THE LAB:GALLERY Presents INTERSECTION February 10-March 2, 2012
THE LAB:MUSIC Dos Sonidos February 12th 2012
Posted on 03. Feb, 2012 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events
Duo Sonidos brings together the talents of violinist William Knuth and guitarist Adam Levin. The duo is at the vanguard of the guitar chamber music world, forging relationships with contemporary composers with the mission of expanding the duo repertoire. In November 2010 Duo Sonidos released their debut album Duo Sonidos, and subsequently, were awarded first prize at the 2010 Luys Milan International Chamber Music Competition in Valencia, Spain. Levin and Knuth have performed throughout the United States and Europe and have been honored as U.S. Fulbright Scholars in the field of music performance in Madrid, Spain and Vienna.
The mission of the New York City Classical Guitar Society is to provide a framework for the shared enjoyment and exploration of the classical guitar in New York City, and to promote awareness and appreciation of its heritage and influence across musical genres, bringing together performers, composers, supporting members of the guitar community, and the listening public in ways that enrich the experience of all.nyccgs.com
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 (paid at door, cash only)
Reservations: call 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Find more information about the series HERE
The series is co-sponsored by the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
Music: Classical Guitar Concert with Jerome Mouffe January 8th, 2012
Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel
Jerome Mouffe January 8th 2012, 4pm
Jerome Mouffe is a virtuoso guitarist from Belgium who has dazzled international audiences with his passionate and spontaneous playing. Jerome has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the Unites States and Western Europe. He released his debut CD, Capriccio, in 2009 on the VGo Recordings label. The album features early nineteenth century virtuoso Italian music. Jerome has a Masters Degree from the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium and a Postgraduate Diploma at the Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg, in Austria. He is currently a doctorate candidate at the New England Conservatory in Boston, under the direction of Eliot Fisk.
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017
Cross Street: 47th Street and Lexington Avenue
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Tickets: $15 (paid at door, cash only)
Reservations: call 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Find more information about the series HERE
The series is co-sponsored by the New York City Classical Guitar Society.
A Concert for New York for the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11—In Remembrance and Renewal
Posted on 06. Sep, 2011 by Birdsong in Arts, Community, Events
Without fail, some of the best performers from around the world find their way to NYC on a regular basis. There’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall for classical music, as well as a myriad of venues for contemporary music. Whether it’s metal, or folk, there is a tune for all ears to be found within the city limits. This month it seems appropriate to highlight a musical event surrounding the milestone of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
A Concert for New York for the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11—In Remembrance and Renewal
(via nycgo.com) Conductor Alan Gilbert leads the the New York Philharmonic in a free performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection,” with soprano Dorothea Röschmann, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the New York Choral Artists. The concert will be broadcast live in the Lincoln Center Plaza. For more information on acquiring tickets, which are required, please visit nyphil.org/
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@RSHotel: Wired – Claire Chase and Eric Lamb Flute Concert (Video Archive 5/22/11)
Posted on 22. May, 2011 by Birdsong in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Events
@RSHotel: Wired – Claire Chase and Eric Lamb, Flutes
Claire Chase and Eric Lamb = are the flute section of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and have been playing together since a chance encounter in the summer of 1997 on Cape Cod convinced them that they had been separated at birth. Since then, Claire and Eric – often referred to as the duo “Wired” – have played hundreds of concerts together, and have cultivated a tight-knit virtuosity and emotional chemistry well-suited to the challenges of contemporary repertoire, premiering dozens of new duo works for the entire family of flutes. Equally at home with baroque, classical, romantic, and experimental repertoire as well as with new directions in electro-acoustic music and improvisation, they have performed as a duo throughout the US and Europe and given duo master classes recently at Northwestern University, Smith College and the Wiesbaden Academy of Music in Germany.
PROGRAM
Telemann: Canonic Sonata in g minor
Toru Takemitsu: Masque for two flutes
Richard Barrett: Binary for two flutes
W.F. Bach: Sonata for two flutes
Marcos Balter: Edgewater for alto and bass flutes
Mario Diaz de Leon: Altar of Two Serpents for two alto flutes
G.P. Telemann: Canonic Sonata in G Major
Lynn McGrath: Classical Guitar Concert (video)
Posted on 06. May, 2011 by Birdsong in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series: Lynn McGrath
Sunday, May 8, 2011, at 4:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by New York City Classical Guitar Society and The Roger Smith Hotel
Frank Wallace and John Olson, series co-curators
Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue at East 47th Street
New York City (see map)
Tickets $15, cash only at the door. For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 755-1400.
Lynn McGrath has performed and given masterclasses for prominent guitar programs including the University of Veracruz (Mexico) and Oberlin Conservatory, and has appeared on a number of arts series and for colleges across the United States. In 2008, she completed a 6-concert tour of Peru, and has been an outreach artist for organizations such as the Austin Classical Guitar Society and the Da Camera Society (Los Angeles). She has appeared as a soloist with the Northern New York, has adjudicated a number of international competitions, and in 2009 was selected as the clinician and conductor of the Albuquerque Honors Guitar Group.
After having received degrees in Spanish Language and Literature, Education, and Music, Lynn received her Master and Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Southern California. She has studied with some of today’s most prominent guitarists, including William Kanengiser, Pepe Romero, James Smith, and Douglas Rubio. Lynn McGrath is a former faculty member of the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam, where she received a Student Choice Award in 2006. She serves as the Tour Director for the Guitar Foundation of America and presently lives and teaches in Albuquerque, NM.
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series: Nicholas Ciraldo @RSHotel 4/10 @4pm
Posted on 05. Apr, 2011 by Birdsong in Arts, Chamber Music Series, Events, Hotel
Nicholas Ciraldo celebrates his hot-off-the-press Villa-Lobos CD with a concert at The Roger Smith Hotel 4pm this Sunday – Solarium.
Praised as “an exceptionally musical and accomplished guitarist,” Nicholas Ciraldo is a leader among his generation of American classical guitarists. He has won awards and reached high levels at several prestigious solo competitions, including the Tredrez-Locquemau International Guitar Competition (France), twice at the MTNA Guitar Competition (USA), the Gaetano Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition (Italy), the GFA Solo Guitar Competition (USA), and the Portland International Guitar Competition (USA). Ciraldo has enjoyed numerous solo, chamber, and concerto performances throughout the United States, South America, and Europe, from Boston’s Jordan Hall to Berlin’s Berliner Dom to Brazil’s Teatro José Maria Santos. An avid chamber musician, Nicholas Ciraldo has collaborated with many fine performing artists, including harpist Franziska Huhn, flutist Thomas Robertello, guitarist Eliot Fisk, violinist Stephen Redfield, and the Quadrivium Guitar Quartet. Currently, Dr. Ciraldo enjoys a busy concert schedule with his wife, flutist Rachel Taratoot Ciraldo, as the Ciraldo Duo. Their recent concert venues include the National Flute Association Convention, the Pelican State Chamber Music Series of Baton Rouge, the Christ Church of Pensacola, and the Escola da musica e bellas artes do Parana, Brazil.
A participating member of the arts community, Nicholas Ciraldo has held diverse positions with several arts organizations, including Artistic Director of the Boston Classical Guitar Society and Vice President of the Austin Classical Guitar Society. Dr. Ciraldo is also founder of the Hammer/Nail Project, a program that links student composers with guitarists and shows how to write for the guitar in the most idiomatic way possible. He currently serves as faculty advisor to the USM Guitar Society.
Another of Dr. Ciraldo’s activities is as artist/teacher. The Quadrivium Guitar Quartet performed as artists-in-residence throughout rural Kentucky under the auspices of New Performing Arts. The Ciraldo Duo twice has been invited by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Classical Guitar Society to be artists/teachers-in- residence. Dr. Ciraldo has given numerous lectures and masterclasses throughout the U.S. and Brazil. Dr. Ciraldo is on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Music in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Nicholas Ciraldo holds a Bachelor of Music from Indiana University, where he studied with Ernesto Bitetti and Luis Zea. He also holds a Master of Music with Academic Honors from the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with David Leisner and Eliot Fisk. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with Adam Holzman and received the Freeman Fellowship. His most recent research involved the “1928 Manuscript” of the Villa-Lobos guitar studies.
For more information about Nicholas Ciraldo, please visit www.usm.edu/music.
In a (video) Nutshell: Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Concerts
Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by danikadruttman in Arts, Chamber Music Series, Events, Hotel
Introduction to the Talea Ensemble
Sunday February 27th 2011, 4pm
Talea Ensemble: Buddhism in Music
Koan (1971) James Tenney
for solo viola (1934-2006)
Ji No. 7: Motionless Water (1997) Qu Xiaosong
for solo violin (b. 1952)
Lotuses (1992) Jonathan Harvey
for flute, violin, viola and cello (b. 1939)
Sunday March 27th 2011, 4pm
New York Miniature Ensemble: Works of 100 Notes or Fewer
Sunday April 24th 2011, 4pm
The Talea Ensemble: Language and Text in Music
Classical Guitar Concert with Isaac Bustos This Sunday!
Posted on 10. Mar, 2011 by danikadruttman in Arts, Events, Hotel
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series
presents:
ISAAC BUSTOS
March 13th 2011, 4pm
Tickets: $15, includes Wine & Cheese
Classical Guitarist Isaac Bustos enjoys an extensive performing career that has taken him to Canada, Central America, Europe and all over The United States. Bustos has gained critical acclaim and is recognized as one of the top guitarists of his generation. He has made radio and television appearances and has been invited to perform in some of the most prestigious festivals: Guitar Foundation of America Annual Convention, Portland Guitar Festival, Southwest Guitar Festival, Brownsville Guitar Festival and the Classical Minds Festival. Bustos has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestra of New Spain, The Baytown Symphony Orchestra, The Nicaraguan National Symphony Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro JoAnn Falletta.
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals.
Click HERE for the full 2011 schedule
For concert reservations email us
QUICK INFORMATION
The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert
With Isaac Bustos
Presented by Roger Smith Arts and The New York Classical Guitar Society
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
March 13th 2011, 4pm
Price: $15 includes Wine and Cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
For more information: http://rogersmithlife.com/art/art-at-rsh/second-sundays-classical-guitar-concert-series-20102011-schedule
February 27th: Chamber Music Series, Buddhism in Music
Posted on 15. Feb, 2011 by danikadruttman in Arts, Chamber Music Series, Hotel
The Talea Ensemble explores the influence of Buddhist thought and practice in contemporary music. Buddhism plays a central role in Jonathan Harvey’s output, from the purely metaphysical musical treatment of materials to the thematic inspiration of his pieces, and “Lotuses” is an example of both. Qu Xiaosong’s quietly meditative music works within the space between silence and very limited but essential gestures. James Tenney’s “Koan” is a selection from his “Postal Pieces,” conceptual works with performance instructions etched onto the back of postcards. In Zen Buddhism, a koan is a philosophical proposition or question, often without an immediate solution. Tenney’s work consists of a simple upward-ascending figure, yet its execution and duration is open to interpretation
Once a month, the Talea Ensemble curates The Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Concert in The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel. The series aims to promote the accessibility of contemporary classical music; each concert focuses on one single piece by dissecting its inner-workings, while considering the external factors of its conception and existence. The concerts are interactive in that the audience is considered an equal participant in the performance; they are encouraged to ask questions and participate in discussions after the music is performed. The reception immediately following serves as a platform for discussion of the work among people of all ages and backgrounds.
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals.
For further information please call 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
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QUICK INFORMATION
The Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series with the Talea Ensemble
Buddhism in Music
Presented by Roger Smith Arts
The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
Sunday February 27th at 4pm
Price: $15 includes wine and cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212-339-2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
For more information: www.rogersmithlife.com/fourth_sundays
January 23rd: Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Concert with Wet Ink Ensemble
Posted on 10. Jan, 2011 by danikadruttman in Arts, Chamber Music Series, Events, Hotel
Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series
presents Wet Ink Ensemble
January 23rd 2011 at 4pm
The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel
Tickets $15, inc. wine and cheese selection
Wet Ink Ensemble presents a program of intimate duos and trios based on music for the voice and linked by a sonic and thematic focus on loss, memory, and fragmentation. Austrian composer Mathias Spahlinger’s haunting adieu m’amour for violin and cello, the final work on the program, offers a skeletal, enigmatic tracing of an early Renaissance rondeau of the same name by Guillaume Dufay, transforming the original work (programmed in an arrangement for voice and instruments) into halting whispers and strained fragments. These two works will be preceded by György Kurtág’s elusive S.K. Remembrance Noise for violin and soprano, a set of ruminative mood sketches with text by Deszö Tandori, and Kate Soper’s Only the Words Mean What They Say, a virtuosic duo for flute and voice on texts by Lydia Davis which explore the difficulty of communicating reason and logic to the visceral realms of emotion and body. All of the works present an intimate human relationship between the performers, and invite the listener to consider the possibility of closure and catharsis in music for and about the voice.
PROGRAM
Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say for soprano and flute (2010-2011)
by Kate Soper
S.K. Remembrance Noise for soprano and violin (19754-1975)
György Kurtág’s
Adieu m’Amour for three voices (ca. 1440)
by Guillaume Dufay
adieu m’amour (Homage á Guillaume Dufay) for violin and cello (1982-1983)
by Mathias Spahlinger
Once a month, the Talea Ensemble curates The Fourth Sundays Chamber Music concert in The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel. The series aims to promote the accessibility of contemporary classical music. Each concert focuses on one single piece by dissecting its inner-workings, while considering the external factors of its conception and existence. The concerts are interactive in that the audience is considered an equal participant in the performance; they are encouraged to ask questions and participate in discussions after the music is performed. The reception immediately following serves as a platform for discussion of the work among people of all ages and backgrounds.
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts-production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought-after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces concerts, readings, performances, installations, and lectures, all with leading creative intellectuals.
For further information please call 212.339.2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
QUICK INFO:
The Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series with Wet Ink Ensemble
Presented by Roger Smith Arts
The Penthouse at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (Map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
January 23rd at 4pm
Price: $15 includes wine and cheese (pay at door, cash only)
Reservations: 212-339-2092 or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
For more information: www.rogersmithlife.com/fourth_sundays
