LOCAL COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS PLAY FREE CONCERTS FOR PEACE ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009.
DAYTIME CONCERTS AT UNION SQUARE IN MANHATTAN, EVENINGOFCONTEMPORARYJAZZ AND CLASSICAL MUSICIANSWILL ALSOFEATURE ORGANIC PRODUCE FROM LOCAL FARMS.
This release highlights two of the concerts to be held as part of the September Concert, an annual citywide music festival in New York, in remembrance of September 11th and a celebration of our universal humanity. It includes performances of mostly original music by Brooklyn- and New York City area-based classical and jazz musicians curated by event producer Peter McDowell.
The daytime concert will be held on September 11, 2009 from 12-6 at the South end of Union Square in Manhattan on 14th Street. Free and no tickets are required.
The evening concert, Home Grown: a Harvest of Fresh Music for Peace, will be held on September 11, 2009 from 8 - 11pm at South Oxford Space 138 South Oxford St. in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tickets are free but a donation of any amount is requested to offset the costs of the event. It is recommended to reserve tickets in advance through http://homegrown911.eventbrite.com//. For more information call 718-398- 4024 or 773-484-8811.
Daytime Program Order (Union Square, Manhattan): 12noon Oran Etkin’s Kelenia Duo: Oran Etkin, bass-clarinet and Griot singer and guitarist from Mali, Abdoulaye Diabate. Music which is rooted in jazz but shaped by the many musical worlds that Oran is a part of in New York, including African, Jewish, Haitian and New Orleans music.
1pm Zach Brock Trio The intense, high energy Zach Brock Trio features Brock on violin (called “the great bright hope for jazz violin" by the Chicago Tribune) as well as Matt Wigton on bass and Fred Kennedy on drums.
2pm The DAAD Quartet is Can Olgun - piano, Martin Schulte - guitar, Johannes Felscher - bass, and Martin Kruemmling - drums. All four are accomplished German jazz musicians who have come to the United States as part of a grant through the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD.
3pm Rob Mosher's Storytime A lushly scored musical odyssey that contains echoes of Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Debussy and Bach, reflecting Mosher’s embrace of a wide range of influences which have coalesced to create his singularly independent compositional voice. The music traverses many musical landscapes — all held together by Mosher’s multi- faceted orchestration and ingenious use of instrumentation (saxophones, oboe, English horn, clarinets, flute, trumpet, French horn, trombone, electric and acoustic guitar, plus bass and drums).
4pm Jody Redhage and Fire in July Cellist/vocalist/composer Jody Redhage's band Fire in July straddles the increasingly permeable boundary between classical chamber music and popular genres, melding the detail and finesse of art song with the energy, drive, intensity of pop, rock, and jazz improvisation.
5pm La Strada Seven-member band La Strada is the romance of old-world instrumentation through new world amplification. With soaring vocal harmonies, accordion, and string driven melodies set to rock rhythms, La Strada transports you to the hills of the Balkans, a street corner in Paris, and back to “your window overlooking the Brooklyn skyline".
Evening Program Order (South Oxford Space, Brooklyn): 8pm Pianist John McDowell and violinist Emmanuel Vukovich Pianist, percussionist, producer, commissioned composer and instructor John McDowell achieved worldwide recognition with his soundtrack to the Academy Award winning documentary Born Into Brothels. He is also an organic, biodynamic farmer and runs Camp Hill Farm in Pomona, NY, just north of New York City; Violinist, composer, and organic farmer Emmanuel Vukovich recently organized and performed in The Agri-Culture Concerts -- a series of benefit recitals on organic farms throughout the US and Canada. A graduate of Canada’s McGill university, Vukovich also studied at Juilliard.
8:45pm The Words Project w/Sam Sadigursky, Christine Correa and Dan Tepfer Saxophonist, multi-reedist and composer Sam Sadigursky’s critically-lauded first recording, The Words Project, hailed as “an impressive debut" by the New York Times, was given a four star review by Time Out New York, who also named it one of the Top Ten Albums of 2007.
9:30pm DAAD Quartet The DAAD Quartet is Can Olgun - piano, Martin Schulte - guitar, Johannes Felscher - bass, and Peter Gall - drums. All four are accomplished German jazz musicians who have come to the United States as part of a grant through the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD.
10:15pm Frank Carlberg Quintet Jazz pianist and composer Frank Carlberg's most recent release on Red Piano Records, The American Dream (2009) has drawn critical acclaim including the Hartford Courant who called it “...melodic, challenging, intelligent, and fiercely original."
The concert is being sponsored by American Opera Projects’ Helping Hands program that supports the creation and presentation of new music by providing artists with administrative structure, organizational support and community outreach.
WEBSITES: www.septemberconcert.org, www.petermcdowell.com
DAYTIME CONCERTS AT UNION SQUARE IN MANHATTAN, EVENINGOFCONTEMPORARYJAZZ AND CLASSICAL MUSICIANSWILL ALSOFEATURE ORGANIC PRODUCE FROM LOCAL FARMS.
This release highlights two of the concerts to be held as part of the September Concert, an annual citywide music festival in New York, in remembrance of September 11th and a celebration of our universal humanity. It includes performances of mostly original music by Brooklyn- and New York City area-based classical and jazz musicians curated by event producer Peter McDowell.
The daytime concert will be held on September 11, 2009 from 12-6 at the South end of Union Square in Manhattan on 14th Street. Free and no tickets are required.
The evening concert, Home Grown: a Harvest of Fresh Music for Peace, will be held on September 11, 2009 from 8 - 11pm at South Oxford Space 138 South Oxford St. in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tickets are free but a donation of any amount is requested to offset the costs of the event. It is recommended to reserve tickets in advance through http://homegrown911.eventbrite.com//. For more information call 718-398- 4024 or 773-484-8811.
Daytime Program Order (Union Square, Manhattan): 12noon Oran Etkin’s Kelenia Duo: Oran Etkin, bass-clarinet and Griot singer and guitarist from Mali, Abdoulaye Diabate. Music which is rooted in jazz but shaped by the many musical worlds that Oran is a part of in New York, including African, Jewish, Haitian and New Orleans music.
1pm Zach Brock Trio The intense, high energy Zach Brock Trio features Brock on violin (called “the great bright hope for jazz violin" by the Chicago Tribune) as well as Matt Wigton on bass and Fred Kennedy on drums.
2pm The DAAD Quartet is Can Olgun - piano, Martin Schulte - guitar, Johannes Felscher - bass, and Martin Kruemmling - drums. All four are accomplished German jazz musicians who have come to the United States as part of a grant through the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD.
3pm Rob Mosher's Storytime A lushly scored musical odyssey that contains echoes of Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Debussy and Bach, reflecting Mosher’s embrace of a wide range of influences which have coalesced to create his singularly independent compositional voice. The music traverses many musical landscapes — all held together by Mosher’s multi- faceted orchestration and ingenious use of instrumentation (saxophones, oboe, English horn, clarinets, flute, trumpet, French horn, trombone, electric and acoustic guitar, plus bass and drums).
4pm Jody Redhage and Fire in July Cellist/vocalist/composer Jody Redhage's band Fire in July straddles the increasingly permeable boundary between classical chamber music and popular genres, melding the detail and finesse of art song with the energy, drive, intensity of pop, rock, and jazz improvisation.
5pm La Strada Seven-member band La Strada is the romance of old-world instrumentation through new world amplification. With soaring vocal harmonies, accordion, and string driven melodies set to rock rhythms, La Strada transports you to the hills of the Balkans, a street corner in Paris, and back to “your window overlooking the Brooklyn skyline".
Evening Program Order (South Oxford Space, Brooklyn): 8pm Pianist John McDowell and violinist Emmanuel Vukovich Pianist, percussionist, producer, commissioned composer and instructor John McDowell achieved worldwide recognition with his soundtrack to the Academy Award winning documentary Born Into Brothels. He is also an organic, biodynamic farmer and runs Camp Hill Farm in Pomona, NY, just north of New York City; Violinist, composer, and organic farmer Emmanuel Vukovich recently organized and performed in The Agri-Culture Concerts -- a series of benefit recitals on organic farms throughout the US and Canada. A graduate of Canada’s McGill university, Vukovich also studied at Juilliard.
8:45pm The Words Project w/Sam Sadigursky, Christine Correa and Dan Tepfer Saxophonist, multi-reedist and composer Sam Sadigursky’s critically-lauded first recording, The Words Project, hailed as “an impressive debut" by the New York Times, was given a four star review by Time Out New York, who also named it one of the Top Ten Albums of 2007.
9:30pm DAAD Quartet The DAAD Quartet is Can Olgun - piano, Martin Schulte - guitar, Johannes Felscher - bass, and Peter Gall - drums. All four are accomplished German jazz musicians who have come to the United States as part of a grant through the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD.
10:15pm Frank Carlberg Quintet Jazz pianist and composer Frank Carlberg's most recent release on Red Piano Records, The American Dream (2009) has drawn critical acclaim including the Hartford Courant who called it “...melodic, challenging, intelligent, and fiercely original."
The concert is being sponsored by American Opera Projects’ Helping Hands program that supports the creation and presentation of new music by providing artists with administrative structure, organizational support and community outreach.
WEBSITES: www.septemberconcert.org, www.petermcdowell.com
For more information contact Peter McDowell Arts Consulting.
