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Quiet City Presents Iktus Percussion, Andy Kozar and Will Lang at Spectrum
Quiet City is a network of composers and performers based in New York City. With a focus on the dialogue between determinate and improvised music, the collective hosts artists that produce adventurous works, cross genres, and challenge musical expectations. On November 2nd, they will present Iktus Percussion with Andy Kozar (trumpet) and Will Lang (trombone) at Spectrum, featuring works by 5 composers: Daniel Iglesia, Quinn Collins, Brooks Frederickson, Luke Schwartz and Adam Scott Neal.
Quiet City is a network of composers and performers based in New York City. With a focus on the dialogue between determinate and improvised music, the collective hosts artists that produce adventurous works, cross genres, and challenge musical expectations. On November 2nd, they will present Iktus Percussion with Andy Kozar (trumpet) and Will Lang (trombone) and Iktus+ percussionist Fred Trumpy and Adam Forman at Spectrum, featuring works by 5 composers: Daniel Iglesia, Quinn Collins, Brooks Frederickson, Luke Schwartz and Adam Scott Neal.
Iktus Percussion is an ambitious, dynamic young ensemble committed to expanding the boundaries of the percussion genre. Iktus is a collective-based operation, featuring an array of industrious and multi-talented percussionists, including Chris Graham, Justin Wolf, Josh Perry, Piero Guimaraes, and Cory Bracken. As a group with strong ties to the local artistic community, Iktus is dedicated to collaboration with emerging artists, having commissioned over fifty new works for percussion from such composers as Angélica Negrón, Aaron Siegel, Lisa R. Coons, Jenny Olivia Johnson, Stefan Weisman, and Billy Martin (of Medeski, Martin and Wood), among others.
Community outreach and public performance is an essential aspect of Iktus' mission: in September of 2011, Iktus performed an exciting all-percussion outdoor concert in Fort Greene Park, including works by Steve Reich, Julia Wolfe, and Iannis Xenakis, as well as Stockhausen's Musik im Bauch in Central Park as part of Make Music New York in 2012.
Iktus was selected as a Time Out New York Critic's Pick: Top Ten Concert of the Year in 2010, received critical acclaim from the New York Times for their performance with the St. Petersburg Chamber Symphony in the "Wall to Wall" series: Music of the Soviet ERA and a concert of selected works of John Cage at Le Poisson Rouge, and sold out the final evening of the 2012 Gaudeamus Muziek week at Issue Project Room. Iktus is endorsed by Black Swamp Percussion and Mike Balter Mallets.
Joining Iktus for several of the pieces on the program are Andy Kozar and Will Lang. Pittsburgh native, Kozar is a New York City based trumpeter, improviser, composer and educator whose playing has been said to be 'agile as he navigated leaps and slurs with grace...he shifted between lyricism and aggression deftly' by the International Trumpet Guild Journal. A strong advocate of contemporary music, he is a founding member of loadbang which has been called 'inventive' by the New York Times, 'cultivated' by The New Yorker, and 'a formidable new-music force' by TimeOutNY. He is also a member of TILT Brass and has performed with new music ensembles including Argento Chamber Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Signal, Ensemble ACJW, Wet Ink, and Mark Gould's Pink Baby Monster. He has performed alongside artists such as Dave Douglas, Pablo Heras Casado, and Brad Lubman, in addition to working closely with numerous composers including Helmut Lachenmann, Augusta Reed Thomas, and Pulitzer Prize winning composers David Lang and Charles Wuorinen. He has performed at Bang on a Can marathons both at MASS MoCA and has presented a lecture/recital on performing with electronics at the 2012 International Trumpet Guild Conference, and was featured as a soloist at both the University of Richmond's Third Practice electro-acoustic festival and University of Colorado, Boulder's Pendulum Series for New Music.
Originally from Long Island, trombonist William Lang is an active performer, improviser, and teacher in New York City and Boston. He can be found playing in all setting and styles, from the avant-garde and classical to salsa and indie chamber pop. He has given unaccompanied trombone recitals throughout the United States, played concertos with large ensembles, and recorded with such artists as Philip Glass and Jónsi (of Sigur Rós.) Intensely passionate for chamber music, he regularly performs alongside his groundbreaking ensembles loadbang (an original and unique group of musicians interested in cutting edge music) and the Guidonian Hand (a trombone quartet dedicated to breaking boundaries within the brass community.) He is also a member of the Boston Microtonal Society, where he explores the definition of pitch and technique, working alongside like-minded composers.
The composers on the bill makeup a diverse range of musical interests. Quinn Collins is a composer of rhythmically engaging acoustic and electroacoustic music who aims to combine rigorous formal schemes and processes with rock energy, occupying a space where brains and adrenaline collide. Daniel Iglesia creates music and media for humans, computers, and broad interactions of the two. His works have taken the form of concert works for instruments and electronics, live audio and video performance, generative and interactive installations, and collaborations with many disciplines such as theater and dance. He is an accomplished technologist, and brings notions of computational aesthetics both into correlated electronic media and human performance. American composer Brooks Frederickson's music draws on his roots as a percussionist and performer of rock, jazz and freely-improvised music, and has been described by the New York Times as being "a good-natured catalog of potentials." He is currently finishing his masters at NYU, where he studies with Michael Gordon. As the founder of Quiet City, Luke Schwartz has explored the cross genre relationship between determinate and improvised music, incorporating elements of jazz, visual art, electroacoustic music, minimalism, and quasi-stochastic compositional methods. Currently on faculty at Kaufman Music Center, he is also active as a guitarist. Adam Scott Neal is a composer whose work embraces a range of artistic engagement including acoustic and electroacoustic composition, video, electronics tinkering, and improvisation. His dissertation research focuses on DIY culture, musical instruments as fetish objects, and the visual aspects of performance through the lens of postmodernism.
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121 Ludlow St
NYC, NY 10002
United States
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