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SUMMARY:Jonathan Hepner: Sisyphus as Artist
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second of six workshops as part of the Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices series with Jonathan Hepner\, who will join Wendy Richman in a conversation about how to develop as a working artist. \nSisyphus as Artist (Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work) \nWhether navigating complex scores or directing a series\, the common denominator is simply problem solving: using one’s sense of logic\, aesthetics\, ethics\, and intuition to figure out how to get from A to B. Every project or piece is completely different\, requiring constant reinvention and re-equipping of one’s toolbox. More abstractly\, but of equal or greater weight\, is the importance of nurturing non-musical artistic and creative interests while we hone our problem-solving skills. Whether performer\, presenter\, painter\, or poet\, artists flourish when we connect through our shared goal: to make a lasting impression on the souls of those around us. \nBio\n \nJonathan Hepfer is a percussionist\, conductor\, and concert curator. He began playing classical music at age seventeen after discovering the work of John Cage while studying at SUNY Buffalo. Subsequently\, Jonathan attended Oberlin Conservatory\, UC San Diego and the Musikhochschule Freiburg (on a DAAD fellowship) where he studied with Michael Rosen\, Steven Schick and Bernhard Wulff. \n​Since 2015\, he has been the Artistic Director of Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) in Los Angeles as well as its resident ensemble ECHOI. At MEC\, Jonathan has directed performances of major works by Pierre Boulez\, John Cage\, Julius Eastman\, Morton Feldman\, Philip Glass\, Gérard Grisey\, Sarah Hennies\, Yves Klein\, Arvo Pärt\, Steve Reich\, Salvatore Sciarrino\, Caroline Shaw\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Simeon Ten Holt and Iannis Xenakis. \nAs a curator and producer\, he has presented works by Georges Aperghis\, Pierluigi Billone\, Carolyn Chen\, Chaya Czernowin\, Julius Eastman\, David Hammons\, Sarah Hennies\, György Kurtág\, Klaus Lang\, Alvin Lucier\, Hans Otte\, Éliane Radigue\, Michael Pisaro-Liu\, Caroline Shaw\, Wadada Leo Smith\, Steven Takasugi\, Davóne Tines and Wu Tsang. \nJonathan has directed (or co-directed) projects at venues such as the Getty Museum\, Harvard University\, Hauser & Wirth\, Jeffrey Deitch\, LACMA\, LAXART\, Marciano Art Foundation\, the Santa Monica Carousel (Frieze)\, Thomas Mann House and the Pinault Collection in Paris. \n​As a percussion soloist\, Jonathan has focused extensively on the works of Georges Aperghis\, Pierluigi Billone\, Julius Eastman\, Brian Ferneyhough\, Morton Feldman\, Vinko Globokar\, Helmut Lachenmann\, Giacinto Scelsi\, Iannis Xenakis and Walter Zimmermann. In this capacity\, he has performed widely across the United States\, Europe and Asia. \nRecent independent projects have included serving as artistic director for a portrait of Julius Eastman at the Pinault Collection in Paris (a collaboration with Anaïs Ngbanzo\, Dev Hynes and Adam Tendler) and performing the role of conductor in a revival of Deborah Hay’s ‘Solo 2’ at the Getty Museum. Jonathan has also contributed to projects by friends such as Henrik Purienne (‘Tasjaki’ at Galerie Chenel)\, Vanessa Beecroft and Gustave Rudman (‘Two Shadows’ at Jeffrey Deitch) and Henri Levy Alexandre (Enfants Riches Déprimés S/S ’25). \nHe has published interviews with Meredith Monk (Autre Magazine)\, Éliane Radigue (Purple Magazine) and Steve Reich (Kaleidoscope Magazine). Jonathan also documented the oral histories of the pioneering generation of percussion soloists (Jan Williams\, Christoph Caskel\, Sylvio Gualda\, Jean-Pierre Drouet\, Gaston Sylvestre\, Maurizio Ben Omar). Jonathan has served on the faculty at Art Center Pasadena and Cal Arts. He is interested in the ways that music intersects with visual art\, literature\, architecture\, fashion and film. \nMore about Modal Interchange: Conversations on 21st-Century Performance Practices \nThe personality of Los Angeles’s new music scene mirrors its city’s culture and geography as a whole: equal parts diversity and decentralization\, in a battle for recognition and relevance that crisscrosses 650 freeway miles. This series casts a wide net around the new music community\, hosting a diverse group of individuals who might not otherwise share the same artistic and academic spaces in a series of lecture-workshops geared to an audience of performers. \nModal Interchange is a series of six workshops through 2026-27. Each workshop focuses on an element of 21st-century performing\, programming\, and music-making in the world of contemporary music: histories of experimental music and the avant-garde\, commissioning new works\, concert programming\, listening as an audience member\, listening as a performer\, score-reading and part-marking\, learning and practicing contemporary works\, researching and writing program notes\, improvisation\, and activism. \nThis series is conceived and hosted by violist Wendy Richman and produced in partnership with the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities. Dr. Richman is Lecturer in Performance Studies\, Director of uclaFLUX\, and a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble. \nFor the full schedule\, please visit our website: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/modal-interchange-conversations-on-21st-century-performance-practices/
URL:https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/jonathan-hepner-sisyphus-as-artist/
LOCATION:Room 1344\, 445 Charles E. Young Dr. #2525\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Classical,Contemporary,Lectures and Symposia,Masterclasses
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