Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks
present:

π = 3.14…THREAT
Concept: Dry Tech and Direction by Yoshiko Chuma

Featuring: Heather Litteer and Miriam Parker ( Actresses), Yukio Suzuki and Yoshiko Chuma (Dancer), and Christopher McIntyre (Musician, trombone)

The School of Hard Knocks Under the artistic direction of Yoshiko Chuma, The School of Hard Knocks is a New York-based collective of choreographers, dancers, actors, singers, musicians, designers, and visual artists. Since premiering at the 1980 Venice Biennale, this award-winning company has created and performed over 60 original works in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The School of Hard Knocks takes its name from the American idiom meaning to learn things the hard way on the proverbial "street," and was first used as the title of a performance at the 1980 Venice Biennale. Over the course of the company's history, more than 2,000 people have performed to wide critical acclaim under Chuma's direction in theatrical dance concerts, street performances, grand parades, large-scale spectacles and
intimate living rooms.

Yoshiko Chuma, Conceptual Artist/Choreographer/Artistic Director of The School of Hard Knocks, has been a firebrand of New York's downtown dance scene since arriving in 1976. She has created more than 60 full-length company works, commissions and site-specific events for venues in 35 countries, constantly challenging the notion of performance for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in such diverse venues as Pyramid Club, Danceteria, Joyce Theater, the Eiffel Tower, Newcastle Swing Bridge, City Center, Lincoln Center, the former National Theater of Sarajevo, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor, World Financial Center, and an ancient ruin in Macedonia, among many others.

Heather Litteer is an actress, performance artist and chanteuse originally from Georgia but now calls NYC her home. She is a member of Caden Manson’s Big Art Group touring internationally and in the states.
She is the recipient of the 2014 Fox Fellowship with The William and Eva Fox Foundation and TCG. La Mama will be her resident company throughout this process and will be presenting her one woman show "Lemonade" at La MaMa 2016.
Her daring film choices include working with directors Mary Harron, Jane Campion and Darren Aronofsky. Most recently playing the sexual revolutionary Queen Bee in John Reed’s Film “ReVo” and Vicky, a killer for hire in “Dumbo” with Brazilian director Gustavo Von Ah’. She is a Member of the legendary Jackie Factory.

Miriam Parker is a New York City born and bred dancer/performance artist and arts organizer. She feels very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with the School of hard knocks for the past 4 years. In recent years she has been building her reputation in collaborative performance art, working with the artist Jo Wood Brown on a interdisciplinary project “InnerCity Projects”

Yukio Suzuki is a dancer and choreographer. In 1997 he began studying Butoh dance and later performed in works by Ko Murobushi and so on. In the year 2000 he founded his own company, "YUKIO SUZUKI Projects". The basic principal of his interpretation is not the technique, but the character of the dance language, for which he has been acclaimed even outside of his native Japan. He has been touring in over 40 cities worldwide, enthralling audiences with his pliant, delicate, and tenacious movements.

Christopher McIntyre leads a varied career as performer, composer, and curator/producer. He interprets and improvises on trombone and synthesizer and composes for TILT Brass, UllU duo, and Ne(x)tworks. He has recorded for Tzadik, New World, POTTR, and Mode. Curatorial work includes projects at The Kitchen, Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, and The Stone, and Artistic Director of the MATA Festival (2007-10). 

TILT Brass Sextet
l to r: Tim Leopold, Mike Gurfield, Will Lang, Jen Baker, Gareth Flowers, Chris McIntyre

POP-UP CONCERTS
Wild Ones - TILT BRASS
Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 6pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University
FREE

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PERSONNEL
TILT Brass Sextet
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

PROGRAM
James Tenney Swell Piece for Alison Knowles (1967)
Sextet
Liza Lim Wild Winged One (2007)
Gareth Flowers, solo trumpet
Anthony Coleman A Fistful of Footfalls (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Catherine Lamb overlay/smear (2015) World Premiere
Sextet
Chris McIntyre Dedifferentiation for Brass No. 3 (2015) World Premiere
Sextet and sound score
 

FRIDAY, NOV. 20TH
8PM, $10

Friend and colleague Zeena Parkins has new pieces for TILT Brass Sextet and collaborators for premiere at The Stone during her week-long residency in November 2015.

"New works written for TILT + Foley artists: Dylan Neely/Erin Cornell/Eleanor Hullihan + LACE PIECE with special guests GREEN DOME: Ryan Sawyer (drums) Ryan Ross Smith (Keyboards, electronics) Zeena (acoustic harp)"

TILT Brass Sextet
trumpet – Gareth Flowers, Mike Gurfield, Tim Leopold
trombone – Jen Baker, Will Lang, Chris McIntyre

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Corner of Ave C & E. 2nd St, Manhattan

PERSONA

Music by Keeril Makan
Libretto adapted by Jay Scheib from the Ingmar Bergman screenplay
Direction by Jay Scheib
Music Direction by Evan Ziporyn
Music performed by Either/Or Ensemble
Co-commissioned by National Sawdust and Beth Morrison Projects

Beth Morrison Projects (National Sawdust group-in-residence) is the producer of this new work, which it co-commissioned with the venue. Composed by Rome Prize-winner Keeril Makan, with music direction by Evan Ziporyn and a libretto and direction by Jay Scheib, one of American Theater’s “Top 25 Directors Likely to Shape American Performance Over the Next 25 Years,” Persona is a provocative, highly cerebral, and artistically complex depiction of human frailty, cruelty, and identity.

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Music for Contemplation presents:
STUART DEMPSTER
SONIC BREATHING AND CIRCULAR MEDITATIONS

Saturday, October 3, 2015
8:05pm 10:05pm
Church of the Annunciation
259 N 5th St at Havemeyer and Metropolitan Brooklyn, NY 11211

Works by Stuart Dempster for solo trombone, didjeridoo and large trombone ensemble. The trombones resonate throughout the space, embracing listeners in their tones. Featuring Jen Baker and Monique Buzzarté.

$15 suggested donation at the door.
 

Final concert of 2015 5ive Boroughs Music Festival

Monday, June 29, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Pre-concert discussion at 6:30 PM
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 W 37th St, MANHATTAN

5BMF’s 2014-2015 season concludes in June with the exciting vocal talents of EKMELES! These master interpreters of avant garde vocal music, led by director and baritone Jeffrey Gavett, will join with musicians from TILT Brass and the loadbang ensemble in a thrilling program of works for brass and voice.

Featuring two US Premieres by contemporary European masters and a World Premiere by a young American talent, this new program showcases the flexibility and expressive possibilities inherent in voice and brass. Join us before the concert for a special discussion about creating works for these forces led by Ekmeles director Jeffrey Gavett, composer Christopher Fisher-Lochhead, and trombonist Will Lang (soloist in prosodia daseia).

Program
MATTHIAS SPAHLINGER: über den frühen tod fräuleins anna augusta marggräfen zu baden (US Premiere)
WOLFGANG RIHM: SKOTEINÓS (US Premiere)
CHRISTOPHER FISHER-LOCHHEAD: prosodia daseia (World Premiere)

Performers
Ekmeles: Charlotte Mundy, Mary Mackenzie, Kirsten Sollek, Tomás Cruz, Brian Giebler, Jeffrey Gavett, Kelvin Chan, and Steven Hrycelak, vocalists
Instrumentalists: Andy Kozar, trumpet; Will Lang, Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker and Matt Melore, trombones; Michelle Farah, oboe; Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet

Tickets: $25 General Admission

TILT Brass, 2014 Look & Listen Festival, Invisible Dog Arts Ctr

TILT Brass presents the 2015 installment of To TILT, its on-going series of concerts and recordings that feature work created for the organization's specific forces and skills. The program at University Settlement includes newly commissioned works written for TILT Brass Sextet by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, and trombonist/composer and long-time TILT performer Jacob Garchik.

The Sextet will also premiere an expanded version of TILT Director Chris McIntyre's multi-movement work Fabrics (2014-15) and his transcriptions from Arthur Russell's Tower of Meaning, composed in the early 1980's.

This event takes place during a set of concerts co-organized by TILT and our stellar colleagues at Either/Or (performing on June 10th and 13th.) Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the excellent acoustics of University Settlement's Speyer Hall is a perfect venue for these not-to-be-missed concerts during NYC's busy Summer season.


Either/Or at Miller Theater

CJM joins and all-star group (James Rogers, Yarn/Wire, Ilan Volkov) to perform ensemble realizations of work by Wolf Eyes' Nate Young. Opening night of Tectonics Festival New York 2015.

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NOTE: ISSUE Project Room is hosting this event off-site
 

CJM is Music Director for an evening of works by renown visual artist and musician Stephen Prina. 

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Personnel:
composer, guitar, vocal - Stephen Prina
Music Dir. - Chris McIntyre
oboe - Michelle Farrah
clarinet - Christa Van Alstine
trumpet - Tim Leopold
horn - Rachel Drehmann
trombone - Will Lang
violin - Jenny Choi
viola - Erin Wight
piano - Stephen Gosling
flute 1 - Margaret Lancaster
flute 2 - Barry Crawford
flute 3 - Jessica Schmitz
flute 4 - Katie Cox
flute 5 - Roberta Michel
flute 6 - Valerie Coleman-Page

TILT Brass kicks off its Spring 2015 season at JACK, an intimate neighborhood multi-arts venue located in Clinton Hill. The program revisits TILT's creative music origins with work highlighting the improvisational skill and experience of its players. The program features a wide range of recent and classic graphic and strategic scores. Composers include Berlin-based English composer and electronic musician Richard Barrett, an early composition by legendary composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton, and selections from Cornelius Cardew's touchstone graphic score Treatise.

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[$12.50 advance, $15 door]


Detail from Braxton's "Comp. 18" (1971) 

PERSONNEL
Chris McIntyre - Music Director, trombone
trumpet Timothy Leopold, Andrew Kozar, Tom Verchot
trombone Jen Baker, Jacob Garchik, Will Lang, James Rogers (bass)
Nathan Koci - horn, accordion

PROGRAM
Anthony Braxton 8KN-(J-6) [aka Comp. 18] (1971)
                                       1
                                       R10
Cornelius Cardew Selections from Treatise (1963-67)
Richard Barrett Codex XII (2013)
Other works TBA

From Roulette's website:

In his first New York concert in four years Nicolas Collins presents a mix of recent works for ensemble and solo electronics. In Roomtone Variations the resonant frequencies of the Roulette concert hall are mapped, in real time, through controlled acoustic feedback, and projected as staff notation. Once the staves are filled the musicians in Either/Or improvise variations on the notes, gradually stepping through this site-specific “architectural tone row”. The computer-generated notation in Bracken guides the ensemble through interactions inspired by Christian Wolff’s “coordination” scores of the 1960s, extended by adapting techniques of electronic music onto acoustic instruments. In Speak Memory data files of pictures are encoded in sound, played back through speakers, momentarily stored in the reverberation time of the hall, but “forgotten” as the sound decays; the process is recorded, then reviewed in slow motion, revealing the erosion of sound and image. Circuits and software round out an evening of adventurous electro-acoustic music.