FUTURE FOLK Wild Up: Is a Modern Music Collective; an Beach Music Festival
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About the Artists Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director PRESENTS wild Up: ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA FUTURE FOLK wild Up: is a modern music collective; an Beach Music Festival. They played numerous Music Festival; taught classes on farm sounds, adventurous chamber orchestra; a Los Angeles- programs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic spatial music and John Cage for a thousand based group of musicians committed to creating including the Phil’s Brooklyn Festival, Minimalist middle schoolers; played solo shows at The Getty, visceral, thought-provoking happenings. wild Up Jukebox Festival, Next on Grand Festival, and a celebrated John Adams 70th birthday with a show Future Folk Personnel Program believes that music is a catalyst for shared experiences, twelve hour festival of Los Angeles new music called “Adams, punk rock and player piano music” ERIN MCKIBBEN, Flute and that a concert venue is a place to challenge, hosted by the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall at VPAC . ART JARVINEN excite and ignite a community of listeners. called: noon to midnight. They started a multi- BRIAN WALSH, Clarinets Endless Bummer year education partnership with the Colburn While the group is part of the fabric of classical ARCHIE CAREY, wild Up has been called “Best in Classical Music School, taught Creativity and Consciousness at music in L.A., wild Up also embraces indie music Bassoon / Amplified Bassoon ROUNTREE/KALLMYER/CAREY 2015” and “…a raucous, grungy, irresistibly Bard’s Longy School, led composition classes with collaborations. The group has an album on for La Monte Young exuberant…fun-loving, exceptionally virtuosic the American Composers Forum and American Bedroom Community Records with Bjork’s choir ALLEN FOGLE, Horn family” by Zachary Woolfe of the New York Times, Composers Orchestra, created a new opera Graduale Nobili, vocalist Jodie Landau, and JONAH LEVY, Trumpet MOONDOG “Searing. Penetrating. And thrilling” by Fred Child workshop with The Industry, and founded and an producer Valgeir Sigurðsson, recorded in of Performance Today and “Magnificent” by ongoing intensive educational program with the Reykjavik, Iceland; premiere they premiered a new RICHARD VALITUTTO, My Tiny Butterfly Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. LA Philharmonic in which ten young composers opera with Julia Holter; played with composer Ellis Keyboard / Melodica and a faculty of eight legendary composers meet Ludwig-Leone and rock band San Fermin under a ART JARVINEN The group began in 2010 as a self-funded, to collaborate on new work. tyrannosaurus rex at the Natural History Museum ANDREW THOLL, Egyptian Two Step grassroots project of wild Up ’s Artistic Director and of Los Angeles; premiered and recorded an opera Violin / Guitar Conductor Christopher Rountree: after graduate This year wild Up joins Bjork at FYF, they tour the by Lewis Pesacov of afrobeat band Fool’s Gold ANDREW MCINTOSH, Viola TOM JOHNSON school, Rountree returned to Los Angeles wanting U.S. with two new programs: Future Folk and We about the end of the Mayan Calendar; they to create an ensemble made up of young the People, with stops in Colorado, Montana, performed Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes’ DEREK STEIN, Cello Narayana’s Cows musicians, a group that would reject classical Indiana, New York, Maryland, Virginia and Los score of the Scarlett Johansson film Under the Skin STEPHEN PFEIFER, Bass music’s most outdated traditions and embrace Angeles; they headline the LA Phil’s second noon at the Regent Theater, performed Jon Brion’s score JULIUS EASTMAN unusual venues and programs that throw the to midnight festival with a premiere from Scott to Punch Drunk Love with Joanna Newsom at the JODIE LANDAU, Stay On It classical repertoire into the context of pop culture, Walker; continue the National Composers ACE Hotel, premiered an orchestral work of Scott Percussion / Voice new music and performance art. The group’s first Intensive with Andrew Norman and the LA Phil; Walker at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and played few concerts at art studios and rock clubs around reimagine “In C” and premiere an epic new work FYF 2017 with Bjork. MATT COOK, Percussion MEREDITH MONK L.A. created a fervent fanbase of true believers. of Ellen Reid with the LA Master Chorale; and DEREK TYWONIUK, Percussion Panda Chant II Then UCLA’s Hammer Museum tapped wild Up as premiere more than a dozen new works. wild Up has been featured at numerous West the museum’s first ever Orchestra in Residence, Coast cultural spaces including the Music Academy CHRIS KALLMYER, Guitar FREDERIC RZEWSKI and after dozens of concerts in the Hammer’s In the past few seasons, wild Up premiered of the West, Santa Barbara Arts and Lectures, the MATT BARBIER, Trombone Attica halls, courtyards and galleries, the L.A. Times dozens of new pieces in shows on both coasts Broad Stage, Valley Performing Arts Center, Zipper proclaimed the group “Best Classical Music of including David Lang’s “anatomy theater” at L.A. Hall at the Colburn School, REDCAT, Walt Disney ADRIANNE POPE, Violin SCRIABIN 2012.” It was off to the races, as wild Up began Opera. They threw a Bach-BQ; helped to resurrect Concert Hall, Beyond Baroque, the Armory Center CHRIS ROUNTREE, Mysterium working with musical and cultural institutions works of Graham, Barber, and Chavez with the for the Arts, Santa Ana Sites and Echo Park’s Artistic Director / Conductor around the world. Martha Graham Dance Company; yelled with the Jensen Rec Center. Their recordings of ghost of Whitney Houston; made an album with Shostakovich, Rzewski, Messiaen, and Los Angeles wild Up has been Group in Residence at National Pulitzer finalist Chris Cerrone; flew tumbleweeds composers have been featured on KUSC, WNYC, Sawdust in Williamsburg, Education Ensemble in to New York; created an evening length program Q2, KPFK, Alex Ross’s blog The Rest Is Noise and MARCH 17, 2018 AT 7:30PM Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber with Ted Hearne; pounded on eight bass drums American Public Media’s Performance Today, Bram Goldsmith Theater Orchestra, and Ensemble in Residence with on the street outside Walt Disney Concert Hall; among many others. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at the Laguna met three fire marshals; headlined the Carlsbad Running time: 90 minutes, with no intermission PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P19.