Ars Futura
new music ensemble
Ars Futura is a newly formed, Cleveland-based collective of
classically trained musicians, dedicated to commissioning and
performing new music. Our mission is twofold: to nurture the
evolution of modern music through collaboration with living
composers, and to share Cleveland’s unique musical energy
with other communities.
PROGRAM:
Music by Takashi Yoshimatsu, Bohuslav Martinu, Eric Charnofsky, Marshall Griffith, Keith Fitch, Joseph Hallman and George Enescu
Free Admission; we suggest $10 minimum donation
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Shuai Wang, founder and artistic director
for the Ars Futura. Dr. Shuai Wang performs
actively as a recitalist, soloist, and orchestral
keyboardist. She recently performed concerts
in the US on the east coast, including
the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Merkin Hall in NYC, Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston, Kleinhans Music hall
of the Buffalo Chamber Music Series, Sailfish
Point Culture Center in Florida, and the
Performing Arts Center at the University of
Georgia. She presented solo recitals at the
Tianjin Chinese (ZhongHua) Theatre and
Tianjin People’s Art Theatre, sponsored by
the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, and has performed solo programs in
Palm Beach Florida, Ann Arbor, Chicago, San Francisco and Budapest
Hungary. Dr. Wang has appeared as a soloist with the CIM Orchestra,
the Canton Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with the CIM
New Music Ensemble at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland,
and the FiveOne New Music Ensemble. She is the keyboardist for the
Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Orchestra,
the Fireland Symphony Orchestra and a substitute keyboardist for
the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. She has received her BM, MM and
DMA from Cleveland Institute of Music. Currently, Dr. Shuai Wang serves
as the piano instructor and collaborative pianist at the Cleveland Institute
of Music. She is the director of the Classical Revolution Cleveland.
Madeline Lucas, flutist and artistic manager,
is a chamber musician and contemporary
music specialist based in Cleveland, OH.
Originally from Charlotte, NC, Ms. Lucas studied
with Valerie Simosko and Joshua Smith.
Madeline earned a BM and MM from the
Cleveland Institute of Music, where she garnered
accolades for adventurous programming, chamber ensemble leadership
and exemplary orchestral playing. Ms. Lucas has performed with
The Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Band and Festival Orchestra and The
Ohio Philharmonic, and was flutist and manager of Five One Experimental
Orchestra. She has performed over fifteen US and World Premieres,
including three written for her. She was invited to compete in the 2010
National Flute Association Young Artist Competition.Equally talented and
accomplished as an artistic manager, Madeline is currently the Ensembles
Manager at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she oversees 285
conservatory students in three orchestras, an opera orchestra, and wind
ensemble. She also performs duties by contract for chamber ensembles
seeking management. Ms. Lucas currently resides in Cleveland Heights,
OH with writer and video artist KD Tolliver. In her free time, Madeline enjoys
cooking, politics and philosophy, film, yoga, and baseball.
Carlos Javier, is a cellist originally from
Las Vegas, NV. He recently graduated from
the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was
a student of Stephen Geber. He previously attended
school at Colorado University where
he studied with Judith Glyde and Andras Fejer.
Carlos has worked with Classical Revolution
Cleveland since Fall 2011. Carlos has
also helped create and manage the Hudson
Chamber Players- a nonprofit chamber music
series in Hudson, OH. Dedicated to outreach Carlos is also the Director of Music in the community music project the
musCLE house. Currently anticipating a Winter 2013 start date, the organization
seeks to provide music lessons to the students of the Cleveland
Metropolitan School district that recently cut its music performance
programs. As a cellist, Carlos has been featured on NPR’s Performance
Today and on WCLV. He has performed with members of the Takacs, Juilliard,
and Cavani String Quartets. Carlos is currently on the cello staff at
Baldwin Wallace University and a faculty member at the Chamber Music
Connection in Columbus, OH. In his off time, Carlos enjoys graphic designing,
riding his bike, and playing pick-up basketball.
