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10/30/2005
ENSEMBLE PAMPLEMOUSSE
and THE RIVINGTON SALON
present:
Mischief Night
�Scary� Music
A Halloween Celebration, Salon Inaugural Opening,
Reception Soir�e and Benefit
October, 30 2005 $12
Doors 7 pm, Music 8 pm,
The Rivington Salon, 6 Rivington St. Near Bowery.
Reception afterward � Cheap drinks.
Reservation suggested.
For reservations and more information
please email: ensemblepamplemousse@earthlink.net
or call 917-913-3190
Featuring:
George Crumb, BLACK ANGELS for electric string quartet
Robin Hayward, CRANK SHAFT for solo violin
Rama Gottfried, DEATH OF SAMO�� for trombone quartet
Natacha Diels/Andrew Greenwald, XXXX for drumset and electronics
Sound installation(s) by Langdon Crawford
Art installation by Judith Braun
Performed by:
Michael Boschen
Caleb Burhans
Justin Clark
Natacha Diels
Kiku Enomoto
Ben Gerstein
Andrew Greenwald
Michael Lormand
Corrina Lynch
Laura Usiskin
In collaboration with The Rivington Salon, Ensemble Pamplemousse is pleased to announce its first ever Halloween concert bonanza! In addition to George Crumb�s infamous string quartet Black Angels, three new works will be performed including the world premi�re of New York composer Rama Gottfried�s Death of Samo�� for trombone quartet, Natacha Diels� and Andrew Greenwald�s XXXX, for percussion and electronics, and the New York premi�re of Berlin-based composer and reductionist tuba virtuoso Robin Hayward�s Crank Shaft, for solo violin.
After indulging in the spooky sounds of Ensemble Pamplemousse we invite our costumed and civilian guests to partake in food and drink, and cavort amidst the artwork of Salon hostess Judith Braun and others, gaze at horror films projected on the walls, and encounter Langdon Crawford�s space sensitive sounds, all at The Rivington Salon�s inaugural event, on the eve of All Hallow�s Eve, arguably the most mysterious night of the year.
Proceeds will benefit the production of Ensemble Pamplemousse�s spring collaboration with composers Rama Gottfried, Natacha Diels and Tobias Wagner, performers Rich Bennett, Kiku Enomoto, Andrew Greenwald and Laura Usiskin and designer Scott Carpenter.
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10/30/2005 07:30:00 PM
Sunday October 30, 2005
3PM
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
73rd St. and Madison Avenue
New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor, Walter Hilse, piano. First annual Choral Composition Competition Awards Concert featuring prize-winning works by American composers, including four world premieres and two NY premieres. Presented by The Saint Andrew Music Society of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. Donation: $15; $10 students/seniors.
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10/30/2005 03:00:00 PM
10/27/2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
October 26, 2005
Information: 212/242-4770
Contact:
Scott Taylor, 212/242-4770, staylor@greenwichhouse.org
Joseph Rubenstein, 917/494-4890, joe@joerubenstein.com
Greenwich House presents inaugural season of the
Keys to the Future piano festival
Renee Weiler Concert Hall
Tuesday, December 6 and Thursday, December 8, 8PM
NEW YORK-Greenwich House presents Keys to the Future, a two-concert festival featuring recent works for solo piano, at Greenwich House�s Renee Weiler Concert Hall on Tuesday, December 6, at 8PM and Thursday, December 8, at 8PM. Keys to the Future offers listeners an array of compelling contemporary piano works that explore the vast potential of the instrument.
On December 6, acclaimed pianist Lisa Moore will present works of Martin Bresnick, John Halle (world premiere), Paul Lansky (world premiere), Gy�rgy Ligeti, Frederic Rzewski, and Bryan Senti (world premiere).
On December 8, Molly Morkowski, Tatjana Rankovich and Joseph Rubenstein, rising stars specializing in new music, present works of Louis Andriessen, David Del Tredici, Fred Hersch, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, Lowell Liebermann (New York Premiere), Paul Moravec, and Joseph Rubenstein (world premiere).
"Composers have traditionally written their most imaginative and personal works for solo piano," explains Joseph Rubenstein, Artistic Director of Keys to the Future. "The piano tends to excite composers because of both its limits and its breadth of sonic possibilities. With five premieres and many other recent works, Keys to the Future will inform audiences as to how gifted contemporary composers are writing for this versatile instrument."
Listings Information:
Greenwich House presents Keys to the Future,
A two-concert festival of recent music for solo piano
Featuring Lisa Moore, Molly Morkowski, Tatjana Rankovich and Joseph Rubenstein
46 Barrow St. (just West of 7th Ave.)
Tuesday, December 6, 2005, at 8PM (Moore)
Thursday, December 8, 2005, at 8PM (Morkowski, Rankovich, Rubenstein)
Tickets: $15, $10 for seniors and students; call 212/242-4770 for information
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For additional information, biographies and digital images of the artists, and press tickets please contact Joseph Rubenstein at joe@joerubenstein.com.
Keys to the Future 2005
Programs
Tuesday, December 6
Lisa Moore, pianist
*Second Childhood (2000) John Halle (b. 1959)
*Hometown Narcissus (2005) Bryan Senti (b. 1983)
Down by the Riverside (1979) Frederic Rzewski (b. 1937)
*It All Adds Up (2005) Paul Lansky (b. 1944)
Dream of the Lost Traveler (1997) Martin Bresnick (b. 1946)
Piano Etudes (selections) (1985) Gy�rgy Ligeti (b. 1923)
1. Cordes a Vides
2. Fanfares
3. Arc-en-Ciel
4. Automne a Varsovie
*world premiere
Thursday, December 8
Tatjana Rankovich, Joseph Rubenstein, Molly Morkoski, pianists
Wed (1997) David Lang (b. 1957)
Image de Moreau (1999) Louis Andriessen (b. 1939)
Three Gymnopedies (2003) David Del Tredici (b. 1937)
*Tango Fantasy (2005) Joseph Rubenstein (b. 1969)
- intermission -
Saloon Songs (2004) Fred Hersch (b. 1955)
1. Four-Part Slow Drag
2. The "Last Call" Waltz
3. Bowery Rag
**Piano Sonata No. 3 (2002) Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961)
Isle of the Manhattoes (2005) Paul Moravec (b. 1957)
Speed Limit Rag (2001) Aaron Jay Kernis (b. 1960)
*world premiere
**New York premiere
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10/27/2005 10:55:00 PM
10/25/2005
S�MI MUSIC WITH VAJAS
Tuesday, October 25, 7:30 pm at Scandinavia House
$15 ($10 American-Scandinavian Foundation members)
VAJAS (Echo) presents a synergy of arctic voices and sound: the traditional S�mi yoiks of �nde Somby emanating from the distant tundra; the entrancing violin stylings and melodic voice of Kristin Mellem; and the renowned and captivating synthesizer sound voyages of Nils Johansen. The group calls the arctic city of Troms� in northern Norway home. �nde Somby, in addition to being a famous S�mi traditional yoiker, is also a well-known legal scholar and indigenous rights activist. Kristen Mellem is a classically trained violinist and composer who currently works with folk music, yoiking and community theatre. The contemporary musician and composer Nils Johansen was the music mastermind of the internationally celebrated group Bel Canto.
To reserve tickets, call (212) 847-9740.
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Ave. between 37th & 38th Streets, New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 879-9779
www.scandinaviahouse.org
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10/25/2005 07:30:00 PM
the aura electric, opus three
saturday, november 19, 2005 at 7:00 pm
performances by: mat maneri / randy petersen duo & project one ensemble
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
400 Carroll Street (between Bond and Nevins)
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Telephone: 718-330-0313 www.issueprojectroom.org
Admission: $10
Project One, in collaboration with Issue Project Room, presents The Aura Electric, Opus Three, featuring the Mat Maneri / Randy Petersen Duo�two of the most innovative and distinctive artists on the downtown improvised scene�and the Project One Ensemble performing works for electric string quartet (George Crumb�s Black Angels and a world premiere by Michael Spassov). Opus Three will take place on Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 7:00 pm at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. The Aura Electric, Opus Three explores the sound worlds of amplified strings by juxtaposing different approaches to composed and improvised �electric chamber music�. The relationship between composed and improvised music as well as the role of technology in music will be expanded through a discussion with the artists and audience and in a program essay whose departure point is Walter Benjamin�s concept of the aura of a work of art.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
7:00 Project One Ensemble
Michael Spassov: World Permiere
George Crumb: Black Angels: Thirteen Images from the Dark Land
Cornelius Dufallo & Ariana Kim, violins
Kenji Bunch, viola
Leigh Stuart, cello
8:00 Discussion
Moderated by Christopher Zimmermann
8:30 Mat Maneri / Randy Petersen Duo�Improvisations
Mat Maneri, viola; Randy Petersen, drums
What is Project One?
By converging contemporary improvised and new music, Project One presents provocative programs that explore the vitality and philosophical and cultural contexts of music today through performance and discussion.
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10/25/2005 01:30:00 PM
10/19/2005
The New York Miniaturist Ensemble invites you to another provocative evening of new music by contemporary composers. As always, the concert is dedicated to music of brevity and purity of essence and will solely feature works containing 100 notes or fewer. Please visit www.nyme.org for more information on The NYME and their distinctive approach to concertizing.
The next concert will be on Thursday, October 27th, 8:30 at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center, (W. 65th St.) Featuring: Erik Carlson, Michael Caterisano,
Alex Lipowski, and Miranda Sielaff.
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10/19/2005 10:30:00 PM
10/10/2005
October 30, 2005, 3PM, New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor, Walter Hilse, piano. First Annual Choral Composition Competition Awards concert featuring new music by American composers including four world premieres and two NY premieres. Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, at 73rd St., NYC. Donation $15; $10 seniors/students. Visit www. nyvirtuoso.org or call 914-763-3452 for more information.
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10/10/2005 02:52:00 PM
10/3/2005
Monday, October 10, 2005
8pm (7:15pm pre-concert talk)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts-Forum
701 Mission Street at 3rd Street, San Francisco
415-278-ARTS
The season opener (October 10), Infinite Black, presents four works that play at the edges of musical sound. Salvatore Sciarrino, a composer whose scores are widely performed in Europe, is still known in the United States mostly by reputation. David Milnes conducts the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Bo Chang in one of Sciarrino�s major works, Infinito Nero, a performance in one act based on the words of St. Maria Maddalena de� Pazzi, an early 17th-century Florentine mystic. Presenting a contrasting face of Sciarrino�s oeuvre, pianist Chryssie Nanou performs the intensely athletic Piano Sonata IV, as well as Karlheinz Stockhausen�s classic Klavierst�ck IX, which can be heard as an ancestor to Sciarrino�s music. Daniel Kennedy is the soloist in a new work developed at IRCAM, France�s computer music center, for percussion and electronics by Mei-Fang Lin.
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10/03/2005 04:48:00 PM
On Saturday, October 29 at 8:00 PM, the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music will present international performing artists Theodor and Ulrike N��lein as part of the Conservatory�s New Music Collective concert series. The N��leins will perform new works for viola and piano by composers such as Caleb Burnhans, Donald Hagar, Lowell Liebermann, Nissim J. Schual, and Zolt�n G�rdonyi. Tickets for the performance are $15; $10 students/seniors, and are available by calling the Conservatory at 718-622-3300. Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music is located at 58 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and is accessible by the by the Q or B trains to 7th Avenue, or the 2/3 trains to Grand Army Plaza.
Violist Theodor N��lein pursued his musical studies at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory in W�rzburg and received his diploma from the Academy of Music in Karlsruhe. In 1989 he received an Advanced Certificate Diploma from The Juilliard School. While there, Mr. N��lein not only studied viola with Lillian Fuchs and Paul Doktor, but also attended chamber music seminars given by cellist Harvey Shapiro and The Juilliard Quartet, among others, and along with his brother, cellist Wolfgang N��lein, and violinist Hong-Ying Ho, he founded The Manhattan String Trio. The trio has appeared in concert in the United States, as well as in Germany, Russia and Chile, and has collaborated in several recording projects both in Germany and abroad.
Pianist Ulrike N��lein received her early musical training at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory in W�rzburg, where she studied piano with Maho Kaneko. Ms. N��lein continued her education at the W�rzburg Conservatory, where she studied piano and harpsichord with Professors Kirsti Hjort and Glen Wilson, respectively. Together with her brothers, violist Theodor N��lein and cellist Wolfgang N��lein, she studied chamber music with Harvey Shapiro, both in New York City and at the International School for the Arts in Victoria, B.C. In 1995, she received a Professional Studies Certificate in accompanying from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where she studied with Donal Nold. Since that time, Ms. N��lein has had many engagements, performing as both a soloist and accompanist, as well as in chamber ensembles. She has appeared throughout Germany as well in Russia, South Africa, Italy, and France.
The New Music Collective series at Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Musis was created with the purpose of giving contemporary composers a forum in which to share their work with the public. Past performers include David Del Tredici, Donald Hagen and Lucy Shelton.
With locations in Brooklyn and Queens, the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest and largest non-profit community schools of the arts in the nation. The Conservatory provides music instruction for everyone, from the 18-month-old child to the 90-year-old senior and is dedicated to remaining affordable and accessible to the diverse communities it serves. For a concert season calendar and free brochure about programs and lessons, please call 718-622-3300 or visit our website at www.bqcm.org.
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10/03/2005 09:28:00 AM
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