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6/04/2007
Contact: Ellen Pfeifer
Public Relations Manager
New England Conservatory
617-585-1143
epfeifer@newenglandconservatory.edu
For Immediate Release:
June 4, 2007
New England Conservatory’s SICPP (“Sick Puppy”) Welcomes “Resolute Outsider” Walter Zimmermann in Annual Institute, June 18—23
German Composer a Prime Mover in the “New Simplicity” Movement
Zimmermann’Music Influenced by American Indian Folk Music, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Medieval Mystics, Zen Buddhist Tracts, Classical Philosophers
Walter Zimmermann, the 58-year old German composer whom musicologist Richard Toop has described as a “resolute outsider,” will be welcomed into the SICPP fold, during the annual summer seminar, June 18—23. He will serve as BnG Composer-in-Residence.
SICPP or the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (forever known as “Sick Puppy”) takes place every summer at New England Conservatory, under the direction of NEC pianist Stephen Drury. A seminar highlighted by nightly concerts, SICPP has become known as Boston’s most concentrated, extensive, and adventurous new music event. It features international performers of new music as well as local champions of dissonance. This year’s institute focuses on the work of Zimmermann, who teaches at the Berlin Academy of Music. He will be joined on the institute faculty by Drury, Jeffrey Gilliam, Heather O’Donnell, Yukiko Takagi, Scott Deal, and Robert Schulz.
Throughout the week, pianists and percussionists will participate in masterclasses, coachings, and private lessons. Each evening, there will be performances by faculty members plus musicians from the Callithumpian Consort. Musical selections will include several works by Zimmermann plus music of Cage, Christian Wolff, Feldman and others. Selected students will be invited to perform on the final evening concert, June 23. Zimmermann’s participation and the institute as a whole are sponsored by the Goethe Institut Boston, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the BnG Foundation, and the Yamaha Corporation.
Evening performances take place June 18, 19th and 22 at 8 p.m. in Williams Hall; June 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. in NEC’s Jordan Hall; and June 23 at 5 p.m. in Brown Hall. All are free and open to the public. The schedule follows:
Monday, June 18 – Williams Hall
Luciano Berio: Sequenza IV
Stephen Drury, piano
Per Bloland: Negative Mirror, Part II
Lukas Foss: Ni Bruit, Ni Vitesse
Tuesday, June 19 – Williams Hall
John Luther Adams: Dark Waves for two pianos and electronics
Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi, pianos
John Luther Adams: Red Mountains
Stephen Drury, piano
John Luther Adams: Burst for percussion and electronics
Scott Deal, percussion
Frederic Rzewski: De Profundis
Jeffrey Gilliam, piano
Wednesday, June 20 – NEC’s Jordan Hall
Walter Zimmermann – Wüstenwanderung
Heather O’Donnell, piano
Zimmermann: from Lokale Musik –
Erd-Wasser-Luft-Töne
Figuren-Tänze
Nicholas Vines – The Butcher of Brisbane for saxophone and ensemble
Eliot Gattegno, saxophone
Thursday, June 21 – Jordan Hall
Walter Zimmermann: from Lokale Musik –
Fränkische Tänze
Kärwa-Melodien
Keuper
Tamar Diesendruck: Being As How
Dorothy Hindman: Beyond the Cloud of Unknowing
Scott Deal, percussion
Friday, June 22 – Williams Hall
Walter Zimmermann: The Missing Nail at the River
Arnulf Herrmann: Privatsammlung
Bernhard Lang: Cellular Automata
Heather O’Donnell, piano
Saturday, June 23 – Brown Hall, 5pm
SICPP MARATHON!!! – 4+ hours of performances by SICPP fellows and faculty
Music will include Stockhausen Kontakte, Kagel Match, Crumb Vox Balaenae, and new works by the SICPP composition studio.
Note 5:00pm start time – come and go as you please
For further information, check the NEC Website at: www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts or http://sicpp.org
Or call the NEC Concert Line at 617-585-1122. NEC’s Jordan Hall, Brown Hall, Williams Hall and the Keller Room are located at 30 Gainsborough St., corner of Huntington Ave. St. Botolph Hall is located at 241 St. Botolph St. between Gainsborough and Mass Ave.
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes—thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.
NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC’s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of “From the Top,” a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.
###Labels: Callithumpian, SDrury, SICPP
posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
6/04/2007 02:28:00 PM
4/23/2007
All-Sound Music 21!: Contemporary American Works for Percussion,
Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie.
“Percussion music is a contemporary transition from keyboard-influenced music to the all-sound music of the future. Any sound is acceptable to the composer of percussion music…” --John Cage, The Future of Music: Credo
posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
4/23/2007 11:37:00 AM
3/22/2007
FREE CONCERT
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University
Saturday, April 7 / 8pm / Free Admission
Program
Barry Conyngham: Preview (1982)
Elliott Gyger: Shifting (2007)*
Andrew Robbie: The Language of Birds (2004)*
Peter Sculthorpe: Requiem for ’Cello Alone (1979)
Jane Stanley: Deep Turn (2007)*
Nicholas Vines: Terminus In Time (2000), A Queen’s Paranoia (2007)*
* Premiere Performance
Australians at Harvard celebrates the brief convergence of four of Sydney’s most distinctive young composers as Harvard students and faculty. With all four being graduates of the now defunct Sydney University Music Department, this community in exile represents the last flowering of a distinctive branch of Australian composition. Contemporary music specialist and Julliard graduate Jason Calloway will perform their solo cello works, as well as pieces by fellow Sydney University alumnus and 2000-1 Harvard Chair of Australian Studies Barry Conyngham, and preeminent Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, from whom all five composers have learned.
This concert is presented by the Frank Knox Memorial Fellows. Knox Fellowships support the studies of select Commonwealth students — including two of the concert’s featured composers — across Harvard’s graduate schools, promoting international synergies through cross-cultural exchange.
posted by Coming Events
3/22/2007 12:25:00 AM
2/19/2007
In celebration of International Women’s Day, the members of the Barbad Chamber Orchestra will perform a chamber music concert of works by contemporary women composers from Canada, Georgia, Iran, Russia and the US. The concert will take place on Friday, March 9, 2007 at 8:00 PM at the Tenri Cultural Institute at 43-A West 13 Street. Tickets are $15 ($10 for seniors and students) and can be purchased at the door the night of the concert.
The members of the Barbad, Cyrus Beroukhim, violin; Miranda Sielaff, viola; Arash Amini, cello; and guest artist Eric Huebner, piano, will perform “Four Degrees of Freedom” by Kelly-Marie Murphy of Canada, Sonata for Violin and Piano by Eka Chabashvili of Georgia, “Dancing in the Village” and “For the Starts” by Fozie Majd of Iran, Trio for Strings by Sofia Gubaidulina of Russia, and “In Transit” by Beata Moon of the US.
posted by Coming Events
2/19/2007 06:09:00 PM
11/28/2006
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM
Admission $15, Students $10, MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Thursday, November 30th
8:30 PM
Noa Guy
Drops of Consciousness – part one
Using her still photography and pre-recorded string quartet as points of departure, composer–performer Noa Guy collaborates with friends in a journey exploring the edges of audiovisual information processing. This performance examines the emotional reaction to an image of sound and silence, of light and darkness, of being and not being.
Noa Guy’s works include pieces for solo voice to symphonic orchestra as well as multimedia work and music for film and the theatre. This is her first concert after being injured in a car accident 13 years ago.
Guy studied music theory in the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and composition and electronic music in Berlin. A recipient of several international prizes, she worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen for four years. For three years she performed with American and Dutch composers in concerts of live electronic improvisation. In 1993 she suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident. The process of recovery opened new doors, which led to her active interest in neuroscience, psychology and painting and her search for the temporarily lost land of music. This performance is a break of 13 years of silence.
Producer, pianist and composer Alon Leventon came to the US in 2001 from his native Israel. He since has worked on numerous projects ranging from electronic and pop music, to acoustic jazz to experimental avant-garde music. Alon has been featured on films, radio, TV and many albums both as a producer and performer and as one half of the duo The Bursers.
Lio Spiegler is an Israeli filmmaker living and working in NY. Lio started his career as copywriter in a TBWA affiliated agency in Israel where he's written and creatively directed dozens of radio and TV commercials. In the late 90s Lio moved to NY and after receiving his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, he became head of the Creative Strategy Department at ink&co Branding & Advertising. In the past few years, Lio's attention was devoted to film and TV. In 2003 he wrote and directed "Rattlesnakes & Heatwaves," which opened the HOWL! Film Festival. In 2004 he produced and directed a pilot for a half-scripted-half-reality-half-baked cooking show. In 2005 Lio traveled to Sri Lanka to interview Sir Arthur C. Clarke for a feature length docudrama. Early this year, he produced a viral campaign for GenSpec Vitamins and shot and edited a short film for the Tribeca Film Institute and Abas Kiarostami. Limiko Films, the company he co-founded, now is developing a new drama series for NBC.
Kim Spiegler was born in Israel. She received her Associate Degree in Communications from the Open University in Tel-Aviv and developed her production skills while working as Assistant Producer at a TBWA affiliated ad agency. In 2000 Kim moved to the US and expanded her alternative vocabulary while working with the J. Mandle Performance Group. In 2006 she graduated from Hunter's film department, while working as Associate Producer at Tamouz Media. “Hijacked!,” which she helped produce, recently aired on PBS. Kim was an ambassador of the TriBeCa Film Institute's exchange program in Marrakech, in collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Abas Kiarostami. She just has finished working on “In the Name of the Victims,” a TV documentary for Channel 10 in Israel. She is one of the founders of Limiko Films.
posted by Coming Events
11/28/2006 02:50:00 PM
11/15/2006
Contact: Ellen Pfeifer
Public Relations Manager
New England Conservatory
617-585-1143
epfeifer@newenglandconservatory.edu
For Immediate Release:
November 15, 2006
New England Conservatory Presents World Premiere of Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s El Día de los Muertos
New Percussion Work Fourth in Series Commissioned by Bradford and Dorothea Endicott
Piece Evokes Joyous Mexican Folk Holiday
The New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble will present the world premiere of Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in NEC’s Jordan Hall. Frank Epstein, Chair of Brass and Percussion and longtime member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will conduct. The work is the fourth in a series of new percussion pieces commissioned by Bradford and Dorothea Endicott for Epstein and the Percussion Ensemble. Previous works in the series have been composed by Joan Tower, Gunther Schuller, and Jennifer Higdon.
Based in Dallas, Robert Xavier Rodriguez was born on June 28, 1946 in San Antonio, Texas, where he received his earliest training in piano and harmony. Subsequent musical education included study in composition with Hunter Johnson, Halsey Stevens, Jacob Druckman, and Nadia Boulanger. He gained international recognition in 1971 when awarded the Prix de Composition Musicale Prince Pierre de Monaco by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace at the Palais Princier in Monte Carlo. Other honors include the Prix Lili Boulanger, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, and the Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Rodríguez's music embraces all genres and often combines Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque techniques with ethnic and contemporary materials. He has had particular success with his seven operas. His most recent opera, Frida, based on the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, has enjoyed successful runs at the American Music Theatre Festival, The American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, the Brooklyn Academy's Next Wave Festival, and the Houston Grand Opera.
Written last summer and scored for six players, “El Día de los Muertos” is a musical evocation of the joyous Mexican folk celebration. As the composer explains, “The Mexican version of All Souls Day has a distinctively playful and nostalgic identity, which sets it apart from the ghostly images of the American and European Halloween, as exemplified in Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre. Following Aztec legends, the Mexican tradition represents the dead as sleeping in a cool, quiet place called Mictlán. To begin the holiday, the living send their children (symbolically those farthest away from death) to the cemetery to invite the spirits of the dead to come out for a day to cavort with the living. The living prepare ceremonial dishes and create home altars with memorabilia of their departed loved ones. The skeletons then rise from their graves, and the spirits of the dead are reunited with the living. There is joyous celebration with singing, story-telling, feasting and dancing. At the end of the day, bells ring again and the revels end. The living, again led by the children, say goodbye to the dead and the spirits return to their graves…”
Eschewing all drums except timpani, the score “utilizes a rich assortment of pitched percussion instruments, with prominent use of two marimbas (the marimba being the national instrument of Mexico as well as an apt musical representation of skeletons),” according to the composer. It also makes use of several popular Mexican folk songs, most prominently A la puerta del cielo (At the Gate of Heaven) and La realidad (Reality). “All of the Mexican melodies are combines in a quodlibet at the center of the work, where the living and the spirits of the dead are united.”
Also featured on the concert are: Antonin Dvorak, Song To The Moon from the opera Rusalka adapted by Nathan Daughtrey; Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, arranged by Blake M. Wilkins; Nathan Daughtrey, Adaptation (2005); Andrew Beall, Deliverance; and Jennifer Higdon, Splendid Wood (2006). The last work is also an Endicott commissioned work and was given its world premiere in April.
The concert is free and open to the public.
For further information, check the NEC Website at: www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts or call the NEC Concert Line at 617-585-1122. NEC’s Jordan Hall, Brown Hall, Williams Hall and the Keller Room are located at 30 Gainsborough St., corner of Huntington Ave. St. Botolph Hall is located at 241 St. Botolph St. between Gainsborough and Mass Ave.
ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.
The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes—thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.
NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC’s opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.
NEC is co-founder and educational partner of “From the Top,” a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.
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posted by Ellen C. Pfeifer
11/15/2006 11:16:00 AM
11/13/2006
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Sunday, December 17th
Jim Staley, Ikue Mori & John Zorn
Playing together for twenty-six years, and still not out of breath…
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 02:02:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Saturday, December 16th
Joel Harrison - The Wheel
Dubbed “the music of the future” (Irish Times,) composer/guitarist Joel Harrison’s compositions blend Appalachian, African and modern classical sensibilities. Praised as a “brilliant, take-it-anywhere guitarist” (Village Voice,) Harrison’s new work, The Wheel comes from a longstanding determination to make music that equally represents improvisation and notation, balancing the joy of spontaneity with the structural rigor of composition, as realized by two classic ensembles from their respective worlds, string quartet and jazz quartet. The improvisation stems from a bedrock of notation, and comes in a variety of forms, allowing for seamless transitions between the soul and spontaneity of improvising and the structure of written notes, resulting in a kind of music that truly is its own new world. Check out: www.joelharrison.com
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 02:02:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Friday December 15th
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman
Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, known for her work with John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Yusef Lateef, Tim Berne & her own group, Abaton or Mephista, performs with violinist Mark Feldman for an evening of exciting improvisations and new compositions. Feldman has performed with John Zorn, John Abercrombie & Dave Douglas, among others, and is known for his entirely original and self-made approach to violin improvisation. Courvoisier and Feldman have been performing together internationally since 1996, with regular appearances throughout the USA and Canada.
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 02:02:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Thursday, December 14th
Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra - Available Forms for Jazz
Hans Tammen’s latest project, the Third Eye Orchestra, is inspired by Earle Brown's Available Forms. In tonight’s performance, various sections of players are given scores with various modules, but the conductor is free to choose which ones to juxtapose. Combining improvisational aspects with open form composition, the conductor uses the orchestra as an instrument, while each performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance. Hans Tammen (conduction & concept) with Mari Kimura, Jason Hwang, Stephanie Griffin, Tomas Ullrich, Herb Robertson, Ned Rothenberg, Robert Dick, Detlef Landeck, Dafna Naphtali, Ursel Schlicht, Denman Maroney, Stomu Takeishi and Satoshi Takeishi.
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 02:02:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Sunday, December 10th
Jennifer Choi, Marco Cappelli & Vongku Pak
The adventurous and unrelentingly innovative violinist Jennifer Choi, known for her soulful and direct interpretations of classical new music and for her improvisations in the Susie Ibarra Trio, plays alongside the imaginative, ultra-dexterous Marco Cappelli (Extreme Guitar Project) and fuses their virtuosic string playing with the dynamic folk rhythms of Vongku Pak (Korean drums) in composed and improvised collaborations. Choi breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music and creative improvisation. She has performed and recorded over 50 new compositions and has taken her traditional training at Juilliard to her groundbreaking collaborations with John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Wadada Leo Smith, Erik Friedlander and others. Check out: www.jenniferchoi.com, www.marcocappelli.com, www.koreandrum.org.
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 02:02:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Saturday, December 9th
Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht
Flutist/composer Robert Dick and internationally acclaimed pianist Ursel Schlicht, “…two virtuosi whose talent for stretching their instruments and minds allows them to paint with more colors and textures than flute and piano have any right to expect," (Gene Santoro) present an evening of music that integrates composition and improvisation and radically expands the sound world and expressive possibilities of flute and piano, featuring piccolo to contrabass flute with inside & out piano. Schlicht has played improvised music, jazz, new music and world music throughout Europe, the Americas and Australia, and has recorded extensively. Robert Dick, improviser, composer, author, teacher and inventor is known worldwide for redefining the flute, creating revolutionary visions of its musical role. Please visit www.robertdick.net & www.urselschlicht.com
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Friday, December 8th
Christopher McIntyre
Composer and trombonist Christopher McIntyre has been developing a number of large ensemble projects in the past few years, both as a leader and collaborator. Several of them will fill Roulette's stage this evening, including TILT Brass Band, Lotet and Ne(x)tworks. A thread that carries through each group is both technical and spiritual: mapping the space between composition and improvisation. Tonight's program offers a full evening of this repertoire, as well as new works commissioned by Roulette and the Jerome Foundation. Performed by an impressive array of new music’s heaviest-hitters, including Joan La Barbara, Cornelius Dufallo, Miguel Frasconi, Peter Evans and Nate Wooley.
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Thursday, December 7th
Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg presents new works for quintet and pieces from his recent CD, the door, the hat, the chair, the fact (Cryptogramophone.) The recording and tonight’s program feature a set of compositions dedicated to Steve Lacy, with whom Goldberg studied and worked closely. Dubbed “one of the greatest clarinetists I've ever heard" by John Zorn, Goldberg’s New Klezmer Trio “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music” (San Francisco Chronicle.) He currently works with the Tin Hat Trio, the Myra Melford Quintet and the trio, Plays Monk. A leading figure in “Radical Jewish Music,” Goldberg has played with everyone from George Lewis to Masada to Alvin Curran. Tonight with Carla Kihlstedt (violin,) Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone,) Trevor Dunn (bass) and Ches Smith (drums.)
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Sunday, December 3rd
Adam Rudolph
Go: Organic Orchestra
Go: Organic Orchestra is a thirty-piece ensemble of winds, strings and drummers/percussionists, including traditional western and non-western instruments. The orchestra combines many of LA’s leading performers, from both jazz and classical backgrounds, as well as young, developing musicians. The group “combines lush harmonies & vivid structures … to produce a surging, shifting sound with plenty of room for individual spark” (LA Weekly.)
Check out:
www.metarecords.com/adam.html
www.metarecords.com/go.html
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
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Friday, December 1st
JUDY DUNAWAY
Judy Dunaway: Mother of Balloon Music CD Release Party
In celebration of her upcoming CD on Innova Records, Roulette presents a concert featuring Judy Dunaway (balloons) in improvisational duets and trios with Tom Chiu (violin) and Damian Catera (electronics.) Since 1990, Dunaway has created over forty compositions for balloons as sound producers, her main instrument for improvisation. She has presented her work throughout North American and Europe at many well-known venues and festivals including Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, The Edna and Roy Disney Center, the Bang On A Can Festival, the Guelph Jazz Festival, Podewil and ZKM. Her discography includes recordings on the CRI and Outer Realm labels. Ms. Dunaway holds a M.A. in Music from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. in Music Composition from SUNY Stony Brook.
RYUKO MIZUTANI
Ryuko Mizutani
Ryuko Mizutani studied both classical and modern koto music under the world-renowned koto masters Kazue and the late Tadao Sawai. As a member of the Kazue Sawai Koto Ensemble, she has performed in Europe, South Asia, and the US in festivals of traditional and new music. In 1999 Ryuko received a fellowship from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists, to study improvisation and new music with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University.
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
For immediate release
ROULETTE presents
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
8:30 PM Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
Roulette 228 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
contact: press@roulette.org http://www.roulette.org/
Friday, December 1st
Judy Dunaway
"Mother of Balloon Music" CD Release Party
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Ryoko Mizutani
Contemporary koto music
Saturday, December 2nd
Brenda Hutchinson
Long Tube performance
Sunday, December 3rd
Adam Rudolph
Go: Organic Orchestra
Thursday, December 7th
Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg
with Carla Kihlstedt (violin,) Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone,)
Trevor Dunn (bass) and Ches Smith (drums.)
Friday, December 8th
Christopher McIntyre
Composer/trombonist Christopher McIntyre
with TILT Brass Band, Lotet and Ne(x)tworks.
Saturday, December 9th
Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht
Flutist/composer/inventor Robert Dick (flute)
and Ursel Schlicht (piano)
Sunday, December 10th
Jennifer Choi, Marco Cappelli & Vongku Pak
Jennifer Choi (Susie Ibarra Trio) and Marco Cappelli (Extreme Guitar Project)
with Vongku Pak (Korean drums) in composed and improvised collaborations.
Monday, December 11th
Aaron Siegel & Chris Peck
Process-based compositions for a large, unorthodox ensemble
Thursday, December 14th
Hans Tammen & Third Eye Orchestra - Available Forms for Jazz
Hans Tammen (conduction & concept) with Mari Kimura, Jason Hwang, Stephanie Griffin,
Tomas Ullrich, Herb Robertson, Ned Rothenberg, Robert Dick, Detlef Landeck, Dafna Naphtali,
Ursel Schlicht, Denman Maroney, Stomu Takeishi and Satoshi Takeishi.
Friday December 15th
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman
Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) with Mark Feldman (violin).
Saturday, December 16th
Joel Harrison - The Wheel
Composer/guitarist Joel Harrison performs with two quartets - string and jazz.
Sunday, December 17th
Jim Staley, Ikue Mori & John Zorn
Playing together for twenty-six years, and still not out of breath…
posted by Coming Events
11/13/2006 01:10:00 PM
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