Program for Salon 3
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Also, we’d like to thank Stephanie Terence Diamond Greig and The Drawing Room for making us a part of Dorothy Fennell Gallery MC their wonderful arts programming; Fractured Atlas; Timothy Gooden Materials for the Arts/NYC Department of Cultural Nancy Greening Affairs; and oodles of production support from George Harpham Richard Sage; John Keiser; Coran Newland, Milica Sylvaine Hinglais John Keiser Paranosic; & all the artists who have worked so hard Margaret Lancaster to enable Concrete Timbre to create opportunities. Manhattan Community Arts Fund/LMCC Manuela Lechler The LIT Fund Allan Markowitz SAVE THE DATES #3 Identity Materials for the Arts/NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs May 21 - #4 Expatriate Aleksandra Miglowiec Robert Morton September 17 - #5 Trade Chris Kadis Moscato October 15 - #6 Lethal Coran Newland Sandy Noble November 19 - #7 Justice Brendan O’Leary December 17 - #8 Belief The Old Stone House Milica Paranosic For more information: Gorazd Poposki www.ConcreteTimbre.com The Puffin Foundation The Drawing Room Lillian Redl Sage Entertainment Concrete Timbre, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit 56 Willoughby Street Richard Sage corporation. Contributions for the charitable purposes Downtown Brooklyn, NYC Jasmina Sinanovic of Concrete Timbre are tax-deductible to the extent Sprint Foundation Michael Stebbins permitted by law. April 16, 2016 Leo & Sonya Tick Please send contributions to: Two Moon Art House & Cafe 8:00 p.m. Concrete Timbre, Inc. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Ann Warren c/o Robert Morton, President Kamaria Williams P.O. Box 20686 Kryssy Wright New York, NY 10011 and several donors who want to remain Anonymous or click here to donate online! Markus Kaitila Adam von Housen Concrete Timbre, Inc. presents SALON 3 - #3 IDENTITY compositions inspired by identity, how do you identify yourself? how you identify others? a body? Hasan Ozcan with gender? What about identity theft? your past? and social binaries? Leland Cheuk for: Violin, Flute, Piano, and Baritone Voice composed by and performed by Concrete Timbre affiliated artists. Program Running Time: Approximately 90 minutes Davide Wang Gisela Paterno Unfolding Recuerdos de San Telmo Alice H. Jones Jessy Leung Kwai F Acousmatic, Electro-acoustic Markus Kaitila - Piano an Carlos Hernández Sarmiento (Music & Poems) Chris Sahar English translation of poems by Priscila Pauta Etude 3 Pieces for Solo Piano Markus Kaitila - Piano Aire tipico, Corazon, Escape Leland Cheuk Markus Kaitila - Piano The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong Whitney George Leland Cheuk - Author Welcome! Masochist’s Tango Thank you for coming out and joining us at Concrete Jessy Leung Kwai Fan Adam von Housen - Violin Timbre’s third concert of the Salon 3 series here at The Foreign Land Drawing Room. As a collective of working composers, we are Luigi Morleo continuing in our mission to create and produce events that Jessy Leung Kwai Fan - Piano & Voice A Se Stresso feature live contemporary music in a variety of genres. James Venderame Tonight’s theme is Identity and you’ll hear compositions that Hasan Ozcan - Baritone, Markus Kaitila - Piano are inspired by how you identify yourself. how you identify Merging Shapes others? a body? with gender? identity theft? your past? and Matt Tripodi (Music) Alice H. Jones - Flute social binaries? It’s personal to the composers! Win Upsher (Lyrics) Leonidas Sakellides Identity features 14 compositions by 13 living composers & Unforced Desire Melancholy lyricists, performed by 6 New York Artists. Our largely Hasan Ozcan - Baritone, Markus Kaitila - Piano collaborative effort brings together disparate voices and Adam von Housen - Violin, concepts that involve the artistry of some very remarkable Whitney George Markus Kaitila - Piano people; many who have worked with us on past productions, The Stranger and some for the first time. Whitney George Adam von Housen - Violin Concrete Timbre wants to thank the artists involved. We Evening Star have learned a lot from working with you and look forward to Markus Kaitila - Piano future collaborations. Two of our key beliefs are that artists Hasan Ozcan - Baritone, Markus Kaitila - Piano need to provide opportunities for other artists, and that our At our Salon 3 concerts, Stella Fiorenzoli creative skills can be applied to development and production. We are proud of the artistic community that we have created we want you to make yourself comfortable. The Truth Depends on a Walk and strive to inspire composers of all types to work outside Please feel free to move around the salon Adam von Housen - Violin, their comfort zones in a safe environment to explore and Markus Kaitila - Piano create without boundaries. and have a drink if you want…, So again, welcome to Identity. You’ll soon see that this is a in between the pieces of course! Click here for Program Notes & Artist Bios rather informal concert and we’re proud of what you are about to hear and see. We hope that you enjoy the show. Salon 3 is an eight-concert monthly series - February - May and September - December 2016 Robert Morton, President each with a theme to inspire composers to examine, create, and present contemporary issues in an interdisciplinary setting that is thoughtful, pertinent, and provocative..