Composers Concordance: Moonlight & Maple Syrup
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
- Mary Rowell, violin
- Machiko Ozawa, violin
- Franz Hackl, trumpet
- Gene Pritsker (Noizepunk), electric guitar
- Dorothy Braker, cello
- Robert C. Ford, poetry
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) — Moonlight on Vermont (arr. Gene Pritsker)
Gene Pritsker — Moonlight (A Baseball Poem)
Gene Pritsker — Maple Syrup (A Baseball Poem)
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz — Selected works (world premiere TBA)
David Gunn — Selected works (world premiere TBA)
Machiko Ozawa — Selected works
Craig Pallett — Selected works (world premiere TBA)
After 40 seasons in New York City, Composers Concordance is finally coming to Vermont but for one night only. The CompCord Ensemble brings its new season to Berlin, Vermont's Grange Hall with a concert titled "Moonlight and Maple Syrup." It will feature music premieres by Vermont composers Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, David Gunn, and Craig Pallett, as well as Composers Concordance regulars Machiko Ozawa and Gene Pritsker. Vermont-themed classics included in the program will be Bathory-Kitsz's arrangement of Suessdorf's Moonlight in Vermont and Pritsker's arrangement of Captain Beefheart's Moonlight on Vermont. The event will feature the CompCord Ensemble consisting of Gene Pritsker, Machiko Ozawa, Mary Rowell, Dorothy Braker, and Franz Hackl. Also, poet Robert C. Ford will be featured in two compostions based on his poems, Moonlight (A Baseball Poem) and Maple Syrup (A Baseball Poem) with music by Pritsker.
This in-person event will also be livestreamed on the Composers Concordance's Facebook Page.
Composers Concordance 41st season will feature over 120 composers and over 50 events are planned. This is our new season site: https://composersconcordance.wixsite.com/2024-25-season
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 Mary Rowell, violin
Mary Rowell (violin/viola) is a freelance musician and teacher in the Portland Area. he frequently plays recitals with Tatiana Kolchanova in MT Duo and as a freelancer, she plays many styles including, period playing (baroque violin and viola) and some jazz. She has enjoyed playing with the Portland Baroque Orchestra, the Eugene Symphony, Portland Center Stage and many regional theaters and is currently concertmaster of the Bach Cantata Choir. She lives in Southeast Portland with her piano-technician husband, cats, and chickens.
http://www.rowellmusic.net/about-mary/About Machiko Ozawa, violin
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 Gene Pritsker (Noizepunk), 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/