Cygnus @ Amphibian: works by Greenbaum, Rakowski, Babbitt, Suzuki, Claman & Biscardi 4/3 @ 8pm

Cygnus Ensemble Photo: Jeffrey Hornstein

Amphibian
presents
Cygnus Ensemble
performing Venerable Canons featuring works by
Greenbaum, Rakowski, Babbitt, Suzuki, Claman & Biscardi
featuring Re’ut Ben Ze’ev, mezzo-soprano

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 8pm, Hi Art! Gallery

AMPHIBIAN concert series presents New Music & Video featuring Cygnus Ensemble performing Venerable Canons, works by Matthew Greenbaum, David Rakowski, Milton Babbitt, Shoko Suzuki, David Claman and Chester Biscardi on Tuesday, April 3^rd at 8pm.  Mezzo-soprano Re’ut Ben Ze’ev will be a special guest.  The performance will be at the Hi Art! Gallery, 227 West 29^th Street, Studio 4R in New York.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012
8pm
Hi Art! Gallery
227 West 29^th Street
Studio 4R
New York, New York
Tickets:  $15; $10 for students

About the Program

Venerable Canons, for flute & violin
by Matthew Greenbaum

Sho gyo mu jo for theorbo & baritone
by Shoko Suzuki

gone for foreign, for tutti Cygnus
by David Claman

Resisting Stillness, for two guitars
by Chester Biscardi

Soli e Duettini, for two guitars
by Milton Babbitt

Zyg Zag, for tutti Cygnus
by David Rakowski

Rope and Chasm,
for mezzo, electronic sounds and video
by Matthew Greenbaum

About Cygnus Ensemble

Critically acclaimed Cygnus was founded in 1985 by guitarist and composer William Anderson. The group’s core instrumental formation consists of winds and strings in pairs, as well as a pair of plucked string players who, together, cover classical and electric guitars, theorbo (a giant Baroque lute), mandolin, and tenor banjo. The instrumentation has roots in the Elizabethan “broken consort” (combining instruments from different families), but Cygnus moves freely from the Baroque sound world into newgrass, electronica, and world music.

Cygnus proudly celebrates its unflagging commitment to a great number of diverse American composers, and has had numerous key modernist and postmodernist works composed especially for them including Milton Babbitt’s Swan Song No. 1, David Lang’s Warmth and Sebastian Currier’s Broken Consort. The ensemble has produced many CDs, and has given concerts in the US, Europe and Latin America. The ensemble’s recording of American composer Harold Meltzer’s “Brion” (Naxos 8.559660) received accolades as one of the best recordings of 2010. Cygnus is currently in residence at Sarah Lawrence College and the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. In February/March, 2012 Cygnus was in residence at the Library of Congress to inaugurate the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Music Fund concerts there. For more information, please go to www.cygnusensemble.com

CYGNUS ENSEMBLE:

Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Robert Ingliss, oboe
Calvin Wiersma, violin
Susannah Chapman, ‘cello
Oren Fader, guitar
William Anderson, guitar, mandolin, tenor banjo

Here’s a video clip of a recent concert I played with Christopher Creviston, saxophonist.

(LIVE) “Three Episodes” (2007) by Gregory Wanamaker (b.1968), mvt. III. Spasm

Here are some interesting shows I’m playing in March. Hope to see you there!

March 5: NYC Piazzolla- History of the Tango with Barry Crawford, flute

March 7: Washington, D.C. Cygnus Ensemble at the Library of Congress

March 9-11: NYC Fireworks Ensemble performs with Risa Jaroslow and Dancers

March 25: NYC Ensemble ACJW Adams; Gnarly Buttons

March 31: Troy, NY Talea Ensemble at Empac; works of Romitelli