At the Tang: Cellist Ashley Bathgate to perform music by David Lang and others

Note to our readers: The Ashley Bathgate performance is sold out, but it will be available live online at 7 p.m. by clicking here. We hope you can join us!

Saratoga Springs native and Bang on a Can All-Stars cellist Ashley Bathgate will perform the music of David Lang and other composers at Skidmore’s Tang Museum on Friday, October 10, at 7 p.m. The concert will take place in the Wachenheim Gallery within the  I was a double exhibition, co-curated by David Lang and the Tang’s Dayton Director Ian Berry.

Hailed by the New York Times for her "rich tone, fluid dynamics and imaginative phrasing," Bathgate will perform with percussionist Ian Rosenbaum and Skidmore student musicians in a varied program that will include the following:

·      Little Eye by David Lang 

·      "to the earth" by Fred Rzewski 

·      Arches by Jacob Cooper

·      Stuttered Chant by David Lang 

·      Velvet by Kate Moore 

·      Daughters of the Industrial Revolution by Annie Gosfield

 The concert is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the museum's Visitors Service Desk at 518-580-8080.

About Ashley Bathgate

Bathgate, in addition to being a member of Bang on a Can All-Stars, is also a member of the Metropolis Ensemble and four chamber groups of which she is a founding member—TwoSense, Typical Music, Bonjour, and Samadhi. As a soloist, Bathgate has performed in some of the world's major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Barbican.

Audiences in the Capital Region may be familiar with Bathgate's performances at Mass MoCA during the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, as well as her performances when she was a Saratoga Springs High School student who, in 2001, performed at the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival and was a soloist for the Empire State Youth Orchestra at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

Bathgate has recorded for Naxos, Nonesuch, Innova, Cantaloupe Music, La-La Land Records, and Albany Records. Currently, she is collaborating with the Brooklyn-based composer collective Sleeping Giant, who will write her a six-movement suite for solo cello to be premiered during the 2015-16 season in the Metropolis Resident Artist Series in New York City.

This past September she premiered a new, large-scale work for solo cello and chamber orchestra by Australian composer Kate Moore, and she has recorded an album of her solo cello works, which will be released in May 2015 on Cantaloupe. Other upcoming commissions include works by Stephen Feigenbaum, Erdem Helvacioglu, Jascha Narveson, Todd Reynolds, and Neil Rolnick.

Bathgate earned a bachelor’s degree from Bard College under the tutelage of Luis Garcia-Renart and a master’s degree from Yale University, where she studied with cellist Aldo Parisot. She lives in New York City.

About I was a double

At New York City’s legendary Bang on a Can musical organization, where he is co-founder and co-artistic director, David Lang is described as a composer who “embodies the restless spirit of invention … at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms.”

One of those newly created forms is on view at the Tang Museum in I was a double, a multilayered exhibition/composition interweaving music and art.

For his first curated museum exhibition, Lang has collaborated with the Tang’s Dayton Director Ian Berry to bring together work of visual artists who, like composers, make sets of rules for creating their pieces. While the use of a musical score as a set of performance instructions is familiar, the notion of an artist creating work with a set of rules is perhaps less so, especially as creator and performer are usually one and the same. All of the artists in this exhibition have invented rules, whether written or not, and followed them; each work has a score—a plan—that has been realized in the physical work.

I was a double features the work of artists Suzanne Bocanegra, Regina Bogat, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, André Cadere, Sarah Cain, Karin Davie, Taylor Davis, David Dupuis, Tony Feher, Alfred Jensen, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, Chris Martin, Gabriel Orozco, Bruce Pearson, Ciara Phillips, Kay Rosen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Fred Tomaselli, Johannes VanDerBeek, Ruth Vollmer, Stanley Whitney, and Christopher Wool.

Online links

The Tang Teaching Museum: http://tang.skidmore.edu

I was a double exhibition page: http://bit.ly/1m4w7La

Ashley Bathgate: http://www.ashleybathgate.com/

Bathgate performs Arches http://bit.ly/1wR8dWv