Composers Concordance 21st Century Solo Electric Guitar Co-produced With Vox Novus at Silvana

“I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.”

–David Lynch


For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Friday, September 12, at 7 p.m., Composers Concordance, in association with Vox Novus, continues its jam-packed fall season with 21st Century Solo Electric Guitar—a bold program featuring new compositions by Peter Jarvis, Jane Getter, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, David Shohl, and Robert Voisey, as well as works by the winners of the Vox Novus Short Guitar Compositions Competition: Nantenaina Andriamorasata from Madagascar and Rodrigo Baggio from Brazil....

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“I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.”

–David Lynch


For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Friday, September 12, at 7 p.m., Composers Concordance, in association with Vox Novus, continues its jam-packed fall season with 21st Century Solo Electric Guitar—a bold program featuring new compositions by Peter Jarvis, Jane Getter, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, David Shohl, and Robert Voisey, as well as works by the winners of the Vox Novus Short Guitar Compositions Competition: Nantenaina Andriamorasata from Madagascar and Rodrigo Baggio from Brazil.


Featured compositions include Jane Getter’s 'Extreme Whisper', performed as a duet with Jane and Gene; Milica Paranosic’s 'Duet for (One)'; and two of Pritsker’s 'Ballades' for guitar.


Composer Gene Pritsker has written over one thousand compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. His compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles, that are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures. He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation, an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc ensemble, co-directs Composers Concordance, and is a co-founder and composer-in-residence of the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble. Gene is also a guitarist/rapper/Di.J./ and producer, and incorporates each of these musical attributes to create music that is “not designed for easy listening or to melt into the background. It is insistent. It demands attention and curiosity.” -New York Newsday. Gene worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul, and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote his 'Cloud Atlas Symphony’ and the 2021 film 'The Matrix Resurrections.’


The concert will also be live-streamed on Composers Concordance's Facebook Page.

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