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Mon., September 27, 2010 / 6:30 PM
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Evan Ziporyn's "Typical Music"
Evan Ziporyn’s Piano Trio Typical Music, a 30-minute genre-defying virtuosic romp, ferociously performed by protean violinist Todd Reynolds (Ethel, the Books, Meredith Monk) & Bang on a Can All-stars Ashley Bathgate (cello) & Vicky Chow (piano). The New York premiere of this work and this stunning ensemble. Also: Ziporyn’s No Return for violin, clarinet & electronics.
Cellist Ashley Bathgate has soloed with the American Symphony Orchestra and numerous other ensembles. She made her 2008 New York debut in Carnegie’s Weill Hall and has been featured on NPR's 'Performance Today' and WYNC's New Sounds Live. Her newly-formed Lorien Trio received the bronze medal at the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Canadian pianist Vicky Chow made her orchestral debut with the Vancouver Symphony at age 10. Moving to New York at age 17, she received degrees from Juilliard and the Manhattan School, and has become an avid advocate of new music. Her first solo CD, music by Ryan Anthony Francis, will be released on Tzadik later this year. Upcoming performances include a solo appearance at Carnegie Hall & a Canadian recital tour.
Todd Reynolds, violinist of choice for discriminating avant-gardists everywhere, is a founder of Ethel and long-time member of the Steve Reich Ensemble and Bang on a Can. His inexhaustible list of collaborators includes Meredith Monk, the Books, Kenny Werner, Billl Morrison, Luke DuBois, and LEMUR. 2011 sees the Innova release of a double CD of compositions written for & by him.
Composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn is Artistic Director of Gamelan Galak Tika & co-founder of the Bang on a Can All-stars. His gamelan opera, A House in Bali, receives its New York premiere at BAM Next Wave October 14-16; a program of his chamber works is featured on Zankel Hall’s “Making Music” series on October 30.
Cellist Ashley Bathgate has soloed with the American Symphony Orchestra and numerous other ensembles. She made her 2008 New York debut in Carnegie’s Weill Hall and has been featured on NPR's 'Performance Today' and WYNC's New Sounds Live. Her newly-formed Lorien Trio received the bronze medal at the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Canadian pianist Vicky Chow made her orchestral debut with the Vancouver Symphony at age 10. Moving to New York at age 17, she received degrees from Juilliard and the Manhattan School, and has become an avid advocate of new music. Her first solo CD, music by Ryan Anthony Francis, will be released on Tzadik later this year. Upcoming performances include a solo appearance at Carnegie Hall & a Canadian recital tour.
Todd Reynolds, violinist of choice for discriminating avant-gardists everywhere, is a founder of Ethel and long-time member of the Steve Reich Ensemble and Bang on a Can. His inexhaustible list of collaborators includes Meredith Monk, the Books, Kenny Werner, Billl Morrison, Luke DuBois, and LEMUR. 2011 sees the Innova release of a double CD of compositions written for & by him.
Composer/clarinetist Evan Ziporyn is Artistic Director of Gamelan Galak Tika & co-founder of the Bang on a Can All-stars. His gamelan opera, A House in Bali, receives its New York premiere at BAM Next Wave October 14-16; a program of his chamber works is featured on Zankel Hall’s “Making Music” series on October 30.
Todd Reynolds
TODD REYNOLDS, composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and electronic musician, is a veteran of the New York City music scene, and a longtime touring and recording member member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project . Collaborations run the gamut from Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson to Kenny Werner and Betty Buckley to Meredith Monk and Scanner. His solo sets on tour opening for Indie sensations, The Books, and his affiliation with and use of the music software phenomenon Ableton Live have opened his unique blend of "classically- improvised-quantum-ambient-electronica" to a new and wider audience. His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music continues to produce innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world.
A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and ’wood-bound’ tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments, and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend. As a cross-genre improviser and collaborator, he has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Yo-Yo Ma, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts and Todd Rundgren, and has commissioned and premiered countless numbers of new works by America’s most compelling composers, including John King, Phil Kline, Michael Gordon, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn and Randall Wolff. His interdisciplinary work includes ongoing collaborations with SoundPainter Walter Thompson as well as media artists Bill Morrison and Luke DuBois and sound artist Jody Elff.
Reynolds is a founder of the band known as Ethel, a critically acclaimed amplified string quartet (represented by ICM Artists), with whom he wrote and toured internationally for its first 7 years. He also carries in his booking stash ’Still Life With Microphone’, an ongoing theater piece which incorporates his own written and improvised music, compositions written for him, and elements of video and theatrical arts. Nuove Uova [new eggs], new works for violin and electricity, another Todd Reynolds production is a ’new-music cabaret’ of sorts, having as its home Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. He is the recipient of ASCAP awards, an American Composers Forum Grant for Still Life with Mic and Commissioning and Performance grants from Meet The Composer, classical music’s funding godsend to the continuation of the classical music tradition.
Photo Credit: Peter Gannushkin
A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and ’wood-bound’ tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments, and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend. As a cross-genre improviser and collaborator, he has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Yo-Yo Ma, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts and Todd Rundgren, and has commissioned and premiered countless numbers of new works by America’s most compelling composers, including John King, Phil Kline, Michael Gordon, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn and Randall Wolff. His interdisciplinary work includes ongoing collaborations with SoundPainter Walter Thompson as well as media artists Bill Morrison and Luke DuBois and sound artist Jody Elff.
Reynolds is a founder of the band known as Ethel, a critically acclaimed amplified string quartet (represented by ICM Artists), with whom he wrote and toured internationally for its first 7 years. He also carries in his booking stash ’Still Life With Microphone’, an ongoing theater piece which incorporates his own written and improvised music, compositions written for him, and elements of video and theatrical arts. Nuove Uova [new eggs], new works for violin and electricity, another Todd Reynolds production is a ’new-music cabaret’ of sorts, having as its home Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. He is the recipient of ASCAP awards, an American Composers Forum Grant for Still Life with Mic and Commissioning and Performance grants from Meet The Composer, classical music’s funding godsend to the continuation of the classical music tradition.
Photo Credit: Peter Gannushkin
Vicky Chow
Canadian pianist Vicky Chow has performed extensively as a classical and contemporary soloist, chamber musician, and ensemble member, and has been hailed as ‘brilliant’ by the New York Times (Anthony Tommasini). She is the pianist for the New York based eclectic contemporary sextet, Bang On A Can All-Stars. She has performed across North America, Europe and Asia in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Guggenheim Museum, The Stone, le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Tonhalle in Zurich, Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, The Polytheater in Beijing, Chan Center for the Performing Art in Vancouver and has been a guest artist in the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Music Festival, Golandsky Institute International Piano Festival, musicacoustica festival (in association with Electro-acoustic Music Association of China and China Electroacoustic Music Center) in Beijing, E-music Week in Shanghai, the f(x) New Music Marathon in Miami, Desert Chamber Music Society in Palm Springs, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and Las Vegas Music Festival. She has received grants and support from Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, and the Vancouver Foundation. Most recently Ms. Chow finished a performance tour in China, Italy, Germany, and Holland with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a performance tour in Malaysia with the Perak Performing Arts Society, and performances in Chicago with Opera Cabal. She is currently recording her first solo piano album of music by composer Ryan Anthony Francis, which will be released in late 2010 under composer John Zorn’s label ‘tzadik’.
As an avid advocate of new music, she has worked with composers such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Jose Luis Hurtado, David Lang, Felipe Lara, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, and Evan Ziporyn. In addition to being a member of Bang On A Can All-Stars, she is the pianist for a Chicago-based avant-garde opera company called ‘Opera Cabal’ that recently premiered a new opera written for the group by American composer Lewis Nielson, and a contemporary chamber group in New York called ‘ai ensemble’. In addition to performing new music, Ms. Chow also produces and curates concert programs of new compositions by emerging composers at the Gershwin Hotel in New York City.
Ms. Chow made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared since with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony, The Vancouver Academy Orchestra, White Rock Festival String Orchestra and the B.C. Sinfonietta. She has performed under numerous conductors, including George Manahan, James Conlon, JoAnn Falleta, Bramwell Tovey, Victor Feldbrill, and Jeffrey Milarsky. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with New York Philharmonic flutist Renee Siebert and Metropolitan Opera soprano Janet Hopkins at the Desert Chamber Music Society and cellist Andre Emelianoff of the Da Capo Chamber Players.
As a competitor, she placed first in the Canadian Music Competition four consecutive years. She also won the Toronto Symphony Piano Competition and Juilliard concerto competition, second prize in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Piano Competition, third prize in the Pacific International Piano Competition, and a finalist and honorarium prize winner of the San Antonio International Piano Competition.
Ms. Chow received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in piano performance from The Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. She also holds a second Master’s degree and a Professional Studies diploma in contemporary performance from Manhattan School of Music studying with Christopher Oldfather. Previously, she studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Lorraine Ambrose. Ms. Chow has performed in master classes with a number of distinguished pianists, including Menahem Pressler, Jerome Lowenthal, Ruth Laredo, Ursula Oppens, and Angela Cheng. Ms. Chow resides in New York City.
As an avid advocate of new music, she has worked with composers such as John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Jose Luis Hurtado, David Lang, Felipe Lara, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, and Evan Ziporyn. In addition to being a member of Bang On A Can All-Stars, she is the pianist for a Chicago-based avant-garde opera company called ‘Opera Cabal’ that recently premiered a new opera written for the group by American composer Lewis Nielson, and a contemporary chamber group in New York called ‘ai ensemble’. In addition to performing new music, Ms. Chow also produces and curates concert programs of new compositions by emerging composers at the Gershwin Hotel in New York City.
Ms. Chow made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared since with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony, The Vancouver Academy Orchestra, White Rock Festival String Orchestra and the B.C. Sinfonietta. She has performed under numerous conductors, including George Manahan, James Conlon, JoAnn Falleta, Bramwell Tovey, Victor Feldbrill, and Jeffrey Milarsky. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with New York Philharmonic flutist Renee Siebert and Metropolitan Opera soprano Janet Hopkins at the Desert Chamber Music Society and cellist Andre Emelianoff of the Da Capo Chamber Players.
As a competitor, she placed first in the Canadian Music Competition four consecutive years. She also won the Toronto Symphony Piano Competition and Juilliard concerto competition, second prize in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Piano Competition, third prize in the Pacific International Piano Competition, and a finalist and honorarium prize winner of the San Antonio International Piano Competition.
Ms. Chow received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in piano performance from The Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. She also holds a second Master’s degree and a Professional Studies diploma in contemporary performance from Manhattan School of Music studying with Christopher Oldfather. Previously, she studied at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Lorraine Ambrose. Ms. Chow has performed in master classes with a number of distinguished pianists, including Menahem Pressler, Jerome Lowenthal, Ruth Laredo, Ursula Oppens, and Angela Cheng. Ms. Chow resides in New York City.
Ashley Bathgate
American cellist Ashley Bathgate has performed worldwide as both a classical and contemporary musician and has been hailed by critics as a "brilliant, rising star." She has appeared in venues such as Carnegie's Zankel Hall, Merkin Hall, (le) Poisson Rouge, BargeMusic, Boston's Symphony Hall, the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, the Chan Centre in Vancouver, Seoul Arts Center, Forbidden City Concert Hall and National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing), Shanghai Grand Theater, Teatro Palladium of Rome, the Royal Conservatory of the Hague and the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. Ashley has been a guest artist at several festivals including New York City's Look and Listen, Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, Bard Summerscape, Romaeuropa, the Shanghai International Arts Festival and the Beijing Music Festival. As a soloist, Ashley has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Windham Chamber Players, Lake Placid Sinfonietta and the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra. In 2008 she made her New York debut in Carnegie’s Weill Hall with pianist Todd Crow and has been broadcast as a featured artist on WMHT FM, WQXR FM’s ‘Young Artist Showcase’, NPR's 'Performance Today' and WYNC's New Sounds Live.
As a member of the award-winning "Bang on a Can All-Stars" Ashley champions new music across the globe and in many musical genres. She has collaborated with composers and musicians such as John Adams, Martin Bresnick, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Louis Andriessen, Ingram Marshall, Aaron J. Kernis, Terry Riley, Don Byron, David Longstreth, Oscar Bettison, Nik Bärtsch, Trio Mediaeval, Windscape, Glenn Kotche, Lee Ranaldo, Chantal Juillet, Pascal Rogé, Peter Oundjian and Helmuth Rilling. She is currently embarking on a project called 'Heart On Your Sleeve' with pianist Lisa Moore which will present new commissioned works in different venues throughout New York. Composers involved in this project include Stephen Feigenbaum, Julia Wolfe, Sam Adams, Paul Dresher, Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne and Kate Moore, amongst others.
Ashley's awards include a grant from the New York Philharmonic Players Fund, sponsored by Stephen and Elaine Stamas, as well as top prizes at the 1999 and 2001 Lois Lyman Concerto Competition, the 2006 Hugo Kauder Memorial Strings Competition and the 2008 Yale University School of Music Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. Her newly formed Lorien Trio received the bronze medal at the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. A native of Saratoga Springs, NY, Ashley began cello studies at the age of 12. She received a Bachelor's degree from Bard College where she studied cello with Luis Garcia-Rènart and a her Master’s degree in 2007 from the Yale University School of Music as a student of Aldo Parisot.
As a member of the award-winning "Bang on a Can All-Stars" Ashley champions new music across the globe and in many musical genres. She has collaborated with composers and musicians such as John Adams, Martin Bresnick, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Louis Andriessen, Ingram Marshall, Aaron J. Kernis, Terry Riley, Don Byron, David Longstreth, Oscar Bettison, Nik Bärtsch, Trio Mediaeval, Windscape, Glenn Kotche, Lee Ranaldo, Chantal Juillet, Pascal Rogé, Peter Oundjian and Helmuth Rilling. She is currently embarking on a project called 'Heart On Your Sleeve' with pianist Lisa Moore which will present new commissioned works in different venues throughout New York. Composers involved in this project include Stephen Feigenbaum, Julia Wolfe, Sam Adams, Paul Dresher, Missy Mazzoli, Anna Clyne and Kate Moore, amongst others.
Ashley's awards include a grant from the New York Philharmonic Players Fund, sponsored by Stephen and Elaine Stamas, as well as top prizes at the 1999 and 2001 Lois Lyman Concerto Competition, the 2006 Hugo Kauder Memorial Strings Competition and the 2008 Yale University School of Music Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition. Her newly formed Lorien Trio received the bronze medal at the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. A native of Saratoga Springs, NY, Ashley began cello studies at the age of 12. She received a Bachelor's degree from Bard College where she studied cello with Luis Garcia-Rènart and a her Master’s degree in 2007 from the Yale University School of Music as a student of Aldo Parisot.