Performers
Hrabba
Atladottir, violin
Anthony Burr, clarinet
Richard Carrick, piano
Jennifer Choi, violin
Jane Rigler, flute
Michael Ibrahim, saxophone
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Andrea Schultz, violin
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
The Icelandic
violinist Hrabba
Atladottir started playing violin at the age of 5. After
finishing school in Iceland, she earned artist and teacher’s diplomas
in Kärntnen, Austria under professor Helfried Fister. She won the
Jeunesse Young Soloists Prize and performed as a soloist with the Kärntnen
Symphony Orchestra before moving to Berlin in 1999 to receive a master’s
degree at the Universität der Künste under professor Axel Gerhardt.
She has also performed with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsche
Oper and the Deutsches Symphonieorchester.
More recently, Hrabba went on a world tour with pop artist Björk,
a European tour with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle
and was selected to join a small group of musicians from the Berliner
Philharmoniker to tour with violinist Nigel Kennedy. Hrabba also leads
her own much acclaimed tango band in Iceland, The L’amour Fou, who
released its first CD last year. Hrabba is now based in New York and works
as a freelance musician with various ensembles and orchestras, including
The Metropolitan Opera.
Anthony Burr has enjoyed a distinguished career as an exponent of contemporary music. He has performed in this repertoire with many leading groups, including Elision, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Sospeso, and the Chamber Music Sociey of Lincoln Center, often as soloist. He has worked widely outside the classical arena too with artists including Jim O'Rourke, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Ikue Mori, Tim Barnes, Alan Licht, Mark Dresser and many others. Ongoing collaborations include a duo with Icelandic bassist/composer Skuli Sverrisson, The Clarinets (a trio with Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega), a series of recordings with cellist Charles Curtis, and a series of live film/music performances with experimental filmmaker Jennifer Reeves. He has produced and/or engineered records for La Monte Young, Charles Curtis, Skuli Sverrisson, Ted Reichman among others, and has a doctorate from University of California, San Diego. Upcoming releases include a new Anthony Burr/Skuli Sverrisson double CD with guest vocalists Yungchen Lamo and Arto Lindsay.
Richard Carrick - Pianist. please see composer bio.
The
New York Times has described Jennifer
Choi as a player with,"brilliance and command,"
and The Seattle Weekly applauded her performance with the words "intense,
spectacularly virtuosic play." As a soloist, she has performed with
the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony, and the Oberlin
Virtuoso Strings, among others and has been recently engaged to perform
with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber musician,
she has performed in venues worldwide such as the Library of Congress
in Washington D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Mozart Saal in Vienna,
and the RAI National Radio in Rome. In 2000, she was winner of the Artist
International Award, leading to a debut recital in Weill Hall at Carnegie
Hall.
She performs with members of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and
is regularly invited to premiere and record major works by today's most
influential composers like Lee Hyla, Christian Wolff, and John Zorn. 2003-2005
highlight appearances have included performances at Columbia University's
Miller Theater, the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall, the ASCAP Foundation
Presents Thru the Wall Event, a world premiere of a solo violin work by
John Zorn at the Guggenheim Museum and a U.S. tour with the Tiffany Mills
Dance Company. Other appearances have included U.S. and European tours
with the Susie Ibarra Trio and appearances with SONYC, the String Orchestra
of New York City. She is a recording artist for Tzadik record label.
In praise
of Michael Ibrahim’s
solo recording, Saxophone Journal wrote, “The listener is in for
an exciting musical ride.” Noted for his “sheer virtuosity
and musical intensity” (Calgary Herald), Michael enjoys an active
career of solo, chamber, and orchestral work in both contemporary and
traditional realms. Michael has won numerous competitions including the
2007 Eisenberg- Fried Concerto Competition for Woodwinds, the 2006 Kranichsteiner
Musikpreis for contemporary music performance in Darmstadt, Germany; and
the 2004 North American Saxophone Alliance Classical Artist Competition.
Michael studied at the University of Regina; University of Calgary; Université
Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France; and Bowling Green State
University. His teachers include Karen Finnsson, Jeremy Brown, John Sampen,
Claude Delangle, Marcus Weiss, and Paul Cohen. After having taught at
the University of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Michael currently freelances
in New York while completing his doctoral studies at the Manhattan School
of Music.
Jane Rigler, flutist, composer, educator and producer is an active featured performer in contemporary music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist as well as within chamber ensembles. Besides premiering works written especially for her, Jane’s own compositions cover the gamut of simple solo acoustic pieces inspired by language, to complex interactive electronic works that pay homage to painting, poetry and dance. After receiving a B.M. (Northwestern University) and then pursuing flute studies in various parts of Europe and North America, she gained her M.M. and Ph.D. (UC San Diego) completing The Vocalization of the Flute, a book demonstrating both new and ancient methods of singing-while-playing-the-flute. Her collaborations have led to performances in operas, theater and dance events as well as other interactive electronic works. After living in Spain for 9 years, Jane resides in NY and organizes events such as the Relay~NYC! at MoMA, the Spontaneous Music Festival and collaborations with other festivals. She has received Brooklyn Arts Council grants and several artist residencies from Harvestworks, Art Omi and RPI’s Create@iEar Studios. Currently, Jane travels offering lecture-demonstrations, residencies in composition, improvisation, advance performance techniques and teaching development workshops. She is also Technology Program Coordinator for the Manhattan New Music Project where she is co-designing and developing the Music Cre8tor, a new interactive sensor-driven music composition program for the special needs population.
Violinist Andrea Schultz currently performs and tours with a wide array of groups, including Sequitur, the Cabrini Quartet, the New York Chamber Ensemble, Trio of the Americas, and several of New York City’s leading orchestras, including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Brandenburg Ensemble, and Mostly Mozart. Ms. Schultz was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble for four years, including performances with Yo-Yo Ma and the Schumann Piano Quintet. She has also appeared as guest with the Casssatt String Quartet, Apple Hill Chamber Players, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble Sospeso, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Limon Dance Company and has recorded contemporary chamber music for the Albany, New World, and Phoenix labels. Ms. Schultz has spent summers performing at the Tanglewood, Aspen, Caramoor, Ravinia, and Cape May Festivals as well as the Pundakit International Chamber Music Festival in the Phillipines. A graduate of Yale University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook, Ms. Schultz studied violin with Sydney Harth, Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, and Joyce Robbins.
Acclaimed
by The New York Times as an "extraordinary violist" of "immense
flair," Dov Scheindlin
has been violist of the Arditti, Penderecki and Chester String Quartets.
His chamber music career has brought him to 28 countries around the globe,
and won him the Siemens Prize in 1999. He has appeared as soloist with
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Radio Symphony Orchestra
of Berlin, the Paris Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic.
Mr. Scheindlin has recorded extensively for EMI, Teldec, Auvidis, Col
Legno, and Mode, and won the Gramophone Award in 2002 for the Arditti
Quartet's recording of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Pulse Shadows. As a member
of the Arditti Quartet he gave nearly 100 world premières, among
them new works by Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, György Kurtág,
Thomas Adès, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm. He has also been
broadcast on NPR, BBC, CBC, and on German, French, Swiss, Austrian, Dutch
and Belgian national radio networks.
Dov Scheindlin was raised in New York City, where he studied with Samuel
Rhodes and William Lincer at the Juilliard School. He has taught viola
and chamber music at Harvard University, Wilfrid Laurier University and
Tanglewood. He has regularly participated in summer festivals such as
Salzburg, Luzern, and Tanglewood, and has performed with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center and the Met Chamber Ensembles. His chamber music
partners have included members of the Juilliard, Alban Berg, Tokyo, and
Borodin String Quartets, as well as concertmasters of many major symphony
orchestras. Dov Scheindlin currently lives in New York where he is a frequent
performer with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra. He plays a viola by Francesco Bissolotti of Cremona, made in
1975.
David Shively (co-director)
has appeared as percussion soloist and chamber musician throughout North
America and Europe. Recent projects have ranged in media from traditional
percussion to micro-tonal instruments, treated guitar, Hungarian cimbalom,
or musical saw. Festival appearances of recent years include ICMC (Thessaloniki,
Greece), Schwerpunkt: Strom! (Zürich), Ciclo International de Percusiones
(Mexico City), Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik (Witten, Germany),
Tribeca Film Festival, and Münchener Biennale (Munich, Germany).
Theatrical credits include Pnima... ins innere (Munich, Bayerischen Theaterpreis
2000), The Persians (National Actors' Theatre), and Ice Floes of Franz
Josef Land (Whitney Biennial). He has recorded for CRI, Einstein, Mode,
Quecksilber, Tzadik, and other labels in addition to work for film. Since
2005, David has been a member of Ethos Percussion Group and tours nationwide
with that quartet and its collaborative projects.
Alex Waterman is a founding member of the Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble. Alex has worked with musicians such as Richard Barrett, Keith Rowe, Marina Rosenfeld, Anthony Coleman, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, Gerry Hemingway, David Watson, Chris Mann, Alison Knowles, Thomas Meadowcroft, and Michael Finnissy. He has performed as guest musician with numerous ensembles, including Trio Event (Berlin), Champs d'Action-Antwerp, Q-O2-Brussels, and Black Jackets Company-Brussels. As a curator he has organized events at Les Bains:Connective in Brussels, OT301 in Amsterdam, and Miguel Abreu Gallery and The Kitchen in New York. His project with the Bach Cello Suites has toured in Switzerland, Italy, Holland, and the Opera of Monaco. In 2007 Alex curated two exhibitions in New York, one on experimental music and poetics: Agapê (June 2-July 28th, 2007) at Miguel Abreu Gallery; and the other on graphic notation, Between Thought and Sound: Graphic Notation in Contemporary Music (September 7-October 20, 2007) at The Kitchen in Chelsea. Alex is presently working on his PhD in musicology at NYU as well as writing a book about the composer Robert Ashley with the designer and writer Will Holder. He has appeared in and written for magazines including, Artforum, Bomb, Dot Dot Dot, and FoArm Magazine. Alex is also composing a new piece and participating in Dexter Sinister's residency at the Armory for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
