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Music
Factory Music Factory's focus on composer-performers, brings together a talented range of teaching artists, whose excitement and focus on creativity grabs students' attention
Her experience in music theater includes music for Mabou Mines' Obie-winning Dollhouse, Animal Magnetism, and Ecco Porco, directed by Lee Breuer; the collaboration Hildegurls' Ordo Virtutum, directed by Grethe Barrett Holby, which premiered at the Lincoln Center Festival; Forgiveness, a collaboration with Chen Shi-Zheng and Noh master Akira Matsui; and the China National Beijing Opera Theater's production of The Bacchae, also directed by Chen Shi-Zheng. She has worked with choreographers Stephanie Nugent, Victoria Marks, Susan Marshall, Robert La Fosse, Monica Levy, Cydney Wilkes, Ann Carlson, and Hilary Easton. Current projects include From A Far-Off Country, a collaboration with cellist Maya Beiser and visual artist Shirin Neshat, which will premiere at Carnegie's Zankel Hall in March 2006; The Libation Bearers, with director Lee Breuer, which will premiere at the 2006 Patmos Festival in Greece; The Man in the Black Suit, based on Stephen King's story, with co-librettist and director Grethe Holby; Re-Thinking Mary, a performance project initiated at the Atlantic Center for the Arts last fall; and A Book of Days, a long-term project of 365 multimedia pieces for live performance as well as internet delivery. Recordings of Eve's music are available on CRI Emergency Music, OO Discs, Canteloupe, Accurate Distortion, Atavistic, and Kill Rock Stars. A new CD will be released by New World Records in spring 2006.
Dargel (who is also an actor) collaborates regularly with theater and dance artists including the Brooklyn-based experimental theater company Laboratory Theater, writer/performer Honor Molloy, and choreographer/dancer Scott Heron. His concert-theater work, Removable Parts, with pianist Kathleen Supové, is being developed at HERE Arts Center’s Artist Residency Program with the support of a grant from the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York State Music Fund. He also works with the multifaceted flutist Margaret Lancaster to create new concert-theater works for flute, voice, and electronics. Dargel is a 2006-2007 resident artist at HERE Arts Center in NYC. He has also participated in residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and New Dramatists.
As a percussionist, she has performed southeast Asian gong music, jazz, avant-garde, improvised and solo concert works. She has performed with many great artists such as John Zorn, Dave Douglas Pauline Oliveros, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier, William Parker, Dr. L Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti, John Lindberg, Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Dresser, Thurston Moore, Savath and Savalas, Prefuse 73, Yo La Tengo, among others. SUSIE IBARRA has taught across the U.S and attended. Artist Residencies including: The Walker Art Center, Mills College, Bard College, Swarthmore College, Fundacio Joan Miro, University of Michigan, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, The New School. She was nominated "Best Drummer" in the Village Voice, Downbeat, Jazziz, The Wire. Susie Ibarra is a Yamaha, Paiste & Vic Firth Artist. She currently performs solo works and with Susie Ibarra Trio with Jennifer Choi & Craig Taborn; Mephista, collective electro-acoustic trio with Sylvie Couvoisier & Ikue Mori; Shapechanger with poet Yusef Komunyakaa; Mark Dresser & Susie Ibarra Duo; Mundo Ninos children's music; and Filipino trance music, with Roberto Rodriguez, Electric Kulintang.
Milica Paranosic, A native of Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), now lives in New York as an active composer, sound designer, music educator and producer. Her compositions include concert pieces, mixed media and interactive works as well as music for dance, stage and film. Milica's love for collaborations resulted in many such relationships; ongoing collaborations with choreographer Charlotte Griffin LEMUR, The Reflex Ensemble and an interdisciplinary performance and production eam VisionintoArt, are a few such examples. Among the artists and ensembles which have performed her music are The New Juilliard Ensemble, which commissioned and premiered her “Parabaraba”,The Juilliard Dance Department, The New York Choreographic Institute, VisionIntoArt, flutist Margaret Lancaster, pianist Kathleen SupovÈ, violinist Mari Kimura and violist Martha Mooke. Milica's work has been supported by such organizations as Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Soros Foundation and Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg. Record labels that have released her music include Electroshock Records and The New Sound. Ms. Paranosic's music has been performed in numerous venues throughout her native Yugoslavia as well as in the US, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Italy, Croatia and Israel. Her music has also has aired on radio stations in Switzerland, Romania, The Netherlands, USA, Russia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Macedonia, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy. Milica holds a Bachelor's degree in composition from Belgrade Music University, and a Master's degree in composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Beaser. Since 1995, Milica has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School where she teaches music technology, and on staff as a manager of Juilliard's Music Technology Center and cofounder and producer of Beyond The Machine, a Festival of Electronic and Interactive Music.
Paola Prestini serves as Music Factory's Education Coordinator. She is also the director and founder of the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective, VisionIntoArt (VIA). Her music and arrangements have been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Prism Quartet, Haydn Orchestra, and groups and soloists throughout the U.S and abroad from Lincoln Center and BAM (the Brooklyn Academy of Music) in New York City to the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Svetlanov Hall in Moscow, Russia, to the Palazzo Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Trento, Italy. She has scored numerous films that have garnered awards from festivals such as Sundance and Austin. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has been the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as ASCAP, the American Music Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Upcoming events include performances of music with the Kronos Quartet and VIA at Herbst Theater in San Francisco, the Whitney Live!, the Stone and Tonic in New York City, the EtnaFest in Sicily, Italy, and Teatro Manzoni for the Concerti Aperitivi in Milano, Italy. Recent events include a year-long residency with VisionIntoArt at the Chelsea Art Museum, a performances at Symphony Space, and a residency at Presbyterian College. Other projects include a new work for the Prism Quartet 2006 concert series, and a score to a Fox Searchlight feature length film with award-winning filmmaker and long time collaborator, Chase Palmer. Ms. Prestini has written music and directed for VIA’s performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the Planet XX festival, and the Whitney Museum Resonant Spaces festival. She has been included in ASCAP’s Thru the Walls series at the Cutting Room and has been featured in composition and interdisciplinary residencies at Dickinson College with VIA and the Corigliano String Quartet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and at UCLA. She has written for film and theater extensively, and has been a featured film composer and conductor on CNN for the ASCAP film Composers workshop. Recent prizes and commissions include a grants from the American Music Center, an Individual Artist grant from NYSCA, a residency at the Ucross Foundation, a Monumental Brass Quintet’s Women’s Commissioning Project, an ASCAP Morton Gould Composers Award, and a commissioned dance score for St. Marks Danspace Repertory season. Her orchestra work was selected by the American Composers Orchestra’s (ACO) for the Whitaker Reading Sessions; her music has been performed by the New York Concert Singers in the ACO's Immigrant Voices series, the Juilliard Orchestra after winning the Composers Competition, and by members of the NY Philharmonic, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ms. Prestini is the recipient of a PD Soros fellowship for New Americans and has served as a panelist for the foundation repeatedly. She has also led workshops for Meet the Composer and the American Symphony Orchestra League, and the American Music Center. She received her BM and MM at the Juilliard School and has studied with Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Ryan Keberle, jazz trombonist, graduated in 2001 from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with critically acclaimed trombonist Steve Turre. Mr. Keberle received the William H. Borden award for musical excellence in jazz upon graduation. He went on to study with Wycliffe Gordon as a part of the Juilliard School's groundbreaking Institute for Jazz Studies. In May of 2003, he became a member of Jazz at Juilliard's first graduating class. Since his arrival in New York City, Mr. Keberle has been a sought-after trombonist in many different styles including big band, avant-garde, Latin, classical, and rock , performing in such venues as Birdland, the Knitting Factory, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. He has performed with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Maria Schnieder Jazz Orchestra, Frank Wess, Jimmy Heath, Slide Hampton, Charles McPherson, Percy Heath, Teo Macero, Joe Lovano, and Eric Reed, among others. Mr. Keberle was selected as the artistic director for New York City's first youth jazz orchestra, the Jazz Band Classic. The band made its premiere with Jimmy Heath in Aaron Davis Hall, and finished its season with an appearance by Slide Hampton in Carnegie Hall. Recently, Mr. Keberle performed on NBC with the Saturday Night Live' band and was selected as one of ten finalists for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trombone Competition. In the fall of 2004 Mr. Keberle began his tenure as professor of brass and jazz studies at City University of New York's Hunter College.
Her genre-defying recordings, Enharmonic Vision and Bowing's CafÈ Mars have attracted wide critical acclaim. Mooke's catalog includes works for electric and acoustic instruments, theater, dance, film and multimedia productions. Mooke has received awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer and Arts International among others. She was honored with an ASCAP Concert Music Award for conceiving and producing the new music showcase THRU THE WALLS featuring ASCAP composer/performers whose work defies categorization. For more information, go to www. MarthaMooke.com
SO's continuing commissioning project has already produced many new works, including David Lang's groundbreaking the so-called laws of nature, written in 2002. In the near future, this project will yield new pieces by Martin Bresnick, Paul Lansky, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Dennis DeSantis. Recently, So received the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming award for these efforts. SO's educational initiatives have resulted in residencies at The University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, Duke University, Williams College, King's College, and performances with the Harvard Group for New Music and Columbia Composers. In 2004-2005, SO is the ensemble in residence at The Yellow Barn in Putney, Vermont, participating in both the summer festival and a year-round outreach project. SO's first two albums are now available on Cantaloupe Music.
Woolf also works with other composers to help them realize their visions. He collaborates regularly with art-rock pioneer John Cale on film scores such as American Psycho, Otherworld, St. Cyr and arranging orchestral instruments for Cale's work with Siouxsie Sioux and the Mediaeval Baebes, among others. He has arranged music for David Lang and the Kronos Quartet as well. He collaborated with noise-core/house music composer Atau Tanaka on a work for electronics, theremin and orchestra for the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie in Belgium.
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John Altieri
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