Kaufman Music Center – Ecstatic Music: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund Concert
$25
- Jen Baker, trombone
- Robert Black, double bass
- David Byrd-Marrow, French horn
- Vicky Chow, piano
- David Cossin, percussion
- Arlen Hlusko, cello
- Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
- Mark Stewart, electric guitar
- Ken Thomson, clarinet
Nick Dunston — Fainting is Down, Whooshing is Up (world premiere arrangement)
Fred Frith — Which It Is (world premiere)
Soo Yeon Lyuh — See You on the Other Side (world premiere arrangement)
Tomeka Reid — UNTETHERED (world premiere)
Aeryn Santillan — disconnect. (world premiere arrangement)
Ken Thomson — Performative (world premiere)
Trevor Weston — Rainbows and Butterflies (new arrangement)
Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund Concert returns with a high-octane concert of world premieres and an expanded nine-piece Bang on a Can All-Stars lineup! World premieres by Tomeka Reid, Ken Thomson, and Fred Frith. New arrangements of works by Nick Dunston, Aeryn Santillan, Jeffrey Brooks, Trevor Weston, and Soo Yeon Lyuh.
$15 student tickets are available. Call the box office at (212) 501-3330.
All guests must wear a mask properly at all times while in the building. Audience members will need to be fully vaccinated with an FDA or WHO approved vaccine and must show proof of vaccination along with a government-issued photo ID. Audience members under the age of 12 (under the age of 5 beginning March 1, 2022) or patrons who are not able to be vaccinated due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief must show proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance start time.
View Kaufman Music Center's full COVID-19 Policies here: https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/covid/
About Jen Baker, trombone
About Robert Black, double bass
About David Byrd-Marrow, French horn
About Vicky Chow, piano
About David Cossin, percussion
David Cossin is a specialist in new and experimental music who has worked 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars, Steve Reich and Musicians, Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Meredith Monk, Tan Dun, Cecil Taylor, Talujon Percussion Quartet, and the trio Real Quiet. Numerous theater projects include collaborations with Blue Man Group, Mabou Mines, and director Peter Sellars.
Cossin 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 joined Sting for the world tour Symphonicities and has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, São Paulo State Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
His ventures into other art forms include sonic installations, which have been presented in New York, Italy, and Germany. He is an active composer and has also invented several new instruments that expand the limits of traditional percussion. David Cossin is the curator for the Sound Res Festival, an experimental music festival in southern Italy, and he also teaches percussion at Queens College in New York City.
https://www.msmnyc.edu/faculty/david-cossin/About Arlen Hlusko, cello
About Allison Loggins-Hull, flute
Allison Loggins-Hull is a "powerhouse" (The Washington Post) flutist, composer, and producer whose work defies classification and has been described as "evocative" by The Wall Street Journal. She has been associated with acts across the spectrum of popular and classical music including Flutronix, Hans Zimmer, Lizzo, Imani Winds, Alarm Will Sound, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alicia Hall Moran, and Jason Moran. Her music is resonant with social and political themes of the current moment, encompassing motherhood, Blackness, and cultural identity. Loggins-Hull and Nathalie Joachim co-founded the critically acclaimed duo Flutronix, which has been praised by The Wall Street Journal for being able "to redefine the instrument" and for "redefining the flute and modernizing its sound by hauling it squarely into the world of popular music" (MTV).
https://allisonloggins.com/