New York, NY – 05/05/13 – Cornelia St. Cafe – SERIAL UNDERGROUND: MUSIC BY DAVID CLAMAN AND FRIENDS

Sunday, May 05 - 6:00PM
SERIAL UNDERGROUND: MUSIC BY DAVID CLAMAN AND FRIENDS
Demetrius Spaneas, curator and host
Cygnus Ensemble; Jed Distler; Joseph Palaka


Music by David Claman and Friends - featuring New York's Cygnus Ensemble, with Bill Anderson, Oren Fader, Calvin Weirsma, and Tara O'Connor, Demetrius Spanaes and Jed Distler, Saxophone and Piano, and Special Guest, Joseph Palakal, singer
The program will feature music by David Claman, informed by the music of India, as well as other recent compositions

David Claman (b. 1958) hails from Denver, Colorado. He holds degrees from Wesleyan University, from the University of Colorado, and from Princeton (Ph.D. 2002). He studied Carnatic music with T. Viswanathan, T. Ranganathan, and K.S. Subramanian. His principal composition teachers have been John McDonald, Steve Mackey and Paul Lansky. He is an assistant professor at Lehman College-CUNY in The Bronx. Recordings can be found on the Innova, Capstone, Bridge, and Vox Novus labels. He was awarded a Fromm Foundation Commissioning Grant from Harvard University in 2011.

$20.00 includes a drink

http://www.composerscollab.org/ , http://www.davidclaman.com/