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Friday, May 27, 2005
"Best and Brightest" Symphony Space, June 20
WHEN:
Monday, June 20th, 2005 at 7:30 PM
WHERE:
Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater,
2537 Broadway at 95th Street.
Closest subway: 1/2/3/9 to 96th Street and Broadway
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Join us for an evening of World Class Musical Performances by Jazz greats Marion, Alexander and Emily Cowings, Kim Kalesti, and Michael Dease, and classical pianist Daniel Beliavsky. Come hear selections ranging from Duke Ellington to Lukas Foss, and participate in a moderated discussion with our performers about where the genres
overlap and how music has the power to change our lives.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Tickets are available at www.symphonyspace.org, at the box office in
the main lobby, or by calling Joel Kramer at 212-564-4977 or 646-326-
8996.
TICKET PRICES:
$45 full price; $35 symphony members; $25 students and seniors; $10 children 16 and under. Take advantage of our special discounts for group tickets while they are available!
posted by Jerry Bowles
7:43 AM
Thursday, May 26, 2005
May 31 Jamie Baum
AWARD-WINNING FLUTIST/COMPOSER JAMIE BAUM & HER SEPTET IN NYC PREMIERE
OF NEWLY COMMISSIONED WORK, TUES., MAY 31 AT THE JOHN BIRKS GILLESPIE AUDITORIUM
* Recent Septet CD “Moving Forward, Standing Still” Voted Best CDs of 2004 by DownBeat, Jazziz, Boston Phoenix *
"**** (Four Stars)… simply outstanding…. an immensely satisfying, exciting listen." — Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
"**** (Four Stars). Baum's composing and arranging skills shine forth with the exactness of a classicist's regimen. Within these jazz frameworks there's an uncanny aggregation of looseness, and perfection." — Glenn Astarita, DownBeat
"Moving Forward, Standing Still is that rarity of an album—one that utilizes deep and complex structures to create something completely accessible." — John Kelman, All About Jazz
Join award-winning flutist/composer Jamie Baum on Tuesday, May 31st as she performs with her Septet — Baum on flutes, Ralph Alessi on trumpet & flugelhorn, Doug Yates - alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Tom Varner on French horn, Johannes Weidenmuller on bass, George Colligan on piano, and Jeff Hirshfield on drums. They'll present the NYC premiere of “Ives Suite: The Time Traveler” which was commissioned by Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Foundation. Two shows, at 8 and 10 p.m., take place at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium of the New York Baha’i Center, 53 East 11th Street (between University Pl. & Broadway). Tickets are $15/$10 for students. Reservation and information Number: 212-222-5159. Jazz Tuesdays is curated and run by Mike Longo, long-time Gillespie associate.
Baum's recent OmniTone Records CD "Moving Forward, Standing Still” has earned wide praise as one of the Best CDs of 2004 by DownBeat Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, Jazziz, WPFW-FM, and helped Baum to earn a nomination as Flutist of the Year in the 2005 Jazz Journalist Awards. "**** (Four Stars). A huge step forward from her already impressive 1997 debut, Jamie Baum's third album as a leader is simply outstanding… That sense of musical freedom, an unwillingness to limit herself simply to staid through-composed pieces, post-bop jazz classicism, or free improv experimentalism, but to mix and match the elements that suit her needs on a piece-by-piece basis, is what sets Baum apart from many of her peers, and what makes Moving Forward, Standing Still an immensely satisfying, exciting listen." — Stewart Mason, All Music Guide. "With Moving Forward, Standing Still, Jamie Baum has made a serious and possibly significant contribution to jazz." — Marc Meyers, All About Jazz.
Winner of the 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Award (part of the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project) sponsored by the Chamber Music America national service organization, Baum has an unusually keen musical mind which conjures jazz that is simultaneously accessible and adventurous, open-hearted and demanding, beautiful and dark.
A native of Connecticut, Baum, who holds a B.M. degree in jazz flute/composition from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, has acquired a reputation as a jazz force to be reckoned with since moving to New York City about fifteen years ago. She's shared the bandstand with luminaries like John Abercrombie, Kenny Barron, Randy Brecker, Dave Douglas, Billy Hart, Fred Hersch, Mickey Roker, Uri Caine, Kenny Werner, Leni Stern, and Charles Tolliver.
Her talent has earned her numerous awards including three from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles award and the Jazz Journalists Association nomination mentioned above. She's also won coveted spots in DownBeat Magazine’s Critics’ and Readers’ Polls (1998 through 2004); the 1999 Julius Hemphill International Jazz Composers Alliance Award; and the 1996 Jazziz Magazine “Woodwinds-on-Fire” competition. Moreover, she was selected in four different years (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003) to perform overseas in Asia and in South America as a USDOS/Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador. The year 2003 saw the flutist playing the Kathmundu Jazz Festival in Nepal and the Venezuela Jazz Festival.
The five-year-old Jamie Baum Septet plays regularly at clubs such as Cornelia Street Cafe and Sweet Rhythm in NYC and Blues Alley in Washington, DC and has appeared at the JVC Jazz Festival, Freihoffer's Saratoga Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the Flynn Theater in Burlington, VT among others. She also co-leads a quartet with guitarist Ken Wessel, bass guitarist Jerome Harris, and Septet drummer Jeff Hirshfield, performs with the Ursel Schlicht's Ex Tempore, Travis Sullivan's Casual Sextet, and with several other projects.
Baum has recorded numerous CDs including Undercurrents (1991, Konnex) with Randy Brecker and Vic Juris in support (plus trumpeter Dave Douglas on one track); Sight Unheard (GM Recordings 1997) with Dave Douglas, pianists Kenny Werner and Roberta Piket, Drew Gress, and Jeff Hirshfield; the collaboration Intersect (Consenus) with pianist Roberta Piket, saxophonist Virginia Mayhew, bassist Nikki Parrott, and drummer Allison Miller. As a sideperson, Baum's credits include recent recordings by jazz singer Judi Silvano, Steve Lampert, Andrew Rathbun and Frank Carlberg, and Paul Arlanian.
Baum, who studied under Jaki Byard, Hubert Laws, Ransom Wilson, Richie Beirach and Charlie Banacos, among others, teaches private lessons through the New School in New York City, Long Island University and conducts clinics worldwide including "A Fear-Free Approach to Improvisation for the Classically-Trained Musician" and "A Jazz Flute Survey/Retrospective."
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CDs, JPEGS, and press kits available.
www.jamiebaum.com
www.OmniTone.com
posted by Coming Events
10:17 AM
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
6/2/05 and 6/9/05
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
About the Audience Concert Series presents its inaugural concerts
New York – The About the Audience Concert Series presents two inaugural concerts showcasing music by a unique blend of today’s composers. CAMI Hall will host the first concert featuring works for flute, violin and piano in a variety of combinations on the evening of June 2nd. The Leonard Nimoy Thalia theatre at Symphony Space will be the setting for the second concert, presenting a variety of works for string quartet, on June 9th. Both concerts will include several world premieres and even less frequent second performances.
About the Audience Concert Series:Thursday June 2nd, 8pmAn evening of Flute, Violin, and PianoCAMI Hall167 West 57th StreetTickets ($21/$16)Call 917-204-4922 or email david@homanmusic.com
Featuring: Sean Schulich, Stefan Hoskuldsson, flutes, Pauline Kim, violin; Yalin Chi, Elizaveta Kopelman, pianoComposers: David Homan, Sean Hickey, Patricia Leonard, Sergei Tcherepnin, Ben Bierman, Pat Rasile, and Clint Edwards
* * * * *Thursday June 9th, 8pmAn evening of String Quartet Music The Thalia at Symphony Space2537 BroadwaySW Corner of 95th and BroadwayTickets at www.symphonyspace.org ($21/$16)Featuring: Pauline Kim, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; Dov Scheindlin, viola; Christine Kim, celloComposers: David Homan, Sean Hickey, Jeff Stone, Ben Bierman, Pat Rasile, and Stefania de Kenessey
The About the Audience concert series developed from a need to explore new audiences for classical music. Through detailed composer involvement, and audience/composer interaction, these series are geared toward music of deep expression and universal nature. A variety of styles are presented around a particular theme or instrumentation, with the hope of finding receptive ears for each composer. Through sharing audiences and sharing their music, each composer may be able to work more closely with a group of peers of all ages and of all levels, and find the commonality in their expression that, together, can bring a larger, more vibrant life to the beauty of classical music. Each audience member is asked to directly participate, through attending rehearsals, completing surveys, and giving the composers direct feedback.
For press inquiries & more information, contact:
Sean Hickey
revueltas@sprynet.com
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posted by Coming Events
5:31 PM
Monday, May 23, 2005
1-2-3-GO! - Eve Beglarian & Corey Dargel w/ Margaret Lancaster - June 20
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Patrick Grant (646) 359-3856
sTRANGEmUSIC & Egizio Panetti present
ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Monday Evening Concerts
EVE BEGLARIAN & COREY DARGEL with MARGARET LANCASTER
Live at OPIA
130 East 57th St.
New York City
JUNE 20, 2005
Eve Beglarian and Corey Dargel with Margaret Lancaster will perform on Monday, June 20, 6:30 p.m., in the performance space at OPIA, 130 East 57th Street (at Lexington). Tickets are $15 at the door and the doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Composer/performers Eve Beglarian and Corey Dargel are joined by flutist Margaret Lancaster for an evening of idiosyncratic art songs and electro-cabaret numbers. The trio combines Lancaster's virtuosic versatility with Beglarian's heartfelt sincerity and Dargel's deadpan delivery as the composers swap lead vocals and take on each other's songs. The program features selections from Beglarian's forthcoming CD "FlamingOs of the New World," Dargel's "Born and Raised" (a Lancaster commission), and some new versions of old favorites.
"One of new music's truly free spirits," and a "remarkable experimentalist," Eve Beglarian is a composer, performer, and audio producer whose music has been described as "an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements." Her chamber and orchestral music has been commissioned and performed by the American Composers Orchestra, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the California EAR Unit, Relâche, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Sequitur, Dinosaur Annex, and the Robin Cox Ensemble, among many others.
Her experience in music theater includes music for Mabou Mines' Obie-winning Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, and Ecco Porco, directed by Lee Breuer; the collaboration Hildegurls' Ordo Virtutum, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Festival; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater's production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng.
Corey Dargel is a composer, performer, and lyricist whose "elegantly skewed electronic art songs" (Time Out New York) have established his reputation as "a rising master of the postmodern love song." (Artsjournal.com). "A postmodernist looking at the pop song from the outside, he turns irony upside down. Rather than subvert a sincere surface message, he wore all his self-conscious distancing on his sleeve, but underneath you began to suspect he rather heartbreakingly meant what he sang." (Village Voice) His performances have been called "forlornly optimistic," and critics have lauded "how smoothly he slides between sincerity and irony" (Time Out Chicago) in his music. Dargel is currently an Artist-in-Residence at HERE Arts Center.
Flutist of choice for hoards of composers, Margaret Lancaster is an artist who hasn't merely 'pushed the envelope' of flute performance and repertoire, she's redefined it with fearless technique, musicianship, wit, and a clear sense of performance values. Lancaster's early interest in new music, specifically the works of Elliott Carter, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, was fostered while studying music at the University of Louisville and Brooklyn College where her primary teachers were Francis Fuge and Harold Jones. Noted for her inter-disciplinary collaboration with writers and composers, she has built a large repertoire of contemporary flute works composed specifically for her, that employ extended techniques, dance, drama, multi-media, and electronics.
More iNFO at: http://www.strangemusic.com
posted by Coming Events
11:31 PM
1-2-3-GO! - So Percussion - June 13
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Patrick Grant (646) 359-3856
sTRANGEmUSIC & Egizio Panetti present
SO PERCUSSION
Live at OPIA
130 East 57th St.
New York City
JUNE 13, 2005
So Percussion will perform on Monday, June 13, 6:30 p.m., in the performance space at Opia, 130 East 57th Street (at Lexington). Tickets are $15 at the door and the doors open at 6:00 p.m.
On this performance, So Percussion will perform music from their two CDs: Part One of Steve Reich's "Drumming" and Part Two of David Lang's "The So-Called Laws of Nature."
So Percussion (Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Lawson White) is a captivating group, hailed for their "brilliant" and "consistently impressive" performances by the New York Times. Formed in New Haven, CT in 1999, So has already made a name as one of the most exciting young ensembles in the country. Recently, they've been featured at Carnegie Hall, the Bang on a Can Marathon, the BAM Next Wave Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Miller Theatre, Joe's Pub, the Other Minds Festival, Merkin Hall, The Roundtop Festival, and on WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck.
So's continuing commissioning project has already produced many new works, including David Lang's groundbreaking the so-called laws of nature, written in 2002. In the near future, this project will yield new pieces by Martin Bresnick, Paul Lansky, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Dennis DeSantis. Recently, So received the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming award for these efforts.
So's educational initiatives have resulted in residencies at The University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, Duke University, Williams College, King's College, and performances with the Harvard Group for New Music and Columbia Composers. In 2004-2005, So is the ensemble in residence at The Yellow Barn in Putney, Vermont, participating in both the summer festival and a year-round outreach project. So's first two albums are now available on Cantaloupe Music.
As percussion instruments have become central to our diverse musical culture, the music written for them has reached a new level of excitement and maturity. So Percussion’s goal is to challenge and enable the creation of new music that combines all kinds of musical, theatrical, and artistic elements. We seek composers, collaborators, and audiences who are open to pulling these instruments out of their usual contexts to create new aural and visual experiences. Percussion has a unique ability to thrill and captivate. Its expressive possibilities range far beyond beats and rhythms, speaking to the impact of sound on our very lives.
A So performance seeks to convey this impact. From the pure joy of drumming to the strange beauty of everyday objects, audiences are uniquely moved and entertained by this total immersion in sound and imagination. These shows are presented at many different venues: concert halls. clubs, art museums and more. In addition to these performances, we bring educational programs to universities, public schools, and other locations across the USA. So is a form of the Japanese verb meaning, “to play.” For us, it means sharing the joy and spirit of music making with whomever we can!
More iNFO at: http://www.strangemusic.com
posted by Coming Events
11:29 PM
1-2-3-GO! - Patrick Grant Group - June 6
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Patrick Grant (646) 359-3856
sTRANGEmUSIC & Egizio Panetti present
ONE-TWO-THREE-GO!
Monday Evening Concerts
PATRICK GRANT GROUP
Live at OPIA
130 East 57th St.
New York City
JUNE 6, 2005
Patrick Grant Group will perform on Monday, June 6, 6:30 p.m., in the performance space at OPIA, 130 East 57th Street (at Lexington). Tickets are $15 at the door and the doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Patrick Grant Group (Grant w/ Kathleen Supové, Marija Ilic & John Ferrari) reunites for its first performance of 2005. On this program they will be playing new compositions for three keyboards and percussion, featuring amongst them Grant's "Driving Patterns," "Breaking Butterflies Upon the Wheel," & "ATF: Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms" as well some older favorites. The music has "...a driving and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a clean sense of melodicism ... the music's momentum and intricate cross-rhythms rarely let up, making the occasional infectious tunes that emerge all the more beautiful for surprise." - The Village Voice
Patrick Grant has created musical scores for the theatrical visionary Robert Wilson (three installations and a theatrical piece), the Louvre Museum (an installation for the Musée du Quai Branly), the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble (a tone poem after a scenario by Artaud), the Living Theatre (two theatre pieces, a one-act opera and,
most recently, contributed music for the documentary "Resist!" which won the prize for best documentary at the EuropaCinema Festival in Italy, 2003), and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in San Francisco (a piece called "the strangest and most ravishing dance of the year" by the SF Chronicle and nominated for Best Dance Score of 2003 by the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards). As a presenter, Mr. Grant has produced literally dozens of concerts of new music in the alternative spaces of New York, in art galleries, theaters, factory lofts and clubs, since 1988. He is founder and artistic director of Strange Music Inc., an organization dedicated to releasing recordings and presenting compelling new work with performances and installations in New York and around the world.
Kathleen Supové is one of the most acclaimed contemporary music pianists of our time, occupying a unique position through her continuous search for what is new and provocative. Kathy has spent the last decade producing a series of solo concerts entitled The Exploding Piano, in which she has performed and premiered countless works by emerging and established composers. The series has received rave reviews and thrilled audiences everywhere. In the last two seasons, Kathy developed The Exploding Piano into a multimedia experience by using theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, electronics, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines and director/writer Valeria Vasilevski.
Marija Ilic is an active performer of the traditional repertoire and new music in New York City and has been praised as a "clear and decisive musician...compelling...poetic" by The New York Times. Her performances include recitals at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, Musica Viva in Belgrade, Clark Studios at Lincoln Center, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival in England, Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival, Bolzano Festival, Trinity Church concert series and the Schumann Festival.
Enjoying an extremely varied career, John Ferrari is a versatile drummer, classical and hand percussionist, conductor, educator and composer/arranger in the New York City area music scene. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble and long standing member of Meridian Arts Ensemble Brass & Percussion. Frequent recipients of the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming, both groups have collectively released nine critically acclaimed recordings.
More iNFO at: http://www.strangemusic.com
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11:25 PM
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