Composer’s Voice 4th Annual Trajetória Brasileira JAN HUS CHURCH, NEW YORK CITY FEBRUARY, 23, 2014 Vox Novus collaborating with the Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Hus Church to produce a monthly concert series promoting the chamber works of Pois os prados…………………….……..….David Bohn contemporary composers. Xavante nos………………………..…....Fermino Gomes Devagar, devagar……...José Jesus de Azevedo Souza Remarkable Theater Brigade creates and produces new operas and musicals Sol io, ardendo, all’ombra mi rimango.…..Erik Branch and takes children's versions out to special-needs and at-risk children free of Árbol……………………………………….…..Liam Moore charge. Remarkable Theater Brigade creates and produces new works Le chat…………………….…………Anne-Marie Turcotte Remanescem………..……………………Rodrigo Baggio including operas, orchestral pieces, ballets, musicals, and electro-acoustic Armia Krajova……………………………..Inna Buganina works and co-produces the Composer's Voice Concert Series concerts. Very short………………….…….……….…Jean de Lière Remarkable Theater Brigade was founded in 2002 by Christian McLeer, Monica Planos…..………………….…..….…...Guilherme Afonso Harte, and Dan Jeselsohn. Interrogaçao………………..……...Syrlane Albuquerque Missed………………………….……….Antoine Quembre Vox Novus promotes contemporary music and its creators through concerts, Canto de primavera……….……………..….Daniel Mihai recordings, publications, broadcasts, and online publicity. Vox Novus believes Jest and riddle…………………….………Gisela Paterno strongly in the intrinsic value of contemporary music, recognizing it as a force in Tenor vocalise in A minor……..………….…Bugra Balci the advancement of culture and art. Our goal is to keep music alive by Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame strengthening the connection between composer and audience, providing David Souza, tenor & Anoush Moazzeni, piano greater exposure to new music.

www.voxnovus.com The Rolling Outcome Rodrigo Baggio Sunday, March 9, 2014 (NYC): Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Daniel Sachs, piano - Performed by……….Cristian Amigo & Angela Babin, guitars Hommage à Ravel Music & performances by Sean Hicky, Akmal Parwez, David Wolfson, Rob Voisey, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Masatora Goya

4 Pieces for My Dad’s Violin Sunday, March 30, 2014 (NYC): Women’s Month Celebration and 2nd Annual Composer’s Voice/New York Women Composers collaboration concert featuring PART PARTIDA….…………………………………..David Morneau Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Shannon Roberts, soprano & Yumi Suehiro, piano. 爸 告 我 Dad, won't you tell me (World Premiere)…....Yan Pang With Katarzyna Bryla, Hui-Chuan Chen, Sookkyung Cho, Stanichka Dimitrova, Homage (World Premiere)……………..………Dafina Zeqiri Nushi Marcia Eckert, Elisenda Fabregas, Julie Mandel, Guest Curator: Nailah Nombeko Rabequinha……...…..…………………Sergio Roberto de Oliveira Performed by……………Marcos dal Medico, violin April 6, 2014 (Ascension Catholic Church) Composer’s Voice/New York Women Composers collaboration concert featuring Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Shannon Roberts, soprano & Yumi Suehiro, piano. With Katarzyna Bryla, Luda Lee Hilary Tico-tico no Fubá…………………..……….....Zequinha de Abreu Tann, Binnette Lipper, Joyce Hope Suskind, and Nailah Nombeko John’s First Choro………..……..……..………………Jon Russell Sunday, April 13, 2014 (NYC): 3rd Annual Japan Perspective concert featuring the Choro…………………………..…………….……..Douglas DaSilva World Premiere of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Thomas Piercy, clarinet & Vilian Brasil sem Tom……………………..…Sergio Roberto de Oliveira Ivantchev, guitar inspired by the history & culture of Japan. With music & Forró de dois Amigos…………...……..……..Edmilson do Pífano performances by Hirona Amamiya, Kenji Bunch, Reiko Füting, Masatora Goya, Performed by……………………Tom do Brasil Beth Griffith, Kenji Haba, Kento Iwasaki, Akemi Naito & Kazuki Ueki. "Composer’s Voice presents the music of tomorrow, today."

- Erin Bomboy - Dance Musings David Souza holds a Master of Music degree in Vocal Yan Pang is one of the most active composers of the new Performance from the Laval University in Québec and a Chinese generation. She has released a number of Bachelor of Vocal Performance at State of São Paulo publications consisting of “Glorious Times”, published by University in Brazil. In 2012 he received the First Prize at the China Scientific & Cultural Audio-Video Publishing “Solo with Orchestra Competition” in Quebec City and at Company in 2011, as well as score “Solis Ortus", and “Disk Recording Competition 2012 Edition” and the prize of article “Comparative Music Analysis of Scene of Sichuan best singer of brazilian popular music at Cotovia Opera” which were issued by China People’s Cultural Art Competition in 2000. Publishing Company. She has been commissioned for As a soloist he sang recitals of chamber music and performances in Vienna, St. Petersburg, Prague etc. Pang concerts with orchestra in Brazil and in Canada. He sang has worked with renowned musicians all over the world, at the operas Der Mond from Carl Orff, Gianni Schicci from including Samuel Adler at Julliard School, Müller-Siemens Puccini, Dido and Aeneas from Purcell and recently at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, recently Il Combatimento di Tancredi e Clorinda from Monteverdi. David Souza Anekcahp at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and more. was born in Brazil and lives Canada. Jonathan Russell is a composer, clarinetist, conductor, Persian born Anoush Moazzeni enjoys a performing career and educator, whose work has been hailed as “incredibly that has frequently taken her around the world. Highlights of virtuosic, rocking, and musical” (San Francisco Classical recent seasons have included visits to America, Europe, Voice) and “a fantastically distorted perpetual motion of and the Middle East. Versatile recital programs encompass awesome” (I Care If You Listen). Especially known for his the contemporary and standard repertoires, as well as less innovative bass clarinet and clarinet ensemble familiar fare. Particular areas of interest include compositions, his works for bass clarinet duo, bass clarinet Electroacoustic music, Modern and Contemporary music quartet, bass clarinet soloists, and clarinet ensembles and Performance Art . She specialized her Master of Music have been performed around the world and are radically in Piano Performance in Contemporary music. Away from expanding the technical and stylistic possibilities of these the concert platform, Anoush Moazzeni's experience genres. Jonathan has received commissions from includes the musicology , as a graduate in Musicology She ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony, followed different internships in Electroacoutic Music, Empyrean Ensemble, ADORNO Ensemble, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Sound Engineering and Algorithmic composition at Ircam/Centre Pompidou in Wild Rumpus, Great Noise Ensemble, and Imani Winds, and performances from Paris, in Germany and in Canada. She made diverse sound installations and live numerous other ensembles and performers. http://www.jonrussellmusic.com performances in France, Germany, Netherlands and Canada.

Fifteen Minutes of Fame is a collection of 15 one-minute works composed Born in Lajedo, into a family where everyone played specifically for a performer or ensemble. The pífano (Brazilian folk flute), Edmilson do Pífano is purpose of Fifteen Minutes of Fame is to promote a known for his beautiful and original compositions of great variety of contemporary music to audiences great musical value and at times challenging to play. hungry to hear what living composers are writing Edmilson is one of the greatest performers of pífano of today. The project seeks one-minute music the Brazilian Northeast. His playing is expressive, compositions from composers working in any style bold, genuine, charismatic and has a unique and aesthetic. Vox Novus places a call for scores personality. His intimacy with the instrument gives him and 15 pieces are chosen from the works submitted. the surname. The works are then premiered on the Composer Voice concert series in New York City. The idea grew out of a celebratory concert in 2009 for the birthday of Robert Voisey who is the founder of Vox Novus and known for his 60x60 project. David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided Cristian Amigo is an American composer, guitarist, genre, a provider of exclusive unprecedented experiments. producer, & educator who!explores connections between art, In his work he endeavors to explore ideas about our culture, music and American popular and roots musics. Known as issues concerning creativity, and even the very nature of an acoustic and electric guitarist, and improviser, Amigo music itself. His music can be found on Composers writes avant-music for chamber ensembles, orchestra, Concordance Records, Immigrant Breast Nest, Irritable opera, theater, and film; he composes and performs in Hedgehog, and elsewhere. This is the seventh concert various roots and experimental music groups including The David has curated for Composer's Voice. Learn more @ Gotham Roots Orchestra, Kingdom of Jones, and Tilted 5of4.com. Axes. Cristian is currently composer-in-residence at INTAR Theater in New York City where he produces concerts and the INTAR Roots & New Music Festival. His awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Dafina Zeqiri Nushi, is a Kosovar composer of music that Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife has been performed in Europe and elsewhere. Studied and Cultural Heritage, and Meet the Composer and the National Endowment for the music composition with Mendi Mengjiqi at the University of Arts. Prishtina. Her magister's-degree work was with Jana Angela Babin has been playing guitar since she was 10 Andreevska at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. years old. She learned how! to play at Girl Scout camp and Among her honors are three awards in the Cesk Zadeja first performed live at Folk City when she was 13 years old. competition for young composers in Tirana (diploma of She subsequently started playing electric guitar in a band that encouragement, Third Prize, Special Prize), a diploma as an played at NYC high school dances and block parties when Eminent Student from the University of Prishtina , Third she was 14. Angela entered the downtown New York music Prize in the pre-art competition for young composers in scene playing with Off Beach and the Ordinaires in 1979, and Zurich, the Theodore Front Prize the International Alliance got to perform all over Europe, Canada and the US. Angela for Women in Music, the second prize “Chopin Kosovo” has been playing guitar and bass, composing and recording Composers Competition (2012), the First Prize in Composers Competition 2011 with many bands and projects including Homer Erotic, for chamber music from Kosovo Ministry of Culture. She is Assistant in Inviolate, the Raging Hormones, and more. University of Prishtina, member of “The International Alliance for Women in Music”, FOUNDATION ADKINS CHITI and Composers Association of Kosovo. Sergio Roberto de Oliveira studied with composer Percussionist Craig Bitterman is from Buffalo, NY. He earned Guerra-Peixe and got his degree at UNIRIO. Musicians his Bachelor of Music in performance from SUNY Buffalo and have been commissioned and performed his pieces relocated to Connecticut to pursue a Master of Music in worldwide in concerts promoted by Prelúdio 21, Handel performance from the Hartt School of Music. After completing and Haydn Society, The British Academy of Composers graduate studies, Bitterman freelanced in the New England and Songwriters, Composer’s Voice, etc. Sergio has been area and taught percussion at Holyoke Community College, lecturing in dozens of institutions in US, Netherlands, Wesleyan University and Hartford Conservatory. Performance England and Brazil. He was Artist-in-residence at Duke highlights include appearances with Nebojsa Zivkovic and the University in 2009 and nominee for the 12th Latin Grammy Jovan Perkussion Projekt; Maelstrom percussion ensemble; (“Best Classical Contemporary Composition”). His June in Buffalo new music festival; Ankara new music festival; discography as a composer has 6 CDs. In 2012 he Full Force Dance Theatre; Steelsunrise Steelband and worked released 4 new CDs and presented a series celebrating his with composers Steve Reich, David Felder, James Tenney, 15th anniversary as a composer, with 13 concerts in Rio de Janeiro. Lou Harrison and Amy Williams. Craig has recorded under www.sergiodeoliveira.com hat(now)ART, mode, EMF, Yesa, Malletjazz and Whitewater labels. Emilio Guarino is a performing musician, educator, and Violinist Marcos Dal Medico began his violin studies at age producer. As an orchestral musician he has performed seven with Roberto Dal Medico, continuing on with Manfredo many staples of the symphonic repertoire as well as Clélio de Vincenzo and Alberto Jaffé. He earned his Music accompanied many soloists such as Gabe Lefkowitz, David Degree in Violin from UNESP (State University of Sao Paulo) Krakauer, John Clayton, Garry Kvistad, and more. Not under the supervision of Professor Ayrton Pinto. His teachers limited to only traditional bass playing, his studies of New include Mary Lou Speaker, Gerald Rubinstein, Sergey Music led him to performing at MIT in 2012 with Bang on a Girchenko, Marcello Guerchfeld, Mathey Torpe, Claudio Can All-Stars bassist Robert Black as part of Robert’s “Bang Micheletti, Eliza Fukuda and Pablo de Leon. on a Bass’ recital. More recently, Emilio has performed the He has performed as a guest violinist and soloist in many U.S. premieres of three contemporary chamber works with Brazilian concert halls. In 2009, he received a merits praise NYC’s scintillating new music group Ensemble Moto from composer Almeida Prado: “I had the honour and the joy Perpetuo: Vita Nova – Serenades by Brice Pauset (featuring to hear violinist Marcos Del Medico to play my sonata n.3 violinist Maja Cerar), Ami…Chemin…Oser…Vie by Philippe Leroux, and Action wonderfully and with perfect technique, full of lyricism Painting by Raphael Cendo. accompanied by a great emotional connection with the audience”.

Combining the Brazilian Music, Improvisation and elements of Guitarist Rob Helsel is from Newburgh, NY, and has been Contemporary Classical Music, brazilian guitarist and playing and teaching professionally in the Hudson Valley area composer Rodrigo Baggio has excelled internationally. As a for 25 years. He was a member of the West Point’s Jazz performer, he was the guest guitarist of Université Laval Knights for 18 years and has performed with such artists as (Quebec/Canada). His compositions have been premiered Cab Calloway, James Williams, The Harper Brothers, Byron worldwide in São Paulo (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal), Paris Stripling, Bill Watrous, David Liebman, John Riley, Eddie (France), Quebec (Canada), Bremen (Germany), London Daniels, and Dennis Mackrel. (England), Vermont, New York and Florida (USA). His piece Recent projects include working with “E of 3,” al 11-piece 70’s “Three Insights Of The Brazilian Landscape” (for Percussion) and 80’s funk/soul band performing at such venues as the was one of the winner pieces of “Carl von Ossietzky Iridium Jazz Club, NYC. His resume also includes performing Composition Prize” at Oldenburg University (Germany).His and teaching at both High School and College jazz clinics and piece "The Glass Factory" (for Septet) was one of the 05 performing Broadway musicals. He has studied with Steve winning pieces, among 170 competing pieces, of the Freeman (Guitar Institute of Technology) and ECM jazz "UNBOUND Performance Award" sponsored by the Living Arts of Tulsa (USA). recording artist John Abercrombie. Currently, he is developing his own instrumental project called "Guitar Solo"

Kristen Mather de Andrade is principal clarinetist with the Douglas DaSilva, is a composer, guitarist, educator, curator, and film-maker and in West Point Band and clarinetist with Quintette 7. She New York City. As Artistic Director for the Composer’s Voice frequently performs with the West Point Band and local concert series “DaSilva knows just how to tempt you with a community and college organizations as soloist. In 2010 she delicious array of musical desserts that titillate your ear.” recorded a CD of the music of Raymond Scott with Quintette 7. NM421 Much of his composing is influenced by Brazilian Kristen frequently tours with chamber ensembles to perform music and self-inflicted stress. His compositions have been and give master classes in colleges across the country. described as “very individual, and to us has a very clear Inspired by working with the El Sistema-inspired Harmony personality” in Classical Guitar Magazine. His pieces Program in New York City, Kristen has begun studies at Sarabande; How to Build a Totalitarian State and Contrails Columbia University Teachers College. She is currently have been included in 60x60 projects. His works have been pursuing a Master of Arts in Education, and aspires to break performed in Brazil, England, Italy, Germany, Romania, down the walls between performance and education by putting Brazil & throughout the USA. His documentary “My Dad’s the arts and artists at the service of communities. Violin” is scheduled for release in 2014.