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Listen for Life Artists Promo 2012 Listen for Life Artists Promo 2012 8 renowned musicians, playing 8 different instruments representing 8 world cultures, will perform a unique program on January 8th (2012) at Carnegie Hall. and YOU can bring this same exciting program, and this unique group of renowned artists, to YOUR performing arts series or venue! They are all part of the Listen for Life family, and their goal is to help share the cultural riches of the world with the audiences of the world - anywhere they can! {Each of the individual performers can also be contacted/booked separately, of course, and they also perform together in smaller units for duo concerts or chamber groups, in either world-music or classical programs} Yair Naser Faisal Erin Donna Van-Anh Patrick Taylor Dalal Musa Zedan Nolan Stoering Vanessa Vo Landeza Eigsti www.listenforlife.org The page at www.listenforlife.org/womex contains further resources, including video clips, relating to this document. Dear Performing Arts Presenter: Are you searching for a completely unique approach to concert programming for the coming seasons? Are your audiences ready to be aligned with an exciting global family of music performers, creators, producers and listeners? We are Listen for Life (www.listenforlife.org) and we are working together around the globe to revitalize music of all cultures as a channel of communication and a unifying force for good in the world. We serve music - particularly traditional/world music genres – by supporting and promoting the musicians, sustaining their cultures, and sharing their gifts with a global audience, through live events, broadcast programs and outreach projects that altogether have impacted 9 million people in 55 countries thus far. And we have phenomenal master musicians as part of our global family, so we are excited for this opportunity to share a few of them with you in the hopes that you‟ll want some or all of them to perform for your audience as well, in the future! On Sunday January 8th, 2012, Listen for Life will be presenting our first annual multicultural music event at New York‟s Carnegie Hall. In the music festivals and single concert events that we produce worldwide, we often like to offer a smorgasbord of cultures or instrumental styles in a “round the world” experience that will intrigue both first-time concert goers and seasoned music listeners alike. Our particular program at Carnegie will have global significance, in that three of the top word-music performers from Palestine, Syria and Israel (Naser Musa, Faisal Zedan and Yair Dalal, respectively) will perform together on one stage, in a musical statement for peace. Oud master Yair Dalal will then be joined by international pianist Donna Stoering and sensational young violist Erin Nolan (who has already done four sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road ensemble) to premiere a new work being created for them by the renowned Israeli composer Avner Dorman. Donna Stoering will also be doing the NY premiere of “Walk within Winter”, based on Native American harmonies/rhythms and composed for her by world-music artist Brent Heisinger. The other special musicians on the program include Emmy-award winner and National music champion of Vietnam, Van Anh Vanessa Vo, playing solos on three different traditional instruments, award-winning Hawaiian music star Patrick Landeza who is thrilled to bring his culture into their mix, and the phenomenal Grammy-nominee jazz pianist Taylor Eigsti who has just completed composing/playing the music for Adrien Brody‟s new film but often tours/records with world music stars such as Columbian harpist Edmar Castaneda. Listen for Life is offering this same Carnegie program, with some or all of the same musicians (your choice) to come to your own venue and provide the same unique concert experience for your community, anywhere on the planet! . You can alternatively book any one of these musicians as an individual, of course, or you might choose to take a particular subgroup among them as a smaller ensemble - such as the three Middle Eastern artists in a special concert of their own, or add the viola and piano to that combination so that Avner Dorman‟s new work can be included in the program along with other innovative works. If you decide to book the entire group, it could simply be billed as a “Listen for Life” event on your brochures and calendar. And that, again, could bring great benefits to your series, because Listen for Life‟s website has a high global Alexa rating due to its number of viewers from every country, so we are currently being sought after by advertisers and/or sponsors worldwide. When our artists or program formats are included on any platform or series, we will use our website, viewer numbers, and online community to heavily promote that venue/series and its community as well! Because the Carnegie event hasn‟t yet happened at the time of this writing, we do not yet have audio samples from the exact program that we described above. As for video samples of each artist, we have created Artists‟ Pages on our Listen for Life website for each of the performers, where you can access their videos in good quality and also link to their YouTube content. Therefore the actual materials we have included in our promotional space on the RPS flashdrive include: · *informational materials about the “Carnegie program” that we can also offer your audiences as a package, if desired · *a one-pager for each musician with their photos, bios, and direct contact information for booking them individually *audio (MP3) files for each musician, together with a medley track "Listen for Life - Sample the World". Thank you so much for your time, energy and interest! Contact Listen for Life on +1 510 540 8136, email [email protected], or visit our websites and YouTube channel. www.listenforlife.org www.travelswithmusic.org www.listenforlife.org/youtube The Listen for Life musicians being promoted in this package include: · Yair Dalal, Israeli oud master · Naser Musa, Palestinian oud master · Faisal Zedan, Syrian percussion star in all music genres · Erin Nolan, multi-genre violist, who has already played four sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road group · Donna Stoering, recording artist, TV presenter & Artistic Ambassador for both UK and USA in world-music & classical · Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, Emmy Award winner and National Music Champion of Vietnam · Patrick Landeza, Award-winning Hawaiian Music artist (slack key guitar) · Taylor Eigsti, Grammy-nominee jazz phenomenon and composer As mentioned earlier, each of these artists is available for individual bookings on concert series and they can be contacted separately to arrange such schedules. There are also subsets within the larger group, that can be booked for full-length concert programs: ● Erin Nolan and Donna Stoering perform classical programs and world-music pieces in appearances as a duo worldwide. In some of their upcoming programs they will also bring with them oud master Yair Dalal (and/or Naser Musa) to perform the new world-music work by Avner Dorman for oud, viola, and piano. ● Yair Dalal, Naser Musa and Faisal Zedan very much want to tour as a Middle Eastern trio to promote peace through music. And they would also like to add Erin‟s viola in many of those concert programs. The musicians can also be engaged as a group, to replicate the same globally significant program that they are doing at Carnegie Hall in January 2012. That program of pieces/artists can of course be re-arranged in many different orders of performance, but one example of the format would be: Patrick Landeza opens the program in one part of America with its own distinct culture: Hawaii. After 3-4 songs in his mellow, upbeat and engaging style, he introduces Donna Stoering who will play Brent Heisinger‟s “Walk within Winter” (in Native American idioms) before being joined by violist Erin Nolan for a short optional work and then they will both be joined by oud master Yair Dalal – the three will then premiere Avner Dorman‟s new work being commissioned for this program. Donna and Erin leave. Yair will then be joined on stage, in turn, by his friend and fellow oud master Naser Musa, and by Middle Eastern percussionist Faisal Zedan. The three of them will reminisce and play together; ending the 1st half. The 2nd half of the program opens in Asia, with Van Anh Vanessa Vo, performing exotic compositions and improvisations on three unique instruments. She will be followed by jazz pianist phenomenon Taylor Eigsti, who has performed duo improvisations with major musicians of many different cultures/genres. He may or may not bring one of those along, but even just doing solo works Taylor sets a crowd on fire. Our plan is to then bring back most or all of the program‟s performers to join together and improvise in a final piece. --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen for Life was founded in London and has created multicultural, multi-genre programs like this around the world for the past 13 years, with tremendous success in all venues, locations and audiences. Three recent testimonials: “I attend concerts year-round and in different cities - this was by far the best music experience I have ever had, discovering world-renowned musicians I hadn’t heard before, with tremendous artistry and dazzling variety of color and expression. But now I am truly spoiled!” attendee at Listen for Life “justGO!”concert at War Memorial Bldg, S.F. "This was the most inspiring evening of my entire life. I have no words to explain it.
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