Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series: 2010/2011 Schedule
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by danikadruttman in Art at Roger Smith, Community
Concerts take place in The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Ave, at 47th Street, New York NY 10017 (map)
The Eric Hill Band at Henry’s Rooftop Bar
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by AdamWallace in Events
Henry’s welcomes Eric Hill, Oscar Rodriguez, and Justin Hill, core members of The Eric Hill Band and its Hard Rock alter ego The Clawed Frog. They will be playing songs from Eric Hill’s fourth album titled Above The Sky and songs from The Clawed Frog’s debut album Kaleidoscope. Featuring Oscar’s incredible guitar playing, Eric’s evocative vocals, and Justin’s classic foundational bass style the Trio will do everything from quiet romantic ballads to uptempo rock songs. Don’t let the lack of drums/percussion fool you.
Date: |
Tuesday, July 13 , 2010 |
Time: |
8:00pm – 10:00pm |
Location: |
Henry’s Rooftop Bar at The Roger Smith Hotel 16th Floor! |
Street: |
501 Lexington Avenue 47th/48th Street |
City/Town: |
New York, NY |
Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series: Due East
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Arts, Chamber Music Series
The award-winning contemporary music flute and percussion duo, Due East (Erin Lesser, flutes; Gregory Beyer, percussion; www.dueeast.net) will offer an electrifying program of works focused on the countless ways composers have utilized repetition/variation to focus the listener’s attention to detail.”Timeless Repetition” will take place on the Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series, curated by Elizabeth Weisser of the iO String Quartet.
Graham Fitkin “Frame”
for six-mallet marimba and flute
Alexandre Lunsqui “Diogenes Lantern.”
for solo marimba
Eric Wubbels “Shiverer”
Members of the Wet Ink Ensemble, Alex Mincek and Eric Wubbels,
join Due East flutist, Erin Lesser.
Bernhard Lang “Difference/Repetition #1″
for flute, piano and tenor saxophone
Lou Harrison “First Concerto”
for Flute and Percussion
The Solarium, The Roger Smith Hotel
tickets $15 at the door, cash only
includes wine & cheese
Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series: Jason Eckardt
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Chamber Music Series
Sunday april 25th, 4pm
The Talea Ensemble, along with the iO Quartet, presents “When Music Becomes Unruly”. The concert focuses on award-winning composer Jason Eckardt’s 16 for flute and string trio. Jason writes, “The work’s title refers to the sixteen words that should have been excised from George Bush’s January 2003 State of the Union address: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” This false claim illustrates the policy of deceit typical of the morally impoverished current administration. As an artist angered and ashamed by my country’s actions, my deepest response is expressed in my work and my faith in art’s ability to contribute to, if not transform , society.
Additionally Jason has curated the concert. Complementing his work will be Brahms’ fierce and tragic c minor String Quartet. Jason will speak about the ideas of struggle and adversity within a musical work.
The Solarium, The Roger Smith Hotel
tickets $15 on the door, cash only
includes wine and cheese
For reservations please contact 212.339.2092
or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series: Stefano Gervasoni 3/28
Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Chamber Music Series
Sunday, March 28th @ 4pm
As part of the Talea Ensemble’s Out of Italy Festival to celebrate Italian Contemporary Music, the Talea Ensemble has invited Composer Stefano Gervasoni to curate and attend the March 28th concert, which will feature his viola solo, Tornasole, Franz Schubert’s Quartettsätz and Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade performed by the iO Quartet. Mr. Gervasoni will discuss his work as well as trends in Italian Contemporary Music.
Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade
(performed by the iO Quartet)
Stefano Gervasoni Tornasole for solo viola
(performed by Elizabeth Weisser, Talea Ensemble)
Franz Schubert Quartettsätz
(performed by the iO Quartet)
The Solarium, The Roger Smith Hotel
tickets $15 on the door, cash only
includes wine and cheese
For reservations please contact 212.339.2092
or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Fourth Sunday’s Concert Series
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Chamber Music Series
New Music quartet loadbang presents a unique program of all-original music conceived by members of the group. Each member (Alejandro Acierto, bass clarinet; Jeff Gavett, baritone voice; Andy Kozar, trumpet; Will Lang, trombone) has contributed equally to the project by composing one quarter of the program.
These new pieces take advantage of loadbang’s facility in improvisation, while pushing the ensemble in new directions. Andy Kozar’s work for this concert is a kind of translation; Chinese characters are stripped of their semantic meaning and broken down into shapes to be realized as musical contours. Jeff Gavett’s work is concerned primarily with formal aspects of time. Large temporal divisions are delineated with great specificity, but the ensemble is left to fill these durations on the fly, improvising and imitating one another. Finally, one half of the group’s compositional personalities will be heard for the first time as Alejandro Acierto and Will Lang will present their premier compositions for loadbang.
All of the works to be presented are literally experimental: each performer-composer has branched out into unknown territory musically and notationally. Guided improvisation. Game pieces. Graphic scores. Loadbang’s originals straddle these categories.
The Solarium, The Roger Smith Hotel
Tickets $15 at the door, cash only
For reservations please contact 212.339.2092
or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Elena Andujar @RShotel for the love of New York and Flamenco!
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
We became friends with Elena initially through the Iberian Festival, which was an annual Spanish cultural event, held at the Rog, that featured culinary superstars such as Santi Santamaria, the Cándidos and their Cochinillos, Don Felix Duran from the paradisiacal Pyrenean town of El Quer Foradat and many, many more. With Elena’s collaboration, the festival evolved from a primarily culinary event to a broader celebration of Spanish culture and a new focus on flamenco and on Andalucia in general.
She arrived in NY that year – almost 10 years ago – with her nine year old son, Antonio, in tow and moved in to the Roger Smith for a month. During the festival, Elena sang and danced a few nights per week, with little Antonio attending each tablao and occasionally stepping out to dance a few moves or drum on the cajón…a crowd-pleasing foreshadow of the talent he would later develop! When he wasn’t performing with his mom, he would cruise the hotel, a relative Eloise let loose in a new a fabulous place, full of interesting things and people.
Elena Andujar, born of a Sevillana and a New Yorker, uses flamenco to bridge the cultures that she represents. Her work includes festivals, self-produced espectáculos, master classes and even early-stage plans to make a movie of her life story, set here and there. Her bigscreen career began when she was cast in the movie Devil’s Advocate along with flamenco great, Tomatito, to perform with Al Pacino.
So…as we knock around the idea of reviving the Iberian Festival, we’d love to hear your feedback! Let us know your thoughts!
Classical Guitarist Mattias Jacobsson, Sunday 1/10 at 4pm
Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by admin in Arts, Chamber Music Series
Mattias Jacobsson 4:00pm in the Solarium, 16th floor Roger Smith Hotel, 47th and Lexington, NYC Tickets $15 – Free wine and cheese Reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 339-2092
As the chosen guitarist for Televisión Española’s centennial celebration of Francisco Tárrega,Mattias Jacobsson has emerged as one of the up-and-coming guitarists on the international stage today. The program “Es Música” will be broadcast bi-weekly throughout 2009.
Engagements include concerto appearances in The United States and Sweden, live performances at WQXR Radio and performances with guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Aspen Music Festival where they performed music by Howard Shore from Martin Scorsese’s movie The Departed, which was later broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today to an audience of 1.1 million. In June, 2008, Mr. Jacobsson was featured in the BBC documentary series “Imagine” about Oliver Sacks; in August, 2008, he replaced Angel Romero in both Concierto de Aranjuez andFantasia para un Gentilhombre by Rodrigo; and in March, 2009, he made his debut with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.
At the age of 17, Mr. Jacobsson made his recital debut at the Stockholm International Guitar Festival on very short notice, immediately followed by a tour of Estonia, along with his first recording album containing music by Bach, Poulenc, Mertz, Lauro, Albéniz, Sor and Tárrega. Since then, he has performed with principal members of Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and The Royal Danish Opera, and has been broadcast on BBC, TVE, WQXR, NPR and SRP2, the Swedish classical radio. He has also made recital and chamber music appearances in major Swedish venues as well as Alice Tully Hall, New York.
Born in Sweden in November, 1984, Mattias Jacobsson began studying the guitar with Erik Möllerström and Bo Hansson. He continued his studies at the Malmö Academy of Music with Göran Söllscher and Gunnar Spjuth and at The Juilliard School with Sharon Isbin.
Mr. Jacobsson plays exclusively on guitars by Thomas Fredholm.
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series 2009-2010
Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by AdamWallace in Art at Roger Smith, Arts, Chamber Music Series
Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert Series 2009-2010, co-presented by the NYCCGS and RogerSmithArts, is proud to announce the 2009-2010 season.
Concerts begin at 4:00 PM and take place in the penthouse recital space of the Roger Smith Hotel, located at 501 Lexington Ave. at East 47th St. (see map).
Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese.
For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or call (212) 333-2092.
September 13 – Valerie Hartzell
October 11 – Max Zuckerman
November 8 – Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
December 13 – Anthony Bez
January 10 – Gabriel Bianco
February 14 – Thomas Viloteau
March 14 – Daniel Acsadi
April 11 – Pia Gazarek-Offermann
May 9 – Brad Richter
June 13 – Dieter Hennings
July 11 – Atanas Ourkouzounov
Guitarist Alberto J. Rodríguez-Ortiz: Nov 8th @RSH
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by AdamWallace in Arts, Chamber Music Series
“…there could be no better introduction to the Latin American classical guitar.”
Micaela Kramer, Classical Guitar Magazine
I met Alberto J. Rodríguez-Ortiz earlier this month at a new music festival in Mexico. He’s a fabuous human being as well as guitarist and composer. So I’m thrilled to announce he will play for Second Sundays Classical Guitar Series at the Roger Smith Hotel at 4pm on November 8; 501 Lexington Ave (tickets $15 at the door, to reserve call 212-339-2092). Alberto is among the most active contemporary interpreters and composers of the new generation of Puerto Rican musicians.
Among various international festivals Rodríguez-Ortiz has participated are the Festival Pa´Lo escrito (Mexico City, 2009, 2008), Festival Casals (Puerto Rico, 2008), Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes (Puerto Rico, 2007), Festival de Música Contemporánea and Foro de Compositores del Caribe (La Habana, Cuba, 2006 and 2004); International Guitar Festival of Puerto Rico (2000), El Salvador’s International Festival of Contemporary Music (2000); María Escalón de Núñez’s Guitar Festival (El Salvador 2000), Second Twentieth Century Music Festival (San Juan, Puerto Rico 1999). That same year he opened the concert series “Caras Nuevas”, sponsored by FAMA. In 1997, he was invited as composer in residence at The Rome Festival. Rodríguez-Ortiz has also performed in cities such as London, Porto, Paris, Vienna, Morelia, Orlando, Miami and New York. In this last city, he made his debut in 1997 as part of the series “Música de Cámara, Inc.” He has performed extensively with the guitar trio “Matices”, ensemble that received the first prize at Puerto Rico’s Chamber Music Festival in 1994 with his composition “Invocando a Yúcahu”. He has been soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador and the Symphony Orchestra of Bayamón.
His program is fascinating!
- Frank Wallace, Artistic Director of Second Sunday’s Classical Guitar Series
Sólo entre Bach y yo
Sonata no. 2* Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
Intro (Íntimo-Allegro)
Canción nocturna
Allegro violento
Partita II para violín BWV 1004 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Allemanda arr. Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
Corrente
Sarabanda
Giga
Ciaccona
Intermedio
Preludio, Fuga y Allegro BWV 998 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata no. 3 “Homenaje a la Sonora Ponceña y a Bach”* Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz
Adagio rítmico “Preludio en candela”
Scherzo (Presto) “Canción en gavota”
Aire y fuga…al fogón
* NYC premier
