More exciting news! The birth of a new new music ensemble...
soundinitiative is a new ensemble based in Paris and was created by an international group of young and commited performers.
The first concert will take place on September 24th in Atelier Marbleu, 26 Rue du Delta, 75009 Paris! click here for more info about this concert.
Website coming very soon!!
I'm very happy to announce I'll be a member of the electric guitar quartet Zwerm and the Ensemble Nadar, starting this Season!
A lot of very exciting performances and projects are scheduled, for more info on both groups, check out their websites:
Zwerm will play their season opening concert during the Ostrava New Music Days, on September 2nd! Music by Larry Polansky, Guy de Bievre, Allessandro Massobrio and Beau Sievers.
I'm very happy to be part of the US premiere of Fausto Romitelli's masterpiece "An Index of Metals" with the Talea ensemble! The concert will be part of the Bang on a Can Marathon at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, come check it out, it's free!
"The aim of An Index of Metals is to turn the secular form of opera into an experience of total perception, plunging the spectator into an incandescent matter that is both luminous and sonorous, a magma of flowing sounds, shapes and colours, with no narrative but that of hypnosis, possession and trance. It is a lay ritual, rather like the light shows of the 1960s or today’s rave parties in which space, having assumed a solid form through the volume of sound and visual saturation appears to twist into a thousand anamorphoses."
-Fausto Romitelli
Bang on a Can Marathon, June 19th 2011, 6PM
World Financial Center, Winter Garden
200 Vesey Street, New York
FREE ADMISSION
Fausto Romitelli: An Index of Metals (2003)
Tony Arnold, soprano
James Baker, conductor
Alex Woods, violin
Elizabeth Weisser, viola
Chris Gross, cello
Daria Binkowski, flute
Rane Moore, clarinet
James Austin Smith, oboe
Jeff Missal, trumpet
William Lang, trombone
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, electric guitar
Greg Chudzik, electric bass
Steve Beck, piano
Daniel Iglesia, electronics
Alex Lipowski, electronics
I'm excited to anounce this wonderful concert at the Tank on June 2nd!
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe & Matthias Koole - guitar duo
This much acclaimed Belgian guitar duo brings you a powerhouse program of some of the very best pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries written for two guitars! The program includes music by Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Oehring and Vinko Globokar.
Long-time collaborators Kobe and Matthias have worked with Brian Ferneyhough and Vinko Globokar personally and were subsequently both awarded prizes at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses.
This is a rare performance not to be missed!
Program:
Brian Ferneyhough "No Time (at all)"
Helmut Lachenmann "Salut für Caudwell"
Helmut Oehring "Aus KOMA (No 1)"
Vinko Globokar "Dialog über Wasser"
click here to see the Facebook event.
On Saturday April 30th I'll be playing Stefan Prins' Fremdkörper I with the Wet Ink Ensemble. Other pieces on the program include works by Sam Pluta, Simon Steen-Andersen, Eric Wubbels, George Lewis and Lewis Spratlan... a very cool program not to be missed!
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
8pm
St. Peter's Church- Chelsea (W. 20th btw. 8th/9th)
$10
Program
Sam PLUTA- Portraits/Self Portraits *
George E. LEWIS- new work **
Stefan PRINS- Fremdkörper I #
Eric WUBBELS- katachi *
Lewis SPRATLAN- Process/Bulge **
Simon STEEN-ANDERSEN- Chambered Music #
*- World premiere
**- Wet Ink Commission, world premiere
#- U.S. premiere
