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Joan La Barbara, composer, performer, sound artist, has been hailed as "one of the great vocal virtuosas of our time" (San Francisco Examiner). Her multi-layered compositions often utilize her signature extended vocal techniques, garnering her awards including DAAD Artist-in-Residency in Berlin, 7 NEA grants, numerous commissions and most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. Recent recordings include "ShamanSong" (New World) and "Voice is the Original Instrument" (Lovely Music), hailed as one of The Wire's 10 best reissues of the year. "73 Poems", her collaboration with text-artist Kenneth Goldsmith, was included in The American Century Part II: SoundWorks at The Whitney Museum of American Art. "Messa di Voce", an interactive media performance work in collaboration with Jaap Blonk, Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman, premiered at ars electronica 2003. La Barbara has created sound scores for film, video and dance and has premiered landmark compositions by Robert Ashley, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, and Morton Subotnick. She is currently at work on an opera inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Joan La Barbara's website |
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| Shelley Burgon (harp & electronics) has spent many years performing in and around New York City and has had the pleasure to play and record with many legendary people in a variety of genres that include everything from avant-rock to free improv to classical. She is a member of the band Stars Like Fleas. Their highly anticipated second album The Ken Burns Effect will be released in September 2007 for Talitres and in the US, winter '08. Shelley's duo with bassist Trevor Dunn, recently released a full-length, improvised, live record for Skirl Records titled Baltimore. For the 2008-2009 season Shelley will join seven other stellar musicians in a collaboration with the legendary Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part of the Dia: Beacon Events series. She holds a BA in Jazz Studies from SFSU and and MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. Currently she is working on a solo record of her original music. Shelly Burgon's myspace site |
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Throughout his career, Yves Dharamraj has developed a reputation as a dynamic cellist who blends an immaculate command of the instrument with deep musical understanding to express his fresh artistic interpretations. Regarded as “a strikingly mature and gifted musician” (Edmonton Sun), the young Franco-American cellist enjoys a career that takes him to major venues across the United States, Canada, and abroad. Mr. Dharamraj has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Florida Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony, and Atlantic Classical Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, he was a founding member of the prize-winning Amaranta Quartet and Branford Piano Trio and toured with the Grammy-nominated Yale Cellos from 1998-2004, which is set to release a Bach/Brubeck CD on the Naxos label in 2005. Mr. Dharamraj has appeared in many prestigious festivals and his radio broadcasts have been aired on WFMT 98.7 Chicago and KUHF 88.7 FM Houston. In 1998 following studies with Mussie Eidelman and Scott Kluksdahl, he matriculated at Yale University where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History, a Master of Music degree, and an Artist Diploma under the guidance of the renowned pedagogue Aldo Parisot. He now pursues Graduate and Doctoral studies in Joel Krosnick and Darrett Adkins’s studio at the Juilliard School as the recipient of the 2004 Victor Herbert Scholarship. |
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Cornelius Dufallo (violin) (a.k.a. Neil) is currently one of the violinists in ETHEL. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the "new faces of new music," he has received worldwide acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and composer. Neil was a member of the Flux Quartet from 1997-2002, then he join the band NurseKaya which he performed in from 2002-2004. Other recent affiliations include Ornette Colemanís Harmelodic Chamber Players, and Butch Morrisís New York Skyscraper and Phantomstation. Neil is a composer and publisher member of ASCAP. Cornelius Dufallo's website |
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Miguel Frasconi (glass instruments & electronics) is a composer, performer, and sound artist who uses glass objects, electronics, keyboards, and devolved instruments to create music that sounds from a uniquely imagined tradition. His recent collaborations include new works with choreographer Alonzo King, electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick, and the new music ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion. His background includes work with John Cage, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, and James Tenney, and studies ranging from the music of South India and Indonesia to the Dada and Fluxus movements. Past collaborations include new works with Balinese composer I Dewa Berata, operatic tenor John Duykers, and Tibetan songwriter Techung, with whom he has performed in concerts throughout India. Miguel has created over three dozen dance scores and has performed with modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Miguel's early work includes ten years as a founding member of The Glass Orchestra, the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble featuring all glass instruments. Miguel Frasconi's myspace site |
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Pianist Stephen Gosling’s playing has been hailed as “electric” and “luminous and poised” (New York Times), and possessing “utter clarrity and conviction” (Washington Post) and “extraordinary virtuosity” (Houston Chronicle). Mr. Gosling earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the Juilliard School. During his tenure he was awarded the Mennin Prize for Outstanding Excellence and Leadership in Music and the Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship. He was also featured as concerto soloist an unprecedented four times. Mr. Gosling is a member of New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso and Columbia Sinfonietta. He has also performed with Orpheus, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, American Composers Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Riverside Symphony, Speculum Musicae, Ensemble 21, DaCapo Chamber Players, Continuum, SEM Ensemble, the League of Composers/ISCM Chamber Players, and Da Camera of Houston. Mr. Gosling has recorded for Albany, Bridge, Centaur, CRI, Innova, Koch, Mode, Morrison Music Trust, Naxos, New World Records, and Rattle Records. |
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| Noted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune for being “a superb musician, playing with assurance and flair,” violinist Ariana Kim is the newly appointed concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orelans. She has made extensive solo and collaborative appearances with orchestras and artists that have taken her throughout the United States and abroad. After making her debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ariana went on to be a featured soloist on the Schubert Club International Young Artists Series and recently appeared with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, with whom she made the world premiere of Concertino, written especially for her by Andrew Imbrie. An avid chamber musician both of the contemporary and traditional repertoire, Ariana has performed at such New York venues as Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, The Tenri Institute, Issue Project Room, and The Stone, among others, and is a newly appointed senior artist of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. During summers, she has participated in festivals such as Courchevel MusiqueAlp and the Ravinia Steans Institute, and serves on the faculty of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Ensemble Workshop and the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute. This season will mark Ariana’s third season as a member of Ne(x)tworks, with whom she records for Mode Records. Ariana holds a Bachelor’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she was the recipient of the Osher Foundation Merit Scholarship and Dean’s List Award. Currently, she resides in New Orleans and New York City, where she is pursuing her doctorate at The Juilliard School, and studies with Robert Mann. In March 2008, she will make her Carnegie debut at Weill Recital Hall as a winner of the Artists International Special Presentations Award.. |
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Christopher McIntyre leads a multi-faceted career in the contemporary arts as a performer, composer, and curator/producer. He performs on trombone and synthesizer in a variety of settings that often incorporate improvisation within notation. Current projects include leading TILT Brass Band, 7X7 Trombone Band, and Lotet, and collaborative efforts including creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks, and cjMjs (duo with Michael J. Schumacher). His compositional aesthetic encompasses elements of site-specificity, self-referential "sampling" between works, and gradually shifting aural tableaux typically generated by limited improvisative strategies. He has contributed work to the repertoire of Lotet, TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 Trombone Band (for choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), and Downtown Ensemble’s Flexible Orchestra. Beyond performing and creating music, McIntyre is active as an curator and concert producer. Recently, he was named Artistic Director of MATA Festival, and curated The Stone during June 07. Christopher McIntyre's website |
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