New College:Cellist Darrett Adkins to replace Victoria Bass at New Music New College

New Music New College has announced that cellist Darrett Adkins will replace Victoria Bass at the fifth and final program of its 2009-2010 season on Saturday, April 24 at 8 pm in the Mildred Sainer Pavilion. Bass was unable to travel from her native Canada for this performance.Adkins will follow the planned schedule of a free lecture/demonstration on Friday, April 23 at 3:30 pm at Sainer and a program of contemporary cello music on Saturday evening. The program will feature a “Hypersuite” concert that includes a Bach suite with contemporary interpolations, including Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XIV, originally on the program. Adkins gave the first New York performance of Sequenza XIV, which he has recorded for release on Naxos’s complete sequenzas collection, the first such recording.

Darrett Adkins belongs to a new generation of American musicians who are redefining the concert experience. His critically acclaimed performances of contemporary music have inspired critics to call him “stunning,” “intensely involving,” “heroic” and “fiery.” His appetite to bridge the world between the established tradition and the avant-garde enables him to explore repertoire in almost every genre – from the classical cannon, to the contemporary frontier. From 1997 until 2002, Adkins was a member of Flux, a string quartet dedicated to cutting-edge music.

Tickets are priced at $12 and may be reserved by calling the New College events office at (941) 487-4888.