Alias Chamber Ensemble is closing out another successful season with a bill boasting four commissioned works, and you can hear them for the first time ever this week at Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Rhythms, Rivers and Roads is an aptly titled performance that champions the sights and sounds of Tennessee through original pieces by violin virtuoso Tracy Silverman and Alias members Christopher Farrell and Matt Walker. Silverman will play on all four pieces, two of which are his own — The Cumberland and The Harpeth River are for string and piano trios, respectively, and the pieces capture each river’s motion at different times of day. Farrell’s Tennessee Roads leans heavily on Silverman’s electric violin, and Walker pays homage to Nashville’s diverse music community in Quartet Out of Time. (Read more from the composers on their works.) Alias is currently funding a project to release recorded versions of these works. Visit aliasmusic.org for further info on how to support the composers and ensemble beyond the performance. MATT FOX
Alias' Rhythms, Rivers and Roads
