Circles and Lines

Five Under Four

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A unique chamber music program featuring young up-and-coming composers Angelica Negron, Noam Faingold, Conrad Winslow, Eric Lemmon and Dylan Glatthorn, with world premieres by Lemmon and Glatthorn will be offered at the historical venue, Greenwich House, on December 10th, 2009 at 8pm. The program features solo works as well as duos and trios drawing from a wide range of influences including ambient/electronica, rock, tango, minimalism and traditional classical.

Circles and Lines is a new composers consortium dedicated to providing an eclectic and accessible sample of compositional styles in contemporary classical music.

Program

LEMMON – Love Songs –
(Mezzo Soprano, Piano) Annie Rosen, Ruka Shironishi
FAINGOLD – Tango Variations –
(Double Basses) Matthew Rosenthal, Matt Weber
WINSLOW – Slippery Music –
(Violin, Cello, Piano) Joshua Modney, Isabel Castellvi,
Baris Buyukildirim
GLATTHORN – Fantasy for 171st Street –
(Oboe, Bassoon, Piano) I-Shan Cheng, Matt Rosenberg, Manuel Laufer

-intermission-

WINSLOW – Getting There –
(Violin, Bass, Percussion) Josh Modney, Greg Chudzik,
Matt Donello
NEGRON – PSR –
(Accordian, Piano) Angelica Negron, Lucia Caruso
FAINGOLD – A Knife in the Water –
(Violin, Cello) Andie Springer, Alisa Horn

$5 at the door. The closest subway stop is the Christopher St. stop on the 1 train.

Circles and Lines, Live @ Le Poisson Rouge Tuesday September 1st at 9:30

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Circles and Lines is a new composers consortium devoted to providing a diverse program representative of current trends in the art music scene.

Composers and works:
Noam Faingold – Berlin Songs and Continuums, for solo cello: Intermezzo – “Etiquette”
Angelica Negron – I Can Still Hear You and They Swim Under My Bed
Conrad Winslow – Dilating Music For Four Trombones, “Guidonian Hand” and Flying Patterns
Dylan Glatthorn – Imagining Paradise
Eric lemmon – The Cure at Troy

Tickets are on sale now!

Price: $10

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 9:30pm @ Le Poisson Rouge

158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY

Composer Profile: Eric Lemmon

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Composer and Violist Eric Lemmon (B.M.) is a recent graduate of New York University’s Music and Performing Arts Program where he was awarded NYU’s Creative Collaboration Grant and currently attends the Mannes Conservatory. He is the founder and editor of the music criticism and review site OpenSourceMusic.org. As a violist, Eric has performed extensively throughout the New York City metropolitan area with groups such as new music ensemble The Manhattan Camerata, recording artist WAZ sounds, the troupe Project Opera, and Dylan Glatthorn’s Republic. He is also a regular member of Brooklyn’s One World Symphony, where he has played as principal. Eric has also performed as principal violist for works such as Alan Menken’s King David, Bernstein’s Candide and Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Eric’s past and present viola teachers are Stephanie Baer, Pamela McConnell, Laura Shuster and Ira Weller. In composition, past and current teachers include Jerica Oblak and Rudolf Palmer.

Recordings:

The Cure at Troy: Neoptolomus’ Pity

Prelude No. 26 in 0123456789TE

Composer Profile: Conrad Winslow

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Conrad Winslow holds an M.M. degree in composition and film scoring from NYU, where he was a student of Justin Dello Joio, and an Honors A.B. degree in music from Rollins College, where he studied composition with Daniel Crozier. He composed the annual commencement music for the college and wrote music for theater. Winslow has also composed music for student films and The Last Romantic (2006), which went to several film festivals, including SXSW and the Independent Film Festival Boston. Conrad was a participant in the American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood New Music Readings in 2008, where Brad Lubman conducted his piece The Violence of Ragtime. He collaborated with Natalie Weiss (of experimental art-pop project Unicornicopia) and Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) on Camp Wanatachi, the musical commissioned by Ian Pai (co-founder of the Blue Man Group) presented in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. He will continue graduate studies in composition with John Corigliano at the Juilliard School this fall.

Slippery Music

Dilating Music

Composer Profile: Dylan Glatthorn

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DYLAN GLATTHORN is an American composer and lyricist and a recent graduate of NYU Steinhardt’s music composition program where he studied under Steven Rosenhaus. Glatthorn wrote the music, lyrics, and co-wrote the book for his musical, Republic, which had a stage reading in April at the Acorn Theatre in Times Square. The show’s incredible cast included such Broadway regulars as Lauren Worsham (New York City Opera’s Candide), James Moye (Tale of Two Cities, Full Monty), and Tony Award winning actress Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone, Crazy for You). Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, he has composed, orchestrated, and music directed for numerous productions at the Palladium Theatre and the Studio@620. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Quintet of the Americas, the Lumina String Quartet, the PCCA Orchestra, and the PRISM Brass Quintet. He is a recipient of the Alan Menken Award, Walker’s Rising Stars Scholarship, Al Downing Jazz Association Scholarship, and the Mensa Education and Research Foundation’s Grosswirth-Salny Scholarship. Dylan is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Recordings:

My Dear Friend

B Side to the American Dream

Composer Profile: Noam Faingold

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Noam Faingold is an eclectic composer who combines pop, modernism and jazz with music from his South American and Middle Eastern heritage. Current projects include performances as composer/guitarist/singer/conductor with his rock orchestra the Noam Faingold Orchestra, and a collaboration with the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and the Ok Mozart Festival. Noam is also the composer-in-residence for the Midtown School for the Performing Arts in Tulsa, OK, and composition coordinator at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, ME. His studies include several summers at the Freie Universität Berlin, the NYU/ASCAP film-scoring workshop and at the Bowdoin Festival, and he holds an MA in composition from New York University and BM in composition from the University of Tulsa. In the fall he will begin his PhD in composition at Kings College in London as a Jack Kent Cooke scholar. Noam is also a conductor and multi-instrumentalist, recently performing as a double bassist with the One World Symphony, Bowdoin Festival Orchestra, the Manhattan Camerata and the Boston-based Juventas new music ensemble.

Recordings:

Zirkhat Hashemesh for String Quartet

Little Mermaid

Composer Profile: Angélica Negrón

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Angélica Negrón is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Puerto Rico and currently based in New York. She received an early education in piano and violin at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico where she later studied composition under the guidance of composer Alfonso Fuentes. Her music has been performed by the NYU Percussion Ensemble, Astoria Symphony Orchestra, TRANSIT ensemble, NYU Symphony Orchestra and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and she has written music for documentaries, films, theater and modern dance. Angélica is a founding member of the electro-acoustic pop outfit Balún where she sings and plays the accordion and violin. She holds a master’s degree in music composition from New York University where she studied with Portuguese guitarist and composer Pedro Da Silva and film composer Ira Newborn. She also holds a bachelor’s in audiovisual communications from the University of Puerto Rico, and has contributed as a writer to the International Alliance of Women in Music Journal and British magazine The Wire. Angélica is currently part of the Teaching Artists Collaborative from The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall and a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center and New York Women Composers.

Recordings:

Technicolor

Mi Lumia