Vinny Golia Large Ensemble at Finnish Kaleva Hall

In celebration of his 70th Birthday Bay Area musicians come together for an Outsound Presents special incarnation of Grand master multi-reedist and composer Vinny Golia's Large Ensemble.

LARGE ENSEMBLE**:
Composer, Director:
Vinny Golia - saxophones & woodwinds
Saxophones:
Beth Schenck, Bruce Ackley, Collette McCaslin, Dan Plonsey, David Slusser, Henry Kuntz, Jaroba, John Vaughn, Jon Raskin, Josh Allen, Joshua Marshall, Phillip Greenlief, Rent Romus, Steve Adams, Tom Weeks
Woodwinds:
Rachel Condry, Frances Rodriguez
Brass:
Heikki Koskinen, Ron Heglin...

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In celebration of his 70th Birthday Bay Area musicians come together for an Outsound Presents special incarnation of Grand master multi-reedist and composer Vinny Golia's Large Ensemble.

LARGE ENSEMBLE**:
Composer, Director:
Vinny Golia - saxophones & woodwinds
Saxophones:
Beth Schenck, Bruce Ackley, Collette McCaslin, Dan Plonsey, David Slusser, Henry Kuntz, Jaroba, John Vaughn, Jon Raskin, Josh Allen, Joshua Marshall, Phillip Greenlief, Rent Romus, Steve Adams, Tom Weeks
Woodwinds:
Rachel Condry, Frances Rodriguez
Brass:
Heikki Koskinen, Ron Heglin
Drums & Percussion:
Aaron Levin, Donald Robinson, Jason Levis, Jordon Glenn, Mark Pino, Moe! Staiano, Philip Everett, Vijay Anderson
Bass & String:
Kelley Kipperman, Matt Small, Steve Horowitz - electric/acoustic bass, Gabby Fluke-Mogul - violin, Tara Flandreau - violin, Shanna Sordahl - cello and electronics
Guitars:
Amy Reed, Bill Wolter, Henry Kaiser, Myles Boisen, Nathan Clevenger, Peter Whitehead, Robin Walsh, Ross Hammond
Other Instruments:
Gregory Scharpen - implements, Amanda Chaudhary - keyboard and electronics, Jake Rodriguez - modular synth, Cheryl Leonard - natural object instruments, Bryan Day - shuffleboard invention, Andrew Joron - theremin, Tim DeCillis - vibes, , Tom Bickely - bass recorder

HISTORY
Vinny Golia founded the Large Ensemble in 1982 to perform his original compositions for chamber orchestra. His style of composition is strongly based in the Jazz tradition, blending heavily notated contemporary chamber music with improvisation, various extended instrumental techniques, 20th-century idioms, and world music concepts. Golia's music demands a talented and exceptional group of dedicated musicians adept at both score and improvising and at home in a wide variety of styles.
Despite the difficulties in funding live performance, Golia's compositions for the Large Ensemble have received both critical and popular acclaim through recordings starting in 1982 through the present.
Golia’s large ensemble compositions have been performed by the Northwest Creative Orchestra in Portland, Oregon; Co- Opportunity Orchestra in Austin Texas; NOW Orchestra in Vancouver BC; Aardvark in Boston Massachusetts, Walter Thompson’s Sound Painting Orchestra in New York, the WDR in Köln Germany. Specially created large ensembles have also been created to play his music in New York, San Francisco, Portland, Oakland, Mexicalli Mexico, Vancouver and St. Louis Missouri. Since 1998 Golia has lead a Large Ensemble at the California Institute of the Arts.

"Golia is an unconventional autodidact who works in a grand style, with broad, messy strokes, mixing take-no-prisoners improv with rigorous composition. He takes obvious delight in the range of sounds at his command in the Large Ensemble, from tuba to piccolo-a sort of Mingus meets Stravinsky..." DOWNBEAT

"This is creative music on a grand scale, Braxtonish neo-bop to meditative chamber music. Golia prefers the term Large Ensemble to big band because it connotes a far wider spectrum of music. And here Golia has the full palette of musical colors he's been craving all these years, and the players who can realize his complex arrangements."
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