Summer Lecture Series with Nico Muhly

Name: Summer Lecture Series with Nico Muhly
Start: 2018-08-16T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2018-08-16T20:30:00-04:00
Location: The Watermill Center

: August 16, 2018, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm.

Description:

The Watermill Center’s Summer Lecture Series engages with the local community through intriguing dialogue and creative collaboration across disciplines.

Nico Muhly: Roots and Pulses

Nico Muhly (b.1981) is an American composer and sought-after collaborator whose influences range from American minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition. The recipient of commissions from The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and others, he has written more than 80 works for the concert stage, including the opera Marnie (2017), which premiered at the English National Opera and will be staged by the Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2018.

Founded in 1992 by avant-garde visionary and theater director Robert Wilson, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities located on Long Island’s East End. With an emphasis on creativity and collaboration, Watermill integrates performing arts practice with resources from the humanities, research from the sciences and inspiration from the visual arts. The Center is unique within the global landscape of experimental artistic practice and regularly convenes the brightest minds from across disciplines to do, in Wilson’s words, “what no one else is doing.”