2011

The Secondary Colors

Time:  7:30 pm

Date:  October 20-22 2011 (Thursday - Saturday)

Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for Performing Arts, 800 Bagby St.  Houston

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Other performances in 2011:

• February 1-3, 2011:  Framing Dance Discovery Series at Zilkha Hall with open to public performance on February 2, 2011 at 7:30 pm.  Framing Dance Discovery Series was fully booked for our 2011 season - thank you to the Hobby Center & Young Audiences. See Docu-Short here:  Framing Dance 2010
• February 18, 2011:  Choreographer & Composer Exchange with Jane Weiner of Hopestone, Karen Stokes, Bill Ryan, and Todd Reynolds.  Wortham Theater Lab 208 at 6:00 pm. See video here:  The Exchange 2011
• March 3 & 4, 2011:  12 Minutes Max at Diverse Works, Houston.  Excerpts from 2 new works, including a sneak peek at collaboration with composer Bill Ryan.  7:30 pm.
• March-April 2011:  Film Shoot:  Bob Dorough (jazz composer/musician) film project "FOAM".

Musicians for "The Secondary Colors" 2011 premiere:

Todd Reynolds, composer, chamber-musician, violinist, improvisor, is one of the unique voices to have come out of the Bang on a Can, post-minimal scene which began to take root over twenty years ago. He's an uptown, midtown and downtown musician whose collaborative list reads like a who's who of experimental music.  Perhaps best known for his work in the foundational era of the string group, ETHEL, his work as a chamber musician including time spent in The Steve Reich Ensemble, The Silk Road Project and Bang on a Can has contributed to his unique voice as a performer and composer. His teaching residencies which include creativity conversations, nontraditional master-classes, composer forums and software performance integration are enjoying increased popularity at universities across the nation.

Michael Lowenstern, considered one of the finest bass clarinetists in the world, has performed, recorded and toured the U.S. and abroad as a soloist and with ensembles of every variety. His career has traveled across equally diverse territory, and Lowenstern has enjoyed performing with musicians and groups such as The Klezmatics, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Steve Reich and Musicians, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and John Zorn.  In 1989, Michael was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to study in Amsterdam, and in 1991 was the top prizewinner at the International Gaudeamus Competition in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, he received further training from the Eastman School of Music (BM, Performer’s Certificate), the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam (Artist’s Certificate), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (MM, DMA), studying clarinet and bass clarinet with Charles Neidich, Harry Sparnaay, Richard MacDowell and John Bruce Yeh, and composition with Daniel Weymouth. Michael has served on the faculties of the Juilliard School and New York University, and travels regularly as a guest lecturer at universities around the country. He is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music's brand-new, ground breaking Graduate Program in Contemporary Performance.

David Cossin is is a percussionist and a specialist in new and experimental music, working across a broad spectrum of musical and artistic forms to incorporate new media with percussion. He has recorded and performed internationally with composers and ensembles including the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Meredith Monk, Tan Dun, Cecil Taylor, Talujon Percussion Quartet, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Bo Didley. Numerous theater projects include collaborations with Blue Man Group, Mabou Mines, and director Peter Sellars. David was featured as the percussion soloist in Tan Dun's Grammy and Oscar winning score to Ang Lee's film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." He has performed as a soloist with orchestras through out the world including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestra Radio France, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Sao Paulo State Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Hong Kong Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony. David has created sonic installations that have been presented in New York, Italy and Germany. He is also an active composer and has invented several new instruments that expand the limits of traditional percussion.

Andy Russo is an American pianist and a musical interpreter of uncommon vitality. A Grammy-nominated recording artist, Russo has made a name for himself through his work with many of today’s leading composers in the United States and Europe. His career has unfolded around the globe, with appearances in New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rome, Leipzig, Munich, Brussels and London.  As a recitalist and ensemble player, Mr. Russo has given premiere performances of works by many of the world’s leading composers – Finland’s Kaija Saariaho, France’s Philippe Manoury, Holland’s Jacob ter Veldhuis and America’s David Lang, George Tsontakis, Marc Mellits, Derek Bermel, Marc Neikrug, Annie Gosfield and Phil Kline.

In addition to his activities as a performer, event organizer and record producer, Mr. Russo dedicates time to the direction and development of the Music program at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, where he is artist-in-residence. Through a number of community partnerships, Russo has exposed people of all socio-economic backgrounds to important American music and musicians through special presentations and clinics for schools in underprivileged areas, as well as an eclectic and interactive concert series at Le Moyne College's W. Carroll Coyne Performing Arts Center. It is because of the breadth and diversity of his activities that Gramophone magazine proclaimed: "Andrew Russo is by no means just 'another pianist’”.

Pablo Mahave-Veglia is a cellist and teacher of broad interests whose repertoire ranges from the early baroque, performed on period instruments, to his ongoing interest in researching, performing and recording the work of contemporary Latin-American composers.  His current projects include touring wiht a solo program of the Bach Cello Suites using original instruments, including a 5-string violoncello piccolo.  Recent concerts include performances at Ohio University, Concerse College in South Carolina, Arizona State University, the SUNY at Fredonia, Queens College in Ontario, among many others.  He is an alumnus of Interlochen Arts Academy, holding degrees from University of Wisconsin Madison, Indiana  University and and Eastman School of Music.  He has appeared as a soloist  in his native Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Europe and Malaysia; as well as nemorous venues in the United States.

Jonathan Nichol is an award winning saxophonist who has played with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Harry James Orchestra, Gene Krupa Orchestra, The Four Tops, The Fifith Dimension, Lansing Symphony Big Band, Flint Symphony Orchestra, the Machine (Pink Flyod Tribute Band), and the Nichol Trio.  In 2009, Nichol was invited to premier fivenew works for solo saxophone and saxophone quartet at teh 15th World Saxophone Congress held in Bangkok, Thailand.  He is a member of the acclaimed h2 quartet, recipeints of teh prestigious Gold Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.  The h2 Quartet's CD Generations was released in August 2008, and their second CD Times and Spaces received a 2010 Aaron Copland  Recording Grant.

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