Sound Atlas Festival 2024: Day 3

SOUND ATLAS FESTIVAL 2024: June 27-29

Day 3 - Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 3PM

Contemporary Calgary

Featured Festival Artists: Adam Zinatelli (trumpet) and Akiko Tominaga (piano), saxophonist and composer Nick Zoulek (solo set), and Latitude 49 with Parker Ramsay

The annual Sound Atlas Festival brings the best of contemporary music to Calgary for its second iteration in June 2024, celebrating works by living composers and extraordinary performances by local and international sound artists. Co-presented by the powerhouse mixed chamber ensemble Latitude 49, and the JUNO-nominated Land’s End Ensemble, Sound Atlas Festival takes place at Contemporary Calgary, Calgary’s world class centre for the artwork of our time.

Day 3 is a dynamic redefining of what is possible through contemporary performance art. Adam Zinatelli and Akiko Tominaga present Dorothy Chang’s effervescent “All That Glitters” as well as a new work by Calgary-based composer Arthur M. Bachmann that will receive its Canadian premiere. The singular composer, media artist, and saxophonist Nick Zoulek will present a solo set that is sure to defy expectations. The Sound Atlas Festival’s 2024 journey concludes with a landmark work “Petroushskates” by legendary composer Joan Tower and the world premiere of Jared Miller’s new work for Latitude 49 featuring harpist Parker Ramsay. An end-of-festival celebration will immediately follow in the Atrium.

Spread out over three days, Sound Atlas Festival takes listeners on a powerful journey of expression, moving freely to challenge, delight, and engage. This year, Sound Atlas Festival will highlight the Canadian-American composer Jared Miller as featured composer, whose music has been described as “playful” (New York Times), “hypnotic” (Sequenza 21), and “highly personal” (CBC Radio). He will be joined by a host of composers and internationally acclaimed artists from across Calgary, Canada, and the United States. 

Festival goers can anticipate an eclectic and diverse range of musical styles, with something for everyone. Each day will feature multiple concert events and pop-up style performances with our Contemporary Performance Lab fellows, in a sonic feast for the culturally curious. Audiences will enjoy plenty of time to mingle, reflect and explore, moving through a variety of gallery spaces at Contemporary Calgary, hopefully with a beer in hand from The Establishment Brewing Company, named 2021 Canadian Brewery of the Year and our festival sponsor.

Sound Atlas Festival is an experience unlike any other and an intersectional space dedicated to championing what's new and what’s now - come be part of the magic!