2013 Performances
February 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm
wednesday night live! @ goca
statio hiberna/winter stasis
Ensemble Peak FreQuency
featuring Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Wednesday, 13 February 2013, 7:30pm
GOCA 121, 121 S. Tejon | Suite 100, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
$10 donation
Karen Bentley Pollick has performed as violinist with Paul Dresher’s Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 1999 and plays a wide range of solo repertoire and styles on violin, viola, piano and Norwegian hardangerfele. This concert will feature selections from her multimedia presentation Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity as well as arrangements of late fourteenth-century polyphony from the Chantilly Codex.
March 8, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Colorado College, Packard Recital Hall
Karen Bentley Pollick & Ivan Sokolov perform works by Claude Debusssy, Ivan Sokolov, Ofer Ben-Amots & Jan Jirásek
March 10, 2013 at 5:00 pm
Colorado Springs
Karen Bentley Pollick & Ivan Sokolov perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Ivan Sokolov, Ofer Ben-Amots & Jan Jirásek
March 17, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Dillon, Colorado
Lord of the Mountain Lutheran Church
Seeing through Sound: Chamber Music of Ivan Sokolov, featuring his Piano Quartet and String Trio with violist Basil Vendryes and cellist Richard Slavich
March 21, 2013 at 7:30 pm
1001 13th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302
Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents a special Bach Birthday concert with Russian pianist/composer Ivan Sokolov & Karen Bentley Pollick
March 27, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Denver, Colorado
Lamont School of Music Recital Hall
Seeing through Sound: Chamber Music of Ivan Sokolov, featuring his Piano Quartet and String Trio with violist Basil Vendryes and cellist Richard Slavich.
April 4, 2013
Myrna Loy Center
Helena, Montana
Double Duo (Karen Bentley Pollick, Joel Davel, Paul Dresher, Lisa Moore)
April 6 & 7, 2013
Mondavi Performing Arts Center
Davis, California
Double Duo (Karen Bentley Pollick, Joel Davel, Paul Dresher, Lisa Moore) perform at UC Davis
Preview article in Davis Enterprise
Preview from Mondavi Center
April 12, 2013
Old First Church
San Francisco, California
Old First Concerts presents the Double Duo (Karen Bentley Pollick, Joel Davel, Paul Dresher, Lisa Moore)
Review in San Francisco Examiner: The Paul Dresher Ensemble Double Duo returns to Old First Church
Preview in San Francisco Examiner: Innovations from the Paul Dresher Ensemble
May 2013
Double Duo tours Australia: Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra
May 6-9 In-residence with the Dresher Double Duo** @ the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie St, Sydney
– May 9 concert – music by Adams, Bresnick & Dresher – 6.30pm in the Music Theatre Workshop
http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/
John Adams: Road Movies
Martin Bresnick: Ishi’s Song
Paul Dresher: Double Ikat, Part II
Paul Dresher & Joel Davel: Glimpsed From Afar
Paul Dresher: Elapsed Time
Paul Dresher: Chorale Times Two
Martin Bresnick: Fantasia On A Theme by Willie Dixon
-May 11 Dresher Double Duo – music by Adams, Bresnick, Dresher and Reich – 8pm Campbelltown Arts Center, Campbelltown, Sydney
http://www.campbelltown.nsw.
John Adams: Road Movies
Paul Dresher: Double Ikat, Part II
Paul Dresher & Joel Davel: Glimpsed From Afar
Steve Reich: Piano Counterpoint
Paul Dresher: Racer
Martin Bresnick: Fantasia On A Theme by Willie Dixon
May 17-19 Canberra International Music Festival (with Dresher Double Duo) www.cimf.org
– May 17th 6pm music by Paul Dresher – Albert Hall
– May 18th 4.30pm music Adams, Bresnick, Dresher, Reich – Albert Hall
– May 19th 8pm music by Adams – Albert Hall
May 20-25 Residency, concert 24th May tbc – Queensland Conservatorium with Dresher Double Duo, Brisbane
http://www.griffith.edu.au/
Lou Harrison: Suite for Violin and String Orchestra
Karen Bentley Pollick, Solo Violin
Graeme Jennings, Conductor
Sunday, August 24, 2013
Seattle, Washington
Valse Cafe Orchestra at the Century Ballroom
| 1:00pm. Price: $12 at door. All Ages. Box office: 206 323-1263. Expect plenty of waltzes, plus a sprightly mix of swing, blues, Foxtrots, polkas and tangos when the orchestra’s quartet takes the stage on Sunday, August 25. Here’s this month’s musical ensemble: Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Toby Hanson, piano and accordion Eric Likkel, clarinet and alto saxophone Dennis Staskowski, double bass The once-a-month Waltz Café begins at 1 p.m. and wraps up at 3:30 p.m. Entrée is $12. Parking is free on Sundays and The Tin Table opens just across the hall at 3 p.m. with a small-plate array of comfort food, plus nice wines, champagnes, beers and cocktails. Every month it seems a klatch of dancers winds up at The Tin Table post Waltz Café, and we can’t think of a better way to unwind following an afternoon of whirling around the floor. |
| 6:00pm. Price: Free and open to the public. All Ages. More information. Bring your dancing shoes and experience social dancing with a live band, a real dance floor and free, professional lessons with Dancing til Dusk. This special closing night of summer season features the Valse Café Orchestra’s eclectic, modern take on dance hall classics. The evening will also feature bites from Seattle’s best food trucks and wines and more available for purchase from TASTE Café from 5:30–9 pm. Here’s this month’s musical ensemble: Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Toby Hanson, piano and accordion Eric Likkel, clarinet and alto saxophone Dennis Staskowski, double bass |
Monday, October 7, 2013 at 6:30 pm
University of Nevada at Reno
Rotunda in Student Center
Karen Bentley Pollick, Violin
Douglas M. Hein, Guitar
Mauro Giuliani: Grand Sonata for Violin and Guitar, Op. 25 (c. 1811)
Stuart Diamond: Sonatine for Violin and Guitar (1994)
Jacques Ibert: Entr’Acte for Violin and Guitar (1954)
Ole Saxe: Salsa for Karen for Solo Violin (2002)
Douglas M. Hein: Three Pieces for Guitar Solo (1977) Ricercare, Hymn, Allegro
Note: these pieces were used as the “set” pieces in the 1987 Guitar Foundation of America’s International Solo Competition
POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 2014 DUE TO LOGISTICAL REASONS
Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Paul Dresher Double Duo performs at (le)poisson rouge
Karen Bentley Pollick, Joel Davel, Paul Dresher & Lisa Moore
158 Bleecker Street
New York City
Appearing for the first time in New York City, the Paul Dresher Double Duo will perform at (le) poisson rouge on Sunday September 8th 2013. They will present a wildly-diverse program of duos, trios and quartets composed by Paul Dresher and Martin Bresnick. The Double Duo features the Bang on a Can All-Stars founding alumna Lisa Moore (piano) and Dresher Ensemble virtuoso members Karen Bentley Pollick (violin), Joel Davel (electronic percussion) and Paul Dresher (electric guitar and invented instruments). Recently back from a month touring in the US and Australia this quartet brings a repertory that combines traditional acoustic, electro-acoustic and invented instruments. The inventions are the 16 foot-long Quadrachord – created by Paul Dresher and Daniel Schmidt – whose four strings (somewhat like a giant electric bass) are plucked, bowed, prepared and beaten…and the Marimba Lumina – an electronic mallet controller – created by Don Buchla – capable of producing a phenomenal range of live, electronic sound control.
Two New York premieres are featured on the program – Paul Dresher’s invented-instrument duo Glimpsed From Afar (a work that brought down the house when Dresher and Davel opened for the Los Angeles Philharmonic on their Disney Hall stage during the West Coast Left Coast Festival in December 2009) and Martin Bresnick’s Fantasia on a Theme By Willie Dixon in his new quartet version. This work, (originally commissioned and premiered by the Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band in 2001) is a Brahms-meets-the-blues fantasy, inspired by the 60’s super-group Cream and their fantastical improvisations on the iconic blues riff Spoonful. Opening the program is Double Ikat Part 2, perhaps Dresher’s most lyrical work to date and one that is imbued with his long-time study of and passion for the music of North India and Indonesia. Pianist Moore and violinist Bentley Pollick will take on their duo role in a performance of Martin Bresnick’s ethereal Bird As Prophet – whose title refers to the Waldszenen piano miniature by Robert Schumann. Bird as Prophet combines simple programmatic suggestiveness and abstract patterning, recapturing the vivid, oracular, and finally enigmatic spirit and remarkable musical prophecies of Schumann (and Charlie “Bird” Parker) .
THE PERFORMERS:
Karen Bentley Pollick (violin), Joel Davel (Marimba Lumina and Quadrachord), Paul Dresher (electric guitar and Quadrachord) and Lisa Moore (piano).
THE PROGRAM:
Double Ikat – part 2 (1990) Paul Dresher
Bird as Prophet (1997) Martin Bresnick
Glimpsed rom Afar (2006) Paul Dresher
Fantasia on a Theme by Willie Dixon (2001/12) Martin Bresnick
THE CONCERT DETAILS:
Date: Sunday September 8th, 2013,
Time: doors 6.30, show 7.30 – 8.30pm
Tickets $15/20
Venue: (le) poisson rouge
Email: info@lprnyc.com
58 Bleecker St, New York City
Telephone: 1 (212) 505.FISH
LPR on sale ticket location link:
www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/paul-dresher-double-duo-september-8th-2013/