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Composer
Video Portraits Artistic Director Robert Beaser talks about his new piece "Guitar Concerto" for the American Composers Orchestra with featured soloist and long-time friend Eliot Fisk. The piece was given its world-premiere on May 1st, 2009 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. Trailer for Margaret Brouwer and Kasumi's BREAKDOWN Margaret Brouwer
and Kasumi's BREAKDOWN,
A sample-based hybrid opera in one act, reaches out into new areas of
invention and collaboration, with composer Brouwer making a first
venture into a new medium, with video/sound artist Kasumi, who
specializes in working with found video objects. The artists worked
together to intergrate every note with every image, giving a new
meaning to the word
"collaboration".
Composer Portraits All Composer Portraits produced by Jeremy Robins.
Composer Fang Man talks about her new piece Resurrection a clarinet concerto commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, featuring clarinetist Derek Bermel. The piece is given its world premiere on February 20th, 2009 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC, and Philadelphia premiere on February 22nd, 2009, in the Ibrahim Theater at the International House, UPenn. Following
a two-year battle with cancer, Fred Ho talks about making his upcoming
orchestral debut on November 14, 2008. During his recovery, Ho
developed new breathing techniques and returns to the stage with a new
approach to playing the saxophone. Launched April 23
- 27, 2008, Playing it UNsafe is an opportunity for composers to try
out new ideas, extend working methods conceived in other musical
settings, establish new collaborations, or showcase a new piece in
development. Activities include open rehearsals, public readings, panel
discussions and two laboratory performances. The four videos below
highlight the concepts behind this "Research and Development
Laboratory" for new orchestra music, and served as previews of the
works of two of the composers, Jonathan Dawe and Dan Trueman, whose
works were performed as part of Playing it UNsafe.
Uri Caine speaks about his influences as a composer and his work, Double Trouble for Improvised Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, given its world-premiere on February 8, 2008 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC, and Philadelphia-premiere on February 10, 2008, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing arts at UPenn. In this "micro-concerto" for improvising pianist and orchestra, Caine explores the meshing of spontaneous and scripted music, conducted by David Alan Miller.
A look into the creative process behind Ken Thomson's Wait Your Turn, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and given its world-premiere on October 19, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. In this "concerto" for jazz-punk ensemble and orchestra, Thomson's band, gutbucket, joined forces with the ACO to create a truly visceral experience, conducted by ACO Principal Guest Conductor Steven Sloane.
Composer-saxophonist
Steve Coleman
gives conceptual background to his World Premiere/ACO Commission for saxophone and orchestra, The
Illusion of Body, which premiered October 19, 2007, in Zankel
Hall at Carnegie Hall, on ACO's HYBRIDITY program, conducted by ACO
Principal Guest Conductor Steven Sloane.Coleman performed as soloist in the work alongside the American Composers Orchestra.
Tania León speaks about her work, Indigena, and its relation to her Cuban roots.
Performed on March 25, 2007 in Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg
Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA and March 26, 2007 in
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY. Conducted by ACO Conductor
Laureate, Dennis Russell Davies.
Vijay
Iyer discusses his ACO Commission/World Premiere, Interventions for Improvised Piano, Electronics and
Orchestra. Performed on March 25, 2007 in Zellerbach
Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia,
PA and March 26, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY.
Conducted by ACO Conductor Laureate, Dennis Russell Davies.
Jeremy Robins is a filmmaker and educator in Brooklyn. He is currently a field producer on shows for MTV and PBS and his dance-for-camera projects have screened at PS122 and Dance Theater Workshop. Currently, Jeremy is finishing a documentary on Haitian roots music in Brooklyn (http://www.othersideofthewater.org). Jeremy Robins has taught video production to NYC high school students since 1998.
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