The Music of Elizabeth Brown and Frances White. October 30, 2008, 7:30pm at TheTimesCenter. This program of music by composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White is the first Interpretations concert to be presented in TheTimesCenter, which was designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano. The concert, which includes three world premieres, features music for a variety of instruments Eastern and Western, antique and modern, including: shakuhachi, guitar, violin, viola, bass, theremin, flute, viola d'amore, narrator, electronic sound, and video. Critically acclaimed violist Liuh-Wen Ting, an enthusiastic supporter of new music, is joined by an exciting line up of performers, including baritone Thomas Buckner, shakuhachi master Ralph Samuelson, violinist Mari Kimura, guitarist Ben Verdery, bassist Troy Rinker, and composer Elizabeth Brown on flute, theremin, and shakuhachi. This concert is part of the Daniel Pearl Foundation World Music Days celebration, which promotes music as a path to peace and understanding. Brown and White, acknowledged as composers with uniquely distinctive musical voices, enthusiastically support this vision. For more information on the Interpretations series, call 212-627-0990 or visit: www.interpretations.info Elizabeth Brown was born in 1953 in Camden, Alabama, where she grew up on an agricultural research station. After receiving a Master's degree in flute performance from The Juilliard School in 1977, she started composing in the late 70's. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she combines a successful composing career with an extremely diverse performing life, playing flute, shakuhachi, theremin, and dan bau (Vietnamese monochord) in a wide variety of musical circles. Her chamber music, shaped by this unique group of instruments and experiences, has been called luminous, dreamlike and hallucinatory. She now lives in Brooklyn with visual artist Lothar Osterburg, and enjoys reading, gardening, quilting, and birdwatching. Frances White composes instrumental and electronic music. She is particularly known for her works combining live instruments and computer-generated electronic sound spaces. In 2007, Mode Records released Centre Bridge, a CD devoted to her electroacoustic works. Ms. White's music has also appeared on CD on the Wergo, Centaur, Nonsequitur, Harmonia Mundi, and Bridge labels. Ms. White's music was featured as part of the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant's award-winning films Elephant and Paranoid Park. Ms. White studies the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and finds that the traditional music of this instrument informs and influences her work as a composer. Much of Ms. White's music is inspired by her love of nature, and her electronic works frequently include natural sound recorded around where she lives, in central New Jersey. A graduate of the Juilliard School and former member of the Meridian String Quartet, violist Liuh-Wen Ting enjoys collaborating with artists across many different spectrums, most recently with the Cassatt string Quartet and the Persian master Shahram Nazeri on a sold-out tour, appearing on ABC, CNN, and Fox News. The Czech Music 2001 publication praised her solo performance with the Janacek Symphony Orchestra as "an extraordinary experience." She has recorded chamber music on the Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, and Capstone Record labels. A staff member of the Composers Conference at Wellesley College since 1993, Ms. Ting is also a faculty member of the prep division at the Mannes School of Music. The Interpretations series, now in its twentieth season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.