Manhattan New Music Project

Protected: EASE District-Wide Level II

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Protected: EASE Teachers – Level III

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:56:55 +0000

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Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:13:36 +0000

Alliance

Manhattan New Music Project — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:43:45 +0000

Exciting New Alliance for MNMP

Dear Friends and Supporters,

We have important news to share with you. Last week MNMP entered into a strategic alliance with Urban Arts Partnership, another innovative arts education organization. In the new structure, MNMP has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Urban Arts Partnership, allowing us to continue to deliver our Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE) program and other arts residencies more efficiently. As you know, MNMP has been a recipient of a number of research grants from the US Department of Education, the most recent and prestigious being a $4.6 million Investing In Innovation (i3) grant in collaboration with NYC’s special education school district 75 for EASE. Joining forces with Urban Arts Partnership helps to ensure that the experience and knowledge we’ve gained from these projects will continue to serve students and teachers for many years to come.

Philip Courtney, Urban Arts Partnership’s Executive Director, says: “This is a strategic expansion of Urban Arts Partnership into a compelling educational field. We are excited to expand our reach to have a broader impact on students with an even broader array of needs and goals. For fifteen years now Manhattan New Music Project has been leading the way in developing innovative strategies for working with students on the autism spectrum and a range of other cognitive and physical disabilities. The early results of the EASE program have been promising and I am excited to work with the MNMP staff on continuing to develop the program.”

Nancy Kleaver, Executive Director at MNMP added: “After meeting with a number of high quality organizations, it was clear that Urban Arts Partnership would be a great partner. UAP has a proven track record of moving struggling students towards academic success. As one of the most forward-thinking and well-established arts education providers in the city, I am confident that an alliance with UAP will strengthen our ability to deliver services to the kids who need them the most.”

MNMP is proud of having preserved founder Paul Nash’s legacy; supporting the creation and performance of new music since 1991. Thank you, composers, musicians, and performance artists who have been a part of the MNMP community. We hope you will stay engaged in MNMP’s educational mission moving forward, supporting the next generation of musicians and artists.

Both organizations are working on integrating their operations, and the MNMP staff will be moving into UAP’s headquarters by the end of this month. We look forward to keeping you posted. If you would like further information about the UAP-MNMP alliance, contact Nancy Kleaver at nancy@mnmp.org.

Until then, happy autumn!
The MNMP Team

ArtsBowl 2012

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:14:47 +0000

Events Archive

ArtsBowl 2012

Sunday, March 4 – 1:00 PM
Bowlmor Lanes Times Square
222 West 44th Street

$60 adults, $30 children under 12
Registration via EventBrite

See more photos from this event on MNMP’s Facebook page.

Show your support for MNMP’s vital arts-in-education programs by joining us for our spring “friendraising” event: a family-friendly afternoon at Bowlmor Lanes Times Square! Advance tickets are just $60 for adults and $30 for kids under 12 if you RSVP by Friday, March 2nd, or $70/$35 at the door.

We’ll have fun games and hundreds of dollars in exciting prizes, gift certificates to Ruth’s Chris Steak House and La Bottega (at the Maritime Hotel), tickets to Blue Man Group, a gift bag of goodies from Kiehl’s, and CDs from New Amsterdam Records.

Space is limited, so buy your tickets by 5 PM on Friday, March 2nd to take advantage of the special advance prices! All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to support Manhattan New Music Project’s arts-education and performance programs. If you’ve donated to MNMP or attended one of our events in the past, this is the perfect opportunity to continue your support and get to know us even better.

Prefer to pay offline? Click here to download a form that you can print and send to us by mail.

Listen Up! New Music for New Words

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:27:50 +0000

Upcoming Event

Listen Up! New Music for New Words

December 2012

March 15-29 ONLY: Vote for Listen Up! in the GOOD Maker Music Challenge, and help us win $2,500 towards realizing this project!

MNMP is teaming up with New York Writers Coalition (NYWC) to commission and premiere — in concert and via podcast — 10 original pieces of music inspired by poetry and prose from NYWC’s free creative writing workshops for formerly voiceless New Yorkers of all ages.

Listen Up! will be more than just a concert of exciting, diverse new music. Through public creative exchange between professional musicians and members of communities with limited access to the arts — including at-risk youth, adults with disabilities, and the homeless — we aim to do nothing less than change perceptions about who can be a writer and whose voices are valuable in our society. Hearing their ideas presented through music will empower these writers to value their own stories, gain confidence as creators, and continue to develop self-knowledge and creative inspiration.

CLICK HERE to vote for Listen Up! in the GOOD Maker Music Challenge, and help us win $2,500 towards realizing this project! Your vote will allow MNMP and NYWC to secure a top-tier venue, compensate the artists, and produce a series of podcasts featuring live recordings and interviews with the writers.

About New York Writers Coalition:
NY Writers Coalition Inc. (NYWC) provides free creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society. Writing with others in an atmosphere of respect and acceptance, participants discover the value of their own stories, gain confidence and a stronger sense of self and become less isolated from themselves and from society. By creating a community of writers and leaders from diverse backgrounds, we galvanize the voices of the marginalized and create opportunities for all writers to connect with the larger community. NYWC’s goal is to create an inclusive city, one that is aware of the diversity of voices within it and honors the lives of all of its citizens.

Julian Rozzell Jr.

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:43:45 +0000

Teaching Artists

Julian Rozzell Jr.

Julian Rozzell Jr. has performed in New York at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for the New City, Soho Rep, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange, among others. Regional credits include: The Piano Lesson (Arden Theatre), No Exit (Imago Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Milwaukee Shakespeare), and Othello (Texas Globe). Julian has also appeared in numerous television programs and commercials. He was featured in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards commercial, and appears regularly in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, produced by Martin Scorsese. Julian is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, the Rybinsk Theatre in St. Petersburg, and attended Radford University in Virginia. In addition to acting, Julian is a painter whose artwork has been exhibited at Monkdogz Gallery in Chelsea, Culturefix, Under Minerva, and many others. Julian received the Bruce J. and Sharon Goodman Grant for his painting “Compassion” at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for their black artist retrospective.

Nysheva-Starr

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:47:17 +0000

Teaching Artists

Nysheva-Starr

Nysheva-Starr is a graduate of Syracuse University and Queens College with respective degrees in acting and psychology. She is a member of the Actor’s Equity Association and the American Federation for Television and Radio Artists. She has been touring with Houses On The Moon Theater Company for the past eight years in their show Tara’s Crossing. She is also slated to have her directorial debut in February of 2012 with the play Sistahs on Fire.

Noemy Hernandez

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:40:29 +0000

Teaching Artists

Noemy Hernandez

Noemy Hernandez was appointed Artistic Director of Calpulli Mexican Dance Company after forming part of the artistic staff for three years as a choreographer and rehearsal director. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of California, Irvine where she studied under Donald McKayle and taught dance in public schools as an ArtsBridge Scholar. As a choreographer, Ms. Hernandez created works for Latin jazz artist Arturo O’Farril and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. She plans to develop Calpulli as a premiere dance company with a focus on Mexican traditions and Mexican-American cultural expression. She enjoys sharing her knowledge of modern, jazz, ballet, and folkloric dance to enrich the lives of children in NYC and beyond.

Sherry Teitelbaum

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:35:54 +0000

Teaching Artists

Sherry Teitelbaum

Sherry Teitelbaum has spent thirty years in the theater as a director, dramaturg, actress, acting coach, teaching artist and adapter of works for the stage. She co-founded two NYC theater companies: the women’s theater collective, Playing for Keeps and the not-for-profit repertory company, Theater in Action. She has directed over 68 productions Off-Broadway and regionally. Her recent credits include Bijou (Merkin Concert Hall) and Alchemist of Light (New York International Fringe Festival). She has collaborated as director/dramaturg with seven music theater teams on new musicals. Sherry is both a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society as well as an alumna of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab. In 2011, she co-designed and implemented the pilot project of Bridging the Gap, an intergenerational LGBT community-based theater workshop which partnered with SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Elders). Since completing her MA in Applied Theatre at CUNY, Sherry works to generate opportunities for seniors to express themselves through theater.

Alejandra Duque

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:33:16 +0000

Teaching Artists

Alejandra Duque

Alejandra Duque is currently completing her degree in Drama & Theatre Arts at Columbia University. She is passionate about creating new and transcendent theatre that is relevant and personal, connecting to communities and providing them with a forum and art form that allows them to express both their needs and vigor. She has been teaching children and adults of all ages for 8 years and is the founder and director of Theatre That Transcends, an educational and community theatre organization that teaches local, underserved communities how to express themselves and address community issues through the art of theater (www.theatrethattranscends.org). She is also an emerging stage manager and has worked in productions alongside Austin Pendleton, Kristin Linklater, Melanie Joseph, and the Columbia University School of the Arts, among others. Selected credits include: Birthday Triage, Man of Rock (NYMF), Highway Blue, FUREE in Pins and Needles, Medea, El Regalo Perfecto, For the Love of Three Oranges.

Kyla McHale

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:11:48 +0000

Teaching Artists

Kyla McHale

Kyla McHale is a theatre and movement artist with experience in education, community building, professional acting, mask making and multi-disciplinary art. She has been teaching since 2005; working with organizations such as Marquis Studios, Zshuk Art Initiative, Arden Theatre, EducationWorks, Park Avenue Armory with the Royal Shakespeare Company, LEAP, New York University, and Manhattan New Music Project. She has worked with students of all ages and abilities, recently focusing on ELL and special education. Kyla has performed across the globe and New York City as a physical theatre artist, singer, and dancer. Kyla received her MA in Educational Theatre from NYU.

Pat Russell

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:31:51 +0000

Teaching Artists

Pat Russell

Pat Russell is a theater artist whose talents have anchored many collaborative creations both here and abroad, with ensembles such as the Living Theater and the Irondale Ensemble Project. She has performed and facilitated workshops at world-renowned theatre festivals in Europe, Eastern Europe, South America and China as well as creating community based theater here in NYC where she has co-directed and performed with numerous and diverse populations including the bi-annual street theater events of Earth Celebrations. A favorite community based workshop, “A Day in the Life of the City” is a weeklong series resulting in street performances of a unique play created by the participants. Bringing the arts into NYC schools since the 80s, she helped design and implement a theater games pilot program in Brooklyn High Schools for students at risk for which a teacher training pilot program followed. Her residencies have served libraries, family shelters, a wide range of community needs and over 50 schools.

She is certified by the Teaching Artist Training Institute (TATI), a professional development program which reflects best practices in arts education with a concentration in teaching students with autism (Marquis Studios); Special Education Arts Academy (SEAA), a two year professional development training and mentored practicum for teaching artists who work with “special-needs” students (Arts Horizons); and, the “Literature to Life” Teaching Artist Training program (The American Place Theatre). With Manhattan New Music Project she has served as a Professional Development Facilitator for both Communication and Socialization Through the Arts (CASTA) and Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE). As a Variety Performer and Face Painter she has entertained children of all ages and adults at special events for corporations, museums, tradeshows, product introductions, retail stores, country clubs and private family celebrations. Pat earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Jennifer Houseal

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:27:12 +0000

Teaching Artists

Jennifer Houseal

Jennifer Houseal, a singer and theatre artist, has been a Teaching Artist since 2004. She has taught theatre to 1st through 6th graders in NYC public schools, after-school programs and summer camps for organizations such as Making Books Sing, Vital Theatre Company, and the MoMA P.S. 1 Museum. Jennifer has performed in productions of original musicals in NYC, such as The Passion of George W. Bush and Fitz and Walloughs Get It in the End and also completed Manhattan School of Music’s Professional Musical Theatre Workshop in 2006. In addition, Jennifer is a costumer who has worked at Off-Broadway musicals, such as Menopause, the Musical and SHOUT! The Mod Musical and most recently designed the costumes for the Creative Arts Team Youth Theatre’s shows, From Time to Time, and The Power Game. Jennifer has a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in Applied Theatre from The CUNY School of Professional Studies.

Liliana Araújo

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:23:23 +0000

Teaching Artists

Liliana Araújo

Born in Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil, Liliana Araújo is a singer, dancer and researcher of Brazilian folk dance and music. She has tread upon stages throughout her country in performances of music, theater and dance. A dancer in Grupo Raízes (dança afro), Liliana then joined the Companhia Vatá (Brazilian tap) and Soul Nêgo (performance) in their research of the folkloric traditions of Brazil, focusing primarily on the rich, multi-cultural nordeste. Now in North America, Liliana has continued highlighting and spreading Brazilian culture through performance and education at schools, universities, festivals and cultural centers throughout the USA and Canada: Montreal Jazz Festival, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), American Folk Festival, Hollywood Palladium and Lincoln Center Outdoors. In New York City Liliana has been a teaching artist (dance and music) for Young Audience Arts for Learning, Midori and Friends, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Manhattan New Music Project, CREATE and Symphony Space. Liliana has great respect for the mestres das tradições (master teachers) and pride in the folkloric traditions of her country which she imparts through her work. Liliana currently performs as a solo artist and with Forró da Madame and Nation Beat.
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Oneza Lafontant

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:57:24 +0000

Teaching Artists

Oneza Lafontant

C. “Oneza” Lafontant is a cultural activist who uses indigenous music to create interest in history, human rights and social justice issues among youth in public schools throughout the New York area. He has worked for the Education Department of the American Museum of Natural History and Open Classroom Collaborative. Currently he does workshops, residencies and assembly programs through the Caribbean Cultural Center and the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service. Oneza founded the Haitian folk band KONGO, and is a 2004 recipient of the Union Square Awards.
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Melissa House

Manhattan New Music Project — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:55:28 +0000

Teaching Artists

Melissa House

Mel House currently teaches acting technique, audition prep, integrated arts, playwriting and playing Shakespeare for TFANA, Red Bull Theater, Children’s Shakespeare Theatre, Say Yes to Education and the Manhattan New Music Project. As an actress, she has worked in NYC and around the globe at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, Atlantic Theatre Company, Red Bull Theater Company, Ohio Theatre, New Georges, Baltimore’s Centerstage, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Mel has been seen on One Life to Live, Rescue Me, and in the films Nicky Newark, 4960, Missy, Plus One, and The Film You Did Not See. She is a founding member of The DrawingBoard—a collective of artists who develop new works by offering table reads, workshops and staged readings. Mel has studied at the William Esper Studio, the Atlantic Theatre School, and is a graduate of the University of Exeter’s School of Drama in the UK.

Niizeki Hiromi

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:38:49 +0000

Teaching Artists

Niizeki Hiromi

New York based installation artist Niizeki Hiromi (Niizeki is the family name) has exhibited her work both domestically and internationally at many prominent art institutions which include: The National Museum of Art in Johannesburg, South Africa; Highways Performance and Arts, Los Angeles, CA; HERE Arts, New York, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, The University of Rochester, NY; LaForet Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Her work is widely collected and exists among a number of high profile collections. She has been a featured member of the George Billis Gallery New York stable for a number of years. Her work has received critical review by notable art critics such as: Holland Cotter of the New York Times, Stuart Ferguson of the Wall Street Journal and Jane Ingram Allen for Sculpture magazine. She has participated in a number of premiere Arts Residencies which include Clock Tower Gallery, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, and the Studio Program at Children’s Museum of the Arts. Niizeki studied at Musashino Art University in her native Tokyo before moving to New York City in 1988.

As a Teaching Artist, Niizeki taught visual arts to children in Tokyo for 5 years, and has taught in New York since 1991, at the Children’s Museum of the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Hudson River Museum.
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Erin Ronder

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:28:05 +0000

Teaching Artists

Erin Ronder

Erin Ronder received her M.A. in Educational Theatre from NYU and is currently a Theatre Teaching Artist at The American Place Theatre, The Center for Arts Education, Disney Theatrical Group, The DreamYard Project, TDF- Theatre Development Fund, and Manhattan New Music Project. She is also an Adjunct Professor at CCNY’s Educational Theatre Program. Erin specializes in integrating the arts into the education and lives of students with disabilities. Erin continues to perform on stage and in readings throughout NYC and was last seen as Cynthia in Wild Blue (Access Theatre). Other Off-Broadway NY Theatre: Tragedian in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (MITF Festival- Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Ensemble Awards), Alice in Next Week on Spring Valley (59E59), Jane in Manhattan Comedy (Abingdon), Narrator in Butterflies Are Free (Theatre Row 42nd St.), The Mother in The Giver (Player’s Theatre). Regional: Athena in The Eumenides (NYU).
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Matt Bogdanow

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:18:40 +0000

Teaching Artists

Matt Bogdanow

Matt Bogdanow is a Brooklyn-based musician and educator who has been teaching for over ten years with organizations including Manhattan New Music Project, Marquis Studios, Bronx Charter School for the Arts, School of Rock, Urban Arts Partnership and Kids Creative. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music as well as the Community-Word Project Teaching Artist Training & Internship Program, and is the author of The Backbone of Drumming; A Systematic Approach to Learning the Drumset. Matt has appeared on over 30 full length albums and played thousands of shows worldwide, collaborating with members of They Might Be Giants, Van Halen, Spin Doctors and Grace Potter. His band Plushgun has been featured in programs such as Real World, Project Runway and MTV Live, as well as earning a Gold record in Germany, winning the MTVU Freshman 5 Video Contest, being named Rock Band Network “T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month,” and reaching the Billboard Top 50 Hot Single Sales, CMJ Top 200, and Amazon.com Top 25 Electronica Bestsellers List. Matt has been awarded citations for merit and outstanding musicianship by the International Association for Jazz Education, the Clark Terry University of New Hampshire Jazz Festival and the Berklee College of Music Jazz Festival, in addition to serving as a judge for the annual Guitar Center National Drum Competition from 2008-2010. Additionally, he has played drums for theatrical productions of Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Nurses In New England, The F Word, and most recently the worldwide debut of Mission Drift, which won the 2011 Scotsman Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards, as well as the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize. Matt is currently recording a solo album, composing an original indie-rock musical, and writing the score for an upcoming short film.

Martin Urbach

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:13:11 +0000

Teaching Artists

Martin Urbach

Drummer/Composer Martin (pronounced mar-TEEN) Urbach juxtaposes his Bolivian and Jewish roots with his experience as an immigrant in the United States to add color to his sophisticated jazz grooves.

Born on August 4th, 1982 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Martin discovered the drums at age 12. Shortly after, he began performing in the country’s top music venues and festivals. Upon finishing high school, Martin moved to The U.S.A to study English and music. He holds a bachelors degree in jazz performance from the University of New Orleans and a masters degree in jazz arts from the Manhattan School of Music. In addition to being a passionate performer, Martin is also a kind and spirited educator. He is a Teaching Artist for the Lincoln Center Institute, Urban Arts Partnership, Bash The Trash Environmental Arts Program, The New York Pops and the Jazz Foundation of America. He is also a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music Summer Camp.

Currently, Martin lives in Brooklyn, NY. Martin divides his time between playing concerts and touring the world as bandleader and sideman, composing music, and teaching drums and music to young children and adults. Martin recently released his first recording entitled ”Free Will”, which showcases his talents as a performer, composer and bandleader. Through performing and teaching, Martin spreads the joy that music brings to his life.
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Susan Natacha Gonzalez

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:05:59 +0000

Teaching Artists

Susan Natacha Gonzalez

Susan Natacha Gonzalez is an artist, teaching artist and art therapist with 15 years of experience. She has extensive experience in research in special education and has carried out her multi-modal practice in variety of settings. Susan Natacha is a board certified and registered art therapist. She has degrees in Art, Psychology, Art Therapy and Education. She has also augmented her art studies in the US with studies at the University of Salamanca in Spain and the Lorenzo Di Medici Institute for Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. Susan Natacha has presented the topic of art, education, creativity, art therapy, child development and urban poverty in a variety of conferences, on the radio and has responded to interviews for several publications nationally and abroad.

As an artist Susan Natacha utilizes various media and concepts to explore and further understand creative processes and change. She deems the practice of art as an opportunity for the development, understanding and fostering of relationships with other individuals in accordance to space at any given time. She believes we are not isolated in our creative development, growth and process – we are a collective within and out of our bodies.

February 14 | Franz Hackl & IDO Ensemble | Zawinul

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:45:42 +0000

Upcoming Event

The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited

Franz Hackl & IDO Ensemble | Zawinul

February 14, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022

Registration is now open for this event! Click here to reserve tickets.

Jazz legend Joe Zawinul was one of Austria’s most influential musicians & composers who developed his own musical language. For this concert, New York-based trumpeter Franz Hackl and his IDO Ensemble will take Zawinul’s compositions as a point of departure from which to develop their own new musical creations.

The high-caliber musicians performing this evening will explore the dynamic relationship between subtle chamber music passages, jazz improvisations, and pulsating hard hitting rock and world fusion rhythms. The Zawinul compositions which will be performed, will go beyond simple arrangements. They will incorporate fresh angles and expose new layers in the oeuvre of this very complex artist. In the spirit of Zawinul, improvisation will play a very important role in this event.

This concert is part of a new series presented by the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Manhattan New Music Project: “The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited”, which focuses on five of Austria’s most famous composers and the re-interpretation, re-imagination, and re-arrangement of some of their greatest works. The title of the series plays on Arnold Schönberg’s concept of the “Emancipation of Dissonance”.

Other events in the series will include performances by Sarah Weaver, Gene Pritsker and the International Street Cannibals, Peter Evans and the Wet Ink Ensemble, and Fieldwork.

About the Artists:
The line-up for this evening includes musicians who have played with Zawinul, as well as Franz Hackl and the IDO Quartet.

Franz Hackl – trumpet, flügelhorn, piccolo trumpet
John Clark – french horn
Dave Taylor – bass trombone
Bruce Williamson – sax, clarinet, flute
Wayne Escoffery – sax,flute
Ron Oswanski – accordion
Gene Pritsker – guitar
Adam Holzman – keyboards, synthesizer
Matt Garrison – electric bass
Mino Cinelu – percussion
Kim Plainfield – drums

Reservations:
Admission is free, but tickets are extremely limited! Click here to RSVP.

January 31 | Peter Evans & The Wet Ink Ensemble | Peter Ablinger

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:37:03 +0000

Performance Archive

The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited

Peter Evans & The Wet Ink Ensemble | Ablinger

January 31, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022

Registration is now open for this event! Click here to reserve tickets.

This concert will feature pieces both by and inspired by innovative Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. Trumpeter/composer Peter Evans will be joined by members of both the Wet Ink Ensemble and the Manhattan New Music Project in notated and improvised works which explore several specific compositions by Ablinger, as well as music which has shaped his compositional voice. The artists will perform Verkündigung (for tenor sax, piano and flute) and Voices and Piano, and in doing so contextualize them within a larger view of music’s potential as articulated through Ablinger’s work: a rediscovery of the listening experience itself and the explosion of potential in sound and noise.

Other events in the series will include performances by Fieldwork, Gene Pritsker and the International Street Cannibals, Sarah Weaver, and Franz Hackl.

About the Artists:
Peter Evans holds a degree in classical trumpet from Oberlin Conservatory. Evans is a frequent solo performer, and also plays with chamber orchestras, as well as free improvised settings, with a focus on electro-acoustic music, jazz and composition. He leads several groups, is a member of the International Contemporary Music Ensemble and Mostly Other People do the Killing, and collaborates with a wide variety of creative musicians in the US and Europe.

Founded in 1998, Wet Ink has presented over 80 concerts featuring a wide range of artists, both established and emerging. Now entering their 12th season, Wet Ink have a reputation for exceptionally committed performances and for programming that is consistently diverse, fresh, and exciting. Their repertoire ranges from scores of rigorous notational complexity to indeterminate and improvisational music, from the American experimental tradition to the contemporary European avant-garde, and from acoustic to amplified to electronic works and works for homemade instruments.

Peter Ablinger (b. 1959 in Austria) completed his studies in composition with Gösta Neuwirth and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati in Graz and Vienna. He has lived in Berlin since 1982, where he has initiated and conducted numerous festivals and concerts. In 1993 he was a visiting professor at the University of Music, Graz. Ablinger has been a been guest conductor with ‘Klangforum Wien’, ‘United Berlin’ and the ‘Insel Musik Ensemble’, and worked as a freelance musician since 1990.

Peter Ablinger is one of few artists today who uses noise without any kind of symbolism – not as a signifier for chaos, energy, entropy, disorder, or uproar; not for opposing something, or being disobedient or destructive. As in all these cases of music deliberately involving noise, noise is the case, but for Ablinger it is noise alone. Peter Ablinger has also come a long way in questioning the nature of sound, time, and space (the components usually thought central to music), and his findings have jeopardized and made dubious conventions usually thought irrefutable. These insights pertain to repetition and monotony, reduction and redundancy, density and entropy.

For more information on Peter Ablinger, please visit http://ablinger.mur.at/.

Reservations:
Admission is free, but tickets are extremely limited! Click here to RSVP.

January 24 | Sarah Weaver | Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:32:01 +0000

Performance Archive

The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited

Sarah Weaver | Mahler’s Song of the Earth

January 24, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022

Registration is now open for this event! Click here to reserve tickets.

New York-based composer and conductor Sarah Weaver will be presenting a double quartet multimedia piece influenced by Gustav Mahler’s seminal composition Song of the Earth (1909). Weaver will perform with a quartet of musicians from the Manhattan New Music Project in this concert dedicated to polyphony, heterophony, plurality, nodality, improvisation, and cultural diversity. She will stream environmental sound and video from geographically diverse places via the internet.

Other events in the series will include performances by Fieldwork, Gene Pritsker and the International Street Cannibals, Peter Evans and the Wet Ink Ensemble, and Franz Hackl.

About the Artist:
Sarah Weaver traces her specialization in telematic music – live performance via the internet by musicians in different geographic locations – back to a period in instrumentation when pieces were written for multiple localized orchestras by composers such as Ives, Stockhausen, and Braxton. While Mahler worked with Chinese poetry by Li Bai for the Song of the Earth, today artists from different countries can perform together live on the internet for artistic and social purposes, and live interaction is taking place on an increasingly global scale. Concerts take place over high-bandwidth internet with specialized telematic audio and video technology to achieve real-time and “real-space” performance. As a composer and conductor in telematic music she explores the inherent artistic properties of the medium within her contemporary music works.

For more information on the artist please visit www.sarahweaver.org.

Reservations:
Admission is free, but tickets are extremely limited! Click here to RSVP.

January 10 | Fieldwork | In the Presence of Schönberg

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:23:18 +0000

Performance Archive

The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited

Fieldwork | In the Presence of Schönberg

January 10, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022

Registration is now open for this event! Click here to reserve tickets.

For this evening’s concert, Fieldwork will present a program of original compositions which reference the spirit of Arnold Schönberg’s music from a variety of perspectives. Many of tonight’s works privilege creative agency and expression above all else and may bear a passing resemblance to the emotional tenor of pieces like Erwartung and Pierrot Lunaire. Other compositions explore the relationship between repetitive rhythmic cells and highly chromatic pitch content. And in that sense, they can be viewed as part of a musical discourse which includes Schoenberg’s 3rd String Quartet (Op. 30) and the second movement of his Op. 11 for piano.

Other events in the series will include performances by Sarah Weaver, Gene Pritsker and the International Street Cannibals, Peter Evans and the Wet Ink Ensemble, and Franz Hackl.

About the Artists:
Fieldwork is a collective of three widely celebrated young composer-performers: pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman (formerly Aaron Stewart), and drummer Tyshawn Sorey (formerly Elliot Humberto Kavee). Fieldwork’s music reflects each member’s ties to the American jazz tradition, modern composition, African and South Asian music, underground hip-hop and electronica, and the influential music of Chicago’s A.A.C.M.

Fieldwork’s intensely collaborative rehearsal process resembles that of a rock band: they use group improvisation to develop and expand their intricate compositions into something larger than the sum of its parts. The result is a dense yet visceral musical world — tightly unified ensemble playing, extroverted and high-impact, but with a mysterious inner logic. Fieldwork’s third album, Door, was released in spring 2008 on Pi Recordings to critical acclaim. Over the last 5 years, they have performed numerous U.S. dates, and overseas in Italy, Portugal, Austria, France and Sweden.

The ICE website on Fieldwork: http://iceorg.org/digitice/post/fieldwork-rai

Reservations:
Admission is free, but tickets are extremely limited! Click here to RSVP.

January 3 | Gene Pritsker & The International Street Cannibals | The Mozart Influence

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:59:13 +0000

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The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited

Gene Pritsker & The International Street Cannibals | The Mozart Influence

January 3, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022

Registration is now open for this event! Click here to reserve tickets.

Arrangements and reconstructions of Mozart’s compositions by Gene Pritsker, Dan Barrett, Dan Cooper, Patrick Grant, John Clark and Milica Paranosic will be performed, as well as pieces by composers of various periods, who were directly influenced by Mozart.

The concert will also feature performances of several newly commissioned pieces, that were directly inspired by Mozart’s work. The evening will be further enlivened and informed by readings of Mozart’s letters and impressions by his contemporaries, as well as by videos and pre-recorded sounds.

Other events in the series will include performances by Sarah Weaver, Fieldwork, Peter Evans and the Wet Ink Ensemble, and Franz Hackl.

About the Artists:
The International Street Cannibals (I.S.C.) are a collective of instrumentalists and singers, composers, videographers, dancers, puppeteers, and visual artists working under the direction of Dan Barrett, Gene Pritsker and Dan Cooper. The Cannibals give much emphasis to presenting newly composed works, and part of the function of the group is to present those composers whose influences and philosophy are rich and various.

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The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited

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The Emancipation of Re:Sonance
Five Austrian Masters Revisited

January 3 – February 14, 2012 @ 7:30 PM

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022

See photos from the festival on MNMP’s Facebook page.

Read Steve Smith’s rave review in the New York Times!

From January 3 to February 14, 2012, Manhattan New Music Project and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York will present a series of five concerts titled “The Emancipation of Re:Sonance – Five Austrian Masters Revisited”. The series will focus on five of Austria’s most famous composers and the re-interpretation of some of their greatest works by ensembles from Austria and the United States.

Click on any of the dates below for more information about that evening’s program.

Tuesday, January 3
Gene Pritsker & The International Street Cannibals | The Mozart Influence

Tuesday, January 10
Fieldwork | In the Presence of Schönberg

Tuesday, January 24
Sarah Weaver | Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Tuesday, January 31
Peter Evans & The Wet Ink Ensemble | Peter Ablinger

Tuesday, February 14
Franz Hackl & IDO Ensemble | Zawinul

Each concert’s featured artists will be joined onstage by members of the Manhattan New Music Project Ensemble, including David Taylor, John Clark, Franz Hackl, Bruce Williamson, and Wayne Escoffery. This project was co-curated by David Taylor and Andreas Stadler.

The title of this new series is a nod to Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg. The “Emancipation of Dissonance” was an idea put forth by Schönberg, which expanded on his negation of harmonic priorities, and the resulting denial of distinctions between the harmonic and nonharmonic. The idea of emancipating compositions from their originally intended frameworks, and re-imagining, re-arranging, and re-interpreting them in order to, finally, re-discover them, lies at the core of this concert series.

About the Venue:
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
www.acfny.org

With its architectural landmark building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is the cultural embassy of Austria in the United States. It hosts more than 200 free events annually and showcases Austrian contemporary art, music, literature, and academic thought in New York. The Austrian Cultural Forum houses around 10,000 volumes in its state-of-the-art library, and enjoys long-standing and flourishing partnerships with many venerable cultural and academic institutions throughout New York and the United States.

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MNMP Kick-Off & Party

Monday, September 12 | 3:30pm-5:30pm

ART New York – Bruce Mitchell Room (Kick-Off)

520 8th Ave., 3rd Floor

Half King (After Party hosted by MNMP’s Board)

W23rd and 10th

Join us for a get-together that will allow us to build our community and develop a shared understanding of our work together in the year ahead.

At the meeting we will:

– Get to know the staff and artists that make up MNMP
– Share MNMP program initiatives and goals for 2011-12
– Review the new MNMP TA Handbook
– Update your contact information and TA profile
– Ask questions, get answers, and share ideas

Afterwards, we’ll head over The Half King for an MNMP TA-Board Mixer with FREE drinks and food!

TAs will be paid the meeting rate of $25/hour for attendance.

It is very important that all TAs who wish to work with MNMP in 2011-12 attend either this meeting or the make-up meeting on Thurs, Sept 22nd, 3-5pm. Please plan on being at the meeting for the full 2 hours. We have a lot of ground to cover!

Please RSVP on Pingg by click here.

Please email education@mnmp.org or call 212-977-1070 if you have any questions.

Reach Them to Teach Them: Autism and the Arts

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Reach them to Teach Them: Autism and the Arts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 @ 9:00am – 4:00pm (8:30am registration)

Bank Street College of Education North

132 Claremont Ave @123rd Street

Subway: 1 to 125th Street

Admission is FREE. Register by clicking HERE

How do you use the arts to engage a child on the autism spectrum? How do you influence and expand a child’s lifelong learning in the classroom and at home? How do you enrich your own teaching and learning practice? Explore these questions and learn hands-on arts activities that you can immediately integrate into a child’s life — with no previous arts training required!

Join teachers, administrators, parents, therapists, and teaching artists for Reach Them to Teach Them: Autism and the Arts, a one-day forum exploring the multiple benefits of curriculum-integrated arts instruction for students on the autism spectrum. Discover the many ways in which basic music, movement, theater and the visual arts can be used to enhance student learning in school and at home.

Forum participants will divide their day between hands-on arts activities and discussion, all of which will be focused on effective practice in multi-disciplinary, integrated arts instruction for children on the autism spectrum. Regardless of previous experience level with the arts, participants will leave the forum with knowledge of arts activities they can confidently implement at home or in the classroom.

Reach Them to Teach Them: Autism and the Arts is a joint presentation of New York City’s Special Education District, District 75, and leading arts education organization, Manhattan New Music Project. Since 2002, Manhattan New Music Project and District 75 have collaborated in developing and implementing arts-based educational programs for students with autism. Their methodologies have been researched extensively by third-party evaluators, and been proven effective in increasing students’ communication and socialization skills, classroom behavior, and academic learning.

For any questions please email education@mnmp.org or call (212)-977-1070.

Music of Mazzoli, Krieger, Rakowski, Carter and Ran

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:30:40 +0000

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Music of Mazzoli, Krieger, Rakowski, Carter and Ran

League of Composers Orchestra Season Finale Concert

8:00pm Saturday, June 18, 2011 at Miller Theater – Columbia University

2960 Broadway, New York, NY

Subway: 1 to 116th Street – Columbia University

$22 General Admission – $11 Students/Seniors (Available in advance or at the door) HERE to purchase

The League of Composers returns to Miller Theater on June 18 with host John Schaefer (WNYC) for its season finale concert featuring the Orchestra of the League of Composers. Conducted by Louis Karchin and featuring soloists Fred Sherry and Virgil Blackwell and three newly-commissioned works by Missy Mazzoli, Arthur Krieger, and David Rakowski, the evening’s program will also include the American premieres of new compositions by Elliot Carter and Shulamit Ran. This concert is presented with the assistance of Manhattan New Music Project.

Program includes:
Violent Violent Sea (2011) – Missy Mazzoli
Sound Merger (2011) – Arthur Krieger
Talking Points (Right Wing Echo Chamber) (2011) – David Rakowski
Concertino for Bass Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra (written in 2008 at the age of 100) – Elliot Carter
Silent Voices (2010) – Shulamit Ran

About League of Composers/ISCM:
The Orchestra of the League of Composers represents an expansion of the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, a group organized in 1983 to present concerts each year at Merkin and Weill Recital Halls. Championing works by such established figures in American music as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Marion Gideon, John Harbison, Steve Reich and Joan Tower; masters of the early 20th century such as Bartok, Stravinsky and Schoenberg; as well as emerging composers; the ensemble quickly established a reputation for skilled performances of demanding literature. The June 10, 2009 Miller Theatre debut of the orchestra, hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer, paid homage to an important venue for the League-ISCM throughout its 86 year history.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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Steve Lehman

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Music of Steve Lehman

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 7:30pm

(le) poisson rogue, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY

Subway: B,D,F,M to West 4 St. – Washington Square

Admission FREE; E-mail ICE@lprnyc.com to RSVP.

MNMP joins International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) to commission Steve Lehman as part of ICElab, their groundbreaking new model for commissioning, developing, and performing new music.

This ICElab concert spotlights an evening-length new work by Steve Lehman, Impossible Flow, tailor-made for ICE. Long known as a virtuosic saxophone player at the center of New York’s experimental jazz scene, Steve Lehman has also developed a reputation as a brilliant composer. His 2009 album Travail, Transformation, and Flow was placed on an unprecedented 30 Top-Ten lists of jazz and experimental albums around the world. Meanwhile his work with composers Tristan Murail and Anthony Braxton, and his extensive experience in electroacoustic media, have yielded a musical style at the frontiers of contemporary concert music and experimental jazz.

Steve Lehman (b. 1978): Impossible Flow: for flute, alto saxophone, clarinet, horn, trombone, piano, double bass, drums and percussion (2011) WORLD PREMIERE

1. Impossible Flow: Prologue (2011) for flute, clarinet, horn, trombone, piano, double bass, drum set and percussion
2. Baltimore/Berlin (2008) for clarinet, trombone, piano, double bass, drum set
3. For McCoy Tyner, Tristan Murail, Anthony Braxton and Alexander Scriabin (2011) for alto saxophone and piano
4. Impossible Flow: Epilogue (2011) for alto saxophone

Steve Lehman’s new ICElab work, Impossible Flow, is commissioned jointly by the Manhattan New Music Project and ICE.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Photo Credit: Willie Davis

Photo Credit: Chad Batka

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Clogs w/ Brooklyn Youth Chorus

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Clogs w/ Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Saturday, March 12, 2011 @ 7:30pm

Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY

Subway: 1, 2 to 66th Street – Broadway

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Students with ID: $15 (in person only)

“Some of the most hauntingly beautiful and spiritually profound chamber music of the last decade”
– All About Jazz on Clogs

“How can we break out of the box? We want the challenges and the range that we’ve come to expect from classical music, but we also want a lot of the energy and the excitement that typically comes from NOT classical music.” – Diane Berkun, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Artistic Director and Founder

The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, heralded as “a polished ensemble of miniature professionals” (New York Times), joins the legendary chamber/rock quartet, Clogs for an evening of new works by Bryce Dessner (The National) and Padma Newsome for chorus, for Clogs and for the two groups together.

New work by Bryce Dessner commissioned by St Ann’s Warehouse, Kaufman Center, and Manhattan New Music Project. New work by Padma Newsome commissioned by Kaufman Center and Manhattan New Music Project.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

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Kneebody

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Kneebody

Four nights: January 26 to 29 at 8:30pm | Doors @ 8:00pm

Southpaw, 125 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Subway: 2,3,4,5,D,M,N,R,B,Q to Atlantic Terminal

$40 four day pass – Click HERE to purchase

January 26: Kneebody w/ Wayne Krantz » tickets
January 27: Kneebody w/ Busdriver » tickets
January 28: Kneebody w/ Busdriver & Mark Guiliana » tickets
January 29: Kneebody w/ Daedelus » tickets

Search & Restore and Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP) are proud to co-present a four-night residency with the Grammy-nominated ensemble Kneebody. Each night will consist of two sets featuring special guests: guitarist Wayne Krantz, indie-rapper Busdriver, drummer Mark Guiliana, and experimental music producer Daedelus.

Founded in 2001, Kneebody has built upon an impressive array of individual resumes and conservatory training to create a truly singular voice within the instrumental world. The group released an album of works by Charles Ives in 2009 last year, which received a Grammy nomination in the crossover field. During the four-night run, Kneebody will perform from their follow-up 2010 release You Can Have Your Moment (Winter & Winter).

Described by The New York Times as “a resolutely unpin-downable band,” the L.A./Brooklyn based quintet can be measured as “a band that inhabits the borderland abutted by post-bop, indie-rock, and hip-hop, without seeming to give much thought to the borders.” All About Jazz references their dynamic scope of “M-Base funk, post-rock futurism, Sabbath-inspired thrash, bittersweet pop and chamber-esque introspection,” while trumpet player Shane Endsley affirms he “[tries] to avoid stylistic references” and that the group “has had many labels thrown at it, but none seem to fit.” Whatever the case may be, come experience first hand how this ensemble is able to brilliantly tear through several genres to create a singular sonic tapestry.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Audio Samples:

» “You Have One Unheard Message”
» “Coat Rack”
» “You Can Have Your Moment”

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Sequenza21 & MNMP present: ACME in Concert

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Sequenza21 & MNMP present: ACME in Concert

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 @ 7:00pm

Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater

425 Lafayette Street

Subway: 6 to Astor Place

Admission FREE with $12 food/drink minimum; call Joe’s Pub at 212-539-8778 to RSVP.

Tickets are now available for the 2011 Sequenza 21/MNMP Concert at Joe’s Pub, featuring the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME). This event is free and open to the public, and will include the following works, selected through an open call for scores by ACME artistic director Clarice Jensen, composer and Sequenza21 senior editor Christian Carey, and composer Hayes Biggs.

Oracle Night – James Stephenson (UK)

Sixteen Lines – Robert Thomas (NJ)

Slumber Music – Jay Batzner (MI)

Grand Dragon – Rob Deemer (NY)

Refuge – Sam Nichols (CA)

Requests – David Smooke (MD)

How it Will Go – Dale Trumbore (CA)

Linea Negra – Laurie San Martin (CA)

Nostos Algea – James Holt (NY)

In addition, the concert will feature an opening work by Christian Carey called Wily Overture and a closing work by Hayes Biggs.

About the Artists:

Led by artistic director and cellist Clarice Jensen, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) is dedicated to the outstanding performance of masterworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, primarily the work of American composers. The ensemble aims to present cutting-edge contemporary literature by living composers alongside the “classics” of the contemporary. Known for their work with the Wordless Music Series as well as indie music icons such as Grizzly Bear, ACME’s dedication to cutting-edge contemporary literature extends across genres, and has earned them a reputation among both classical and rock crowds. Time Out New York calls them “one of New York’s brightest new music indie-bands.” ACME has performed at (Le) Poisson Rouge, Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tenri Cultural Institute, the Noguchi Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Flea Theater, and Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, among others. (www.acmemusic.org)

Jay C. Batzner is a composer, sci-fi geek, home brewer, burgeoning seamster, and juggler on the faculty of Central Michigan University, where he teaches music technology and electronic music courses. (www.jaybatzner.com)

Hayes Biggs, born in Huntsville, Alabama and raised in Helena, Arkansas, has taught at Manhattan School of Music since 1992. This season his Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs, composed for soprano Susan Narucki and pianist Christopher Oldfather, and Three Hymn Tune Preludes, commissioned by organist Gail Archer, will receive their first performances. (www.hayesbiggs.com)

Composer Christian Carey is Senior Editor at Sequenza 21 and an Assistant Professor of Music at Rider University. The New York New Music Ensemble, Cassatt String Quartet, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Locrian Chamber Players, and others have performed his music. He blogs regularly at File Under ? (www.sequenza21.com/carey)

Rob Deemer, a composer and conductor, is head of music composition at SUNY Fredonia, a member of the composition faculty at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, and is the composer-in-residence with the Buffalo Chamber Players. He writes frequently about new music for Sequenza21 and NewMusicBox. (www.robdeemer.com)

James Holt is a composer, podcaster, and arts administrator. His music has been performed across the country and internationally including recent performances in New York, Boston, St. Paul and San Francisco. Holt is originally from Seattle and now lives and works in New York City. (www.myearsareopen.net)

Laurie San Martin’s compositions combine her classically trained background with the sounds of today in music for acoustic chamber ensembles and orchestra. She has also enjoyed writing for video, dance and theater. She is currently working with soprano/actor Haleh Abghari on a theatrical work setting Farrid ud-Din Attar’s Conference of the Birds. (www.lauriesanmartin.com)

Sam Nichols is a composer; he teaches composition, music theory, and electronic music at UC Davis. He lives with his wife, the composer Laurie San Martin, and their two daughters in Woodland, CA. (www.samnichols.net)

Composer David Smooke (b. 1969) currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches music theory, rock music history and composition, and chairs the department of music theory at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his composition activities, Smooke founded and co-curates League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS), performs improvisations on toy piano, and writes a weekly column for NewMusicBox, the online magazine of the American Music Center. (www.davidsmooke.com)

British composer James Stephenson (b. 1981) studied at the University of York (BA, MA) and University of Manchester (PhD Composition, with Philip Grange and John Casken). His compositions have been performed across the UK and Western Europe, but never previously in America. Stephenson is also an active conductor, improviser and educator, and directs contemporary music ensemble Chiasmus. (www.jamesstephenson.org.uk)

Robert E. Thomas teaches music at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. His music has been presented around the country, including performances at the June In Buffalo and MusicX festivals and at the Conductor’s Institute at Bard. (http://retmusic.com)

An active composer on both coasts, Dale Trumbore has won numerous awards for her compositions. The Kronos Quartet premiered her string quartet as part of their residency at the University of Maryland in 2009. Trumbore currently resides in Los Angeles; she recently graduated with her M.M. in Composition from USC. (www.daletrumbore.com)

About Sequenza21:
Sequenza21 (www.sequenza21.com) contains commentary, reviews, features, a concert calendar, and composers’ forum, and is both a resource and meeting place for performers, composers, and listeners. In 2005, ASCAP awarded Sequenza21 its prestigious Deems Taylor Award.

About the Venue:
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
http://www.joespub.com

Questions? Please e-mail max@mnmp.org or call (212) 977 1070, extension 102.

Anne Pasquale

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Anne Pasquale

Anne Pasquale (actress & playwright) trained at L.A.M.D.A. and the New York School for the Arts. Ms. Pasquale creates and tours her repertoire of Living History Programs for audiences of all ages in venues along the East Coast. Recent performances of her original works include: The Amazing Nellie Bly at the NHHC Chautauqua, Liberty Belles at The Yale University Museum and The Revolutionary Deborah Sampson at the John Jay Homestead. As an established arts-in-education performer and residency artist she appears on the Young Audience roster in New Jersey, New York and Conneticut as well as NYC’s Arts Connection. She is also the recipient of the Young Audiences of New York Roster Artist of the year Award for 2009. Ms. Pasquale is a member of the Actors Studio and founding member and Arts-In-Education Director for Accidental Repertory Theatre (ART) under the direction of Mr. John Strasberg.

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20th Anniversary Benefit Concert

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20th Anniversary Benefit Concert

Performances by Darcy James Argue, Claire Chase, David Taylor

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 6:30pm | Doors @ 6:00pm

Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY

Subway: 4, 6 to Astor Place, N, R to 8th Street NYU

Ticket Price: $15 Standing Room; $40 Seating; $125 Benefactor

All proceeds benefit MNMP’s performance and arts-in-education programs, which serve thousands of New York City public school students on an annual basis.
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Manhattan New Music Project celebrates its 20th anniversary with a commission for Darcy James Argue and his 18-piece steampunk big band Secret Society — along with performances by Claire Chase of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and MNMP founding member David Taylor.

Praising Darcy James Argue for his talents as a bandleader and composer, the New York Times recently called his work “…a wickedly intelligent dispatch from the fading border between orchestral jazz and post-rock and classical minimalism.” Darcy will debut a world premiere commissioned in honor of MNMP’s late founder and artistic director, Paul Nash. Darcy will also present pieces from his recent album, Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam Records) performed by his 18-piece big band, Secret Society. Infernal Machines was one of the most talked about jazz albums of 2009, featured on over 70 year-end “best” lists, including NPR, Wall Street Journal, and Village Voice.

ICE co-founder Claire Chase will perform Steve Reich’s Vermont Counterpoint for solo flute and tape. Declared “dynamic” and “indefatigable” by Time Out New York, Claire is a passionate leader and innovator in 21st century music who has produced events both in the world’s most important concert halls, and in warehouses, galleries and clubs. Claire co-founded the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2001, and the New Yorker has described them as “a powerhouse of new-music programming on a Chicago-New York axis…brilliant and unexpected.”

David Taylor, described by the New York Times as “a bass trombonist with a marvelously dark cavernous sound and an attack that is as vividly dramatic as it is virtuosic,” was a founding member of Manhattan New Music Project in 1990. He has appeared as a soloist throughout the world, and recorded with Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Wynton Marsalis among many others. He will perform works by MNMP founder Paul Nash with surprise guests.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

BPS

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Blank Page to Stage

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Funded by an Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Blank Page to Stage (BPS) is a four-year partnership between Manhattan New Music Project and P.S. 24K, a dual-language school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The program serves approximately 850 students in grades K-5. This population includes English language learners, special-needs students, and general education students.

BPS will train all of P.S. 24K’s teachers to integrate arts activities into their classrooms and core curricula. Students will start, quite literally, with a blank page, and will go on to create their own original musical theater production.

Throughout this process, students will actively participate in five core arts disciplines: drama, music, dance, creative writing and visual arts. They will write and perform a script, compose and choreograph original music, and design and build their own costumes and sets. Teachers will, through professional development and extensive in-class support, learn to shepherd their students through this dynamic process.

Program evaluation is directed by Dr. Rob Horowitz, Associate Director of the Center for Arts Education Research at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Everyday Arts for Special Education (2010-15)

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MNMP and District 75, New York’s special education district, have received an Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) award from the U.S. Department of Education.

The $4.6 million grant, combined with a $500,000 contribution from National Philanthropic Trust, will fund a five-year project developing arts programs for special education students.

Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE) is a professional development program designed to improve student achievement in the areas of communication, socialization, academic learning, and arts proficiency through integrated, arts-based approaches.

Through a series of training workshops and extensive in-school support, participating teachers in ten treatment schools will learn skills and strategies across multiple arts disciplines (music, dance, visual arts, and theater) in order to integrate the arts into their classroom instruction. In addition, we will broaden the reach of the project beyond these schools by offering EASE training to other teachers within District 75 through its District-wide professional development program, to special education teachers and college students through Summer Seminar workshops, and to special education administrators nationwide through Administrators’ Workshops. Through treatment schools and other training efforts, EASE will serve 40,795 students.

The project will be evaluated by Dr. Rob Horowitz, Associate Director of the Center for Arts Education Research at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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Project Director Kathy London and Evaluator Dr. Rob Horowitz discuss Everyday Arts for Special Education on NBC’s Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough. – » Click to Watch

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Communication and Socialization through the Arts (2008-11)

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Funded by a Professional Development for Arts Educators grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Communication and Socialization Through the Arts (CASTA) is a three-year program developed in collaboration with District 75, New York City’s special education district. The program serves teachers and autistic populations from 36 different schools over three years.

CASTA is a professional development program designed to address communication and socialization challenges of students with autism through arts-based approaches. Through a series of professional development workshops and extensive in-school support, participating teachers will learn skills and strategies across all arts disciplines to improve students’ communication and socialization skills, thus helping each student achieve his or her Individualized Education Program goals.

Program evaluation is directed by Dr. Rob Horowitz, Associate Director of the Center for Arts Education Research at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Current Research Initiatives

Manhattan New Music Project — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:09:38 +0000

Research

The efficacy of our educational programs has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement, which has awarded $9.6 million in support of our multi-year research initiatives. These are our current programs:

Blank Page to Stage (BPS), a four-year original musical theater creation program designed for English Language Learners, and general and special education students (Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grant, 2008-12)

Communication and Socialization Through the Arts (CASTA), a three-year professional development program designed to address communication and socialization skills of students with autism through arts-based approaches (Professional Development for Arts Educators grant, 2008-11)

Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE), a five-year program expanding the approaches piloted in CASTA to serve the needs of students with a wide range of disabilities (Investing in Innovation grant, 2010-15)

Sarah Kirkland Snider & Missy Mazzoli

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:44:40 +0000

Performance Archive

Sarah Kirkland Snider & Missy Mazzoli

Tuesday, October 05, 2010 at 8:00pm | Doors @ 7:00pm

Galapagos Arts Space, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY

Subway: A,C to High Street, 2,3 to Clark Street

Ticket Price: $15 – Click HERE to purchase tickets

New Amsterdam Records and Manhattan New Music Project are proud to co-present a double-feature performance of the music of composers Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider. The concert will take place at Galapagos Art Space on October 5 and will feature members of ACME, Janus trio, MIVOS Quartet and MaNi. The music, which will be performed by varying-sized combinations of brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion, and female vocals, will feature three New York City premieres, including Snider’s “Shiner” and “The Reserved, The Reticent” – a solo cello piece to be performed by Clarice Jensen of ACME – as well as Mazzoli’s “Death Valley Junction” – a string quartet to be performed by the MIVOS Quartet.

Snider and Mazzoli have already proven themselves luminaries of the New York music scene and beyond. Mazzoli, hailed as one of the “most consistently inventive and surprising composers now working in New York” by the New York Times, has garnered attention as bandleader of the electro-chamber outfit Victoire as well as for her chamber compositions, which have been performed by the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Snider, also a composer of ambitious and ethereal chamber music, has been noted to possess “an enviable knack for crafting moody, strikingly beautiful works” (Time Out New York). Her latest work, Penelope, is an hourlong, epic song cycle written for vocalist Shara Worden of indie band My Brightest Diamond and chamber orchestra Signal. With Mazzoli releasing a full-length Victoire album in September and Snider releasing a studio recording of Penelope in October, the concert will present a collection of recent chamber works from neither album which promise to further reveal the breadth of these composers’ formidable abilities.

Of her compositions, Mazzoli says, “like most of my music, these pieces are really about transporting the listener to a dreamy and unfamiliar but very specific place.” Snider’s pieces inhabit a similar realm of lush but uneasy beauty, a world she perfected in her large-scale opus Penelope. But unlike the latter work, these shorter pieces are more “classically inspired” in nature, containing fewer of the pop music and songwriting references evident in much of her latest work.

This performance program is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

i3 – Everyday Arts for Special Education

Manhattan New Music Project — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:30:50 +0000

Investing In Innovation (i3)

MNMP and District 75 Awarded $4.6 Million Federal Innovation Grant; Receive $500,000 from National Philanthropic Trust

MNMP and District 75, New York’s special education district, have been selected to receive an Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) award from the U.S. Department of Education.

The $4.6 million grant, combined with a $500,000 contribution from National Philanthropic Trust, will fund a five-year project developing arts programs for special education students. Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE) is a professional development program designed to improve student achievement in the areas of communication, socialization, academic learning and arts proficiency. Through treatment schools and other training efforts, EASE will serve 40,795 students. Dr. Rob Horowitz, Associate Director of the Center for Arts Education Research at Teachers College, Columbia University, will direct the project evaluation.

Our proposal ranked 4th highest out of 49 winning applicants from among 1,700 nationwide (only three of which were for the arts). In order to receive the award, we needed to secure 20% — or $929,000 – in matching commitments from the private sector by September 8, 2010.

We are truly and incredibly grateful for the generous support of the National Philanthropic Trust for the J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund, which at the recommendation of the Education Collaboration Fund (ECF), has committed $500,000 to the project. ECF supporters include the Dalio Family Foundation, Judy and Jamie Dimon, the Finnegan Family Foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, the TOSA Foundation, and other anonymous donors. MNMP’s board voted unanimously to commit to raising the remaining $429,000 over five years.

Special thanks goes to the EASE program design team: Teaching Artist and Curriculum Designer Dr. Jennifer Raine, District 75 Arts Instructional Support Specialist Kathy London, and Evaluator Dr. Rob Horowitz. Mike Halverson, MNMP’s Director of Education, will oversee the project.

To pledge your support, visit our donation page at nycharities.org.

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NEA – ICE Lesson Plan

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ICE Lesson Plans

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NEA – Self Assessment

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School Partnerships Screening Page

Manhattan New Music Project — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:35:55 +0000

Screening Room

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NEA – Graphic Notation

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NEA – MNMP

Welcome to the MNMP NEA Works Samples Page

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Photos of instruments made by 4th graders from recyled materials in 2009 Build Your Own Orchestra residency at PS 24K school in Brooklyn.

II: Work Sample B: Andrew Drury/Build Your Own Orchestra sounds

Audio recordings of Andrew Drury’s 5th & 6th grade students in Staten Island playing their own compositions on self-made instruments (PVC tubes struck with flip-flops, a rubber band banjo, etc.).

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Sample graphic notation through history from early Plainchant through Still Sounds Run Deep by Paul Nash and György Kurtág’s Játákok; audio recording of Kurtág playing Játákok.

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League of Composers Orchestra

Manhattan New Music Project — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:09:05 +0000

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League of Composers Orchestra

Monday, June 7th 2010 at 8:00pm Miller Theatre

2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

Subway: 1 to 116th Street – Columbia University

To purchase tickets please visit the League of Composers website by clicking HERE

John Schaefer of WNYC hosts the League’s season finale featuring the Orchestra of the League of Composers, conducted by Lou Karchin, on Monday, June 7, 2010 at Miller Theatre (8:00 PM). Mr. Schaefer interviews the evening’s composers, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, D.J. Sparr, Joan Tower, and Jason Treuting, thoughout the concert.

On the program will be Babbitt’s Transfigured Notes (NY Premiere), Carter’s On Conversing With Paradise (NY Premiere – composed at age 99!), Tower’s Purple Rhapsody (NY Premiere), the League’s 2009 competition winning piece by D.J. Sparr, DACCA:DECCA:GaFfa,and Treuting’s oblique music for 4 plus (blank) (World Premiere and League commission with So Percussion and the League orchestra). The concert is presented with the assistance of Manhattan New Music Project.

The Orchestra of the League of Composers represents an expansion of the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, a group organized in 1983 to present concerts each year at Merkin and Weill Recital Halls. Championing works by such established figures in American music as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Marion Gideon, John Harbison, Steve Reich and Joan Tower, masters of the early 20th century, such as Bartok, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, as well as emerging composers, the ensemble quickly established a reputation for skilled performances of demanding literature. The debut of the orchestra, hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer, was on June 10, 2009, at Miller Theatre, paying homage to an important venue for the League-ISCM throughout its 85 year history.

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Special Education

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:46:02 +0000

Special Education

Through five multi-year grants from the U.S. Department of Education (three in partnership with District 75), MNMP has created educational models for students with learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral disabilities, mental retardation, multiple disabilities, and autism spectrum disorders. We recognize that the arts provide a unique entry point for learning; this can be particularly effective for students with special needs, who may struggle with more conventional academic strategies.

Learn about our current and past research initiatives with District 75:

» Communication and Socialization Through the Arts (CASTA) , a three-year professional development program designed to address communication and socialization skills of students with autism through arts-based approaches (Professional Development for Arts Educators grant, 2008-11)

» Everyday Arts for Special Education (EASE), a five-year program expanding the approaches piloted in CASTA to serve the needs of students with a wide range of disabilities (Investing in Innovation grant, 2010-15)

To plan a residency or professional development program, contact our Education Programs Manager, Sita Frederick, at 212-977-1070 ext. 103 or sita@mnmp.org.

Strategic Foundation Building Retreat

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:26:15 +0000

Events

Strategic Foundation Building Retreat

MS 325X, Urban Science Academy

April 21st, 2010 @ DreamYard Art Center

Thanks to the generous support of a Technical Assistance Program grant through Partners for Arts Education, Manhattan New Music Project coordinated a day-long “Strategic Foundation Building” retreat for partnership planning, curriculum design, and community-building with partner school MS 325X, Urban Science Academy. In addition to school faculty and staff and representatives of MNMP, the retreat brought together representatives of American Ballroom Theater, Dreamyard Project, Lincoln Center Theater, the New School and Studio in a School — all arts-provider partners of 325X — to explore connections across the school’s culture and collectively help teachers, principal Patrick Kelly, and assistant principal Marcos DeCastro develop a long range vision for arts in the school.

With the facilitation of Hollis Headrick, a nationally recognized consultant for arts, education and philanthropy, the team discussed their common available resources and explored the potential advantages of linking all their partnership programs to better address NY State and NYC arts standards. In a lively exchange, the arts partners shared their programs and ideas to develop a comprehensive approach to arts learning.

Several recommendations were made to pursue this goal. They included:

* Regular meetings for further planning and coordination of arts efforts;
* Sharing the Urban Science Academy’s arts programming with the larger school community through shows and exhibitions;
* Exploring the possibility of creating a school-wide carnival around themes drawn from the Social Studies;
* Articulating a set of core values, skills, and attitudes common to all the arts programs to reinforce learning across the partnerships;
* Inviting student input into an arts plan and encouraging students to create their own mission statement concerning what they want from their arts learning at the school.

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Still Sounds Run Deep

Manhattan New Music Project — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:19:41 +0000

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Still Sounds Run Deep

Monday, June 21, 2010 at 12:00pm

Apple Store Chelsea Pedestrian Oasis – 14th Street & 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10014

Subway: A,C,E,L to 14th Street

As part of Interactive Music New York, Manhattan New Music Project presents Still Sounds Run Deep, a site-specific, sonic event.

Composed by Paul Nash and performed under the musical direction of Art Baron, Still Sounds Run Deep occupies a special place in our institutional history and Nash’s compositional output.

It is one of Nash’s most performed works. Inspired by his experience with site specific sculpture program at the Djerassi Foundation in California, it was originally written in 1997; in 2000, he revised it and received funding from the Jerome Foundation in 2000 to produce the work in nine city parks, from Fort Tryon to City Hall in partnership with the Department of Parks. The piece was performed for a number of years hence, including in Herald’s Square in 2005 in memorial for Nash, who met an untimely death as the result of a brain tumor.

Still Sounds Run Deep is described as a sonic event because it is not intended for a formal concert setting; it is more in the nature of a happening; musicians play outdoors in the urban environment interacting with sounds that they hear in that soundscape: sirens, traffic, people, nature. Working from a score with graphic notation, some musical ideas are fixed and time is measured carefully by means of synchronized stop-watches. Musicians stop and listen to the environment for one minute intervals. Wild card rule to react musically to extraordinary sound events (such as the passing of fire engines). The piece is an hour in length and will be performed by 10 players:

Art Baron – musical director & conductor
Jane Ira Bloom – soprano sax
Briggan Kraus – alto sax
Erik Lawrence – tenor sax
Jack Walrath – trumpet
Steven Bernstein – trumpet
Curtis Fowlkes – trombone
Vincent Chancey – French Horn
Marcus Rojas – tuba
Lou Grassi – drums

Interactive Music New York
This performance is part of Interactive Music New York (IAMNY), a unique program of interactive music performance and outdoor installations as part of the fourth annual Make Music New York. IAMNY will unfold as a walking tour of public sites arranged along a designed area of Manhattan. At each location, musicians and their instruments will present original compositions that interact with the audience, the immediate environment, or with various forms of technology to deliver a dynamic and spontaneous musical experience. Interactive music demonstrations will also be conducted during the program.

This performance program is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Jennifer Raine

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:59:19 +0000

Teaching Artists

Jennifer Raine

Dr. Jennifer Raine has been involved in the field of arts education since 1996, working with such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the International Schools Theater Association, the Midori Foundation, Marquis Studios, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Dr. Raine currently serves as Special Programs Coordinator at the Manhattan New Music Project, a position she has held since 2005. A much-sought-after teaching artist, professional developer, and curriculum writer, Dr. Raine creates and conducts student and staff development workshops in the New York area and internationally. Workshops focus on facilitating creation of original student work across all arts disciplines, particularly music, drama, and poetry. At the Manhattan New Music Project, she writes curriculum and conducts arts workshops for multi-year, citywide professional development programs that serve teachers of special education, ESL, and general education populations. Dr. Raine’s artistic training is in trombone performance; she holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

LeeAnet Noble

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:58:04 +0000

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LeeAnet Noble

LeeAnet Noble is a phenomenally talented actor, dancer, drummer and singer whose unique style of mixing tap dancing and masterful drumming simultaneously, has won her critical acclaim from across the USA. She performed leading roles in the New York casts of the international hit shows STOMP and DRUMSTRUCK. She was recently seen opening the star studded Black Ball at the Hammerstein Ballroom with a solo on the djembe that received rave reviews from Rollingstone.com. She has been featured with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Harry Belafonte, Hugh Masekela and Danny Glover among others. Her solo career has taken her from the Lincoln Center to every theater at The Kennedy Center. Her original choreography was featured in NATIVITY at The Public Theater with the Broadway casts of Lion King and Chicago and at the ANHM for an audience of thirty thousand at which she performed her critically acclaimed act with her mother, acclaimed vocalist and percussionist Lauretta Noble. She studied acting at Howard University graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Theater. Ms. Noble has been featured on BET, ABC, FOX-NY, FOX-DC, CNN and Good Day New York. She has opened for such artists as Chaka Khan, Alicia Keys, Gwen Stefani, Bono and Sheryl Crow. Her critically acclaimed original spiritual choreography has been performed at such prestigious theaters as The Kennedy Center and in South Africa and Brazil. Her original one woman show KickN2theBeat premiered December 14th at The Zipper Theater. LeeAnet began teaching over ten years ago in Washington DC. She has taught at such schools as The Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Montgomery College, Ballet Petite and various public school throughout New York. Due to her eclectic training and experience she teaches tap, step, poetry, gumboot dancing, South and West African dance, percussion and theater as well as Slammin’ workshops (alternative drumming and tap).

Joan Merwyn

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:56:46 +0000

Teaching Artists

Joan Merwyn

Joan Merwyn is an award winning and critically acclaimed performing artist, teacher, choreographer and stage director. She has performed and taught in Europe, Canada and the U.S. with her solo performances and as a founding member of numerous experimental and physical theater companies. As a performer and educator, she has appeared from San Francisco to Montreal and throughout Europe, from site-specific locations to colleges, international performance festivals and opera houses. Joan Merwyn Physical Theater reflects 30 years of experience in the fields of mime and Physical Theater. She is currently performing and touring two, one-woman shows: SHIFTINGS, for evening audiences and CHO?CES for family audiences, youth, schools mental health and community centers.

Lynn Marlowe

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:54:33 +0000

Teaching Artists

Lynn Marlowe

Lynn Marlowe has been a teaching artist in the NYC area for the past 12 years. She also directs and choreographs in the public and private school system for ages 3rd Grade through High School and has written a theatre “curriculum based” program for the fourth grade at “The Lower Lab School” in Manhattan. Previously Lynn was a professional dancer, actress and singer performing in National Tours and Regional Theatre She was also seen in several National Commercials and on the soap opera “All My Children.” Lynn’s focus as a teaching artist is dance and scriptwriting.

Annie Levy

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:49:28 +0000

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Annie Levy

Annie Levy is a director, collaborative performer and educator. Working with student populations from second grade through college, Annie teaches drama, movement, improvisation and writing as well as facilitating and directing student created original theatre pieces. She is the resident director of Storahtelling and the Northwoods Theatre Company. Regional and local directing credits include HERE Arts Center, 78th Street Theatre Lab, Vital Theatre, The Jose Quintero Theatre, Makor Visionary Festival and The Playwrights Theatre of NJ. International credits include The Assembly Rooms (Edinburgh, Scotland), Discoteca di Storia (Rome, Italy) and Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada). Some of her awards include a 2003 Steven Spielberg Fellowship in Theatre Arts Education, the Jewish Woman’s Education Grant and the S. Rubenstein Family Foundation graduate education grant. Most recently she received a 2008 Directing Assistantship at the Oregon Shakespeare Theatre. She holds a BA from Barnard College in Theatre and Political Science and a MFA in Theatre with a directing concentrate from Sarah Lawrence.

Judith Lane

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:48:14 +0000

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Judith Lane

Judith Lane has worked since 1994 as a Teaching Artist in the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s “Creating Original Opera” Program. She has also designed and conducted independent writing and performance workshops with school children in California, New York, and Germany. Ms. Lane studied music composition and creative writing at Bennington College, and received an MFA from NYU’s Musical Theatre Writing Program. She continues to write and compose musical theatre, and was commissioned to write and direct two operas for the Children’s Opera Company of Ossining. Ms. Lane has been three times acknowledged with the BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) for playwriting from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and has received numerous ASCAP Awards for music composition. She is a published children’s book author and has been in awarded residencies at many art colonies in the US, Spain and Costa Rica.

Peter Hoyle

Manhattan New Music Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:17:37 +0000

Teaching Artists

Peter Hoyle

Peter Hoyle is currently employed as Director of Education for the New Jersey Opera Theater, as a teaching artist for the Dreamyard Drama Project, as Senior Teaching artist at the Metropolitan Opera Guild (MOG) Education Department. He has extensive experience creating and leading professional development for teachers throughout the U.S. with the MOG Creating Original Opera Teacher Training Program, The Whole Schools Initiative in Mississippi, the Bronx Region 1 Drama Teachers Professional Development, and the M.O.G. Professional Development Institute. Hoyle’s collaborations with teachers have inspired student work in the areas of visual art, musical composition, music theater, poetry, character education, set design and construction, and film-making using arts skills in the service of curricular exploration. He has taught both music and visual art at institutions including the Holderness School, the Boston Museum School, the Middlesex School system in Massachusetts, and in over 30 public schools in the New York metropolitan area.

Greg Paul

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:35:46 +0000

Teaching Artists

Greg Paul

Greg Paul has been a teaching artist for the past five years, working with such companies as The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Wingspan, and The Neighborhood Playspace. He is also the founder of PlayWork student theatre workshop, Stage One Productions, and The Arts Gymnasium under the auspices of Juggernaut Theatre Company,of which he is a founding member. In addition to teaching Greg is also a director and playwright. His most recent play The Amazing True Adventures Of Buckbean Bushytail was recently awarded a generous development grant from New York State Council of the Arts. Mr. Paul is currently developing a full-length play entitled Phobe as well as numerous smaller scripts. In addition to his musical theater credentials, Greg is also a seasoned designer, carpenter, and puppeteer.

Kevin Ray

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:32:25 +0000

Teaching Artists

Kevin Ray

Kevin Ray is a theater artist with experience in education, community development, and professional acting. He began working as a teaching artist, developing curriculum and facilitating theater programs, in 2002. Kevin has worked with various youth populations, grades K to 12, ranging from general education to youth with special needs and English language learners. He has worked for several organizations including Manhattan New Music Project, The Creative Arts Team, and Theatre Development Fund. As a director of young people, Kevin has worked at The McCarter Theatre, directing productions of Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., A Year With Frog and Toad and Pinkalicious. As assistant director at The Creative Arts Team Youth Theatre, he was musical director/assistant director for From Time to Time and The Power Game. In addition, Kevin has provided professional development workshops at Partnership for After School Education (PASE) for after-school and summer program administrators and staff. As part of his work toward an MA in Applied Theater at The CUNY School of Professional Studies, Kevin led intergenerational, community-based theater programs with youth and older adults at Hudson Guild and SAGE (Services and Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders) where he co-directed Step Right Up!. He received his Bachelor of Music from New York University and anticipates receiving his MA in Applied Theatre in December 2011. As a professional actor, Kevin is a member of Actors’ Equity and has appeared in regional theater productions as well as national tours of The Who’s Tommy and A Chorus Line.

Erica Rooney

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:53:56 +0000

Teaching Artists

Erica Rooney

Erica Rooney is a licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Teaching Artist. For many years she was a scientific illustrator and writing teacher; she currently draws, paints and writes, primarily poetry. As a Teaching Artist, her interest is special ed populations, with focus on children on the autism spectrum. She is currently involved in two ongoing initiatives, one with Marquis Studios and the other with The Manhattan New Music Project, which train teaching artists and classroom teachers in adapting the arts to special ed populations. Her work in the classroom is decidedly multi-modal, since her background includes music, Japanese dance and poetry. She is on the Steering Committee of The Arts in Special Ed Consortium, a group whose mission is to bring together the many people – including parents – who have a stake in bringing arts curriculum to students with special needs. Erica has an MFA in Poetry from Cornell University and an MPS in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute.

Darcy James Argue & Todd Sickafoose

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:59:38 +0000

Performance Archive

Darcy James Argue & Todd Sickafoose

Friday, May14th & Saturday May 15th 2010 at 10:30pm 45 Bleecker

45 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

Subway: B,D,F,V to Broadway-Lafayette 6 to Bleecker

Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP) and Search & Restore present a two-night, double bill performance by jazz composer-artists Darcy James Argue and Todd Sickafoose at 45 Bleecker on May 14th and 15th, 10:30pm

10:30pm: Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resistors Bassist and composer Todd Sickafoose, a native of the Bay Area, has become an integral member of the New York City jazz scene, as both a leader and sideman. Credited for his proficiency across genres, Sickafoose has collaborated with the likes of Ani DiFranco, Don Byron, Andrew Bird, Trey Anastasio, Nels Cline, Tony Furtado, and many others. Sickafoose will be performing music from his latest album, Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone), which the New York Times has stated “features a number of tunes in which horn parts and guitar lines swirl around a calmly asymmetrical pulse.” John Ellis (sax/clarinet), Alan Ferber (trombone), Jonathan Goldberger (guitar), Mike Gamble (guitar), and Rudy Royston (drums) will accompany him for this performance.

11:30pm: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Praising Darcy James Argue for his talents as a bandleader and composer, the New York Times recently called his work “a wickedly intelligent dispatch from the fading border between orchestral jazz and post-rock and classical minimalism… radiates self-assurance, and an almost chilling steadiness of conviction.” Argue will be performing works with his 18-piece big band, Secret Society, from his debut album, Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam Records). This release was one of the most talked about jazz albums of 2009, and was featured on over 70 best-of-the-year lists, including New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal, and Village Voice.

About Search & Restore: Search & Restore is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustaining, expanding and exploding the live jazz audience in New York City among younger and bigger audiences. Through creative concert presentation and SearchAndRestore.com, the best resource for live jazz in New York City, Search & Restore aims to unite a community around forward thinking jazz and is determined to shatter the pretense that an audience needs to understand the music before they hear it. Rather, Search & Restore feels that jazz being made today is some of the most human music ever made, and will bring these incredible melodies and improvised insanities to as many people as possible. Don’t try and stop them. http://searchandrestore.com

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Claire Tunkel

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:50:39 +0000

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Claire Tunkel

Claire Tunkel, originally from Virginia, graduated from Hollins University with a bachelor’s degree in dance and studio art. She is currently a Teaching Artist for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Manhattan New Music Project and Dance New Amsterdam. She has been teaching creative movement, modern, ballet and Asian dance for organizations that include the Hudson Repertory Dance Theater, Ballet Tech, and Kinderdance. Since moving to New York she has danced for the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Nathan Trice/Rituals, Ellis Wood dance, Colleen Thomas, Theresa Ling, Elizabeth Hazelwood, Gina Kohler, ShaLeigh dance works and Ayo Jackson.

Daniel Heffernan

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:42:52 +0000

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Daniel Heffernan

Daniel Heffernan is a visual and theater artist whose paintings and videos have been internationally exhibited. Since 1992, Daniel has served as a faculty member for the Institute of Arts and Humanities of New Jersey. In this capacity, he has co-directed and designed performance productions for teen-age artists in which students created multi-media performance works that tour throughout the north east. Tour locations include: Fringe Festivals of New York and Philadelphia, the Kennedy Center in D.C., Young Peoples Theatre in Toronto, and Articule in Montreal, Quebec. Disciplines included theatre, movement, visual arts, video art, and music. He has also worked as an educational consultant most notably with the Galef Institute, an arts-oriented school reform organization based in Los Angeles, California. Daniel holds a Master of Fine Arts from New York University as well as Bachelor degree in International Relations from the University of Illinois at Champagne, Urbana. This spring, Daniel was invited to be a resident artist at the Jentel Foundation where he spent four weeks concentrating on his individual work. Daniel currently lives and works in New York City.

Elizbeth Hanson

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:40:31 +0000

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Elizabeth Hanson

Elizabeth Hanson is currently teaching and performing Brazilian music in New York City. As a percussionist she has played with groups like the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic and the American Institute Opera Orchestra in Austria. While living in São Paulo she recorded on a CD of Brazilian music called Espaço Imaginario. Elizabeth has a degree in percussion performance from the University of Michigan and has studied marimba with Keiko Abe in Tokyo and more recently spent two years researching and playing Brazilian folk and instrumental music in São Paulo.

Nancy Volante

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:38:20 +0000

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Nancy Volante

Nancy Volante received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont. Her concentration of study and expertise is in theatre, dance, writing and video. Nancy has been teaching in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston for twenty years. She works in many different communities throughout New York City, cultivating and co-founding programs in public schools. Nancy has extensive experience in facilitating professional development for teachers, administrators, and teaching artists, with a particular focus on the arts in special education. She also creates arts curriculum for special education populations in Manhattan New Music Project’s CASTA and EASE programs. As a teaching artist, Nancy leads theater, writing and movement residencies for students of all ages.

Nancy’s creative practice is community-based and uses the artistic disciplines of theatre, dance, writing and video interchangeably. She is currently working on a video and writing essays about living, teaching and connecting in a grandiose society.

Markeisha Ensley

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:22:10 +0000

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Markeisha Ensley

Markeisha Ensley is a singer/songwriter, actress and educator originally from Aurora, Colorado. As a teaching artist, she has worked in the areas of vocal technique and performance, storytelling through music, and drama. Also an accomplished pianist, Markeisha received her bachelor’s degree in Music Business from New York University and is a graduate of the Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC. Markeisha’s original songs have received accolades in the Billboard World Songwriting Contest and she is also an ASCAPlus Award winner. Currently she is teaching and performing in the NYC area while writing new material for her second album.
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Vincent Ector

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:17:48 +0000

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Vincent Ector

Vincent Ector hails from the musical city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he attended the University of Pennsylvania. Trained in Music beginning at age nine through GAMP, a music magnet school in Philadelphia that also enabled him to study at Temple University while still a junior high school student. He then began studying privately with drummers such as Mickey Roker, Ralph Peterson Jr., and Armand Santarelli, as well as performing for six years as a percussionist with the United States Army Band. As a performer, he has worked with jazz luminaries that include: Freddie Hubbard, Gloria Lynne, Charles Earland, Bobby Watson, Grover Washington Jr., Ted Curson, Dr Lonnie Smith, George Cables, Ralph Peterson Jr., Melvin Sparks, Johnny Coles and Shirley Scott. Vincent can also be heard on recordings by: Jimmy Bruno, Onaje Allan Gumbs and Charles Earland, as well as appearing as a musician on ABC television’s “One Life to Live” daytime soap opera, which features Vincent’s recorded drum performance. He performs regularly in New York City with several ensembles such as, The Charles Mingus Orchestra, The Mike LeDonne Organ Quartet and his own band in venues such as; Smoke, The Iridium, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola and The Jazz Standard among others. Mr. Ector was a featured teaching artist in the 2001 Harcourt/Brace Media Literacy Video Series, which is distributed nationally, as well as internationally.
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Andrew Drury

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:13:06 +0000

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Andrew Drury

Andrew Drury has been described as “a thoughtfully avant-garde drummer and composer” (New York Times) and “(an) outstanding jazz and experimental percussionist…” (Time Out New York) Andrew Drury works internationally in the areas of jazz and free improvisation. A student of the legendary drummer Ed Blackwell, Drury has appeared on over 20 CDs and worked with artists such as Jason Kao Hwang, Myra Melford, Chris Speed, and Steve Swell, among others. Drury’s workshops give students access to the vitality and tradition of his artistic milieu emphasizing African-diasporic drumming. To date he has led nearly 1,000 workshops and trainings for music teachers, graduate students at the Columbia University School of Social Work, homeless people, music students in Sarajevo, Native American populations, young people in remote areas of Nicaragua and Guatemala, and students of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities. In 2000 the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation identified him as “one of the…most skilled and experienced community artists in America.”
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Lisa Dove

Manhattan New Music Project — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:10:39 +0000

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Lisa Dove

Lisa Dove is an actor, director and composer living with her family in Brooklyn. As a teaching artist, she’s worked with the Met Opera Guild’s “Creating Original Opera” and “Sing Speak Play” programs since 2000, and joined the staff at MNMP in 2007. She has a strong background in Dalcroze, and has led the early childhood music programs of PS 58 and Linden Tree Preschool; she is currently on the faculty of the Lucy Moses School in NYC. A graduate from Juilliard’s Drama Division, she worked for many years as a professional actor, before settling down as a mom. She was the co-founder of Juggernaut Theatre Co., and has been the stage director for Northern Light Opera Company since 2002. As a composer, her musical compositions and soundscapes have been heard at HERE Arts Center, Juilliard, Soho Rep & Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and she was a composer in the New Dramatists’ Composer/Librettist Studio in 2007. Lisa has been the recipient of grants from the Fox Foundation, The Field, NYSCA, and Meet The Composer.

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