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Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame:

Jan Hus Church JENNY RIBEIRO , soprano

Music and performances by Beth Anderson Stuart Breczinski Anne Goldberg Josh Henderson Nailah Nombeko Faye-Ellen Silverman Yumi Suehiro Rain Worthington Chen Yi

1:00PM

March 24, 2013 Jan Hus Church This is the place you were welcome, long before you arrived! 351 East 74th Street www.janhus.org New York, New York 10021-3798

Donations of food &clothing are greatly appreciated for the Homeless Outreach Advocacy Program (HOAP) Esplorazione Spettrale Anne Goldberg Performed by…………………………………Stuart Breczinski, oboe COMPOSER’S VOICE COMING EVENTS

th Layered Lament Saturday, April 13, 2013 (NYC): Stone Soup: Our 100 Concert Gala Celebration Faye-Ellen Silverman & Benefit Gala! Performed by…………………Stuart Breczinski, English horn, tape Sunday April 14, 2013 (NYC): Japan Perspective with the World Premiere of Duo Ye Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Satoshi Okamoto, double bass, and Pascual Martinez Chen Yi Forteza, clarinet. Music and performances by Mari Kimura, Kyoko Kitamura, Yui Performed by……………………………………Yumi Suehiro, piano Kitamora, Masatora Goya, Susan Davita Mandel, Kyoko Okowa, Yumi Suehiro.

Piece for Solo Violin Sunday April 28, 2013 (NYC): Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Cross Island featuring Nailah Nombeko Suzanne Mueller, cello and Thomas Piercy, clarinet. Music and performances by Performed by…………………………….…..Josh Henderson, violin Lera Auerbach, Christopher James, Lynelle James, Steve Holtje, Nikolett Pankovits, Paul Joseph, Susan Mitchell, Rick Sowash, Antonia Szilagi, Suzanne Belgian Tango Mueller, Pamela Sklar, Barry Kornhauser, Tomas Rodriguez, David Wolfson Beth Anderson Performed by……………………………………Yumi Suehiro, piano Josh Henderson, violin THE MISSION OF NEW YORK WOMEN COMPOSERS, INC. is to create performing, Jilted Tango recording, networking, and mentoring opportunities for its members, and to work for the Rain Worthington betterment of all women concert-music composers. We believe that continually Performed by……………………………………Yumi Suehiro, piano focusing attention on music by women composers will hasten its full inclusion in the Josh Henderson, violin concert repertoire. New York Women Composers, Inc. was founded by composers Elizabeth Bell, Lucy Coolidge, Ann Callaway, and Robert Friou, Esq., in 1984. It is a New York 501(c)(3) Goldi's Wish………………………….Judith Zaimont not-for-profit corporation, under the direction of its members. Membership is open to Spring Came Early………………………Judi Silvano residents of New York State and the greater metropolitan region who A Fine Head of Lettuce…………………Julie Mandel are women composers of serious concert music and to those in musical occupations Anything………………….………………Kala Peirson who support the recognition of women composers. The Bird of Time………………..…….Beth Anderson Soliloquy……………Jose Jesus de Azevedo Souza Thou Hast left me ever, Jaimie…...….Inna Buganina Sorrow, trembit……………………..Evgenia Marchuk Vocalise…….………………………..Erol Bugra Balci Composer’s Voice O Gracious Light…………………….Dmitry Kitsenko Vox Novus collaborating with the Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Canzonetta……………………………….Daniel Mihai Hus Church to produce a monthly concert series promoting the chamber Bucca……………………………..………Richard Nye Hast thou named all the birds…...Andrei Bogdanov works of contemporary composers. ABC………………………………………Vitaly Manyk The Wind of Glory…….………….…..Anna Imaykina Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame Performed by………………..………………..Jenny Ribeiro, soprano Lloyd Arriola, piano Fifteen Minutes of Fame is a collection of 15 one-minute works composed specifically for a performer or ensemble. The purpose of Fifteen Born in Osaka, Japan, pianist! Yumi Suehiro started piano at Minutes of Fame is to promote a great variety of age 6, and started marimba a year later. Ms. Suehiro has won contemporary music to audiences hungry to hear numerous national and international competitions, including the what living composers are writing today. The project top prize at the KOBE International Competition in Japan as the seeks one minute music compositions from youngest winner. In 2007 and 2008, she was invited to perform composers working in any style and aesthetic. Vox her debut at the Carnegie Weill recital hall as a winner of AMTL Novus places a call for scores and 15 pieces are audition, and in following year, she was featured as a guest chosen from the works submitted. The works are marimba player in Latin percussionist, Victor Rendon's recoding then premiered on the Composer Voice concert “Fiesta Percussiva”. Ms. Suehiro won the second prize at Dora series in New York City. The idea grew out of a celebratory concert in 2009 for the Zaslavsky Koch piano concerto competition in Manhattan School birthday of Robert Voisey who is the founder of Vox Novus and known for his 60x60 of Music where she currently earned Master of Music under the project. tutelage of Mr. Zenon Fishbein and Dr. Peter Vinograde.

Rain Worthington has a distinctly unique voice within the field Soprano Jenny Ribeiro has made a name for of contemporary music. As critic, Kyle Gann noted inChamber herself specializing in new works on both coasts, creating the Music magazine, her music take(s) ideas of American musical roles of Amy (The North Arcade) and the Cat (Jack Prelutsky’s style to a new place - like a walk in a familiar, yet very different Something Big Has Been Here) in Seattle before moving to NYC. park... And isn't afraid to come up with its own startling She created the role of The Composer (Elodie Lauten’s The Two conclusions. Cents Opera) and participated in Remarkable Theatre Brigade’s Using the palette of chamber and orchestra instrumentations, Summer Young Artist Program. In 2010, Jenny made her debut Rain Worthington’s work touches the human heart with with Village Light Opera, Opera Manhattan and Regina Opera emotionally evocative music that is nuanced, delicate, powerful and the production team of Alphabet Soup Productions as and transporting. Rain Worthington’s music has been heard in Director of Opera & Artist in Residence. This season, Jenny New York City loft concerts, performance spaces and dance made a well-received debut as Pamina (Die Zauberflote) for clubs, to orchestra recordings in Europe and chamber concerts Opera Manhattan and is Resident Artist at Dicapo Opera in India. World music, minimalism and romanticism have Theater. She is joining Regina Opera as Peep-Bo (The Mikado). This is Jenny’s influenced her compositional style. second Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame!

Chen Yi: As a Distinguished Professor at the University of A dynamic and powerful recitalist, a sensitive accompanist and Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, a an intelligent interpreter of contemporary music, Lloyd prolific composer and recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Arriola is a highly experienced pianist and conductor who has Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters worked in a variety of musical genres on an international scale. (2001-04), Chen Yi* blends Chinese and Western traditions, Lloyd has appeared on the stage of New York’s Town Hall in transcending cultural and musical boundaries. Through doing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and with the One World so, she serves as an ambassador to the arts, creating music Symphony of New York he performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto that reaches a wide range of audiences, inspiring people with in G in another much-lauded performance. He has performed different cultural backgrounds throughout the world. She holds as an accompanist for distinguished singers such as Lucine both a BA and MA in music composition from the Central Amara, among others. He has conducted West Side Story in Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and received her DMA from the Semper Oper Dresden and Matsumoto Performing Arts in the City of New York, studying Center of Japan, and the national tour of Philip David Stern’s composition with Wu Zuqiang, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Scrooge–The Musical. Lloyd can also be heard on the recording of Allen and Wallace Davidovsky. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Shawn’s “play-opera” The Music Teacher, on Bridge Records.

The versatile violinist, Josh Henderson is quickly gaining Beth Anderson is a composer of new romantic music, text- recognition as a musician for all seasons. He has performed sound works, and music theater events. Her early work was classical music in venues all over the world including prestigious considered post-Cagian, non-academic but more recently, the European concert halls such as The Gasteig in Munich, the music became more lyrical while retaining the cut-up quality of Kennedy Center in our nation's capitol, Beijing's Forbidden City, the minimalists. Her all-Beth Anderson recordings are out on as well as high energy electric violin performances in iconic Albany New World, Pogus. AMERICAN WOMEN: Modern Voices venues of popular music such as Manhattan’s Highline and In Piano Music recorded by Nancy Boston includes Hammerstein Ballrooms. As a soloist, he has performed with the SEPTEMBER SWALE was released 2006. POINTS OF Starling Chamber orchestra, Accent X Orchestra, CCM ENTRY:The Laurels Project Vol. I Comment for flute solo (based Showcase Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and with on a poem by Dorothy Parker) is out on a Capstone CD (CPS- the China Performing-Arts Broadcasting Troupe Orchestra. He 8759) performed by Nina Assimakopoulos. Soprano Melanie has studied with Kurt Sassmannshaus in Cincinnati and studies Mitrano recorded Lullaby and Beauty Runs Faster for her new with Naoko Tanaka at New York University. CD on Capstone CPS-8756. Opus One has released "REVEL", with the Richmond Symphony and "MINNESOTA SWALE" with the Bratislava Radio Orchestra. Nailah Nombeko, a native of New York, comes from a musical family. She attended the Preparatory Division of Manhattan Stuart Breczinski is a New York-based oboist, improviser, School Music, LaGuardia High School (Music and Art) and she composer, and educator whose early interest in making unusual received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Mannes sounds on the oboe has developed into a passion for creating College of Music. Ms. Nombeko is active as a composer. Her and sharing innovative audio with audiences of all backgrounds. works were performed by a variety of ensembles, soloists and A proponent of chamber and contemporary music, Breczinski is choirs such as, the Orfeo Duo (violin/piano), Shannon Roberts, the oboist with The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Tiffany DuMouchelle, and Marcia Eckert. Ms. Nombeko’s music Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with has been performed at Symphony Space, Columbia University, as the New York City Department of Education. He is an original well as other venues in New York City. Her music was featured on member of ensemble mise-en, Ensemble Moto Perpetuo, and Classical Discoveries 103.3 FM and What’s Next Radio 91.1 FM. The Generous Ensemble, and he has performed as a chamber musician with the Bang on a Can Summer Institute at MASS MoCA, Contemporaneous, Performance 20/20, and Tactus, in Faye-Ellen Silverman began her music studies before the addition to numerous independently organized collaborations with composers, age of four at the Dalcroze School of Music. She first achieved performers, and other artists. national recognition by winning the Parents League Competition, judged by Leopold Stokowski, at the age of 13. Anne Goldberg is the founder/artistic director of the Synthesis She played her winning composition in Carnegie Hall (main Aesthetics Project, a collaborative between musicians, dancers, hall) - her professional piano debut - and also appeared on the multimedia and spoken word artists. She graduated Phi Beta Sonny Fox Wonderama TV program. She holds a BA from Kappa from Wellesley College and Massachusetts Institute of Barnard, cum laude and honors in music, and an AM from Technology, and is a M.M. of Classical Composition at Harvard and a DMA from Columbia, both in music composition. Manhattan School of Music in Marjorie Merryman’s studio. Anne She is the first woman to receive a DMA in music composition is a freelance pianist and oboist-English hornist, and was a from Columbia. Her teachers have included Otto Luening, member of the New England Philharmonic and Berklee William Sydeman, Leon Kirchner, Lukas Foss, Vladimir Contemporary Symphony Orchestra. She and three of her Ussachevsky, and Jack Beeson. Seesaw Music, a division of friends recently formed the Tempus Continuum Ensemble, a Subito Music, publishes about 85 of her compositions. touring mixed quartet that premiers a lot of her music. Anne’s music has also been premiered in Boston and New York by ensembles such as Boston New Music Institute & the Novatrio.