Composers Concordance: 'Electric Circus' – 8 Electric Guitars
$20 advance, $30 at the door
- William Anderson, electric guitar
- John Chang, electric guitar
- Adam Negrin, electric guitar
- Kyle Miller, electric guitar
- Bruce Arnold, electric guitar
- Greg Baker, electric guitar
- Jane Getter, electric guitar
- Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
Bruce Arnold — Selected works
Dan Cooper — Doozy
Jane Getter — Evanesce
Patrick Grant — Selected works
Kyle Miller — Selected works
Mel Powell — Selected works
Gene Pritsker — Selected works
Dave Soldier — Selected works
Composers Concordance reunites two exceptional guitar quartets to premiere new compositions and to celebrate the centennial of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mel Powell. Featured on the program are the ensembles Bodies Electric: William Anderson, John Chang, Adam Negrin, and Kyle Miller – electric guitars; and My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama: Bruce Arnold, Greg Baker, Jane Getter, and Gene Pritsker – electric guitars. This event is part of the The Village Trip, a two-week-long festival celebrating arts and activism in Greenwich Village.
Brand new compositions by Gene Pritsker, William Anderson, and others will be premiered. Also featured on the program are Dan Cooper's Doozy for amplified flute, electric guitars, and percussion; and Jane Getter's Evanesce – a commission made possible by New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The concert will be live streamed on Composers Concordance's Facebook page.
About Composers Concordance
Staying in rotation for 40 years in NYC is a rare feat. In the case of a new music presenting organization, it requires not only diligence and cognizance of achievements of the past but also an ethic of keeping one's ear to the ground for emerging stylistic and technological developments, as well as talented new composers on the scene.
Composers Concordance, founded in 1984 by Joseph Pehrson and Patrick Hardish, advised by Otto Luening, strives to present contemporary music in innovative ways, with an emphasis on thematic programming. Directors Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper co-curate the programs and lead the CompCord Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, String Orchestra, and Big Band. Associate Directors are Milica Paranosic, Peter Jarvis, Debra Kaye, and Seth Boustead.
Composers Concordance has also created a Naxos-distributed record label: Composers Concordance Records, co-directed by Peter Jarvis. Composers Concordance's overriding vision is to promote contemporary music, composers, and new works as a rightful and respected part of society. Good music performed and recorded well, pushing the boundaries of sound and composition.
http://www.composersconcordance.comAbout William Anderson, electric guitar
About John Chang, electric guitar
Guitarist and composer John Chang was born in Seoul, raised in Montreal, and is now based in New York City. As a guitarist, he has performed in venues ranging from CBGBs to Carnegie Hall. He has worked closely with eminent composers including William Anderson, Frank Brickle, Georg Frederic Haas, David Lang, John McLachlan, and Charles Wuorinen. He is a founding member of Bodies Electric, an electric guitar choir based in New York City that is dedicated to the performance of new music by living composers. As a composer, he has written and produced music for various indie films and dance productions. His music can be heard on labels such as Digitalis, Furious Artisans, Hobo Cult, and Los Discos Enfantasmes. As an educator, he has been on the guitar faculty of Concordia Conservatory since 2011 and is a faculty for its Pre-College Academy Division where he teaches Music Theory, and coaches Chamber Music and Performance Classes.
About Kyle Miller, electric guitar
About Bruce Arnold, electric guitar
About Greg Baker, electric guitar
About Jane Getter, electric guitar
NYC-based Jane Getter is a “triple-threat” (Geoff Wilbur)—guitarist, singer, and award-winning composer. Getter’s 6th release, Anomalia, coalesces a lifetime of musical exploration into intricate arrangements, powerful playing, and killer solos.
https://janegetter.com/About Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
Composer/musical polymath Gene Pritsker has written over nine hundred compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. His compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles, that are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation, an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble. He also Co-Directs Composers Concordance. Gene's music is performed all over the world at internationally recognized festivals and by highly respected ensembles and performers.
He co-founded the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble with Kristjan Jarvi and has been a composer in residence and guitarist since its creation in 1993. He worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, including Cloud Atlas, for which he wrote additional music and composed his Cloud Atlas Symphony. He is also the lead orchestrator for such TV series as Babylon Berlin, Jett, Netflix's Sense8, and Messiah. Gene is the lead orchestrator and has additional music in the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections.
"My music is extremely eclectic, for me music has no bounds – I view the world of music as one big genre. My motto for my art is ending the segregation of sound vibration."
Gene is also a guitarist/rapper/Di.J./ and producer he incorporates each of these musical attributes to create music that is "not designed for easy listening or to melt into the background. It is insistent. It demands attention and curiosity." (New York Newsday) "Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent. Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker." (Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine)
https://www.genepritsker.com/