"We are musicians, and our model is sound and not literature, sound and not mathematics, sound and not theatre, or fine arts, quantum physics, geology, astrology, or acupuncture."  (Gérard Grisey)

Since his tragic death less than four years ago at the age of 52, Gérard Grisey's unique music has steadily grown in influence, and his circle of passionate admirers has spread accordingly.  His vision of a new musical tonality based on acoustics and the psychology of perception, deepened with his affinity for multifold musical traditions from Africa to the East, helped to produce a new school of musical thought—spectralism, named after the spectra, or acoustic properties, of a sound.

Sospeso launches the city-wide Sounds French festival with the first important New York retrospective of this crucial figure, with major works representing the last three decades of his life.  French conductor Pierre-André Valade joins Sospeso for the first time in this performance, which features the American premiere of Grisey's late masterpiece Vortex Temporum:  the vortex of time.

This concert is supported in part with a generous grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Tickets are available from the Miller Theatre.  Click here for information on purchasing tickets.