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NEW! Playing
it UNsafe promo
Playing
it UNsafe is an opportunity for composers to try out new ideas,
extend working methods conceived in other musical settings, establish
new collaborations, or showcase a new piece in development.
Activities include open rehearsals, public readings, panel
discussions and two laboratory performances, April 23 - 27, 2008.
This video highlights the concepts behind this "Research and
Development Laboratory" for new orchestra music, and previews
two of the composers who are writing new works. Click
here for more info....
Composer
Portraits All Composer Portraits produced by Jeremy Robins.
Uri Caine speaks about his influences as a composer and his work, Double Trouble for Improvised Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra, given its world-premiere on February 8, 2008 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC, and Philadelphia-premiere on February 10, 2008, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing arts at UPenn. In this "micro-concerto" for improvising pianist and orchestra, Caine explores the meshing of spontaneous and scripted music, conducted by David Alan Miller.
A look into the creative process behind Ken Thomson's Wait Your Turn, commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and given its world-premiere on October 19, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC. In this "concerto" for jazz-punk ensemble and orchestra, Thomson's band, gutbucket, joined forces with the ACO to create a truly visceral experience, conducted by ACO Principal Guest Conductor Steven Sloane.
Composer-saxophonist
Steve Coleman gives conceptual background
to
his World
Premiere/ACO Commission
for saxophone and orchestra, The Illusion of Body, which
premiered October 19, 2007, in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, on ACO's
HYBRIDITY program, conducted by ACO Principal Guest Conductor Steven
Sloane. Coleman performed
as soloist in the
work alongside
the American Composers Orchestra.
Tania
León speaks about her work, Indigena,
and its relation to her Cuban roots. Performed on March 25, 2007 in
Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts,
Philadelphia, PA and March 26, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall,
New York, NY. Conducted by ACO Conductor Laureate, Dennis Russell Davies.
Vijay
Iyer discusses his ACO Commission/World Premiere, Interventions
for Improvised Piano, Electronics and Orchestra. Performed
on March 25, 2007 in Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg Center for
the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA and March 26, 2007 in Zankel
Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY. Conducted by ACO Conductor
Laureate, Dennis Russell Davies.
Jeremy Robins is a filmmaker and educator in Brooklyn. He is currently a field producer on shows for MTV and PBS and his dance-for-camera projects have screened at PS122 and Dance Theater Workshop. Currently, Jeremy is finishing a documentary on Haitian roots music in Brooklyn (http://www.othersideofthewater.org). Jeremy Robins has taught video production to NYC high school students since 1998.
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