June 2010 Concert at the Chelsea Art Museum
Wednesday June 9, 2010, 7PM

THE CHELSEA ART MUSEUM

details below still subject to revision

Daniel Palkowski	Low and Behold for tuba and electronics
Dan Cooper	new work for piano four hands
Oscar Bettison	Neolithic Airs for detuned violin
Gloria Coates	two songs for soprano and piano
Helmut Calabrese	Time for clarinet solo
Igor Vorobiov	Counter-Projections for solo piano
Patrick Hardish	Two Poems: "A Valediction" for soprano solo and "Before I Wake" for soprano and piano
Dalit Warshaw	new work for Theremin, violin and tuba

Performers include: Jay Rozen, tuba, Dimitri Dover, Taka Kigawa, Joseph Pehrson piano, Lynn Bechtold, violin, Patricia Sonego, soprano, Esther Lamneck, clarinet, Dalit Warshaw, theremin

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PAST CONCERTS:

Composers Concordance
January 2010 Concert
"COMPOSERS PLAY COMPOSERS"

Sunday January 31, 2010, 7PM-10PM (6PM doors)
DROM
85 Avenue A (between 5th and 6th)
dromnyc.com

Composers Concordance presents a marathon concert entitled 'Composers Play Composers' on Sunday January 31, 2010, 6:00 PM doors, 7:00-10:00PM performance time at the club Drom in New York, 85 Avenue A (between 5th & 6th), New York, NY. 212-777-1157. www.dromnyc.com. Live visuals by Astrid Steiner (luma.launisch) and media by Carmen Kordas.

This concert, in collaboration with VisionIntoArt, will consist of a 3 hour performance with 23 composers playing their own works. The marathon will have 3 sets with 2 short 10 minute breaks.

Each set will start off with a trio composed by Franz Hackl, trumpet, Charles Coleman, baritone voice and Gene Pritsker on electric guitar. Works and composers featured in the marathon include Arthur Kampela playing and strumming the cello like a guitar, Joseph Pehrson's piece for piano based on a Beatles song, a composition by Dan Cooper for 7-string electric bass and piano, a piece for voice and berimbau by Milica Paranosic, a work for soprano sax and piano by Alon Nechushtan, a piece for voice and electronics by Kamala Sankaram and a piano piece by Luis Andrei Cobo.

The 23 composers are: Roger Blanc, Thomas Bo, Luis Andrei Cobo, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Larry Goldman, David Gotay, Patrick Grant, Franz Hackl, Don Hagar, Arthur Kampela, Alon Nechushtan, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic, Akmal Parwez, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Paola Prestini, Jody Redhage, Kamala Sankaram, William Schimmel, Andrew Violette, and Theodore Wiprud.

Gene Pritsker, Composers Concordance co-director talks about the concept for this presentation:

"We are exploring the relationship composers have with their instruments and how they go about writing music in which they know that they will be the performer. Dan Cooper and I talked about assembling a large group of composers and requesting a four minute composition from each. We are programming them back-to-back in a marathon setting and constructing a performance that highlights the composer as a performer: short compositions as vehicles for direct expression, from the composer's mind to body to the audience.

We selected 150 composers and e-mailed them all on a secretly chosen day and time. The first 23 to respond to this e-mail were programmed for the event. We created a random criterion as opposed to a competition for choosing the participating composers, though all 150 candidates were composers whom we, the Composers Concordance directors, knew and respected."

Tickets are $10 with a mandatory 2-drink minimum.

SEE FUN BLOG VIDEO IMMEDIATELY BELOW ON THE EVENT BY PATRICK GRANT AND JOCELYN GONZALES

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Recent Composers Concordance
November 2009 Concert
featuring Soprano Melanie Mitrano and
Percussionist Peter Jarvis
"SKINS AND BREATH"

Wednesday evening November 18, 2009, 8PM
THE PLAYERS THEATRE
115 MacDougal St., NYC
Tickets $10.
212-352-3101 (tickets are $10)
The Players Theatre

For the first concert of the 2009-2010 season, the Composers Concordance presented a program "SKINS AND BREATH" featuring seasoned new music performers Melanie Mitrano, soprano and Peter Jarvis, percussion. They both presented selections from their extensive repertoires with Melanie Mitrano singing two sets, one featuring "classical modern" works with accompaniment by pianist Judith Munro deWette and the second featuring jazz selections with jazz pianist Matt King. Here is Melanie's programming:

John Musto	Could Be
Paul Bowles	Sugar in the Cane
Lori Laitman	Money
Christopher Berg	Poem
William Bolcom	Waitin'
David Eddleman	Lending Out Books
Lee Hoiby	Insomnia
Melanie Mitrano	Tether Your Sorrows, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Aries and Gemini
Melanie Mitrano	Jazz Songs: Card Shark, Langue Partagee, I Am The Sea, My Finest Hour, Wednesdays, Toccata Talk

Repertoire by Peter Jarvis included pieces for drum set and two works which used electronics. Two of the works were world premieres:

Gene Pritsker	Opposite Extreme of Benevolence (World Premiere)
David Saperstein	Drum Set Solo
Wayne Peterson	Trap Drum Fantasy
Anthony Cornicello	Janaka Blast (with electronics)
Carlos Delgado	New Piece (with electronics, World Premiere)