September 20, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Edward Schneider
612-806-7591 or [email protected]
Holiday for the Future
Two-Day Season Launch (October 1st and 2nd)
Concerts and drinks are free
Saturday, October 1st 7pm at The Home Of in Gowanus, Brooklyn http://thehomeof.org/hff-october
Please email [email protected] to RSVP and find out their location.
Sunday, October 2nd at 7pm at 16 Beaver
16 Beaver Street, Fourth Floor, New York, NY 10004
Holiday For the Future is a music series that features new work by composers and improvisers who are dedicated to exploring and experimenting with musical styles and forms. The series occurs on the first Saturday of every month and is curated by Edward Schneider.
Saturday October 1st at The Home Of
Act 1: Broadcloth: Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello), Adam Matlock (accordion/recorder)
Act 2: Constance Cooper (voice/piano)
Act 3: Edward Schneider (saxophone) + Brian Baumbusch (electronics/keyboard)
Act 4: Nathan Bontrager (cello)
Sunday October 2nd at 16 Beaver
Act 1: Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello), Edward Schneider (saxophone)
Act 2: Wendy Ultan (violin), Constance Cooper (voice/piano), Matt Goeke (cello)
Act 3: Greg Sogorka (solo piano)
Act 4: Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello), Edward Schneider (saxophone), Matt Goeke (cello)
The Performers:
Guitar player and composer Brian Baumbusch (Washington, DC) completed his formal musical training at Interlochen Arts Academy and then moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he formed the Opal Quartet. In 2006 he entered Bard College, where he performed in the Gamelan group and studied with the renowned microtonal music scholar Kyle Gann. During this time he was awarded an independent study grant to travel to Argentina and research folk music and guitar pedagogy. His recent recording with the Opal Quartet of an arrangement of a Gamelan piece has received significant attention. Baumusch has played with such notable musicians as Dharma Swara and has toured Bali with his ensemble. http://www.brianbaumbusch.com/
Cellist Nathan Bontrager (New Haven) performs improvised music ranging from the avant-garde to world folk styles. While earning his M.M. at the University of Maryland, Bontrager began to focus more heavily on contemporary works and frequently played with local new music ensembles such as Mobtown Modern and the Great Noise Ensemble. In addition, he co-founded The Experimental Music Performance Organization (T.E.M.P.O.), an ensemble committed to premiering new works. Bontrager has been increasingly active in the experimental music scene in New Haven (Firehouse 12, the Uncertainty Music Series), New York (the Stone, Evolving Voice Series), and throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. In addition to Broadcloth, he can be found performing with the folk group Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Orchestra, the American Baroque Orchestra, and the New Haven Improvisers Collective. http://www.broadclothtrio.com/
Pianist and composer Constance Cooper (New York) received first prize in the 2002 Gustav Mahler Competition (Austria). Her reflections about string instruments led to her invention of new hand-positions and notation for Coming From Us, commissioned by the American Composers Forum (Cadence Recordings). Her Divertimento for String Quartet is available on the Princeton CD label. Amoroso for orchestra was recorded by Harold Farberman in 2001. Her improvisatory pieces for organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She has appeared as composer, pianist, and singer at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and with the Princeton University Composers Ensemble, Continuum, and the American Microtonal Festival, and produced her own contemporary vocal recital series for 7 years. She received her PhD in composition from Princeton in 2003. http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/constance-cooper/id36603071
Cellist Matt Goeke (New York) performs as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in a broad range of musical styles. Classical recordings include North/South Recordings and 4Tay, Inc. He has also recorded for Opus One Records, Polygram, Elektra, Tzadik and Koch International Classics labels. He performs and records with the bands GIANTfingers and Voltaire, and the experimental instrumental group Another Silent Day. He can be heard on Angelique Kidjo’s 2007 Grammy Award winning album, Djin Djin, and with David Bowie on Time Will Crawl. Matt is also a member of the di.vi.sion piano trio and the Glass Farm Ensemble. In addition to maintaining an active teaching studio, Matt is an adjunct lecturer at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, works with the cello sections in Morningside, Turtle Bay and Carnegie Hill Orchestras of the Inter School Orchestras of New York, and coaches chamber music in the New York Youth Symphony's chamber music program. http://glassfarm.org/s_musi/GOEKEMW.htm
Accordionist Adam Matlock (New Haven) followed a path from a foundation in classical piano pedagogy and the African-American Spiritual tradition toward a wider range of folk, jazz and new music. After abandoning piano studies in favor of playing keyboards in rock bands, Matlock formally returned to music while working on a B.A. at Hampshire College, which combined the study of music composition and fiction writing, teaching himself the accordion to perform Klezmer with the Valley Kapelye under the direction of Adrianne Greenbaum. Matlock composes electronic music under the moniker G. Zarapanecko, and neo-cabaret songs under the name An Historic, and approaches collective folk deconstruction and film scoring with Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps. He also performs with the Elm City Guitar Quartet +3, the Erasmus Quintet, and other groupings of the New Haven Improvisers Collective, and continues to devour most new types of music set in front of him, most recently as the accordionist for the Yale Tango Orchestra and Yale Klezmer Band. http://www.broadclothtrio.com/
Vocalist Anne Rhodes (New Haven) holds a B.M. in Voice Performance from Boston University’s School for the arts and an M.A. in Music Performance from Wesleyan University, where she focused on experimental music, improvisation and collaborating with composers. She has performed with Connecticut Opera, Yale Opera, Portland Opera Repertory Theatre, the FLUX Quartet, New Haven Improvisers Collective, and the hip-hop duo Mirror Boiyz, and has premiered works by composers including Anthony Braxton, Neil Leonard, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mikael Karlsson, and Alvin Lucier. She is a principal singer in the Trillium Project, an opera company led by and dedicated to performing the works of Anthony Braxton. Anne currently studies voice with Elizabeth Saunders. As a day job, she serves as Research Archivist for Yale University’s Oral History of American Music. http://www.broadclothtrio.com/
Saxophonist Edward Schneider (Brooklyn) is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in Minneapolis where he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and was founding member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. Prior to this Schneider studied composition at the University of Illinois under the renowned experimental composer Herbert Brun. During this time the Kronos Quartet selected his composition for sight-reading. After earning a Masters in Ethnomusicology from Washington University, Schneider received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . In 2009 his new electronic composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Schneider was the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Mark Nye. http://soundcloud.com/edward-schneider
Pianist Gregory Sogorka (Brooklyn) has lived and worked in New York for the past ten years in
varying musical/technological capacities. Experiments/influences include classical, jazz, Haitian, Ethiopian, and West African musics. Recent compositions have
centered around a search for connective tissue between disparate ideas and themes. http://soundcloud.com/gregory-sogorka
Wendy Ultan (New York) is a violinist who frequently employs electronics to expand
the palate of the instrument. She has performed with William Parker, Bern Nix, Elliott Sharp, Evelyn Blakey, Dj Carnage, Valerie Naranjo, Alva Rogers, Charles
Burnham, Rufus Cappodocia, Jemeel Moondoc, Ahmadou Ngom, and many
others. Among those from whom she has received commissions are the Rockefeller Foundation, Minnesota
Composers Forum, Intermedia Arts, The National Gallery of Art, Canada, the Dia Foundation, the Mcknight Foundation.
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