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BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival #MusicofTransformation

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President : Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Music of Transformation

BAM Harvey Theater Dec 18—20 at 7:30pm

Running time: one hour and 50 minutes, including intermission

Work for Solo (World Premiere) Commissioned by BAM for the 2014 Next Wave Festival

Mutations I-X For string quartet, piano, and electronics

RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi (NY Premiere) Music by Vijay Iyer Season Sponsor: Film by Prashant Bhargava International Contemporary Ensemble Conducted by Steven Schick Time Warner is the BAM 2014 Next Wave Festival Sponsor Featuring , Miranda Cuckson, Michi Wiancko Viacom is the BAM 2014 Music Sponsor

Leadership support for music at BAM provided by: Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman Pablo J. Salame

The Steinberg Screen at the BAM Harvey Theater is made possible by The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust Vijay Iyer

Work for Solo Piano (World Premiere) Piano Vijay Iyer

Mutations I—X For string quartet, piano, and electronics

Piano, electronics Vijay Iyer Violin Miranda Cuckson Violin Michi Wiancko Viola Kyle Armbrust Cello Kivie Cahn-Lipman

Mutation I: Air Mutation II: Rise Mutation III: Canon Mutation IV: Chain Mutation V: Automata Mutation VI: Waves Mutation VII: Kernel Mutation VIII: Clade Mutation IX: Descent Mutation X: Time

Mutations are incremental, stochastic changes in genetic material—the noise in our genes. Evolution is not an efficient, goal-directed process of absolute “betterment” of a species; rather, it is a contin- gent, dynamic, noisy interaction between a species and innumerable competing, fluctuating environ- mental factors—a situated, ecosystem-wide improvisation.

Mutations I-X, a suite for string quartet, piano, and electronics, was first performed in 2005. It com- bines notated passages, structured improvisations, and electronic sounds created from samples of the players.

A mutation process drives each of the 10 episodes. In some sections, minute variations or fluctuations in a recurring figure ultimately elicit a structural transformation; in other movements, real-time acts governed by competing directives yield a emergent, spontaneous order. These 10 coexisting entities are linked either genetically or by a kind of symbiosis.

As all of this music unfolds, our intent—as players and observers—is to place ourselves fully in the moment with sound. Thank you for listening. —Vijay Iyer

© 2005 Schott Music Corporation,

Commissioned by ’s Foundation For The Arts with funding from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Radhe Radhe. Photo: Craig Marsden / Prashant Bhargava Vijay Iyer

RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi Additional cinematography (India) Prashant Bhargava Music by Vijay Iyer Creative producer (India) Anjali Panjabi Film directed, edited and designed by Art direction & Assistant director (India) Prashant Bhargava Sujata Sharma Virk International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Creative producer (Radha Shoot) Conducted by Steven Schick Nikhil Melnechuk Executive Producer Stephen Cohen for Director of photography (Radha Shoot) Jay Silver Music + Art Production design (Radha Shoot) Mimi Bai Art director (Radha Shoot) Raoul Anchando Featuring Anna George as Radha Costume and styling (Radha Shoot) Appearances by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sheena Sood Beatrice Ordeix Make-Up (Radha Shoot) Rebecca Casciano Director of Photography Craig Marsden Colorist Blase Theodore, Contact Di

Piano Vijay Iyer All compositions ©2013-2014 Schott Music Violin Michi Wiancko Corporation, New York Viola Miranda Cuckson Percussion, drum set Tyshawn Sorey RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi Created for and commissioned by Carolina International Contemporary Ensemble Performing Arts at the University of North Piano Cory Smythe Carolina at Chapel Hill. Flute Alice Teyssier Clarinet, Bass clarinet Joshua Rubin Additional commissioning funds were provided Bassoon, contrabassoon Rebekah Heller by the Sally & William A. Rutter Endowment Trumpet Brandon Ridenour for the Performing Arts at CAP UCLA and The Violin Jennifer Curtis Strathmore Hall Foundation. Viola Kyle Armbrust Cello Kivie Cahn-Lipman Vijay Iyer is a Steinway artist and uses Ableton Bass Brian Ellingsen Live software. He records for ECM Records. Percussion Ross Karre

Live sound engineer Levy Lorenzo Video engineer Sven Furberg Lighting designer Rus Snelling Associate lighting designer Michael Mauren Artists’ Statement

Holi is known around the world as a joyful, In March, 2011, Prashant and his film crew chaotic, and colorful celebration of springtime in traveled to Mathura and the surrounding region, India. To respond to Stravinsky’s own famously where Holi celebrations last not one day and chaotic work about springtime, we were intrigued night, but eight. The cameras captured members by the possible connection with Holi. This of a community in the heightened throes of festival provides an occasion to reconsider the transformation, turning the seasons of their own aspects of ritual and transformation represented lives. Temples fill with devotees, dancing without in Le Sacre du Printemps. inhibition, pushing and shoving to receive blessings. Gangs of teenagers loiter on corners In early conversations, we realized that we with buckets of colorful liquid and powder were interested less in an artistic fantasy of waiting to douse those who pass by. Men, high pagan sacrifice than in the lived and felt reality on intoxicating spirits, make a pilgrimage to of individuals on the brink of change: the Radha’s village dressed in vibrant garb from the significance of myth in earthly life as a living region of Krishna’s playground and equipped heritage. Our attention turned to the Braj region with ceremonial shields. As the men boisterously of Uttar Pradesh, India, the mythical home taunt with sexually provocative chants, women of Krishna, the Hindu deity whose youthful await armed with long sticks ready to beat them. flirtations with his beloved Radha (or fondly Purging fires, expressions of devoutness, and Radhe) and her friends form one of the narratives feats of austerity offer a nighttime counterpoint to for the holiday. According to one story, the the bawdy daytime revels. young, dark-skinned god, annoyed that Radha was so fair, sneaks up on her and her friends, RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi is a journey of surprising the girls with showers of colored devotion for the goddess Radha. In this project, powder, perhaps evening the score. we answer back to the Sacre score and ballet with a new work for chamber ensemble and Whether a playful strategy for overcoming film. International Contemporary Ensemble racial difference, or a moment of interplay of performs a suite for three winds, three strings, gender and power, or simply the enactment of a two percussionists, two , and electronics, youthful fantasy, this particular impulsive act is in live counterpoint with cinematic episodes now the central, cathartic ritual of Holi. On that compiled from the Holi footage. The result is day everyone becomes Krishna and Radha; all also a ballet of sorts: a performative encounter participants throw color and get color thrown at between live music and film, between them. A pulsing desire to unite with the goddess lived experience and myth, the self and the sends a city into a feverish state of spinning and transformed self, winter and spring. yearning. Everyone enters a state of uninhibited, ecstatic freedom that remains hidden for the rest —Vijay Iyer & Prashant Bhargava of the year. Who’s Who

VIJAY IYER () MUSIC Grammy-nominated composer-pianist Vijay Iyer (pronounced “VID-jay EYE-yer”) was described INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY by Pitchfork as “one of the most interesting ENSEMBLE and vital young pianists in today,” by Los The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply is dedicated to reshaping the way music is cre- important young star,” and by Minnesota Public ated and experienced. With a modular makeup Radio as “an American treasure.” He was of 33 leading instrumentalists performing in recently named DownBeat’s 2014 Pianist of the forces ranging from solos to large ensembles, ICE Year, a 2013 MacArthur Fellow, and a 2012 functions as performer, presenter, and educator, Doris Duke Performing Artist. Iyer received an advancing the music of our time by develop- unprecedented “quintuple crown” in the 2012 ing innovative new works and new strategies DownBeat International Critics’ Poll (winning for audience engagement. Since its founding in Jazz Artist, Pianist, Jazz Album, and Jazz Group 2001, ICE has premiered more than 500 com- of the Year, and Rising Star Composer), a “qua- positions around the world. ICE was ensemble- druple crown” in the JazzTimes extended critics’ in-residence at the Museum of Contemporary poll (winning Artist, Acoustic/Mainstream Group, Art Chicago through 2013. The ICE musicians Pianist, and Album of the Year), the Pianist of the also served as artists-in-residence at the Mostly Year Awards for both 2012 and 2013 from Jazz Mozart Festival of through 2013, Journalists Association, and the 2013 ECHO curating and performing chamber music pro- Award (the “German Grammy”) for best inter- grams that juxtapose new and old music. Recent national pianist. In March 2014, Iyer released and upcoming highlights include headline Mutations, his “spectacular debut on the ECM performances at the Lincoln Center Festival, label” (ABC Spain), featuring his original music Musica Nova Helsinki (Finland), Wien Mod- for piano, string quartet, and electronics. His ern (Austria), Acht Brücken Music for Cologne previous release, Holding It Down: The Veterans’ (Germany), La Cité de la Musique (Paris), and Dreams Project (2013), is his third collabora- tours of Japan, Brazil, and France. With leading tion with poet , based on dreams of support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, veterans of color from America’s wars in Iraq and ICE launched ICElab in early 2011. This new Afghanistan. It was hailed as #1 Jazz Album of program places teams of ICE musicians in close the Year by The and described collaboration with six emerging each in JazzTimes as “impassioned, haunting, [and] year to develop works that push the boundaries affecting.” Two acclaimed and influential albums, of musical exploration. ICElab projects will be Accelerando (2012) and Historicity (2009), both featured in more than 100 performances from feature the Vijay Iyer Trio, described by PopMat- 2011 to 2014, and will be documented online ters as “the best band in jazz.” Accelerando through ICE’s blog, and DigitICE, a new online was voted #1 Jazz Album of the Year, 2012 by venue. Staff for ICE includes , artis- leading worldwide critics, and was chosen as tic director/CEO; Joshua Rubin, program director; jazz album of the year by NPR, The Los Angeles Jonathan Harris, business manager; Ross Karre, Times, PopMatters, and Amazon.com. Historic- production director; Jacob Greenberg, education ity, a 2010 Grammy nominee for Best Instru- director; Rebekah Heller, development associ- mental Jazz Album, was named #1 Jazz Album ate; Ryan Muncy, grants manager; Forrest Wu, of 2009 by , Los Angeles assistant to the artistic director/CEO; Maciej Times, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Metro Times, Lewandowski, program assistant. NPR, PopMatters, Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and DownBeat International Critics’ Poll. Previ- STEVEN SCHICK (conductor) ously Iyer was named one of 2011’s “50 Most Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Influential Global Indians” by GQ India. In 2014 Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming Iyer, a polymath whose career has spanned the family. For the past 30 years he has championed sciences, the humanities, and the arts, began a contemporary percussion music as a performer permanent appointment at ’s and teacher by commissioning and premiering Department of Music, as the Franklin D. and more than 100 new works for percussion. He Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts. He per- was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All- formed with Commentator: An Oratorio Stars of from 1992 to 2002, and at BAM in 2006. from 2000 to 2004 served as artistic director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève Who’s Who

in Geneva, Switzerland. Schick is founder and music” (Cultured Cleveland). She is acclaimed artistic director of the percussion group red fish for her performances of a range of repertoire, blue fish. In 2007 he was named music director from early eras to the most current creations. She and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and performs at such venues as the Berlin Philhar- Chorus. Schick founded and is currently artistic monie, , Library of Congress, Miller director of “Roots and Rhizomes,” an annual Theatre, 92nd Street Y, Guggenheim Museum, summer course on contemporary percussion mu- the Contempo series in Chicago, and the sic held at the Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2011 Marlboro, Bard, Lincoln Center, Bridgehampton, he was named the artistic director of the San and Bodensee festivals. She made her recent Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Recent Carnegie Hall debut in Walter Piston’s concerto publications include a book on solo percussion with the American Symphony Orchestra and music, The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Dif- Leon Botstein. Her nine lauded solo CDs on the ferent Dreams, a three-CD set of the complete Centaur, Vanguard, and Urlicht labels include percussion music of (Mode) and music by Nono (New York Times Best Recording a 2012 DVD release of the early percussion of 2012), Shapey, Hersch, Martino, Carter, Eck- music of . Schick is Dis- ardt, Sessions, Haas, Xenakis, and others. She tinguished Professor of Music at the University will record her first CD in 2015 for ECM Records of California, San Diego. In 2012 he became the featuring music by Bartok, Schnittke, and Luto- first ever artist in residence with the International slawski. Cuckson is the director of the non-profit Contemporary Ensemble. organization Nunc and a member of new-music collective counter)induction. She studied at the KYLE ARMBRUST (viola), since giving his Juilliard School, where she received her doctor- New York solo debut with Kurt Masur and the ate and won the Presser and Richard F. French Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall, has Awards. She is on the faculty at Mannes College created a multi-dimensional career performing for Music in New York. and recording a wide range of music. An active proponent of contemporary music, he has JENNIFER CURTIS (violin) navigates with per- worked with Elliot Carter, Mario Davidovsky, sonality and truth in every piece she performs. Osvaldo Golijov, , , Her second in Carnegie Hall was and others. He is a member of the International described by The New York Times as “one of the Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), principal viola of gutsiest and most individual recital programs.” the Westchester Philharmonic, and a founding As a violinist, Curtis is driven by passion and cu- member of the Knights Chamber Orchestra. He riosity, eliminating boundaries of musical genres is a substitute member of the Mahler Chamber and traversing the globe with musical diplomacy. Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, New Winner of Astral Artists Milka/Astral grand prize York Philharmonic, and Orchestra. for violin and Artists International presentations, she is also an improviser, composer, multi-instru- KIVIE CAHN-LIPMAN (cello) holds degrees from mentalist, a member of the International Contem- Oberlin and Juilliard and is a doctoral candi- porary Ensemble (ICE), and an educator. Curtis date at CCM. He is the founding cellist of ICE, is on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as well as gambist, lironist, and director of the and plays on a 1777 Vincenzo Panormo violin. Baroque ensemble ACRONYM. Cahn-Lipman has recorded for Naxos, New Focus, Bridge, New BRIAN ELLINGSEN (bass) is a New York City- Amsterdam, Tzadik, Starkland, ECM, Kairos, based double bassist, chamber musician, and Mode, and Nonesuch, with chamber music soloist. Specializing in contemporary music, performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The New York Times has described Ellingsen’s and other major venues on three continents. His interpretations as “coaxing an amazing variety recording of the complete Cello Suites of JS Bach of sounds from his instrument.” As a chamber was released in 2014 to critical acclaim. He was musician, he is a standing member of Decoda, a faculty member at Smith College and Mount Le Train Bleu, the Perspectives Ensemble, and Holyoke College from 2005 to 2012. a principal at Gotham Chamber Opera. He has also performed with Ensemble Intercontem- MIRANDA CUCKSON (violin, viola) has been porain, International Contemporary Ensemble, praised for her “undeniable musicality,” “insight, and Ensemble ACJW. As a soloist, Ellingsen has honesty and temperament” (New York Times) toured the world and received critical acclaim and “the warmth and humanity she brings to the for his role in An Iliad, a play based on Homer’s

Radhe Radhe. Photo: Craig Marsden / Prashant Bhargava Who’s Who

ancient Greek tragedy, The Iliad. The play is ac- enour is a graduate of the Juilliard School and companied by an epic score of solo an alumnus of The Academy program, affiliated and electronics, which Ellingsen premiered in with Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, and the Weill Music 2010 and continues to tour. He has a bachelor’s Institute. He won the 2014 Concert Artist Guild degree from the Hartt School and a master’s competition and is now on its roster of musicians. degree from Yale. JOSHUA RUBIN (clarinet, bass clarinet) is the REBEKAH HELLER (bassoon, contrabassoon), founding clarinetist and the co-artistic director of praised for her “flair” and “deftly illuminated” the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), (The New York Times), is a uniquely dynamic where he oversees the creative direction of more musician and a fiercely passionate advocate for than 100 concerts per season worldwide. The the bassoon. Called an “impressive solo bassoon- New York Times has praised him as “incapable of ist” (), she is tirelessly committed playing an inexpressive note.” Rubin has worked to collaborating with composers to expand the closely with many prominent composers of our modern repertoire for the instrument. Her debut time. He can be heard on the Nonesuch, Kairos, solo album of world premiere recordings, 100 New Focus, Mode, Cedille, Naxos, Bridge, New names, has been called “pensive and potent” Amsterdam, and Tzadik labels. His album There by The New York Times and was featured in the Never is No Light, available on ICE’s Tundra ArtsBeat Classical Playlist of the same publica- label, highlights music that uses technology to tion. As a member of the renowned International capture the human engagement of performer and Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Heller has been listener. a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic and has CORY SMYTHE (piano) engages a broad rep- performed solo and chamber music all over the ertoire of new, classical, and improvised music. world. An Oberlin Conservatory graduate, Heller He has performed widely, making appearances lives in Brooklyn. as a soloist, as a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and in recital with vio- ROSS KARRE (percussion), from Battle Creek, linist Hilary Hahn. The Washington Post recently MI, is a percussionist and temporal artist based praised Smythe for “…the ferocity and finesse of in New York City. His primary focus is the his technique.” His debut album of original and combination of media selected from classical improvised material, Pluripotent, is available for percussion, electronics, theater, moving image, free download at corysmythe.bandcamp.com. visual art, and lighting design. After complet- ing his doctorate in music at UCSD with Steven TYSHAWN SOREY (percussion, drum set) is Schick, Karre formalized his intermedia studies a composer, performer, educator, and scholar with a master of fine arts from UCSD. He is a who works across a range of musical idioms. As percussionist and director of production for the a percussionist, trombonist, and pianist, Sorey International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and has performed and/or recorded with his own performs regularly with red fish blue fish, Third ensembles and with those led by Muhal Richard Coast Percussion (Chicago), the National Gallery Abrams, , , John of Art New Music Ensemble (DC), and many oth- Zorn, Vijay Iyer, , Anthony ers. Karre is the founder and owner of a growing Braxton, and , among others. Sorey’s collective called rKAD, specializing in video and work has been favorably reviewed on NPR and audio recordings of performing arts. in JazzTimes, The Village Voice, The New York Times, and others. His article in Arcana IV, BRANDON RIDENOUR (trumpet), a virtuoso “Music and Meaning,” examines his approach to trumpeter, composer, arranger, and educator, is composition and improvisation. Sorey received recognized as one of the most multi-talented art- his BM (2004) in jazz studies and performance ists of his generation. Through his wide-ranging from William Paterson University. In 2009, he activities as a soloist and chamber musician, began studies with , Jay Hog- combined with his passion for composing, Rid- gard, and , culminating in an MA in enour plays an array of repertoire that includes composition from . He is a many of his own arrangements and composi- faculty fellow in ’s Doctor tions. In 2006, at the age of 20, he became of Musica Arts program. Sorey has conducted the youngest member to ever join the Canadian and participated in lectures and master classes Brass, a position he held for seven years. Rid- on improvisation, contemporary drumming, Who’s Who

ensemble playing, and critical theory. As a (Roger Ebert), and a “humanist and real talent” composer, Sorey has received commissions from (Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune). Bhargava a Van Lier Fellowship, Roulette Intermedium, and leader in independent film and design, is praised the International Contemporary Ensemble, which for his original storytelling and honest craft. His premiered his large-scale work in November feature-length directorial debut, Patang (The 2012. Sorey is a private instructor in composi- Kite, 2011), received rave reviews, garnering tion and improvisation for the New School for four stars from Roger Ebert. The New York Times Jazz and Contemporary Music and the School of selected Patang as a Critic’s Pick, celebrating Improvisational Music. its “lovely, unforced quality.” Patang premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film ALICE TEYSSIER (flute), a gifted advocate Festival, receiving several awards, and has been for new music, seeks out collaborations with showcased in more than 30 film festivals. Bhar- composers to develop unique and transcendent gava’s short film Sangam, described by Greg Tate works for the flute and the singing voice. She has of The Village Voice as “an elegant and poetic given residencies for composers and performers evocation of immigrant angst, memory and of new music at such universities as Harvard, haunted spirituality,” premiered at the Sundance Leeds, Huddersfield, and SUNY Buffalo. Born in Film Festival, and was featured on the Sundance Australia, Teyssier has lived in France, the US, Channel, PBS, and Arte/ZDF. Bhargava’s film- and Germany, and performs on all continents. making builds from his pioneering work as a She has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conser- commercial director and motion designer. Known vatory and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. She for his intricately layered and lush visuals, joined ICE’s artist roster in 2014. Bhargava spearheaded over 100 campaigns for HBO including The Wire, Def Poetry Jam, Rome, MICHI WIANCKO (violin) is a soloist, chamber Oz, and numerous films. Bhargava has designed musician, composer, singer, and arranger. Wi- effects sequences for Alex Rivera’s feature Sleep ancko was described in Gramophone magazine Dealer and directed music videos and promos for as being an “alluring soloist with heightened bands Cornershop, Talib Kweli, and Missy Elliot. expressive and violinistic gifts.” She made solo Notable clients include Accenture, NBC, Wool- concerto debuts with the New York and Los An- rich, PBS, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Volvo. geles Philharmonics, and released the complete Bhargava studied computer science at Cornell violin works of French virtuoso Émile Sauret on University and theatrical directing at the Actors Naxos. Wiancko is a co-founding member of the Studio MFA program. East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), which released a recording of her unique arrangement ANNA GEORGE (Radha) is a New York-based of La Follia on E1 Records. She performs original actress. She is currently on television on Royal works with her own band at venues such as Pains and has performed guest roles on Law & Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, BAM, Le Poisson Order, Rules of Engagement, Criminal Minds, Rouge, Barbes, Pianos, Detroit Institute of Art, Sex and the City, 3 Lbs., and The Jury. Her film and World Café Live (Philadelphia). The Strad credits include The Lovely Bones directed by describes her sound as “intriguing and exqui- Peter Jackson and Syriana directed by Stephen sitely beautiful… music that breaks through the Gaghan. She has also drawn rave reviews for her pop classical barrier.” She is also a performer work on several off-Broadway productions in- and composer for the electro-acoustic ensemble cluding Sakharam Binder and Terrorism directed Bright Wave, which made its debut at the by Will Frears. George is a graduate of Wellesley Ecstatic Music Festival last year. She began violin College and Columbia Business School. studies at the age of three, and holds performance degrees from Cleveland Institute of Music and the CRAIG MARSDEN (director of photography) is Juilliard School, where she studied, respectively, a filmmaker living in New York. He is a recipient with Donald Weilerstein and Robert Mann. of grants, fellowships, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, and FILM Experimental Television Center, among others. His films have screened at over 30 festivals, PRASHANT BHARGAVA (filmmaker) is an including Sundance and Clermont-Ferrand, and award winning filmmaker and commercial have won prizes at SXSW, Chicago International director/designer, described by producer Anthony Film Festival, and Mexico City International Film Bregman as “visionary and soulful,” “masterful” Festival. As a cameraman, he has shot for many Who’s Who

documentaries, including Âs Nutayuneân—We Still City Music Hall, to the sound stages of New York Live Here, 99% (The Occupy Wall Street Collabora- City and across the US. Furberg works nationally tive Film), and Cristina Ibarra’s Las Marthas. and internationally on political conventions and other live events, including intricate projection on NIKHIL MELNECHUK (creative producer) is building exteriors. Furberg has worked on shows a producer/director, who studied sociology at in the creative/performing arts as well, including Wesleyan University and film/TV at National DJ Spooky’s Sinfonia Antarctica world tour, and Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. His com- has engineered video at live events for worldwide pany, Melnechuk Williams, produces intelligent broadcast, such as Al Janadriya in Saudi Arabia narrative and documentary films internationally. and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tour of Melnechuk programs shorts for the Black Bear South America. He played electric bass with NYC Film Festival in Milford, PA. post-punk group The Ordinaires, and now plays the mandolin with various musical groups. ANJALI PANJABI (creative producer, India) is a celebrated producer and filmmaker based in RUS SNELLING (lighting designer), an Aus- Mumbai. Panjabi’s most recent project is The tralian artist with a career spanning 25 years, Invite directed by Sabiha Sumar. Panjabi was the has worked as a lighting and set designer; a executive producer on Good Morning Karachi (di- production, stage, and tour manager; technical rector, Sabiha Sumar) and line producer on God’s director and fire sculptor with arts organizations; Room (director, Mira Nair) which premiered and on events around the world ranging from at the Venice Film Festival. Panjabi was the intimate theatrical works, shows on Broadway consulting producer on Zinda Bhag (directors, and ’s West End, and large-scale indoor Meenu and Farjad Nabi), Pakistan’s entry in the and outdoor festivals and Olympic ceremonies. Foreign Film Oscars in 2013. Panjabi began her He has worked with artists Merce Cunningham, collaboration with Prashant Bhargava as casting , John Leguizamo, Philip Glass, director on his feature Patang. and Brian Eno, among others, and on projects and tours in Australia, the US, Canada, Europe, PRODUCTION Asia, and South America. Snelling is currently production manager and lighting designer at Oz LEVY LORENZO (sound engineer) is a per- Arts, Inc. in Nashville, TN. former, engineer, and instrument designer. He plays live- using new, custom STEPHEN COHEN (executive producer) is presi- electronic musical instruments that he invents. dent of Music + Art Management. His current His work has been featured at STEIM, G4TV, client roster includes Vijay Iyer; novelist, poet, the Geneva Auto Show, Burning Man, in The writer, and singer Carl Hancock Rux; singer-song- New York Times, and on BBC Ecuador, Pitchfork. writer David Wilcox; jazz and new music vocalist com, Slashdot.org. Levy is also a sound engineer Theo Bleckmann; and folk/rock band Acoustic specializing in the realization and performance Syndicate. In his role as artist manager, Cohen of complete electro-acoustic concerts. He holds has led productions at BAM, Lincoln Center, the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical and Spoleto Festival USA, and other venues. He has computer engineering from Cornell University, taught music business courses at NYU, UNC and a master of music and doctorate of musical Asheville, and Western Carolina University, and arts degrees from Stony Brook University. has been a guest lecturer at Harvard College and levylorenzo.com Northeastern University. Over the years, he has been involved in the careers of DJ Spooky, Laurie SVEN FURBERG (video engineer), New York Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, Crash Test Dummies, City-based and Swedish-born, has been working David Byrne, Béla Fleck, Vinicius Cantuaria, and in the fields of video engineering and projec- numerous others. For recreation, Cohen, who tion since 1980, specializing in live events and received his BA in music at the State University complex video projection system installation and of NY at Albany, plays Fender bass in a band led operation. The majority of Furberg’s work is in by NPR theme music composer BJ Leiderman. the high-end media and commercial sectors, where he has provided services for ABC and Special thanks to Jon Chu at Music & Art Man- NBC News, IBM, AT&T, Citibank, and a long agement. list of other Fortune 500 companies, in venues ranging from the Jacob Javits Center to Radio