Performers
Anthony Burr, clarinet
Richard Carrick, piano
Jennifer Choi, violin
Michael Ibrahim, saxophone
Chris McIntyre, trombone
Esther Noh, violin
Jane Rigler, flute
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Andrea Schultz, violin
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
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 (E/O co-director) is a composer, pianist
and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra,
film, theatre, electronics and concert music with video. Described as
“exoticism and sheer infectiousness” by Allan Kozinn of The
New York Times, Richard’s music has been performed throughout North
America, Europe, and Japan by the New York Philharmonic (Ensemble Series),
Vienna’s Konzerthaus, ISCM World Music Days, MATA Festival, Royaumont
Voix Nouvelles, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, and other festivals. The Nieuw
Ensemble, The Nouvel Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, the Ensemble-On-Line
of Vienna, Brown University, soloists Magnus Andersson, Carin Levine,
Rohan de Saram, and others have premiered his works. As pianist and conductor
he has performed a unique repertoire of solo works and unusual chamber
pieces on the Green Umbrella Series in Los Angeles, at The Kitchen, the
Banff Centre, Canada and regular appearances in New York. He is currently
on Adjunct Faculty at New York University. www.richardcarrick.com
Hailed by Time Out New York as "one of New York's most reliably adventurous
performers", violinist Jennifer
Choi has charted a career that breaks through the
conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of
creative improvisation. As a soloist, she has performed with
the Oregon Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the String
Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), among others, and as a recitalist
and chamber musician, she has performed in venues worldwide like the Library
of Congress in Washington D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Mozartsalle
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.
Highly sought after for her performances of contemporary works, Jennifer
gave the world premiere of John Zorn's solo violin work, 'Goetia' for
the Works and Process series at the Guggenheim Museum, the premiere of
'Serenade in Isolation' by Wang Jie presented by the Music Theater Group,
and the U.S. premiere of 'Capriccio' by Jacob ter Veldhuis.
In 2006 she received a grant from the New York State Music Fund
for the premiere and performances of 'Holding Fast' for violin and video
written for her by Randall Woolf. She can be heard on over a dozen
albums for TZADIK record label in compositions by new music icons, John
Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith, and the Susie Ibarra Trio with
whom she has toured Europe and North America extensively as a creative
improvisor and chamber jazz musician. Her debut solo record, 'Bodegas
- Works for Solo Violin and Electronics' will be released this spring
with Major Who Media.
A prominent chamber musician, Jennifer was a former member
of the Miro String Quartet. With her involvement, the group won
Grand Prize at the the 1996 Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions.
Since then, she has collaborated with Fireworks Ensemble, Sirius String
Quartet, members of the Corigliano Quartet, and Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center.
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. www.michaelibrahim.com
Christopher McIntyre
leads a multi-faceted career as performer, composer, and curator/producer.
The diversity of his activities led Time Out New York to note that "...with
every passing week, trombonist-composer Chris McIntyre becomes more central
to the new-music experience in New York." (Nov. '09) He interprets
and improvises on trombone and synthesizer in projects including TILT
Brass Band and SIXtet, Ne(x)tworks, and 7X7 Trombone Band. His playing
is heard on recordings released by the Tzadik, New World, and Mode labels.
He has contributed compositions to Lotet, TILT, Ne(x)tworks, 7X7 (for
choreographer Yoshiko Chuma), Flexible Orchestra, and B3+ brass trio.
McIntyre is also active as a curator and concert producer. He is currently
Artistic Director of the MATA Festival, with independent projects at venues
including The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, and The Stone. www.cmcintyre.com
Violinist Esther Noh has
garnered acclaim for her achievements as a classical and alternative music
performer. She has soloed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Houston
Symphony, and the Danish National Philharmonic and has been a featured
artist at the Smithsonian Museum and the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C. She has toured throughout the country with Meredith Monk, and has
performed in New York City at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully
Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, and Miller Theater. Ms. Noh is also an active
champion of improvised and alternative music. She has collaborated with
John Zorn, Mark O' Connor, and Bang on a Can, and has presented avant-garde
music at Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette, and the Cutting Room. She has premiered
numerous contemporary composers’ works and plays and records with
singer/songwriters. Ms. Noh holds a doctorate with honors from SUNY Stony
Brook and is a member of the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
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. www.janerigler.com
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. He has performed in 28 countries
around the globe, and won the Siemens Prize in 1999. He has appeared as
soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Radio Symphony
of Berlin, 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. He has premiered nearly 100 works by composers such as
Elliott Carter, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, and Wolfgang
Rihm. He has performed regularly in summer festivals including Salzburg,
Luzern, and Tanglewood with members of the Juilliard, Alban Berg, Tokyo,
and Borodin String Quartets.
David Shively(E/O co-director) performs as soloist
and chamber musician throughout North America and Europe, in media ranging
from traditional percussion to Hungarian/Romanian cimbalom to musical
saw to analog electronic systems and feedback. In addition to work with
Either/Or, he also guests with groups such as Collegium Novum Zürich,
Del Sol Quartet, GNOM-Baden, ICE, and New York New Music Ensemble. From
2005-2010, he toured nationwide as a member of Ethos Percussion Group.
Recent solo engagements include Performa 09, the American Academy in Rome,
Other Minds 13 (San Francisco), and Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik.
Stage musician credits include Chaya Czernowin’s Pnima... ins innere
(München, 2000; Stuttgart, 2010) and Aeschylus’ The Persians
(National Actors' Theatre). He has recorded for CRI, Einstein, Mode, New
World, Quecksilber, Starkland, Traditional Crossroads, Tzadik, XI, and
other labels in addition to numerous projects for film, sound installation,
and radio broadcast.
Alex Waterman Waterman is a founding member of the
Plus Minus Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde
and experimental music. He has performed as guest musician with numerous
ensembles, including Trio Event (Berlin), Champs d'Action-Antwerp, Q-O2-Brussels,
and Magpie Music and Dance. Alex is presently working on his PhD in musicology
at NYU as well as writing a book about composer Robert Ashley with the
artist Will Holder. Alex Waterman and Beatrice Gibson's film, A Necessary
Music, narrated by Robert Ashley and with original music by Waterman,
premiered at the Whitney Museum ISP show and won the Tiger Prize for Best
Short Film at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2008. Other work includes
a new film project in Vieques and starting up his record label (D.S. al
coda). He also plays the music of Arthur Russell with Arthur's Landing
whenever he can. His writings have been published by Dot Dot Dot, Paregon,
FoArm, and Artforum. www.alexwaterman.com
