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THE 2-DAY CARMAN MOORE MUSIC FESTIVAL
THE 2-DAY CARMAN MOORE MUSIC FESTIVAL
honors composer/conductor and recent Guggenheim Fellowship winner Carman Moore. Moore will lead his renowned SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE in a program of works by him and by Ensemble members Kenneth Bichel and Marianna Rosett on October 18th at 8p.m.at Manhattan's West Park Presbyterian Church . And at West Park on the following evening of October 19th at 7 p.m. he will play keyboard and Danish actress and vocal star Lotte Arnsbjerg will sing as they perform the world premiere of their "dramatic song cycle" GIRL OF DIAMOND MOUNTAIN . Closing that evening the high-powered EKG Trio (pianist Eric Johnson, bassist Kyle Jones, and SKYBAND drummer F.Carter Hoodless,drums) will perform their own and standard pieces along with special arrangements of Mr. Moore's and late Skymusic violinist Leroy Jenkins' music.
OCTOBER 18th; 8 p.m.:
The SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE program will include the world premiere of Moore's TO HIGH HEAVENS, featuring the virtuoso violinists Charles Burnham and Daisy Jopling, and the premieres of Kenneth Bichel's DANZA SAGRADA and Marianna Rosett's FANTASY FOR SOLO PIANO,which Ms. Rosett will perform. She describes her FANTASY as created from themes from The Booth Project which she is writing with the librettist Eric Swanson.
Also on the program will be the ENSEMBLE led by Moore in his RIGHTEOUS HEROES and THE QUIET PIECE, a work in which they are joined by Beppe Manca on Tibetan singing bowls, dancer Kiori Kawai, and visual lights projections by Caterina Bertolotto.
"THE SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE
achieve a very sensitive balance of instrumental sounds.
The texture changes constantly, but it always sounds right. The blend of African sounds,
rock sounds, Oriental sounds, and Stockhausen-like sounds comes as close to a truly
Global statement as anything I have heard." Tom Johnson, THE VILLAGE VOICE.
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OCTOBER 19th; 7 p.m.
GIRL OF DIAMOND MOUNTAIN
is an "operatic" song cycle of 14 songs for keyboard and voice concerning the parental neglect of a little girl and her subsequent sexual abuse by her uncle. The songs also deal with the girl as she grows up wild and distorted before finding a degree of peace through love and spiritual understanding. The work was co-composed via "magical" improvisations over some 2 years by Mr. Moore, who will play on a wide variety of electronic sounds and Danish actress and singing star Lotte Arnsbjerg, who will sing. GIRL OF DIAMOND MOUNTAIN is taken from real-life incidents known to Ms. Arnsbjerg.
Carman Moore's music is by turns childlike and ferocious...at times both. Ms. Arnsbjerg's powerful lyrics include those for the title song, which depicts the little girl alone and naked in a boat on the ocean. As she cries, her tears turn into a mountain of diamonds. Other outstanding pieces are "Mother Is Sleeping (drunk on the floor)," the fleet "I'm Running," and the operatically trenchant "The Bathroom," where the main evil ensues. Water and liquid imagery are features of the work. Projected visuals are by Caterina Bertolotto, who has created visual for Julie Taymor. The October 19th concert will mark the World Premiere of GIRL OF DIAMOND MOUNTAIN.
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Ms. Arnsbjerg's career has included lead roles in many Danish films and Danish theatre. As song writer she has also written for and sung on hit recordings both in the rock idiom (her latest is 432 MONGOTUBE)and in the Scandanavian folk idiom (MUSIC FROM HEAVEN). She performed the music of Carman Moore for Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival in 2008 with the Elaine Summers Dance Company.
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EKS JAZZ TRIO NOTES (By Eric Johnson)
The first piece is called "Meltdown" which is from our CD with the same name. 'Meltdown' (1992). Our bass player Kyle Jones wrote it when the 'Three Mile Island' accident happened, he was there unfortunately.
The 2nd piece is entitled 'Las Cuevas' which I wrote when I was with Carman in Trinidad for Carnival.
The 3rd piece will be a medley of Leroy Jenkins works from his CD "Leroy Jenkins Live (ie Static in the Attic, Computer Minds, etc.). Leroy was a founding member of 'Skymusic' and I was his keyboardist for over 20 yrs.
The final piece is titled "Variations on Themes from a Five-Toed Dragon". "4 Movements for A Five-Toed Dragon" was a Piece Carman wrote for full orchestra and jazz Quintet (Sam Rivers, Richard Davis, Warren Smith, Ken Bichel and Elliot Randall) performed in Hong Kong in 1976.
THE SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE
BIOS
ERIC JOHNSON is a composer, pianist, synthesizer artist and percussionist with a long and illustrious list of concerts and recordings to his credit. Besides his many years of performances with Carman Moore and Skymusic Ensemble, Johnson has appeared with ensembles as disparate as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Carla Bley Band, Airto, Mountain, Bo Diddley, Premik Russell Tubbs, and Leroy Jenkins' Sting.
MARIANNA ROSETT, pianist, teacher, and percussionist has appeared world-wide as both traditional concert artist and improvising keyboard virtuoso. Born in Rumania, she began piano studies at the Conservatory at the age of 5 and soon after won a concerto competition which landed her a performance with the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra.
In 1971 she became a member of the Juilliard School faculty. Her new 2-CD album solo album is eagerly awaited in the art-music community.
KENNETH BICHEL, master and pioneer of the synthesizer, is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, having been elected Synthesist of the Year for over 9 years running. A Juilliard grad headed for a career as a concert pianist, Bichel abruptly turned his attention towards composition, jazz, and popular music (He was a founding member of the Stories Band) and subsequently fell in love with the synthesizer. On that instrument he was a founding member of The First Moog Quartet. Meeting and admiring the improv work of Marianna Rosett in the Skymusic Ensemble, he joined her in creating the duo team Mannekrianna.
PREMIK RUSSELL TUBBS is a flutist-saxophonist-composer-arranger and producer. He has worked with Carlos Santana, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, and Ravi Shankar among others. As saxophonist for the legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra, Premik began actively touring during his early twenties. Soon afterwards, another guitar great, Carlos Santana enlisted Tubbs to be his collaborator on the visionary jazz-fusion recording "The Swing Of Delight" which features guest appearances by Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter. Tubbs' composing credits also include music for sports documentaries, sketch comedies and corporate training films. He has been a member of Skymusic since 1994.
ELI FOUNTAIN
Besides having played for many years as percussionist with THE SKYMUSIC ENSEMBLE, Eli Fountain has been a fixture on the jazz and new-music scene in New York and America. He has been feature drummer with saxophonist James Carter, has toured as a duo with tap sensation Savion Glover, and has been a feature member of Max Roach's own select group M'BOOM. In addition Eli has been founder and composer/director of his own PERCUSSION DISCUSSION ensemble.
CHARLES BURNHAM
The passion and fire of Charlie Burnham's violin has graced the work of many: Cassandra Wilson, James Blood Ulmer, Steven Bernstein, Susie Ibbara, Peter Apfelbaum, Henry Threadgrill, String Trio of New York, Ted Daniel,Medeski, Martin & Wood, and many, many others. But armed with a wholenew book of originals and a stellar new band, Burnham's step into the spotlight has long been coming. Wordly and other-worldly sounds canbe heard from Burnham's musical and personal journeys as his soulfulvoice and violin lead you down some open roads and dark alleys, and bring you to some spots you may not have known even exist.
Charles Burnham-violin and vocals; Clark Gayton-trombone; Curtis Fowlkes-trombone; Mark Peterson-bass; Pheeroan akLaff-drums
DAISY JOPLING
www.daisyjopling.com
Violinist Daisy Jopling was born in London, and now lives in NYC. She has spent the last 12 years living in Vienna and touring the world with the creative string trio "Triology", with whom she has recorded 4 CDS, 2 with BMG RCA Victor. www.triology.cc.
Her Solo work has included playing a concerto at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the age of 14, and playing before 30,000 people at the opening of the Vienna Festival in May 2004 and 2005.
She has performed and toured with some of the world's leading musicians, including Joe Zawinul, Bobby McFerrin, Omara Portuondo, Julian Rachlin, Janine Janson, Boris Grebenshikov, Shubha Mudgal and Wolfgang Muthspiel. Daisy has performed in many of the major Festivals and concert halls throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Salzburger Festspiele, and the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland.
She has participated in writing the music for many films, including arranging and recording with Triology the music of Hans Zimmer in Hollywood, "Spanglish" and "The Road to El Dorado". Daisy has composed music for various ensembles which has been performed in major concert halls throughout the world, and has written the music for a puppet show in NYC, "Feathers from the Sky".
Daisy recently performed at the United Nations Assembly Hall in New York alongside Akon, Gilberto Gil, Ky-Mani Marley, Salif Keita, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Phylicia Rashad, Whoopi Goldberg and Carl Lewis. She has just released her first solo album, "Key to the Classics", with the NYC producer Bojan Dugic.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/daisyjopling
LINDA WETHERILL
Born in Milwaukee, Linda Wetherill graduated from the Eastman School of Music, having been awarded there the coveted Performer's Certificate. The desire to expand her musical horizons prompted her to leave for Europe, where she became first a member of the Garbarino Chamber Ensemble in Milan, then principal flutist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. This prestigious position, however, did not satisfy all her evolving personal artistic needs, and two years later, when she learned that Pierre Boulez had just established the "new music" center IRCAM in Paris, Linda auditioned and was appointed solo flutist of the resident Ensemble Intercontemporain. This move from essentially mainstream chamber and orchestral playing to intensive interaction with many of the greatest contemporary composers of the world was a major turning point for her. Working directly with composers Boulez, Stockhausen, Halffter, Messiaen, Berio, Holliger and Kagel, she developed a prestigious and authoritative solo repertoire which carried her to European festivals and to NY's Carnegie Hall to premiere Stockhausen's Im Freundschaft as winner of East & West Artists International Competition.
Linda's desire to expand her range of aesthetic awareness led her to accept an invitation to tour extensively as a "cultural ambassador" under the auspices of the United States Information Service. That 10 year adventure took her to Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia (her performances there the first ever by a woman!), the Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bosnia (giving recitals there right at the start of its war), Macedonia, India, and Pakistan. Throughout this period, she interacted extensively with local musicians: classical and indigenous performers as well as composers. She was co-founder of the Festival of Contemporary Music in Ankara and Istanbul, while a guest of the Turkish government from 1987-91. There she worked in collaboration with Turkish, Russian, and Middle Eastern composers, and lectured at Bosphorus University as well as Middle Eastern Technical University as Professor of global and contemporary music. When the Gulf War broke out, it became dangerous for Americans to remain in that part of the world, and an invitation from distinguished flutist and teacher Samuel Baron brought her back to the States, to do graduate work at SUNY Stony Brook and serve as teaching assistant.
CARMAN MOORE's works have been commissioned and performed by such as the N.Y. Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the San Francisco Symphony as well as by The Skymusic Ensemble which he founded in 1980 and has led at such venues as La Scala Opera House, BAM, and Lincoln Center. He and the Skymusic Ensemble were Artists-in-Residence at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for many years. He is the 2013 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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LocationWest Park Church (View)
165 W 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
United States
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