Tom Blatt is a sculptor, bassist, composer, open water swimmer and lives in Brooklyn NY.
The daughter of Las Vegas bassist Kenny Greig, Stephanie grew up listening to live music, from the musicians' union rehearsal bands playing Count Basie and Duke Ellington charts to the eclectic mix of music in the hotels on the Las Vegas Strip. At age fourteen, she was playing guitar in her father's pop quartet and in blues, funk and rock groups with her peers. With a lifelong love for the great Broadway composers, she devoted herself to learning the Great American Songbook. She studied composition at Smith College, focusing on the intersection of music and theater, particularly the Brecht-Weill collaborations. After a few years acting in small theaters, she acquired an upright bass and began playing in jazz groups in New York. She has played with bands in a variety of settings all over the New York area as well as Spain, Japan and Curacao. She is currently double bass principal in the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.
Stephanie Greig
Award-winner musician, Jinhee Han, started composing in her late teens. Han’s promising musical gift earned her full-time scholarships for both her bachelor and masters degrees and graduated with Cum Laude, at HanYang University in Seoul, Korea. After, She earned Professional Study Diploma in Music Composition with Robert Cuckson as a scholarship recipient from The New School, Mannes College, May. 2015.
Throughout her career, Han has had several original concert works premiere including orchestra pieces in her hometown of Seoul, Korea, Israel, Ukraine, London, Canada, Texas, Connecticut, Los Angeles, New Jersey and New York.
Recently, Han’s works selected for several festivals and workshop such as Music festivals such as SCNMF, Vox Faminae 3rd Edition, Musica per Archi, Women Composers Festival of Hartford, and Groundswell. In her most recent notable project, Yaygara for trumpet solo has been published for new music by women composers on CD by trumpeter, Kate Amrine. She serves as Founder/Director for AWCANYC(awcanyc.com), where she collaborates with a variety of talented musicians.
Tom Blatt
Jinhee Han
Composers
produced in association with
Robert Morton, Stephanie Greig
Asian Women Composers Association (AWCANYC)
Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 8:00 pm
Featuring jazzy compositions inspired words of:
deception, exaggeration, betrayal, or downright lies
for Jazz Ensemble (Piano, Bass, Drums, Bass Trombone, Violin, Clarinet)
56 Willoughby St.
Downtown Brooklyn
$10 suggested donation at door
(or pay what you can)
Compositions by:
tom blatt
Dreams I & II
for Jazz Ensemble
We all dream but we don’t always remember our dreams.
Perhaps this could be a dream half remembered from long ago.
tom blatt
Brooklyn NY
Jasper Davis
Marquinhos No Frevo
for Jazz Ensemble
Timothy Goplerud
Around the World in 6 Minutes
for Double Bass and Clarinet
A suite in three movements for clarinet and double bass, each influenced by a very different place. The first movement, “New York Minute-And-A-Half”, evokes the frantic pace of life in our fair city. “Cowboy Lullaby” describes a slower paced life lived out on the range. And “Dancing Camel” is a loose-limbed rhumba suggestive of a slightly inebriated dromedary..
Stephanie Greig
Ghost Fires
for Jazz Ensemble
Ignis fatuus (fool’s fire), swamp-fire, will-o’-the-wisps, ghost-lights are different names
for a light phenomenon caused by gas escaping from a swamp at night. It is often
mistaken for lanterns or evil spirits and can confuse travelers, leading them into danger.
It brings to mind the Twitter troll bots that derail conversations
with hateful invective - a mirage of aggression made to mislead and exhaust,
an adversary which is not alive and therefore never tires.
Jin Hee Han
Macina di San Cresci in Chianti
for Jazz Ensemble
inspired by the place where a slow life has started.
Writing a jazz piece is very different from writing contemporary concert music
as a classically trained composer with my misinformed jazz knowledge!
In this context, it's the place I experienced - between imagination and reality in Chianti.
Rose Kow Xiu Yi
Seadrageon
for Piano, Drums, Violin, and Bass Trombone
Chris Kadis Moscato
Ocjeic Swinging Blues
for Jazz ensemble
In tribute to the 1956 jazz festival in Sopot, Poland.
Jazz in Poland had been wiped out during the Second World War.
The Nazi's considered it degenerate. After the war ended in 1945, many of those Poles who had both fled and fought abroad in Western Europe brought with them a new-found love for jazz, and the jazz scene began to thrive again. But by 1956, public discontent with the regime was growing, sparked by the promise of the 'Thaw' that followed the recent death of Josef Stalin and resentment at the killing of anti-government protesters in the town of Poznan. Communist officials nervously assented to Poland's first ever jazz festival, one of the first ever in Europe, in Sopot. Under the watchful eye of the secret police, 50 thousand Poles experienced a new culture. The annual Sopot festivals continue.
Kyoko Oyobe
A First Step
for Jazz Trio (Piano, Double Bass, Drums)
Kyoko Oyobe
Home
for Jazz Quartet (Piano, Double Bass, Drums, Violin)
Kyoko Oyobe
Invention No. 13
for Jazz Trio (Piano, Double Bass, Drums)
Kyoko Oyobe
This Is May Way
for Jazz Trio (Piano, Double Bass, Drums)
Gene Pritsker
The Misinformation Effect
for Jazz Ensemble
Ann Warren
Three generations of imbeciles (are enough)
for Jazz Ensemble
The longest program note that I've ever written - please bear with me!
In 1924 Virginia statute authorized compulsory sterilization of intellectually
disabled for the purpose of eugenics. Shortly thereafter, Dr. John Bell represented
the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded when it filed a petition
to sterilize Carrie Buck, an 18-year-old patient at his institution who he claimed
had a mental age of 9, maintaining that she represented a genetic threat
to society and claiming that Carrie’s 52-year-old mother possessed
mental age of 8 and had a record of prostitution and immorality.
Carrie had been adopted and attended school for five years, reaching
the level of sixth grade, when she gave birth to an illegitimate child, Vivian.
Her adopted family committed her to the State Colony as “incorrigible”
and “feeble-minded” stating that it was no longer feeling capable of caring for her.
It was later discovered that Carrie's pregnancy was not caused by any “immorality”
on her own part. In the summer of 1923, her adoptive mother's nephew raped Carrie,
and her commitment has been seen as an attempt by the family to save their reputation.
The case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
argued that the interest of public welfare outweighed the interest of individuals
in their bodily integrity, stating, “We have seen more than once that the
public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange
if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State
for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned,
to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world,
if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them
starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly
unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory
vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”
Holmes declared that,
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough”
Carrie Buck received a tubal ligation and was later paroled from the institution
as a domestic worker to a family in Bland, Virginia. She was an avid reader
until her death in 1983. Her daughter Vivian had been pronounced “feeble minded”
after a cursory examination stating that she “showed backwardness”
thus the “three generations” of the majority opinion.
Vivian did very well in school for the two years that she attended
(she died of complications from measles in 1932),
even being listed on her school's honor roll in April 1931.
Kyoko Oyobe - Piano
John Lang - Double Bass
Robert Weiss - Drums
Rose Kow Xiu Yi - Violin
Jasper Davis - Bass Trombone
Tim Goplerud - Clarinet
Artist Bios
Take a look at a really interesting group of artists!
Perfomers
AWCANYC is a composers' cooperative founded by Jin Hee Han.
Composers represent diverse ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds.
It thrives through the active participation of its members working
on individual projects to empower composers to create change
in their communities through music, allowing them to share their stories.
AWCANYC
LIFE THROUGH MUSIC
Hailing from Houston, Texas, trombonist Jasper Davis is a freelance performer in New York City with a wide array of genres and styles at his disposal. From late-night salsa with La Pacha Mambo in Brooklyn dives, to symphony orchestras such as the New York International Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Jasper is constantly seeking new and exciting opportunities to expand his musical palette. One such opportunity is his position with the Asian Cultural Symphony, a New York orchestra celebrating the performance of traditional Chinese music. As a member of the bass trombone/violin duo and production team Contrafunktus, Jasper has premiered new works by New York's own local composers, and has also worked in conjunction with Dave Taylor to win The Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition. Positions of note include a spot on the San Antonio Symphony and Symphony in C sub lists, the Tanglewood BUTI Symphony Orchestra, the City of Houston's MUSIQA Brass Septet, and the Texas Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Jasper received his undergraduate degree in Instrumental Performance from the University of Houston, and is currently a second year Master's student in Orchestral Performance at the Manhattan School of Music. His primary teachers are Steve Norrell, Ilan Morgenstern, and Phillip Freeman.
With "a tone to die for" (The Straits Times), Rose is equally at home as soloist and chamber musician. Her playing has taken her to festivals all across Europe and the US, such as the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival, Berlin Young Euro-Classics, and Florence International Music Festival. She holds Associate and Licentiate diplomas in violin performance from Trinity College London, and is currently finishing up the last semester of her Bachelor's degree in classical violin at the Manhattan School of Music, under the tutelage of Lucie Robert and Curtis Macomber.
Jasper Davis
Rose Kow Xiu Yi
Timothy Goplerud is a composer who enjoys mixing classical and popular musical elements. In a previous life, he was an orchestral and jazz bassist, but he’s focused on writing music these days. For samples of his work and more biographical details, visit www.goplerud.com.
Timothy Goplerud
Chris Kadis Moscato grew up in NYC where he attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights and the pre-college division of the Juilliard School of Music. As his primary and secondary instruments, he studied french horn with Ann Ellsworth and violin with Louise Behrend. During his high school years he started listening to his mother’s vintage Greek records, which began his interest in world music and subsequently his interest in fusion music composition.
From 2001-2005 he attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH where he studied composition with Jon Appleton and Charles Dodge. The summer of his junior year he received a Dickey Center grant to study Turkish classical music in Istanbul, Turkey where he learned to play the saz baglama (Turkish lute). The fall of his senior year he wrote his first fusion work for western orchestra, “Transformation: for oud and orchestra”.
From 2006 to 2008 he returned to Juilliard where he studied electro-acoustic music. While at Juilliard he founded the company Fourmo Music Productions to act as a vehicle for his love of film, theater and classical dance music .
Since 2006, he has worked both in the commercial and art worlds with works performed throughout the Tri-State Area. Recently, he has expanded into Tokyo, Japan where he is working on the film, Kings of Karaoke.
Check out his website at www.chiskadismoscato.com
Chris Kadis Moscato
In 1999, I founded Concrete Timbre as a studio performance group to create and record new music compositions, soundscapes, sound installations, and several theatrical sound designs. In 2005 we moved out of the studio and have since produced contemporary music in theatrical settings as well as theater performances that feature live music and sound including: 4 Wars, Folie Pure, Coq tôt, Satie's Birthday Party, Un Lieu de Vie, Anna Strong's Laundry, Age of Pain(e), Voices of justice and consangunity..., Dziewczyna, A/K/A Benjamin (Franklin's Women) and several salon series. Each of these interdisciplinary productions featured the talents of more than 20 artists.
As a composer and sound designer, my compositions have been performed at many (many!) innovative performance spaces in New York, Paris, Baltimore, Buffalo, California, and Florida. I’ve been lucky to work with some really inspiring interdisciplinary artists with a flair for the contemporary (!)
So for now, I try to keep the music great, the story interesting, the visuals stimulating, and the movement fresh - and of course, then wind them into a spectacular melange. Merde!
For more information, visit www.AnnWarren.net.
Ann Warren
We are not invisible. We are not powerless.
We make a difference.
Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J. Gene Pritsker has written over five hundred fifty compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble and co-director of Composers' Concordance. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camarata, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn, Shanghai and Berlin Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Riga, Orchester des Pfalztheaters, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Anhaltische Philharmonie as well as such soloists as Anne Akiko Meyers, Lara St. John, Kathleen Supove, Sarah Chang, Martin Kuuskmann and Simone Dinnerstein. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, Including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote additional music and composed his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony', to be released in 2015
The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Classical Music Sentinel writes: "His expressive reach is so wide as to encompass everything from ethno/techno, rock/jazz fusion, classical opera and more, and it all seems to be effortlessly integrated within his anima and comes out through different facets of his persona. You could almost see him as a modern day renaissance man.
He is the co-director of Composers' Concordance (CC Records), co-founder/guitarist of Absolute Ensemble and artist-in residence at the Austrian Outreach Festival.
Gene Pritsker
Kyoko Oyobe
Japanese-born pianist, composer Kyoko Oyobe has been a mainstay in the New York jazz scene since 2005. She plays regularly in the area and also tours in Japan. For the past five years she has been composing and arranging for her trio with Michael O’Brien and Clifford Barbaro with whom she plays regularly in the New York area and also tours with in Japan. As her musical compositions evolved, she recently crafted a new vehicle for her prolific writing and arranging skills with The Kyoko Oyobe Quartet featuring Steve Wilson, Michael O’Brien and Matt Wilson; an open and adventurous musical collaboration that render a magical performance.
Kyoko Oyobe is a gifted artist who explores different modes of expression conveyed within a subtext of intimacy found in duets with trumpeters, like Tom Harrell and Joe Magnerelli or through original compositions inspiring and reflected in novels by the renowned Japanese novelist, Rui Kodemari.
She travels through music instilling an essence and distinct color that borrow from Be-Bop to Brazilian and Free Jazz to French-Impressionist, early 20th century voicings, yet sealing her own inimitable style.
John is a bassist, composer and arranger working in a number of diverse settings. Based in New York, he is seen regularly as such clubs as Birdland, Smalls, The Silver Lining and Little Branch among others. A versatile performer, John plays funk, straight-ahead jazz, afro-cuban, rock, blues and is equally at home on acoustic, baby and electric bass. He has played with the John Merrill Trio, The Robyn Payne Band and in duo settings with pianists Larry Ham, Tardo Hammer and Michael Moore. Currently, he can be heard every Sunday at the Churchill pub with piano prodigy Tadataka Unno. John can be seen every Wednesday in a duo setting at The Burgundy Wine Company.
John is equally experienced as a theatre musician. He has performed in the pit orchestras of Jersey Boys and Legally Blonde on Broadway and The Immigrant and Fat Camp off-Broadway. For five years, he was the bassist for the international touring company of 100 Years of Broadway. He’s arranged for Norm Lewis, star of The Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess and arranged and performed in The Bobby Beautiful Radio Show, a recreation of a 1940s radio show.
In demand as a studio musician, arranger and composer, John’s work can be heard on the cast recording of The Adventures of Flat Stanley, Brother Han’s Debut CD, Natalie Toro’s self-titled debut CD and Rita Harvey’s latest album, At Home.
John Lang
Robert Weiss has over 25 years experience as a professional musician and has lived in Brooklyn since 2000. In his native Los Angeles, he studied drum set with the late Kay Carlson, a renowned teacher, for many years, then earned a BA in Communication with a Minor in Music Performance with honors from UCSD in La Jolla, CA . He has taken lessons with jazz drummers Jeff Hamilton, Joe LaBarbara, and Michael Carvin, attended drum workshops led by Billy Higgins and studied keyboard theory and harmony privately.
Robert performed extensively on the west coast before moving to New York in 1998, and has also traveled to Canada, the Caribbean and Beijing as a musician. He has performed with rock & pop groups; blues, jazz and folk artists, big bands, dance companies and in musical theatre.
Since living in NY, he has performed at the Texaco Jazz Festival, the Hartford International Jazz Festival, Birdland Jazz Club, on the NBC TV show, "Today in New York" and at many music venues in the area. He has recorded a variety of music, including sound tracks composed for the History Channel, PBS American Masters and Turner Classic Movies.
As a music educator, Robert taught either recorder, general music, band or percussion to elementary aged students in the NYC public school system for four years and currently works after-school at Middle School 51 in Brooklyn, as well as teaching drums privately. www.robertweissmusic.com
Robert Weiss
Tim Goplerud is a composer, bassist, and clarinetist who likes mixing jazz and classical influences and writing film and concert music.
For samples of his work and more biographical details, visit www.goplerud.com.
Timothy Goplerud
Hailing from Houston, Texas, trombonist Jasper Davis is a freelance performer in New York City with a wide array of genres and styles at his disposal. From late-night salsa with La Pacha Mambo in Brooklyn dives, to symphony orchestras such as the New York International Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Jasper is constantly seeking new and exciting opportunities to expand his musical palette. One such opportunity is his position with the Asian Cultural Symphony, a New York orchestra celebrating the performance of traditional Chinese music. As a member of the bass trombone/violin duo and production team Contrafunktus, Jasper has premiered new works by New York's own local composers, and has also worked in conjunction with Dave Taylor to win The Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition. Positions of note include a spot on the San Antonio Symphony and Symphony in C sub lists, the Tanglewood BUTI Symphony Orchestra, the City of Houston's MUSIQA Brass Septet, and the Texas Music Festival Symphony Orchestra. Jasper received his undergraduate degree in Instrumental Performance from the University of Houston, and is currently a second year Master's student in Orchestral Performance at the Manhattan School of Music. His primary teachers are Steve Norrell, Ilan Morgenstern, and Phillip Freeman.
Jasper Davis
Kyoko Oyobe
Japanese-born pianist, composer Kyoko Oyobe has been a mainstay in the New York jazz scene since 2005. She plays regularly in the area and also tours in Japan. For the past five years she has been composing and arranging for her trio with Michael O’Brien and Clifford Barbaro with whom she plays regularly in the New York area and also tours with in Japan. As her musical compositions evolved, she recently crafted a new vehicle for her prolific writing and arranging skills with The Kyoko Oyobe Quartet featuring Steve Wilson, Michael O’Brien and Matt Wilson; an open and adventurous musical collaboration that render a magical performance.
Kyoko Oyobe is a gifted artist who explores different modes of expression conveyed within a subtext of intimacy found in duets with trumpeters, like Tom Harrell and Joe Magnerelli or through original compositions inspiring and reflected in novels by the renowned Japanese novelist, Rui Kodemari.
She travels through music instilling an essence and distinct color that borrow from Be-Bop to Brazilian and Free Jazz to French-Impressionist, early 20th century voicings, yet sealing her own inimitable style.
With "a tone to die for" (The Straits Times), Rose is equally at home as soloist and chamber musician. Her playing has taken her to festivals all across Europe and the US, such as the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival, Berlin Young Euro-Classics, and Florence International Music Festival. She holds Associate and Licentiate diplomas in violin performance from Trinity College London, and is currently finishing up the last semester of her Bachelor's degree in classical violin at the Manhattan School of Music, under the tutelage of Lucie Robert and Curtis Macomber.
Rose Kow Xiu Yi
