Friday, March 31 – Saturday, April 1, 2006
Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band

San Francisco, California
Theater Artaud
450 Florida St. (between 17th & Mariposa)
8:00 P.M.

Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
John Duykers, tenor

World premieres by Roger Reynolds, Mark Applebaum, Dan Becker, and Paul Dresher

Reviews by Mark Alburger, Paul Hertelendy & San Francisco Chronicle

 

 

 

May 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, 2006
Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band

Cleveland, Ohio
Bolton Theatre

Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band

Paul Dresher’s The Tyrant

John Duykers, tenor

Presented by The Cleveland Opera and The Cleveland Playhouse

Review from Beacon Journal

 

 

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Rome, Italy
American Academy in Rome
Villa Aurelia
6:00 P.M.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Craig Hultgren, cello
Ivan Sokolov, piano

European premieres by Charles Norman Mason:

Trenchantor for solo piano (2005)

Incantesimi: Omaggio a Scelsi e Berio for violin and piano (2005)

Entanglements for violin, cello and prerecorded sound (2006)

Three-Legged Race for violin, cello and piano (2000)

 

 

 

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Rome, Italy
American Academy in Rome
Salone
6:00 P.M.

Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Craig Hultgren, cello
Ivan Sokolov, piano

European premieres by Dorothy Hindman and Ivan Sokolov:

Dorothy Hindman:

• Monumenti for violin and cello (2005)
• Centro for violin and piano (2005)
• drowningXnumbers for amplified cello
• Jerusalem Windows for violin, cello and piano (2002)

 

Thursday, November 16 and Saturday, November 18, 2006

New York, New York
The Kosciuszko Foundation
15 East 65th Street

Ensemble for the Romantic Century

The Young Arthur Rubinstein

The pianist Arthur Rubinstein was one of the most magnetic musical personalities of the 20th century. He had a special relationship with Paris, a city he loved so much that he vowed never to live anywhere else in the world but in this divine city! Turn-of-the-century Paris was the most cosmopolitan center in Europe; there Rubinstein befriended some of the greatest composers of the time, whose music he championed throughout his life. A script based on Rubinstein’s memoirs captures his struggles and triumphs amidst the glittering musical life of Paris, featuring music by composers whom Rubinstein knew personally, including Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel, Falla, Szymanowski, Stravinsky, and Skriabin.

November 16, 8 P.M. (7 P.M. pre-concert lecture)
November 18, 3 P.M. (2 P.M. pre-concert lecture)

 

 

Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2, 2006

San Francisco, California
Theater Artaud
450 Florida St. (between 17th & Mariposa)
8 P.M

Re-Connaissance – Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band
In Concert with Joan Jeanrenaud, cello

Re-Connaissance features recent compositions by Anthony Davis, Paul Dresher, James Mobberley and Dan Becker that re-examine musical influences of their youth, from Harry Partch to Emerson Lake and Palmer, as well as reconsidering classical music, formally colored by popular styles.

• Paul Dresher: Unequal Distemperament with Joan Jeanrenaud, cello — (including world premiere of 4th and final movement). Features the multi-faceted 15 foot-long invented instrument, the Quadrachord.
• Anthony Davis: Cello Concerto Blue Funk into Darkness – complex and funky rhythmic polyphony with a modernist sensibility
• James Mobberley: Fusebox with John Schott (electric guitar) — combining classical structures with jazz and progressive rock gesture, culminating in a maelstromic conclusion where “… the whole thing could blow at any minute.”
• Dan Becker: Through a Window – exploring from a post-minimalist perspective witty and sweetly guileless recordings his grandfather made of 1920s Big Band music