Composers Concordance: CompCord Ensemble @ Howland Cultural Center
$20 in advance, $30 at the door ($10 student/senior)
- Judi Silvano, voice
- Charles Coleman (Das Krooner), voice
- Franz Hackl, trumpet
- Brad Hubbard, baritone saxophone & bass clarinet
- Debra Kaye, piano
- Paul Carroll, percussion
- Gene Pritsker (Noizepunk), guitar & conductor
Judi Silvano — Vignettes Brève
Debra Kaye — At Liberty
Timothy Brown — Selected works
Charles Coleman — Suicide Barbie (poetry by Robert C. Ford)
Peter Jarvis — Selected works (for snare drum solo)
Duke Ellington — Mood Indigo
On Saturday, June 23rd at 6pm Eastern, Composers Concordance presents its fifth annual concert event at the historic Howland Cultural Center, the first building in Beacon, New York to receive the distinction of being placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The event will feature New York's CompCord Ensemble in collaboration with Beacon musicians and will include vocalists Judi Silvano and Charles Coleman, poets/narrators Roger Aplon, Robert C. Ford, and John Pietaro, as well as Franz Hackl on trumpet, Brad Hubbard on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Debra Kaye on piano, and Paul Carroll on percussion; Gene Pritsker will conduct and play guitar.
Featured compositions include the operatic-poem Louder, Please, My Watch Can't Hear You, with music by Gene Pritsker and poetry (inspired by official FBI transcripts) by John Pietaro; Vignettes Brève by Judi Silvano; At Liberty by Debra Kaye; two songs by Timothy Brown; and Suicide Barbie by Charles Coleman, based on poetry by Robert C. Ford. This event will also feature two solo snare drum compositions by Peter Jarvis, and an arrangement of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo.
The concert will also 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 Judi Silvano, voice
About Charles Coleman (Das Krooner), voice
https://www.facebook.com/people/Noizepunk-and-Das-Krooner/100080143212768/
About Franz Hackl, trumpet
Franz Hackl, trumpeter, composer, and brass instrument maker, is founder and artistic director of the Outreach Orchestra, Festival and Academy, and leads his own group, Franz Hackl's IDO Quartet. His forward approach, building on traditions and looking beyond fashionable trends, leads to his distinctive style.
https://hacklmusic.com/hackl-360About Brad Hubbard, baritone saxophone & bass clarinet
About Debra Kaye, piano
About Paul Carroll, percussion
Paul Carroll holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and Masters degree from SUNY Stony Brook, where he studied with percussion pioneer Raymond DesRoches. Paul has performed with such prestigious groups as the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, Ensemble 21, and the Princeton Composers' Ensemble. In 1995, Paul was the recipient of a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Foundation to study in Copenhagen, Denmark with percussionist Bent Lylloff. Paul worked with various contemporary music ensembles in Denmark including the Athelas Ensemble and the Figura Ensemble. In 1995, he competed in the Gaudemus Interpreter's Competition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Paul Carroll has worked closely with many composers and has had solo percussion pieces dedicated to him including Sit Down, Stand Up by Robert Pollock, and Ritual by Peter Zaparinuk. Since 2001, Paul has been working as a music educator in Newburgh, NY. He lives in New Paltz, NY, with his wife and five children.
About Gene Pritsker (Noizepunk), guitar & conductor
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/