Secret Series

presents

Melanie Sehman, percussion
Saturday, March 12th @ 8pm

Secret Theatre
4402 23rd Street
Long Island City, NY 11101-5000

admission: $15 person

On solo vibraphone, percussion and electronics, Ms. Sehman brings together a series of newly commissioned works relating or responding to Morton Feldman’s classic multiple percussion solo, The King of Denmark. This program features new and recent works from composers Cenk Ergun, Ryan Manchester, Jordan Munson, Casey Farina and Ben Hackbarth. The vibraphone has been an essential part of contemporary art music for the past thirty years, with an intimacy, richness and depth of sound unrivaled by other percussion. Each of these composers approaches the relationship of the acoustic and electronic sounds in a unique way, ranging from the creation of hyper-extended instrumental space and sound spatialization to real-time sound processing at varying sample rates to works which exploit the pure acoustics of the instruments themselves. Together these works explore the boundaries between acoustic and electronic sound.

Please join us!

Melanie Sehman is a percussionist living in Brooklyn, New York and specializing in contemporary music. She performs frequently as soloist, and with the piano/percussion duo Access New Music, Duo RoMi+Me, Eastman BroadBand, and as one-half of the Proper Glue duo. Recent performances include chamber music at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Issue Project Room, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Indiana University and the Park Avenue Armory, with upcoming performances at Symphony Space, the Americas Society, Princeton University and the Bellingham Electro-Acoustic Music Festival. Dedicated to the creation and promotion of new music, Melanie has worked closely with several composers including Julia Wolfe, John Luther Adams, Mark Applebaum, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Robert Morris, Aaron Travers, Martin Scherzinger, Jacob Bancks and others. Melanie received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music where she was also awarded the prestigious Performer’s Certificate. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the City University of New York Queensborough.

Carlos Cordeiro performs exciting works for clarinet by influential composers in a carefully selected program featuring live performance with electronics and narrator. The Puppet’s Tale tells a story as it moves from piece to piece.

Join us for the first concert of this inaugural series!

Saturday, February 12th @ 8pm
Secret Theatre
4402 23rd Street
NY 11101-5000

tickets: $15/door

Carlos Cordeiro began his clarinet studies at the age of 13 years old when he entered the Conservatório de Música de Coimbra where he studied with Osvaldo Lemos, Paulo Vicente and Henrique Pereira. He has worked with a wide range of orchestras and ensembles such as the Orquestra Clássica do Conservatório de Coimbra, Orquestra dos Conservatórios Nacionais, Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil, Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra Mare Nostrum, Orquestra Sinfonietta da ESMAE, Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra and Shepherd School Symphonic Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Chamber Jazz Orchestra. Member of Tactus Ensemble. Former member of DaCamera Young Artists in Houston, Texas. He has toured Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, and Russia as a
member of these ensembles. Mr. Cordeiro has performed in masterclasses with teachers Luís Silva, Quarteto de Clarinetes de Lisboa – Nuno Silva, Joaquim Ribeiro, Rui Martins and Luís Gomes, Etienne Lamaison, César Ramos, Bruno Graça, Iva Barbosa, António Rosa, Nuno Pinto, Alain Damiens, Philippe Cuper, José Luis Estellez, Philippe Berrod, Eddie Vanoosthuyse, Robert Walzel, Larry Combs, Michel Letiec, Todd Palmer, Enrique Pérez y Piquer, Alexander Romansky, Elsa Ludwig-Verdehr, Joaquin Valdepeñas, Juan Eric Lluna, Ronald van Spaendonck and António Saiote. While attending the Escuela Internacional de Música Oviedo Joven, Mr. Cordeiro
worked solo and chamber music with António Saiote, Yuri Nasushkin, Alejandro Zabala, and Robert Canetti. He has played under many different conductors such as Pierre Boulez, António Saiote, Justin DiCioccio, Yuri Nasushkin, Robert Canetti, Ernest Schell, JanCober, Luís Carvalho, Cristian Macelaru, Richard Bado, Larry Rachleff, in a wide range of ensembles and genres, from the opera to the chamber orchestra. Mr. Cordeiro has won 2nd prize in the International Competition of Young Performers, and 2nd prize in the Fernando Valente Competition in Aveiro, Portugal, where has performed Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra with Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, conducted by António Saiote. Mr. Cordeiro shares a huge passion for contemporary music and has world premiered
numerous pieces, many which have been composed especially for him such as “Algo Rítmico ” by Filipe Lopes, (Lousada, 2007), “The Birth of Aphrodite” by Ângela Ponte (Porto, 2006), “Tríptico II” by Carla Oliveira (Lousada, 2007), “Venationes” (Lousada, 2007) and “Reflections III” , for solo bass clarinet (Lisboa, 2007) by Joel Monteiro, “Perdido” (Porto, 2007) for Bb clarinet/bass clarinet and electronics by Filipe Lopes. He has premiered Marius Constant’s “For Clarinet” for solo Bb clarinet in
Portugal and Spain. Mr. Cordeiro had the opportunity to work with Ms. Joan Tower, with whom he recorded for KUHF (Houston, TX) and has previously recorded contemporary music for RDP (Portugal). Member of Lucerne Festival Academy, with artistic director Pierre Boulez, in 2009. Mr. Cordeiro holds a Bachelor Degree of Music from the Escola Superior de Música e Artes Espectáculo under the tutelage of António Saiote and Nuno Pinto and a Master’s Degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University where he studied with Dr. Michael Webster. Currently is pursuing a Masters Degree in Contemporary Performance at Manhattan
School of Music, New York, with David Krakauer.

On behalf of Random Access Music and the Secret Theatre, I am pleased to welcome you to the first annual Secret Series, a New Music Concert Series that will take place from February through June 2011, featuring artists and musicians from across the country as they present their unique programs. Our line-up includes multimedia works with live sound processing and video, theatrical, choreographed works with live instrumentation, acoustic chamber music, and ensembles specializing in improvisation. I sincerely hope you will join us for as many evenings as you can.

The Secret Theatre is located at 44-02 23rd St. Long Island City, Queens. Directions can be found at www.secrettheatre.com.

Be sure to mark the following dates in your calendar:

Feb. 12,
Carlos Cordeiro
A Puppet’s Tale

Mar. 12,
Melanie Sehman
Percussion

Mar. 26,
Phyllis Chen & Rob Dietz
Down the Rabbit Hole

Apr. 9,
ThingNY & Panoply Performance Laboratory
Time: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts

Apr. 30,
Kevin Baldwin
Electric Saxophone

May 20,
Random Access Music & Ursula’s End

June 26,
IMPULSE Ensemble

Before you do ANYTHING, click on this link:

http://www.thingny.com/spam/

Gotham Ensemble performs 6 premieres by Random Access Music composers for the renowned Messiaen ensemble (clarinet, violin, cello, piano) . Join us at Lincoln Center’s Ann Goodman Recital Hall for an evening of beautiful chamber music.

Saturday, March 5th, 2011 @ 8pm
Ann Goodman Recital Hall
129 West 67th Street
New York, NY  10023

admission: $20 adults/$15 students & seniors

The composers of Random Access Music present new works for the renowned Gotham Ensemble.

Gotham is a mixed instrumental ensemble based in New York City and led by the superb clarinetist Tom Piercy. The Gotham Ensemble premieres, performs and records a wide variety of repertoire, from the Classical to the avant-garde. A New York Times review of Gotham’s Merkin Hall, New York City, performance of a program of Olav Thommessen’s music specifically encouraged the public to go out and purchase the recordings. After a performance of Ned Rorem’s Ariel at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Rorem wrote of Gotham as one of America’s important chamber music groups performing new music today. Albany Records recently released Gotham Ensemble Plays Ned Rorem, a CD of Ned Rorem’s chamber music featuring the clarinet.

Please join us!

Friday, March 4th, 2011 @ 7:30pm
The Tank
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036

http://www.thetanknyc.org/

Save the date. More details to follow soon.

$10 cover
Donations-accepted Bar

Brecht Forum
451 West St
New York, NY
(212) 242-4201

(On “Manhattan’s Left Bank” in West Greenwich Village between Bank & Bethune Streets on the West Side Highway. A, C, E or L to 14th Street & 8th Ave, walk down 8th Ave. to Bethune, turn right, walk west to the River, turn left.)

visit: http://www.nysoundcircuit.com/
For more info: info@nysoundcircut.com

Tuesday, Nov. 30th
7:00-11:30pm

Issue Project Room
(at the Old American Can Factory)
232 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 330-0313

Issue Project Room and the friends and artistic collaborators of Stefanos Tsigrimanis have mounted an evening of performance art and music in celebration of the diverse artistic list of the young Brooklyn-based musician, journalist, scholar and teacher whose life was cut short two months before his 30th birthday.

The evening will span genres and continents with live performances by musicians, performance artists and dancers including trumpeter/composer Peter Evans, multi-media singer-songwriter Joseph Keckler, and Greek punk rockers, Nifalia. New music ensemble thingNY will perform Rzewski and percussionist Cory Bracken will perform Xenakis. Dance/video partners Nicole and Rhys Daunic will perform a new work simultaneously in Brooklyn and Stockholm, and Gerry Visco will present photography and performance art.

The event is free, however, donations will be accepted on behalf of the Stefanos Tsigrimanis Memorial Fund at New York University.

Space is limited. Please RSVP at http://www.pfpinto.com/animalnudity.

RAM announces a call for proposals from new music ensembles or individual artists dedicated to performing new music to participate in RAM’s new concert series.

While RAM is NYC-based, our home neighborhood is located in the borough of Queens–and several of our member composers reside in Queens neighborhoods. The borough of Queens has a long reputation of being under-represented and under-served by the new music community.

RAM plans to change this.

In 2011, we will present live concerts of new music by some of the best ensembles and individual performers from New York by offering performance space and logistical help to ensembles and individual performers that would like to help RAM further our mission of bringing new music to new audiences.

WHERE: All the concerts will take place at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY. The Secret Theatre is just 3 blocks from the PS1 art museum and just a 4 block walk (or less) from the N, W, R, E, V, G and 7 trains. Long Island City has a burgeoning arts scene, with the Fisher Landau Center for Art , the Dorsky Gallery, the Noguchi Museum, the SculptureCenter, the Flux Factory and a dozen other flourishing arts groups all located nearby. The Secret Theatre is home to 2 performance spaces—a large space that seats 70+ and a smaller, more intimate space, that seats 30+.

The Secret Theatre will provide a box office with one attendant. They will also offer light refreshments for purchase by the audience.

WHAT: RAM is accepting proposals from all groups and all genres of new music. However, at this time The Secret Theatre does not own or have a performance-quality piano. Electronic or digital instruments may be used in the space, though.

The agreement between RAM, the performing ensembles, and the Secret Theatre will stipulate that The Secret Theatre will receive half of the proceeds from ticket sales while the performing ensemble receives the other half. RAM will take nothing. Secret Theatre must be guaranteed $75 for the performance, to meet their basic costs of lighting, sound, and box office staff. The use of the theater will be free. RAM will act as the curator of the series and will serve as a liason between the performers and The Secret Theatre. RAM will also offer logistical support and some web advertising via this website and social media such as facebook.

THE PROPOSAL: All proposals must be submitted via email to info@ram-nyc.org. The proposal should be no longer than 1 page long, should be submitted as a pdf document, and should include the following information:

* Name of the ensemble or individual artists
* Names of ensemble artistic personnel
* A short description (1 or 2 paragraphs) of the proposed concert
* 2-5 internet links to audio clips or videos of the performing ensemble. If links are not available, please submit 1 or 2 mp3s of performances—no more than 20 megabytes TOTAL
* Email address and name of contact person
* Any dates that cannot be scheduled by your ensemble (we have wide latitude for performance dates, so we can work closely with any group to provide an acceptable performance date)

Preference will be given to proposals with an entire concert program of 1 hour of music or more.

PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Sunday, November 14, 2010

We look forward to hearing from you!
Random Access Music Composers’ Collective

For more information, visit: www.RAM-NYC.org

CHICAGO SERIES Opener!  Featuring Kris Covlin, saxophone

Thursday, November 4, 2010     7:30pm
Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago
1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL

–FREE–

Dai Fujikura: Reach Out

Erin Rogers: Duluth

Urs Leimgruber: Pulsar (US Premiere)

Pablo Chin: Como La Leyenda de la Gran Muralla China (US Premiere)

Aristides Llaneza: The second time I have looked out the window (US Premiere)

RYOT PROJECT with new music by Philippe Leroux, Lee Hyla, Aaron Einbond, Thierry Alla, Robert Lemay,
Etienne Rolin, Urs Leimgruber, Marcos Balter, David Reminick   (World Premiere)

For more information, visit http://www.anubisquartet.com/