PRESS RELEASE FROM UNC ASHEVILLE:
John Steffa, a composer and cellist whose works blend non-Western folk influences with contemporary Western forms, will host a concert of original chamber works at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 30 at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Hall lobby. This concert, featuring local musicians as well as artists from Georgia, Florida and Kentucky, is free and open to everyone.
Steffa’s sound grew out of personal field research on indigenous folk music around the world, and he fuses elements of those traditions with his own harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary. The concert will include Festival Diversion for Flute and Piano, which includes an optional “intro” and “outro” recording from a Peruvian harvest festival, and Kinesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, which works through abstract motives and ideas.
Samples of Steffa’s music can be heard at https://www.reverbnation.com/johnsteffa
For information, about upcoming concerts from UNC Asheville’s Department of Music, visit music.unca.edu/upcoming-events.
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