Tribeca New Music is thrilled to present the Pathos Trio - Best in Score 2023 with special guest artists pianist Adrian Zaragoza and percussionist Glenn Choe.  
This concert will feature the first prize-winning score by Liam Cummins in the TNM 2023 Young Composer Competition (Division 2 for composers 21 years old and younger) along with new and recent works by composers Ian Chang, Will Healy, Finola Merivale, Clara Warnaar, and Alyssa Weinberg.

Program
Mega Cicada by Ian Chang
Falling Flames by Finola Merivale
Table Talk by Alyssa Weinberg
Etudes for Melancholy Robots for solo piano by Will Healy
Home/Gone by Clara Warnaar
-intermission-
Overlooking by Liam Cummins

Program - First Half
The Pathos Trio (percussionists Felix Reyes, Marcelina Suchocka, and pianist/composer Will Healy) is a two-percussion and piano trio committed to combining aesthetics of contemporary classical music with their interests in dark, heavy, dense sounds drawn from various genres of music such as alternative rock, progressive/black metal, cathedral music, minimalist music, electronic synth-wave, and more, while also aiming to bring adventurous music to audiences through collaborations with young, living new music composers.

Program - Second Half
Composer Liam Cummins, who won the TNM 2023 Young Composer Competition (Division 2 for ages 21 and younger), will have his Overlooking for piano and percussion performed by pianist Adrian Zaragoza and percussionist Glenn Choe.

Overlooking: The word Overlooking has two definitions: an outlook from a high vantage point and the failure to notice something. In this project, I approached the process of composing from a new perspective for me, planning out the form of the piece before writing a single note. I worked to craft a nuanced scaffolding that could support an intricate form. This was a joyful realization that changed my compositional method in pieces to come. Overlooking a musical universe from a clarifying distance, I was able to consider the bigger picture before worrying about smaller details.

But while writing this piece, the other definition of overlooking was very much on my mind: a neglectful disregard for the truth, an inability to see the bigger picture. In the context of the current events – the climate crisis, military conflicts, social reckoning following police brutality – this is a time in which destructive actions that have been overlooked for generations  are quickly catching up with us.

Overlooking juxtaposes these two definitions of the word, exploring themes of order and chaos, clarity and ambiguity, vastness and insignificance.