The Caballito Negro ensemble, featuring Tessa Brinckman, flutes, and Terry Longshore, percussion, are joined by UMBC faculty Lisa Cella, flutes, and Dustin Donahue, percussion, for a concert of works by Emma O’Halloran, Jane Rigler, Will Rowe, Stuart Saunders Smith, and featuring the East Coast premiere of Birds, Bees, Electric Fish by Juri Seo.

Bi-coastal duo Caballito Negro is known for its creative and compelling performances, generating an ecstatic blend of modern and traditional aesthetics. Multi-flutist Tessa Brinckman and multi-percussionist Terry Longshore draw their name (“dark little horse”) from Federico García Lorca’s poem, Canción de Jinete (1860). They collaborate with visionary artists, using an arsenal of instruments to push the artistic experience to new heights, and always in the spirit of duende.

Heralded for their “wildly personal, intercultural, modern music…vivid, expressive music that could be performed anywhere” (Oregon Arts Watch), the duo melds narratives, images, and themes in imaginative curations. Caballito Negro envisions true cultural exchange through innovative projects with local, regional, and international artists. Their first recording, the EP Songlines (2016), was praised for its “absolutely gorgeous tone,” and “understated virtuosity” (Joshua Cheek), and being “expertly produced and played” (NFA Quarterly), featuring the music of William Kraft, David P. Jones and Ivan Trevino.

The complete program:
Jane Rigler — Two Seaming
Emma O’Halloran — music for the small hours
Stuart Saunders Smith — No. 13
Will Rowe — Itch
Juri Seo — Birds, Bees, Electric Fish — East Coast Premiere

This concert is the fifth of six events in Livewire 14: Resounding. To view the complete schedule, please visit here.

Livewire is sponsored in part by the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).

This event is made possible with financial support from the Linehan Fund for Excellence in the Arts.

Admission is free, but ticket reservations are required.