Ebb & Flow Ensemble

Ebb & Flow Arts is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1999. It is directed by Maui composer and pianist, Robert Pollock.

Goals

  • GOAL #1 - To enrich the community by presenting international festivals of excellent quality contemporary music concerts and cutting edge multi media events.
  • GOAL #2 - To educate the children and the general public with school workshops and public performances.
  • GOAL #3 - To break down the barriers between the arts and bridge artistic expressions and cultures.

Now in its second decade of activity

E&FA serves a recognized and documented need in Hawaii’s community. Ebb & Flow Arts has presented sixty seven (67) concert/multi-media events in Maui, Oahu and the Big Island, including performances of two hundred forty four (244) works by one hundred fourteen (114) composers, thirty four (34) world premieres, sixty seven (67) Hawai’i premieres, five (5) presentations by the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, seven (7) international festivals, fourteen (14) Hawai'i Public Radio broadcasts, twenty six (26) public informances and two hundred ninety eight (298) school workshops.

For more information call (808) 876-1854

Made possible in part by AHS Foundation, Hawai'i Community Foundation, Baciu Cultural Fund, Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture& the Arts, Atherton Family Foundation, Maui County OED/Hawai'i Tourism Authority/SPEP, John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, Yokouchi Foundation, Meet the Composer, Inc., Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, BMI Foundation, Asian Cultural Counci, Musicians Performance Funds, Maui Arts & Cultural Center and private gifts.

Board of Directors

  • Tony Walholm, President
  • Paul Marchetti, Treasurer
  • Shannon Smith, Secretary
  • Diana Dahl
  • Val Fernandez
  • Leah Tinkleman
  • Brian Moto
  • Michael Takemoto

Board of Advisors

  • Scott Anderson
  • Peter Askim
  • Renee Beauvais
  • Margo Berdeshevsky
  • Frances Ku
  • Ignace Jang
  • Judy Neale
  • Richard Nelson
  • Hai Dai Nguyen
  • Robert Wehrman
  • Byron Yasui
  • Karen Masaki
  • Lee Michael Walczuk
  • Peter Swanzy
  • David Lewiston
  • Lisa Gagnon

Board Member Emeritus

  • Gage Schubert

Executive Director

  • Robert Pollock

International Festival Committee

  • William Anderson (New York)
  • Mitsuru Asaka (Japan)
  • Dr. Eugene Lee (S Korea)
  • Dr. Rashid Kalimoullin (Kazan  Russia)

EBB & FLOW ENSEMBLE REPERTOIRE LIST:

QUARTETS (clarinet, violin, ‘cello and piano)

  • Jeeyoung Kim...............Let’s Play (2000 - 12’)
  • Olivier Messiaen............Quartet for the End of Time (1940 - 50’)
  • Robert Pollock................Mana Loa Quartet (2006 - 11’)
  • Eugene Lee..................Hawaiian Quartet (2006 - 10’)
  • Jon Magnussen............Dances Ebb, Dances Flow (2006 - 12’)
  • Per Noergaard..............Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking (2008 - 15’)

QUARTETS (clarinet, violin, contrabass and piano)

  • Peter Askim....................What You May Have Almost Forgotten (2000 - 12’)
  • Robert Pollock................Merci Madame (2000 - 10’)

TRIOS (clarinet, violin and piano)

  • Darius Mihaud............Suite, Opus 157b (1937 - 10’)
  • Gian Carlo Menotti.....Trio (1996 - 12’)
  • Bela Bartok..................Contrasts (1937 - 17’)
  • Aram Khachaturian.......Trio (1932 -12’)
  • Tristan Keuris.................Muziek (1980 - 10’)
  • Robert Pollock.............Trio #5 (2003 -10’) Ernst Krenek...............Trio (1946 - 10’)

DUOS (violin and piano)

  • Lou Harrison.............Grand Duo (1988 - 25’)
  • John Cage................Six Melodies (1950 -8’)
  • Anton Webern.........Four Pieces (1910 - 6’)
  • Arnold Schoenberg........Fantasy (1952 - 8’)
  • Astor Piazzolla (arr. Gubaidulina)...Grand Tango (1921/92 - 8’)
  • George Gershwin (arr. Heifetz)...Three Preludes (1926-40 - 5’)
  • Claude Debussy....Sonate (1917 - 12’)
  • Roger Sessions.......Duo (1942 -14’)
  • Eunhye Park..........Chockma (2007 - 6’)
  • Peter Swanzy..........Leo Palu Ko Kai (2006 - 9’)
  • Edward T. Cone.......Ballade (1971 - 10’)

DUOS (contrabass and piano)

  • Robert Wehrman........... Fear and Loathing in America’s Airports (2002 - 10’)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina............Pantomime (1977 -10’)
  • Peter Askim.......................Eight Solitudes (2002- 12’)
  • Robert Pollock.................Feeling Great (2002 - 9’)
  • Max Lifchitz.......................Episodes (1976 - 8’)

DUOS (clarinet and piano)

  • Alban Berg......Four Pieces (1908 - 8’)
  • George Walker........Perimeters (1972 - 10’)
  • Darius Milhaud........Sonatine (1927 - 9’)
  • David Lewiston.........Dialogue (2003 - 12’)

DUOS (clarinet and violin)

  • Rashid Kalimullin - Poem Fantasy (1986 - 8’)

DUOS (clarinet and contrabass)

  • Morton Gould - For Benny (10 duets for Benny Goodman) (1967- 10’)

DUOS ('cello and piano)

  • Robert Pollock...........Mana (2005 - 10’)
  • Bohuslav Martinu............Sonata #1 (1939 - 18’)
  • Claude Debussy - Sonate (1916 - 10’)

EBB & FLOW ENSEMBLE PERSONNEL LIST

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