Low Key Chamber Concert No. 29: Guitars & Poems
$20 in advance, $30 at the door
- Sean Satin, guitar
- Matt Panayides, guitar
- Gene Pritsker, guitar
- Mark Kostabi, piano
- Dan Cooper, electric bass
Gene Pritsker — The Lion Tamer
Gene Pritsker — Slippery Slope
Mark Kostabi — Selected works
Dan Cooper — Selected works
Matt Panayides — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Selected works
"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart." – Andres Segovia.
On December 20th at 7pm, Composers Concordance presents Low Key Chamber Concert No. 29: "Guitars & Poems." The program combines chamber musicpaya for guitar with poetry performed by the poets themselves. Guest composer/pianist Mark Kostabi will also join the event in the performance of his compositions, as well as Gene Pritsker's He Did It Steinway II, with words by Robert C. Ford, written for Kostabi's birthday.
Other performers include guitarists Sean Satin, Matt Panayides, and Gene Pritsker, as well as poets Erik T. Johnson, Imelda O'Reilly, and Robert C. Ford. Featured compositions are Pritsker's The Lion Tamer on poetry of Robert C. Ford, and Slippery Slope based on the poetry of Erik T. Johnson.
"Guitars & Poems" will also be livestreamed on the Composers Concordance 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 Sean Satin, guitar
About Matt Panayides, guitar
About Gene Pritsker, 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/