially helps to fuel our early career artist development initiatives and our ambitious, explorative self-produced programs. For a small, artist-powered organization like Talea, every contribution truly makes a difference. For example, $100-$200 allows us to make a podcast and offer a professional development session for early career composers. $200-$500 goes a long way in helping us to rent/license music. $500-$1000 can underwrite part or all of a musician's work for a concert. $2000 covers expenses for an entire commission in our early career composers program. Every dollar counts in helping Talea create the impact we want to see on our community of musicians, composers, and audiences.

Your auction payment is not tax deductible (because goods or services are exchanged). However, we WILL recognize you as a donor for the 2024/25 season, and you'll be eligible for the following giving level benefits:

Friend (up to $50)

Recognition in programs for 2024/25 season (if desired)

Supporter ($50+)

Recognition in programs

Talea sticker & pin

Sustainer ($150+)

All of the above

A Talea album/CD

Invitation to an open rehearsal in the 2024/25 season

Benefactor ($500+)

All of the above

A signed score of choice

Producer ($1000+)

All of the above

Invitation to a musicians’ happy hour / salon event

Composers Club ($5000+)

All of the above

Your choice of a concert or commission to underwrite

Finally, we hope you will consider a donation in honor of Talea's 15th anniversary season, even if you are not among the winning bids. Tax-deductible donations may be made at: https://donorbox.org/talea-15-years or via check at (500 Eighth Avenue, #1563, New York, NY 10018).

House Concert Featuring Talea Musicians (NYC)

$500

Current bid

A chamber music concert in your home (NYC metropolitan area), featuring several members of the Talea Ensemble. Details and dates to be arranged with the winning bidder in the 2024/25 season. Estimated value: $1000

Takasugi's "Sideshow" package: signed score & artwork

$190

Current bid

Signed miniature score of Sideshow (written for Talea) by Steven Kazuo Takasugi, with one-of-a-kind, collector’s item cover (original artwork), and signed bonus Talea Ensemble KAIROS Blu-ray Video of Sideshow. Estimated value: $300 Item to be mailed to winning bidder.

Composition Lesson with Victoria Cheah

$150

Current bid

A 1-hour composition lesson with Victoria Cheah, composer, Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, and Talea's Director of Production. Details to be arranged between winning bidder and Victoria Cheah. Estimated value: $150+ Victoria Cheah is a composer whose work concerns boundaries, transitions, sustained effort, and intimacies within social-performance rituals. Her work has been commissioned and/or featured by ensembles and presenters including Talujon, Either/Or, Non-Event, Switch Ensemble, Line Upon Line, Han Chen, andPlay, Yarn/Wire, Wavefield Ensemble, MATA Festival, Guerilla Opera, Ensemble Dal Niente, Vertixe Sonora, Marilyn Nonken, PRISM Quartet, and performed by others. Recordings of their music can be found on Dinzu Artefacts, New Focus Recordings, and XAS Records. Cheah currently serves as Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory, as well as Director of Production of Talea Ensemble. From 2011-2015, Cheah served as the founding executive director of Boston new music sinfonietta Sound Icon. She has worked with ensembles and festivals including Composers Conference, Manhattan Sinfonietta, Argento Chamber Ensemble, Composit Festival, and Cantata Profana towards the realization of contemporary music events in New York, Boston (USA) and Rieti (IT). Previously, Cheah has taught music, research, and writing related courses as an instructor at Longy School of Music, Brandeis University, and as a teaching fellow at Harvard University. As a composer, she has attended academies including Sommerakademie Schloss Solitude, Darmstadt, Fontainebleau, VIPA, SICPP, The Walden School, and others. Cheah holds a B.A. in music from City University of New York Hunter College (Macaulay Honors College) and a Ph.D. in music composition & theory from Brandeis University.

Clarinet Lesson with Rane Moore

$150

Current bid

One Zoom clarinet lesson with Talea clarinetist Rane Moore. Details to be arranged between winning bidder and Rane Moore. Estimated value: $150+ Rane Moore is highly regarded for her thoughtful, provocative interpretations of both standard and contemporary repertoire. Devoted to the new music communities of the East Coast and beyond, Moore is a founding member of the Talea Ensemble, which regularly gives premieres of new works at major venues and festivals around the world. Moore has recently joined the Fischoff Gold Medal–winning wind quintet, the City of Tomorrow, and is also a member of Boston’s Callithumpian Consort and Sound Icon. She is the principal clarinetist for the Boston Philharmonic and Boston Landmarks Orchestra. Moore is also a regularly invited collaborator with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Boston Musica Viva, Emmanuel Music, A Far Cry, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. Moore’s latest festival performances include events at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, Wien Modern, Warsaw in Autumn, ECLAT in Stuttgart, Darmstadt International Music Festival, Resonant Bodies Festival in New York, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Project Gruppe Neue Musik in Bremen, Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, Ojai Music Festival, Cervantino Festival in Mexico, Time of Music in Finland, Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemäßer Musik, Transit Festival in Belgium, Time Spans, Contempuls 5 in Prague, Sacrum Profanum in Krakow, June in Buffalo, the Village Vanguard, Newport Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Jazz à la Villette in Paris, Monadnock Music, Rockport Music, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Town Hall Concerts in Seattle, and Trinity Wall Street in New York. Ms. Moore is a passionate educator and is on the faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Longy School of Music of Bard College. She is the co-artistic director of Winsor Music, a much beloved chamber music series and musical outreach organization in the Boston area.

Flute lesson with Laura Cocks

$150

Current bid

One flute lesson with Talea flutist Laura Cocks (NYC-based). Estimated value: $150+ Laura Cocks (they/she) is a flutist with “febrile instrumental prowess” (The New York Times), who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music and “creates intricate, spellbinding works that have a visceral physicality to them” (Foxy Digitalis). Laura is the executive director and flutist of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), with whom Laura makes musics "that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (WIRE Magazine). As a soloist, improviser, and chamber musician, they have performed with musicians such as DoYeon Kim, Shara Lunon, Timothy Angulo, Luke Stewart, Wendy Eisenberg, Lester St. Louis, Brandon Lopez, and Madison Greenstone, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Sun Ra Arkestra, Talea Ensemble, and many others in NYC and abroad. Laura's recent solo album, field anatomies (Carrier Records), noted as one of Stereogum’s top-ten experimental releases of the year, charted in the Billboard top ten “Classical Crossover” releases and was praised for its “superhuman physicality” and “disciplined patience” (Bandcamp Best Contemporary Release and Experimental Release). They have been in residence at institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, The Centre for Research in New Music at Huddersfield University, University of Chicago, The Delian Academy for New Music, and many others. They have given masterclasses and taught seminars in performance practice, composition, professional development, and applied critical theory at institutions such as Oberlin Conservatory, California Institute of the Arts, University of California San Diego, Columbia University, and at University of Pennsylvania, where TAK held the position of Long-term Visiting Ensemble in Residence from 2022-2023.

Jeremy Shatan's Bar Cookie Bonanza

$50

Current bid

Bar Cookie Bonanza: A variety of bar cookies (two dozen in total) baked by Talea board president Jeremy Shatan, including his Choc-A-Holic Brownies, the best you've ever had!

Superball Mallets Handmade by Sae Hashimoto

$45

Current bid

An assortment of Superball Mallets handmade by Talea percussionist Sae Hashimoto. A must-have item for a new music musician, and a fun addition to your everyday life! Rub these against any surface to make a cool sound. Extra credit if you can make a whale-like sound on a drum. It may look like a lollipop, but it's not for human consumption!

Assorted aged stout beers, limited edition

$65

Current bid

Calling all beer drinkers! This is an assortment of aged bottles of stout beers, including limited edition 2018 and 2019 Goose Island, Westbrook Mexican Cake, and Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout - items that you can't find on the shelves anymore. Estimated value: $120 Disclaimer: Some stouts age better than others (like fine wine), so there's no guarantee on how they'll turn out. But should be fun for beer lovers to taste! These cannot be shipped - pick up only in NYC.

A bicycle tune-up

$100

Current bid

A bicycle tune-up with Talea bassist Greg Chudzik (NYC based). For mechanical bikes only (no electric bikes) Estimated value: $85

Tickets to NY Phil/Dudamel Kate Soper Premiere

$200

Starting bid

Two tickets to the New York Philharmonic's world premiere performance of a new work by Kate Soper, a quasi-staged oratorio for solo voice and orchestra featuring Kate Soper as vocalist. Also on the program is Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements and Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 11. Gustavo Dudamel conducts. May 22, 23, 24 or 27. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/dudamel-soper Estimated value: $690

Dinner at Harvard Club with Steven Takasugi + Tickets

$200

Current bid

Dinner for one or two with composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi at the Harvard Club of New York City during the August 2024 TIME:SPANS Festival, chatting about all things Talea history and today's music composition (date and time to be arranged). Plus, two special reserved seats during Talea's New York premiere of Takasugi's Piano Concerto on August 18th at The DiMenna Center’s Cary Hall, Roger Admiral, solo pianist and James Baker, conductor. Estimated value: $600

Get An Earful from AnEarful

$75

Starting bid

Get An Earful from AnEarful: Stuck in the same musical rut? Starting to think they don't make'em like they used to? Whatever your taste, Jeremy Shatan, Board President of the Talea Ensemble and founder of AnEarful, will consult for your or your business and help you find the finest music of our time. Estimated value: $250

Series of Three Private Yoga Sessions

$300

Starting bid

Series of three, 1-hour long Private Yoga sessions with Elissa Vomacka, catered to your physical needs and experience. Estimated value: $500

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