Bargemusic Winter Here and Now Festival: Armando Bayolo's 'Memorias Vagabundas' w/ Vicky Chow, Geoffrey Burleson, Mikael Damani, Blair McMillen, Erika Dohi
$35
- Vicky Chow, piano
- Geoffrey Burleson, piano
- Mikael Darmanie, piano
- Erika Dohi, piano
- Blair McMillen, piano
- Various artists, piano
Bargemusic presents the LIVE world premiere of Armando Bayolo's Memorias Vagabundas. Memorias Vagabundas is a collaboration led by Bang on a Can All-Star Vicky Chow, composer Armando Bayolo, and 10 other pianists exploring Bayolo's biography, evoking ancestral Spain, parental Cuba, native Puerto Rico, and his life in the United States. Premiered on video in November 2022 by Bang on a Can, this is the first time the entire cycle will be performed live in concert.
From Vicky Chow:
This special project came about during the pandemic, when artists were struggling to connect and be "together" in the way we know how: by making music. Armando and I asked our friends and colleagues to be a part of this commissioning project. Everyone that is involved is connected to one another; it feels deeply personal for us as performers, that we banded together to move forward from a very strange place of isolation and anxiety for the future. Thank you Armando, for this piece, and for giving us something beautiful on which we could collaborate – and be together. To all these wonderful musicians, my friends, Salut!
From Armando Bayolo:
This is my most personal and meaningful piece to date. I am incredibly lucky and privileged to work with these incredible musicians to bring Memorias Vagabundas to life. We are all thrilled to have come together during a difficult time to make music together and to honor ancestors who paved the way on our journey in this world.
About Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”
https://www.bargemusic.org/About Vicky Chow, piano
About Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Geoffrey Burleson has performed to wide acclaim throughout Europe and North America, and is equally active as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician, and jazz performer. The New York Times has hailed his solo performances as “vibrant” and “compelling,” and has praised his “command, projection of rhapsodic qualities without loss of rhythmic vigor, and appropriate sense of spontaneity and fetching colors.” The Boston Globe refers to Mr. Burleson as a “remarkable pianist” and “a first-class instrumental presence” whose performances are “outright thrilling.”
https://geoffreyburleson.com/