Time Pieces is a new music and multi-disciplinary performance program performed by violinist Rebecca Fischer and visual artist Anthony Hawley. The performance will take place on Sunday, September 25 in the Lied Center’s Carson Theater at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5 General Admission/$3 Students/Seniors.
The program grew out of new works for solo violin, commissioned by Hawley for Fischer on the occasion of her 40th birthday (composers Nico Muhly, Augusta Reed Thomas, Paola Prestini, Lisa Bielawa, Gabriela Lena Frank, Pierre Jalbert, Rodney Lister, Byron Au Yong). It also features a new multi-media work with dance and video projections produced by Hawley, performed by Fischer and former UNL student Brittany Coudriet.
Rebecca Fischer, violinist in the Chiara Quartet, tours regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. With the Chiara Quartet, Ms. Fischer has won top prizes in the Fischoff National Chamber Music competition, the Paolo Borciani Competition in Italy, the Astral Artistic Services audition, and was awarded the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Praised for her “beautiful tone and nuanced phrasing (Boston Musical Intelligencer),” Ms. Fischer is also a part of The Afield, an interdisciplinary collaboration with her husband, artist and writer Anthony Hawley. With The Afield Ms. Fischer has performed at the CounterCurrent Festival in Houston, Texas (as violinist, actress and dancer), on the streets of New York City, and at Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy. In the summer of 2016, The Afield was in residence at Design Inquiry on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine, developing the multi-media performance “Time Pieces.” A passionate educator, Ms. Fischer is a Research Associate Professor and Hixson-Lied Artist-in-Residence at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and summer faculty at Greenwood Music Camp in western Massachusetts.
Anthony Hawley’s work has won him residencies and awards from the MacDowell Colony, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Art Farm, VCCA, the Nebraska Arts Council and Arte Studio Ginistrelle. Recent Solo Exhibitions include Countercurrent Festival in partnership with the Menil Collection and Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX (2016); Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2014); Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City (2012); and the Museum of Nebraska Art (2012). His essays and poems have appeared in numerous publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters, The Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Colorado Review and Flatlanders. His paintings appear in the most recent issue of New American Painting, “West.” Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Columbia University and the MFA Art Practice Program at the School of Visual Arts. He teaches in the Art Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.