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Fall 2015 Newsletter

Greetings, all!
Welcome to my Fall 2015 newsletter. Hope to see you soon at an upcoming show!
Best,
Oren
News
The Anderson-Fader Duo’s recent video on Youtube has over 120,000 views! Check out the video, music from Damon Ferrante’s “Footbridge” for 2 guitars.Vox n Plux: Here’s our new video, featuring music by Meltzer, Sondheim, Anderson, Greenbaum, and Ives

Recent recording by David Claman: “Avaley Taan”, featuring Cygnus Ensemble musicians and Jessica Bowers, mezzo, and Elizabeth Farnum, soprano

Brand new CD (released last week!) from Masatora Goya, “Dream of Sailing”, featuring chamber and solo music, much of it with guitar. Listen to: “Sunset on the Hudson”

William Anderson’s amazing “Djuna Barnes Settings” is now recorded by Vox n Plux! The first movement features William and I singing as well as playing!

Mezzo soprano Jessica Bowers and I performing Weill at a Poetica Musica benefit last season. We will perform this and others at the upcoming Poetica Musica show on September 19 (see below)

Here’s a great review of a recording by Corinne Winters and Steven Blier that I had the pleasure of playing on.

I also got to perform guitar works from Neil Leonard’s recording, “Mil Maneras” at Spectrum, and will play them again October 22nd at the Vox Novus show (see below). Listen to the recent recording here.

Recent recording featuring works by Paul Salerni, with 3 pieces including guitar. I’ll perform Salerni’s “Bad Pets” at the Poetica Musica show on September 19 (see below)

My 2 solo cds, “Another’s Fandango” and “First Flight” are available here.
Upcoming Shows

Sep 19: Old Westbury, NY – Poetica Musica- American Pie- works of Gerhswin, Beaser, Weill

Oct 14: New York, NY – New Sounds Live- a hundred guitars!

Oct 20: Brooklyn , NY – Creviston-Fader Duo (sax and electric guitar) share an evening of new guitar music with David Rogers at shapeshifter lab; new music from Liza Sobel and Damon Ferrante

Oct 22: New York, NY – Vox Novus 15 year anniversary concert

Nov 8: Philadelphia, PA – Cygnus Ensemble with Sara Shafer, soprano

Dec 2: New York, NY – Riverside Symphony and Vox n Plux

Dec 6: New York, NY – Composers Concordance- A celebration of Jimi Hendrix

Dec 8: New York, NY – Cygnus Ensemble at the Morgan Library-Hemmingway between two wars

And stay tuned for shows in 2016:

Jan 29, 2016: New York, NY – Festival Chamber Music

February 25-26 Talea Ensemble

May 10 Milton Babbitt Centennial! Location TBA! Will include the Anderson-Fader Duo performing the work written for them, Solo e Duettini.

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New CD from Masatora Goya

Release Date: October 9, 2015

Catalog #: RR7914

DREAM OF SAILING

Masatora Goya

OVERVIEW

It is often not until the brutal weight of loss and grief bears down upon us that we are forced to ponder the meaning of life and reconsider our own path of existence. Composer Masatora Goya presents his debut Ravello Records release, DREAM OF SAILING, a collection of chamber works inspired by the life and passing of Goya’s father, Masahiro.

As a hard working marine engineer, Masahiro dedicated great lengths of time at sea, often spending months away from his family. The ocean was where Masahiro belonged, a refuge to which he’d find himself repeatedly returning. Within this album Goya expresses a somber tribute to his father while also reflecting on his own life as a composer and man.

In the title track, guitarist Scott Hill and flutist Melanie Chirignan capture the imagined last journey of Goya’s father returning to sea, sailing into the blissful lights of a fading dawn. Where It Begins, Where It All Ends depicts the cosmic voyage of our consciousness, challenging our understanding of emotions and our place in the universe. Questioning our conception of death, the elegiac work Distance reflects on our uncertainty of and detachment from death as well as the purpose of its existence. The album concludes with Sunset on the Hudson in which guitarist Oren Fader brings to mind a beautiful sunset, fulfilling and comforting, yet at the same time unsettling and lonesome. Goya challenges listeners to accept our ultimate fate by embracing the satisfactions as well as the regrets of life.

This album features a web-application which includes liner notes, composer and performer biographies, and more:

www.ravellorecords.com/dreamofsailing

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HIGHLIGHTS

– Goya is the assistant director of Vox Novus Composer’s Voice, a concert series which provides composers an opportunity to express their own aesthetic or personal voice

– He is the recipient of the ASCAP Plus Award, the Jerome Fund for New Music, and the Diversity Doctoral Fellowship at SUNY Purchase, among others

– Goya received a BA in Integrated Human Studies from Kyoto University and a Master of Music from New Jersey City University

Alturas Duo, the group comprising of guitarist Scott Hill and violist Carlos Boltes, took first prize at the 2006 New England International Chamber Music competition and won the 2009 CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. The Duo is a Goodwill Ambassador for the Chilean-American Foundation and has recently been named Artist in Residence for the Intake Organization

– Guitarist Oren Fader can be heard on over 40 commercial recordings and has premiered over 400 contemporary guitar music, working closely with composers such as Babbitt, Boulez, Carter, Davidovsky, and David Lang. Since 1994, Fader has been on the guitar and chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music

– Violist and violinist Conway Kuo is currently the Associate Principal Second Violin of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and performs regularly with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra

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BIOGRAPHY

Masatora Goya is a composer extensively writing a new kind of chamber music for everyone. Trained as a vocal performer first, he explores the musical landscape of drama, space, and emotion. Described as a “composer of cultural crossroads” by American Composers Forum, his unique eclecticism has attracted many musicians performing in nontraditional chamber ensembles.

masatoragoya.com

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New York, NY – 08/16/15 – La Mama – Music of Andrew Sterman

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New York, New York – 07/16/15 – Spectrum NYC – Music of Neil Leonard

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New York, NY – 06/23/15 – Christ & Saint Stephen\’s Episcopal Church – Music of Judith Sainte Croix

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Newton, MA – 06/07/15 – Private Residence – Walden Chamber Players Benefit Concert

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Staten Island, NY – 06/05/15 – Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art – Musical Chairs Ensemble

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New York, NY – 05/28/15 – Bohemian National Hall – Talea Ensemble

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Dallas, TX – 05/20/15 – Nasher Sculpture Center – Music from Yellow Barn: Music on the Brink of War

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Putney, VT – 05/17/15 – Next Stage Arts – Music from Yellow Barn: Music on the Brink of War

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Boston, MA – 05/08/15 – Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston – Talea Ensemble

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Bronxville, New York – 04/28/15 – Sarah Lawrence College- Reisinger Hall – Cygnus Ensemble