Antithesis

The ensemble:

  Gabe Antkowski: flute
  Richard Dannenberg: cello
  Emily Hawkins: mallets,
    percussion
  Vincent Lane: clarinet
  Jeff Morgan: bass, percussion
  Laura Santoro: bassoon
  Natalie Somerville: viola
  Alyssa Weisensee: flute 

CAPA Antithesis is a recently-formed new music ensemble based out of Pittsburgh's Creative and Performing Arts High School. The group was formed to give a select group of students the chance to explore and perform new concepts in composition, improvisation, and notation.  As part of their debut recital in March 2006, the group played works by such vanguard composers as Anthony Braxton, Earle Brown, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Sun Ra, as well as premiering new works composed by members of the ensemble.