[ Composer's Voice ]
Composer's Voice Concert

January 8, 2012
Jan Hus Church
351 East 74th Street
New York
,
New York
10021-3798
Music and performances by: David Wolfson Alex Weiser Robert Voisey Bob Seibert Karen Rostron Monica Harte Jenny Lynn Greene Matt Frey Dorothy Duncan Douglas DaSilva Andrew Cohen Greg Bartholomew Delea Shand Nils Vigeland Anne Rainwater

Program:

Untitled
Andy Cohen

Andy Cohen, piano
Afon (for Heather Thon)
Douglas DaSilva

Dorothy Duncan, clarinet
Sleeping Woman (A Jazz Essence)
Bob Siebert

Dorothy Duncan, clarinet
Rollick & Romp for Solo Clarinet
Greg Bartholomew

Dorothy Duncan, clarinet
A Certain Slant of Light
Alex Weiser

Jenny Lynn Greene, soprano
Matt Frey, piano
Ill, is it?
Matt Frey

Jenny Lynn Greene, soprano
Matt Frey, piano
Shared Sadness
Bob Seibert

Dorothy Duncan, clarinet
Music in Motion
Robert Voisey

Monica Harte, soprano
Karen Rostron, violin
Windows No.7 No.8 No. 9
David Wolfson

David Wolfson, piano
There Was a Child Went Forth (text: Walt Whitman)
Nils Vigeland

Delea Shand, soprano
Anne Rainwater, piano

Performers

Dorothy Duncan

Dorothy Duncan, clarinet, is a member of the Westfield (NJ) Symphony, St. Cecilia Chamber Ensemble, and Lehman Woodwind Quintet. As principal clarinetist with the New York Grand Opera, she performed all 28 of Verdi's operas in chronological order for the NYGO's historic eight-summer Verdi cycle in Central Park. A resident of Mount Vernon, NY, she teaches clarinet at Hoff-Barthelson Music School, the Hackley School, and the Bronxville Schools, and is Co-President of the Westchester Musicians Guild.

Jenny Greene

Soprano Jenny Greene has made a name for herself specializing in new works on both coasts, creating the roles of Amy (The North Arcade) and the Cat (Jack Prelutsky's Something Big Has Been Here) in Seattle before moving to NYC. She created the role of The Composer (Elodie Lauten's The Two Cents Opera) and participated in Remarkable Theatre Brigade's Summer Young Artist Program. In 2010, Jenny made her debut with Village Light Opera, Opera Manhattan and Regina Opera and the production team of Alphabet Soup Productions as Director of Opera & Artist in Residence. This season, Jenny made a well-received debut as Pamina (Die Zauberflote) for Opera Manhattan and is Resident Artist at Dicapo Opera Theater. She is joining Regina Opera as Peep-Bo (The Mikado).

Monica Harte

Monica Harte, soprano has performed more than 25 coloratura roles in the standard and contemporary operatic repertoire and has performed throughout the US and Europe. This season she sang Alcina for Satori Opera, Annie for RTB's Opera Shorts, and in concert for Arts & Ideas, Nevada Opera, and IEAMF. She was also featured in the Brooklyn College documentary on RTB's Opera Shorts to be aired 2012. In March she will sing 3 Puerto Rican Songs with composer Arnie Lang for BCAT TV. Miss Harte's CD's include Songs from Another Place and Long Island Songs (MSR label), Going on Tom Cipullo's CD, Landscape with Figures, (Albany), McLeer's Requiem and 2 works on The Tempest Project CD slated for release2012 (Pogus Productions).

Anne Rainwater

Pianist Anne Rainwater is multi-talented artist known for compelling and committed interpretations of music from Bach and Stockhausen. She holds a passion for chamber music and is currently an active freelance musician and teacher in the New York area. The 2010 season included performances as Le Poisson Rouge and the Rose Studio, as well as numerous commissioning projects for her piano-percussion duo futureCities with Jude Traxler. Past collaborations have included work with such artists and composers as David Cossin, Ted Atkatz, and David Lang. Anne trained at the Oberlin Conservatory, University of Miami, and the Manhattan School of Music.

Karen Rostron

Karen Rostron, violinist, founding member of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra as well as its concertmaster and executive director for the past 15 years, has participated in over 100 premiere performances in New York City and more than 30 CD recordings. Praised by the media for her "intelligence as an interpreter," she appears regularly as soloist and chamber musician both as violinist and violist. Recent performances include the Glazunov violin concerto with the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Tchaikovsky Piano Trio on the CUNY Music in Midtown series, and a solo recital of contemporary violin music. Ms. Rostron is on the faculties of Manhattan School of Music-Pre College Division and Hunter College.

Delea Shand

Delea Shand is dedicated to performing and promoting new music. She recently completed a Masters of Music in Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, and studies with Lucy Shelton. She was a fellow at the Bang on a Can summer festival at MassMoca, Massachusetts, where her performance of George Crumb's "Madrigals, Book Two" was hailed by the Albany Times Union as, "Especially impressive.... even while delivering some swooping and percussive vocal affects." As a proud member of Opera on Tap, Delea sings regularly in bars and backrooms. . Delea also directs Opera on Tap's new music ensemble, New Brew, whose mission is present contemporary opera with the same rowdy energy audiences have come to love and expect.

Composers

Greg Bartholomew

The music of award-winning composer Greg Bartholomew is frequently performed across the United States and in Canada, Australia and Europe. NPR classical music reviewer Tom Manoff called him "a fine composer not afraid of accessibility." Five commercial recordings of his works are available, with upcoming releases scheduled by the Freudig Singers of Western New York and trumpeter James Ackley. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1957, Bartholomew earned degrees from the College of William & Mary and the University of Washington. His music is published by Art of Sound Music, Ars Nova Press, Imagine Music, Orpheus Music and Burke & Bagley. For further information visitwww.gregbartholomew.com

Andy Cohen

Andy Cohen has written music in a wide variety of styles for a wide variety of media. He has composed classical instrumental works for orchestra and chamber groups, jazz pieces for radio airplay, music and sound design for dance and theatrical performances, and songs for rock and pop bands. His compositions have been performed by such groups as the Minnesota Orchestra and he has written music for PBS TV and United Nations Radio. He has also written music for symphonic band and Jewish-themed works for performances in Synagogues. www.andycomusic.com

Douglas DaSilva

Artistic Director of the Composer's Voice concert series, Douglas DaSilva is a composer, guitarist, educator and curator in New York City. He composes in various styles including jazz, pop, children's music, chamber music and experimental. Much of his writing is influenced by Brazilian music and self-inflicted stress. His compositions have been described as "very individual, and to us has a very clear personality" in Classical Guitar Magazine. His pieces Sarabande; How to Build a Totalitarian State and Contrails have been included in 60x60 projects. His works have been performed in Brazil, England, Italy, Germany, Romania, Brazil & throughout the USA. http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/Douglas_DaSilva.htm

Matt Frey

Matt Frey is a Brooklyn-based composer of contemporary concert music, both for vocal & instrumental ensembles. Recent projects have included residencies, commissions, and/or premieres with the JACK String Quartet, the NYU Symphony Orchestra, the Manhattan Wind Ensemble, and the BACK Vocal + Percussion Duo. Currently studying with composers Joan La Barbara and Julia Wolfe while pursuing his Master's degree in composition at New York University, Frey is co-founder and artistic director of the West 4th New Music Collective, a cooperative of NYC-based composers and performers. Combining inspiration from modern concert composers with a love for the bold gestures of electronic and popular music has become Frey's trademark, creating a sound uniquely recognizable and popular with both audiences and performers.

Bob Siebert

Bob Siebert received his BM and MM Music Degrees from Manhattan School of Music, and has been a performer/composer/teacher in the New York area for the past thirty -five years. His music runs the gambit from pop influenced electronic realism through reinvented jazz standards to experimental electronic pieces and improvisations for the African thumb piano. My work can be found on iTunes, YouTube, and cdbaby.com/bobsiebert Recent performances include cafe' venues in Brooklyn and New Jersey. The premiere of "Liebestraum, Baby!" for pianist Shiau-Uen Ding. The premiere of "March in Jazz Time" for the violin and cello duo by Zentripetal premiere performance of "In a Minor Groove" for Alyssa Reit, solo harp, for the Composers Voice concert series.

Nils Vigeland

Nils Vigeland made his professional debut as a pianist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969. He studied composition at Harvard College. Graduate studies were at the SUNY in piano with Yvar Mikhashoff and composition with Morton Feldman.The English National Opera commissioned and gave the first performance of Mr. Vigeland's chamber opera,False Love True Love. His orchestral work My Father's Song was a winner of the Rose Prize and given its first performance by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He has been the recipient of grants from Harvard College, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mary Flagler Cary Trust. Mr. Vigeland has taught at Manhattan School of Music since 1984 and is presently the chair of the composition department.

Robert Voisey

"The word 'viral,' comes to mind as a trendy but disquietingly accurate image for Robert Voisey's infectious enthusiasm. He is always ready to mutate and reinfect the process as indicated to maintain the highest degree of project fever" -60x60: netsuke for the musical mind -- Richard Arnest, Sounding Board, Spring 2011. "With few opportunities and much competition, young composers show creativity in just getting heard." And in Chris Pasles's article in the Los Angeles Times, Robert Voisey is highlighted as one of those composers. Composing electroacoustic and chamber music, his aesthetic oscillates from the romantic to Post Modern Mash-Up. His work has been performed in venues throughout the world including: Carnegie Hall, World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium, and Stratford Circus in London.

Alex Weiser

Alex Weiser is a composer of patient and thought provoking, yet visceral and dramatic chamber, orchestral, and vocal music. Alex recently graduated from Yale University where his teachers included Michael Klingbeil, Kathryn Alexander, Martin Bresnick. Alex's music has been performed by groups such as the JACK quartet, Argento New Music Project, Fifth House Ensemble, and New Triad. At Yale Alex's works were commissioned and performed by many of the school's premier ensembles including the Jonathan Edwards College Philharmonic, Berkeley College Orchestra, Resonance Chamber Ensemble. Alex was also the president of Yale's undergraduate composer's organization "IGIGI" which hosts numerous concerts of new music each year.

David Wolfson

David Wolfson is an eclectic, versatile composer of songs, concert music and music for theatre, as well as other genres. The New York Times has called his work "musically inventive" and "theatrically forceful." He has written art songs, theatre songs, comedy songs, pop songs and songs for big-headedcostumed- character amusement parks shows; he has written music for bassoon quartet, percussion ensemble, SATB chorus and cello quartet; he has composed incidental music for plays and done sound design for Macy's display windows. Please visit www.davidwolfsonmusic.net !

Program Notes

Support from the Puffin Foundation "...continuing the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people."

Vox Novus is a collective of composers, musicians, and music enthusiasts collaborating together to create, produce, promote, and enjoy the new music of today. Our members are from a variety of composers committed to the creation and dissemination of new music. Their music is of a variety of styles, aesthetics, and ideologies. Vox Novus produces and promotes new music. They are dedicated to contemporary music, the musicians who perform, and the composers that write the music of today. Their mission is to cultivate a music community and make their work available to the greater public.

Remarkable Theater Brigade founded by Christian McLeer, Dan Jeselsohn and Monica Harte, creates and produces new operas and musicals and takes children's versions out to special-needs and at-risk children free of charge.

Presenters:

Remarkable Theater Brigade

Remarkable Theater Brigade founded by Christian McLeer, Dan Jeselsohn and Monica Harte, creates and produces new operas and musicals and takes children's versions out to special-needs and at-risk children free of charge.

Remarkable Theater Brigade creates and produces new works including operas, orchestral pieces, ballets, musicals, and electro-acoustic works and co-produces the Composer's Voice Concert Series concerts. Remarkable Theater Brigade was founded in 2002 by Christian McLeer, Monica Harte, and Dan Jeselsohn.

Jan Hus Church

This is the place you were welcome, long before you arrived!
www.janhus.org

Vox Novus

Vox Novus promotes contemporary music and its creators through concerts, recordings, publications, broadcasts, and online publicity. Vox Novus believes strongly in the intrinsic value of contemporary music, recognizing it as a force in the advancement of culture and art. Our goal is to keep music alive by strengthening the connection between composer and audience, providing greater exposure to new music.

Funding by

Puffin Foundation

Funding also provided by the Puffin Foundation, "...continuing the dialogue between art and lives of ordinary people."