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Julliard School of Music
Julliard Summer Percussion Seminar
Faculty and Friends Concert
Julliard School of Music
Room 309
North America Tour with The Silk Road Ensemble
Concert Tour of U.S. Music Festivals
The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma
- August 8: Lenox, MA – Tanglewood Music Center, Koussevitzky Music Shed
- August 9: New Bedford, MA – Zeiterion Theatre
- August 11: Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for the Performing Arts
- August 12: Rochester, NY – CMAC Performing Arts Center
- August 14: Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center
- August 15: Detroit, MI – Orchestra Hall
- August 17: Chapel Hill, NC – Memorial Auditorium, UNC Chapel Hill
- August 19: Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
- August 20: Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival, Ravinia Pavilion
- August 22: Madison, WI – Overture Center for the Arts
Stillwater Music Festival, MN
Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Time: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Southern Theater
Tickets: $25
Southern Theater box office: 612.340.1725
1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55454
http://www.southerntheater.org/
University of California, Irvine
2010-2011 Chamber Series
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8 p.m.
Winifred Smith Hall
Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi
special guest – Joseph Gramley, percussion
Themed on notions of the cyclical drawing inspiration from Walt Whitman to the number 108, UCI music faculty member Kojiro Umezaki presents a program of new works for shakuhachi, percussion, and technology. Joining him will be special guest and fellow Silk Road Ensemble member, Joseph Gramley, Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
Orange County, CA (Bowers Museum)
Performance of “108″ w/ Faraz Minooei (santur).
New York City (Drom)
Breathing Over Time and Space
NakaNaka celebrates an incredible first year of performances and events by such artists as KODO, On Ensemble, Ned Rothenberg, Miles Okazaki, Masuo Yoshiaki, Adam Rudolph and more. For this special event, curator Kaoru Watanabe has invited the acclaimed flute innovator Robert Dick shakuhachi player and composer Kojiro Umezaki, tabla player Deep Singh and other special guests for a gorgeous mélange of eastern and western instruments.
New York City (Angel Orensanz) with Brooklyn Rider
Courtesy: Brooklyn Rider Newsletter (March 8, 2010)
CD release show and the live exhibition of the Brooklyn Rider Art Gallery in NYC!
Brooklyn Rider would love to invite you to a celebration of our new album, Dominant Curve, (released on In a Circle Records), along with a one-night-only showing of the Brooklyn Rider Art Gallery on Monday, March 15 at one of our favorite venues in New York – the Angel Orensanz Foundation. We are excited to take this opportunity to perform the album in its entirety. Along with the album’s centerpiece, Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, we will present four new works created for Brooklyn Rider in 2009 by our friends: Kojiro Umezaki, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky and Justin Messina, as well as our very own composer-in-residence, violinist Colin Jacobsen.
The extraordinary fin de siecle world of Claude Debussy and his friendship with many well-known musicians, writers, and artists of his day serves as a model and source of inspiration for us. In this spirit, the March 15 event will also introduce the Brooklyn Rider Art Gallery, normally exhibited as a virtual gallery housed on our website at www.brooklynrider.com. The gallery celebrates artists of diverse backgrounds and means of expression who are united by common creative energies and through their friendships with the members of Brooklyn Rider. On display for one night only will be selected works of Golnar Adili, Mary Frank, William Merkens, Kevork Mourad and Andrew Nofsinger. Boston-based artist Lennie Peterson’s visual responses to the music on Dominant Curve, which are featured in the album’s accompanying booklet, will be exhibited as well.
We hope you join us for this very special night. You’ll find all the info you need below. We encourage you to get tickets soon!
In a Circle Presents: “Dominant Curve” – Brooklyn Rider CD release party + Art gallery opening.
Date & time: Monday, March 15, 2010
Doors open at 6:30pm (gallery viewing);
Performance at 7:30pm
Venue: Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk street. F train to 2nd Ave.
Program:
Colin Jacobsen – “Achille’s Heel”
Kojiro Umezaki – “(Cycles) what falls must rise”
Dmitri Yanov -Yanovski – “…al niente”
John Cage, arr. Justin Messina – “In a Landscape”
Claude Debussy - String Quartet in g minor, op. 10
Performing Artists: Brooklyn Rider, Kojiro Umezaki; shakuhachi and live electronics, Justin Messina; live electronics
Art Exhibition: Golnar Adili, Mary Frank, William Merkens, Kevork Mourad, Andrew Nofsinger, Lennie Peterson
Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 at the door. Advance tickets available here.
What people are saying about our new album:
Huffington Post “Outfits like Brooklyn Rider, and its excellent recent release Dominant Curve, are bringing a much needed fresh image to the Western classical world. The key to the success of any music genre is evolution.”
Chicago Reader “Superb”
TimeOut Chicago “One of the most inventive and thrilling albums of the year”
Toronto Star “The precision and control in the playing is stunning.”
Northwest Reverb “Brooklyn Rider shows deep artistic maturity and a spiritual essence bordering on the psychedelic… Exciting and fresh, Dominant Curve is full of worthwhile new material as well as a valid and imaginative interpretation of the Debussy string quartet.”
Emusic “Even more ambitious and far-ranging disc”
The Mail and Globe “…The Cage arrangement is beautifully cosmic…”
Lucid Culture “…Hypnotically beautiful, stunningly imaginative…”
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