Composers Concordance: LittleBig Band
$20 in advance
$30 at the door
- Todd Rewoldt, saxophone
- Lee Odom, saxophone
- Scott Hoefling, saxophone
- Franz Hackl, trumpet
- Kevin Blancq, trumpet
- Philip Harper, trumpet
- Steve Swell, trombone
- Evan Amoroso, trombone
- Alon Nechushtan, piano
- Amanda Ruzza, double bass
- David Cossin, drums
- David Banks, voice
- Charles Coleman (Das Krooner), voice
- Sishel Claverie, voice
- Robert C. Ford, recitation
- Gene Pritsker, conductor
Dan Cooper — Bossa 646
Scott Hoefling — Selected works
Alon Nechushtan — Selected works
Steve Swell — Selected works
Eric Dolphy — Miss Ann (arr. Gene Pritsker)
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." — Winston Churchill
On Saturday, June 29th at 7pm Eastern at LOFT393, Composers Concordance presents "LittleBig Band," a concert event showcasing new compositions for 11-piece jazz ensemble. Presented in quick tandem, stylistically contrasting works for reeds, brass, and rhythm section expand the repertory into the 21st Century.
Featured compositions include LittleBig Blues by Gene Pritsker, Bossa 646 by Dan Cooper, plus compositions by Scott Hoefling, Alon Nechushtan, and Steve Swell. In honor of June 29th being the 60th anniversary of Eric Dolphy's passing, the program will also include Pritsker's new arrangement of Dolphy's composition Miss Ann.
CompCord LittleBig Band is Todd Rewoldt, Lee Odom, and Scott Hoefling, saxophones; Franz Hackl, Kevin Blancq, and Philip Harper, trumpets; Steve Swell and Evan Amoroso, trombones; Alon Nechushtan, and piano, Amanda Ruzza, bass; and David Cossin, drums. Conducted by Gene Pritsker; with Robert C. Ford, recitation; and featured vocalists David Banks, Charles Coleman, and Sishel Claverie.
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 Todd Rewoldt, saxophone
Saxophonist Todd Rewoldt has performed at major concert venues throughout Sweden, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, China, Ireland, Australia, and throughout the United States, including festival appearances at Calgary New Music, World Saxophone Congress, Veneto International Jazz, Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras, International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music, Carlsbad Music Festival, and Tribeca New Music. He has recorded on the Nonesuch, Aleppo, Warner Bros., and Composer's Concordance labels. He has taught master classes at Juilliard, Yale, Beijing Central Conservatory, Sydney Conservatorium, North Texas, UCLA, Temple, and USC. Todd is a Selmer Artist and performs on Selmer saxophones exclusively.
https://music.sdsu.edu/people/rewoldt-toddAbout Lee Odom, saxophone
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 Kevin Blancq, trumpet
About Philip Harper, trumpet
About Steve Swell, trombone
About Evan Amoroso, trombone
About Amanda Ruzza, double bass
About David Cossin, drums
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 Charles Coleman (Das Krooner), voice
https://www.facebook.com/people/Noizepunk-and-Das-Krooner/100080143212768/
About Sishel Claverie, voice
About Robert C. Ford, recitation
About Gene Pritsker, 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/