Colin Davin, guitar premieres Rogers – American Guitar Society

Premiere of new work for solo guitar by Erin Rogers, commissioned and performed by guitarist, Colin Davin.

THE AMERICAN GUITAR SOCIETY
2011 – 2012 CONCERT SERIES

$20 General Admission, $15 AGS Members, $10 Seniors & Students
CONCERT LOCATION: RECITAL HALL (ROOM 106)
MUSIC BUILDING
LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE
5800 Fulton Ave, Valley Glen, CA 91401

Colin Davin is widely regarded as one of the most compelling classical guitarists of his generation. Known for his engaging stage presence, he has performed for audiences in the United States, Canada and France. He has earned first prize in several international guitar competitions, and has earned a reputation as a virtuoso guitarist and a refined interpreter. He will dazzle you with his technique and artistry.

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October 1, 2011

IN HOUSE at the Voelker Orth Museum

thingNY’s IN HOUSE at the Voelker Orth Museum in Flushing


Nov. 13, 2011
2:00pm
thingNY: IN HOUSE

Voelker Orth Museum
14919 38th Avenue
flushing, NY 11354-4839
http://www.vomuseum.org/

Part house concert, part sound installation, IN HOUSE is a collection of new musical meditations on the idea of “the home” written and performed by members of experimental music ensemble thingNY.

The works explore aspects of performance art, sound installations, and contemporary chamber music. How do you guide a listener’s ears and eyes while still leaving freedom to explore a space? How does a piece of music capture the essence of a room of a home across cultural lines? How do the sounds of audience and environment affect composition and the performance of new music?

The pieces are written with flexibility in mind. With each composer creating a work for one room of the home, each performance is adapted for and inspired by the individuality of each home’s distinct rooms. This allows IN HOUSE to be programmed differently for each home and experienced uniquely by its audience, who can listen to one piece in its entirety, or explore the house freely, hearing how the compositions fit together.

The project is a continuation of the ideas explored in Gelsey Bell’s extensive Bathroom Songs for solo vocalist. Written in 2010, it is a collection of songs that oscillates between extended vocal techniques, popular song structures, and everyday bathroom events like brushing ones teeth.

Isabel Castellvi’s Music for a Quartet of Speaking Pot Players utilizes the kitchen space and items in a rhythmic work of text and percussion. Paul Pinto’s Music for Your Living Room for solo clarinet and Erin Rogers’s Bedroom Music for violin, tape and visiting chamber musicians both span the entire event, occurring simultaneously and responding to behaviors of the audience.

And in the hallways and stairways, Memorial for _____, a series of constructed noise-making kinetic sculptures created by Alejandro Acierto, will sound throughout the performance.

Full performance schedule is available at http://www.thingNY.com/inhouse
Queens performances supported by the Queens Council on the Arts.

thingNY is a 501c3 not-for-profit collective of composer-performers who create and perform theatrically charged experimental music, champion the work of avant-garde and contemporary classical composers, and collaborate across disciplines, media, and genres.inhousebutton


September 30, 2011

ROBERT ASHLEY: PERFECT LIVES MANHATTAN

Sunday, November 6, 2011
11:00am — 11:30pm
Throughout Lower Manhattan at various locations: MAP coming soon.
FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY

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Members of thingNY and the groups Why Lie? and the Panoply Performance Laboratory have collaborated as a newly formed collective called VARISPEED to remake Robert Ashley’s seminal television opera, Perfect Lives. Presented by PERFORMA ’11, each episode has been newly arranged by a member of the group. These arrangements feature fresh takes on instrumentation, amplification, and melodic content, while still maintaining the formal, metric, and chordal frameworks of the originals. Perfect Lives Manhattan is not a imitative interpretation of Ashley’s Perfect Lives, but instead seeks to reanimate Ashley’s material in new ways, stemming from the Varispeed members’ own individual relationships with the piece.

Arranged and performed by Gelsey Bell, Paul Pinto, Brian McCorkle, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons.

HELP US VIDEOTAPE IT:
This is a free performance but we would really love to document it properly with HD video and a quality sound recording. Please consider giving a small donation via our IndieGoGo page to help us do this.

September 30, 2011

Sweet Soubrette @ Jalopy, Brooklyn

Jalopy, 315 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY

First big band show of the season! Featuring the amazing SS horn section and Stacy Rock on backing vox, for a grand total of 8 musicians on the Jalopy stage. Not to be missed! Also, the Ukuladies will go on at 10:30 and they are great. $10 cover.

SWEET SOUBRETTE RETURNS TO BROOKLYN WITH BIG BAND LINEUP Ukulele-powered indie rock gets brassy at Jalopy on 9/24 Sweet Soubrette, a ukulele-powered, cabaret-tinged indie rock band often compared to Amanda Palmer and The Magnetic Fields, returns to Brooklyn in big band formation after a summer hiatus. This show will include new material and will pack the stage with a full brass section featuring members of the Hungry March …Band and new music collective ThingNY.
Sweet Soubrett JalopySweet Soubrette’s last big band show (at Park Slope’s Southpaw) inspired The Brooklyn Paper to comment: “What’s better than a ukulele band backed by a horn section? Nothing. Not a thing.” The New York Press said: “Sweet Soubrette’s haunting vocals…cast a spell over the room.”
Sweet Soubrette’s latest album, Days and Nights (released in early 2011) has earned praise from reviewers: Worcester Magazine said: “This is a band that intuitively knows not just how to attract an audience, but also how to keep them there.” The Philadelphia Inquirer described Days and Nights as “dark vaudeville-pop…sensational.” 9:00pm: Sweet Soubrette 10:30pm: The Ukuladies $10 cover www.jalopy.biz
September 22, 2011

Sweet Soubrette at Tinderbox Music Festival

Pleased to join the lovely Sweet Soubrette! http://www.sweetsoubrette.com

Saturday, September 10, 2011
12:30pm-1:30pm

Knitting Factory Brooklyn
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Get tickets here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/53355?utm_medium=api

Tinderbox Music Festival is an annual event showcasing a powerful and diverse lineup of established and emerging female artists producing innovative original music. Rooted in the vibrant New York City music scene, Tinderbox fosters community by providing opportunities to perform, collaborate, and connect. Tinderbox also donates 100% of its net proceeds to organizations involved in empowering the next generation of female artists including GIRLS WRITE NOW (http://girlswritenow.org/gwn/), an organization providing guidance and opportunities for NYC’s underserved high school girls to develop their independent voices and explore careers in professional writing, and the WILLIE MAE ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS (http://williemaerockcamp.org/), a non- profit music and mentoring program empowering girls and women through music education and activities.

For more information, visit: http://tinderboxmusicfestival.com/

August 16, 2011

The Shape of Things in Texas

A Concert of works presented by the National Association of Composers/USA –Texas Chapter & Edmonton Society for New Music-Tonus Vivus / Canada

The University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts & Humanities
Friday, September 16, 2011 8:00 PM, Jonsson Performance Hall

1. George Andrix (Canada)…….….Why Not ? for Violin & Piano

2. Dinos Constantinides…………….…Sonata for Violin and Piano

3. Carson Cooman ……………The Doors in the Sky for Violin solo

4. Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Canada)…..Notturno for Violin and Piano

5. John McGinn …………………..…Scratch Etude for Violin solo

6. Robert J. Morin (Canada)……..Twilight #1 for Violin and Piano

7. Michael Nesuda……………..Sakura, Sakura for Violin & Guitar

8. Wieslaw Rentowski………………………Solaire for Violin solo

9. Erin Rogers (Canada)………The Shape of Things for Violin solo

10. Jacek Sobieraj (Canada)………..Fairytale for Violin and Piano

Hubert Pralitz – violin
Bethany Wildes – violin
John R. McGinn – piano
Michael Nesuda – guitar

This concert is funded in part by the City of Richardson Arts Commission.

July 10, 2011

Sweet Soubrette @ Southpaw

A big rock show from Sweet Soubrette! This will be Sweet Soubrette’s last big band show for a little while, so we’re making it special.

Southpaw

125 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Sweet Soubrette will have NINE band members onstage for this one. Our auxiliary band members appeared in the big release show back in January and on our NYC tour stop in April, and we’re excited to be reunited: New Orleans keyboard player Patrick Cronin, local rockstar Stacy Rock singing backup, and a horn section made up of the Hungry March Band’s John Waters and Cecil Scheib along with ThingNY’s Erin Rogers. It will be a glorious sound.

The incredible Kelli Rae Powell will open the night with her band, and two other awesome acts, The NowhereNauts and Odetta Hartman, will follow us. You don’t want to miss this!!!

The show is open to audience members age 16 and up, so feel free to bring your little sister, your kid brother, your underage cousin, your secret love child, or your child bride.

8:00 Kelli Rae Powell (www.kelliraepowell.com)
9:00 Sweet Soubrette (www.sweetsoubrette.com)
10:00 The NowhereNauts (www.facebook.com/thenowherenauts)
11:00 Odetta Hartman

7:30 doors / $10 cover / 16+

Advance Tickets: http://tktwb.tw/mimBQO

To view the Facebook event page, click here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212090962147479

June 4, 2011

Introducing…. New Thread Quartet!

On June 13th at 8:30pm, the New Thread Saxophone Quartet (Justin Marks, Kristen McKeon, Erin Rogers, Geoff Landman) will be giving their debut concert at the South Oxford Space in Brooklyn, NY.

(Admission – $10)

South Oxford Space

138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, New York

Founded in 2011 in New York City, the New Thread Saxophone Quartet is committed to the creation and performance of saxophone quartet repertoire from New York’s burgeoning new music scene. Members of the ensemble are active as composers, performers, and educators and hold degrees from the most prestigious conservatories and music schools in the US and Europe.

The quartet will present works by György Ligeti, Thierry Escaich, as well as a work by the quartet’s own Erin Rogers. In addition, there will be solo works performed by New Thread’s soprano saxophonist, Geoffrey Landman, written by Christian Lauba, Alfred Desenclos, and Yoshihisa Taira.

For more information on Geoff and New Thread, please visit Geoff’s website: http://www.geoffreylandman.com/

To view our facebook event page, click here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152884328113184

June 4, 2011

In House Performance and Party – learn how you can support thingNY

SUN. JUNE 26  3:00PM  SECRET LOCATION
A FREE special event for supporters of thingNY. Thanks.

In House

A mobile sound installation meets house concert
The composers of thingNY have created a program of new musical meditations on the rooms of the common home. Blending improvisation with experimental and classical music, these new works will be performed in the kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms of historically- and culturally-significant homes as visitors roam through them.

For more information, visit: http://www.thingny.com/inhouse/

GET INVOLVED: Now you can host your own avant-garde house concert while supporting new music. Host a performance of In House at your house. That’s five new works of experimental classical music specifically performed for you, interpreting the architecture and decor of your rooms – be it a small apartment or a historic mansion. Gather your buddies. We’ll bring the sounds. Please contact Erin Rogers, Development Director, at rogers.erin@gmail.com to find out how to sponsor a performance.

April 23, 2011

In House @ Vaudeville Park

SAT. JUNE 25  3:00PM  VAUDEVILLE PARK
26 Bushwick Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211

In House

A mobile sound installation meets house concert
The composers of thingNY have created a program of new musical meditations on the rooms of the common home. Blending improvisation with experimental and classical music, these new works will be performed in the kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms of historically- and culturally-significant homes as visitors roam through them.

For more information, visit: http://www.thingny.com/inhouse/

GET INVOLVED: Now you can host your own avant-garde house concert while supporting new music. Host a performance of In House at your house. That’s five new works of experimental classical music specifically performed for you, interpreting the architecture and decor of your rooms – be it a small apartment or a historic mansion. Gather your buddies. We’ll bring the sounds. Please contact Erin Rogers, Development Director, at rogers.erin@gmail.com to find out how to sponsor a performance.

April 23, 2011