2018-2019
Season Three featured 20 world premiere performances.
Season Three
Dream Keeper: songs of sleep and visions
March 2, 2019 in Austin, Texas
March 3, 2019 in Austin, Texas
Inversion Ensemble explores the deep reaches of the human imagination through songs of sleep and visions in its project Dream Keeper. The program spans the distance between slumber and the waking world from lullabies to nightmares. This immersive concert experience features premieres of new works by local composers Trevor Shaw, Robbie LaBanca, Adrienne Inglis, Stephanie K. Andrews, Trevor Villwock, and Marjorie Halloran with guest conductor and Ars Longa Artistic Director, Steven Brennfleck.
World premieres:
40. Berceuse by Stephanie K. Andrews
41. Asleep in a Blanket Spun of Energy by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP) with Electronic Track, Trevor Shaw (ASCAP)
42. A Child's Nightmare by Robbie LaBanca
43. Dreamfall by Trevor Shaw (ASCAP)
44. dreaming of zeno by Trevor Villwock
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Journey of the Soul: songs of travel and enlightenment
August 12, 2018 in Pflugerville, Texas
Inversion Ensemble’s 2018-2019 season kicked off with the inaugural performance of Inversion Ensemble: Coda. This newly-formed group of seasoned singers will present a concert entitled Journey of the Soul that transports the listener to far-away lands, deep into their spirits, and along the shores of memory. The first performance of our brand new ensemble featured works by Adrienne Inglis, Marjorie Halloran, Alexander Johnson, Robbie LaBanca and more.
World premieres:
33. Triptych for Flute by Robbie LaBanca
34.On a Journey by Robbie LaBanca
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I, Too, Sing America: songs of our shared history
October 6, 2018 in Austin, Texas
October 7, 2018 in Austin, Texas
View the Oct. 6-7 program here.
October 21, 2018 in Georgetown, Texas
View the Oct. 21 program here.
November 9, 2018 in Lakeway, Texas
This provocative program explores songs of our shared history. Topics range from gun violence and equal rights to resistance and witchcraft trials with texts by MLK, Alice Duer Miller, Michael Dennis Brown and more. Inversion Ensemble presents a new composition by Carlos Cordero, the winner of its very first Emerging Composer Contest, plus new works by Trevor Shaw, Adrienne Inglis, Stephanie K. Andrews, Robbie LaBanca, Marjorie Halloran, Melissa Dunphy, Paul Ayres, and more. The October 2018 concert I Too, Sing, America was named one of 2018's Top Classical Performances by Austin Chronicle. The Austin Critics Table nominated I, Too, Sing America for the best Concert/Opera performance of 2018-19 and three of the pieces on that concert for best Original Composition/Score: Innocent Blood by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP), Emerging Composer Contest winner Nada de turbe by Carlos Cordero, and Three Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Robbie LaBanca.
World premieres:
35. I would rather die than hate you by Paul Ayers
36. Nada de turbe by Carlos Cordero [Emerging Composer Contest Winner]
37. Innocent Blood by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP)
38. Three Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Robbie LaBanca
39. Sanctus (for a false Messiah) by Trevor Shaw
University of Texas at Austin
Butler School of Music Composer Workshop
May 7, 2019 in Austin, Texas
Heroes and Monsters: songs of legends and beasts
June 1, 2019 in Austin, Texas
June 2, 2019 in Austin, Texas
With new works by living composers, Inversion Ensemble fleshes out the richness of our cultural heritage that fear and revere legends, heroes, monsters, and beasts.
World premieres:
45. ΔAIMΩN, Dämon by Joshua Chai
46. The Rage and Reconciliation of King Lear by Adrienne Inglis (ASCAP)
47. Cimmeria, Land of Darkness by Robbie LaBanca
48. Message of Puissant Baal by Michael Alec Rose
49. Ladon by Trevor F. Shaw (ASCAP)
50. Two Palimpsests on Athena by Trevor Villwock
51. Oread by Alexander Johnson
52. To the weight on my chest by Marjorie Halloran
View the program here