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Faces & Places - Symphony & Concert
10th Thru The Walls Showcase on October 6th
Featured composers Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols, Caleb Burhans and Caroline Mallonée perform at the Cutting Room in New York City
The ASCAP Foundation presents its 10 th Edition of the Thru the Walls showcase series at Manhattan's The Cutting Room on October 6, 2008 at 6:30pm. The series is designed to showcase the work of concert composer/ performers whose concert music defies boundaries and genres. Frank J. Oteri, composer and editor of NewMusicBox.org, will emcee the event, which features composer/electronics and vocalist Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols, composer/violinist Caleb Burhans and composer/violinist Caroline Mallonée.
The event is co-sponsored by Sibelius, the music notation program for the 21st century. It is designed to notate, edit, playback and publish music of every kind, to the highest professional standards. It's quick, fast and easy. Be sure and visit www.sibelius.com for detailed product information.
The event will begin with a presentation by Gina Fant-Saez, CEO of eSession.com and author of the award-winning book, Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters. Fant-Saez will discuss 'Composers Online: the newest tools for the compositional and collaborative process.
The cover charge is $10. Space is limited. For further information, please contact concertmusic@ascap.com or call 212-621-8472.
Launched in 2001, Thru the Walls was conceived by ASCAP composer/ performer Martha Mooke. The event is co-produced by Mooke and ASCAP's Cia Toscanini.
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| Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols |
Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols
(Composer/Electronics & Voice)
Performing with Ha-Yang Kim (Cello), Mordy Ferber (Guitar & Vocals) and Ana Milosavljevic (Violin)
Svjetlana Bukvich-Nichols' music spans from acoustic and performer-driven to electronic and theatrical, and often includes video, voice and tuning of her own design. As one of the few, if not only, woman composer from Bosnia and Herzegovina working in the U.S. today, she draws upon the unique musical and cultural energies of both places. Her music has been presented at venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the 2008 Beijing International Congress on Women in Music, the American Festival of Microtonal Music, The Inner Voices New Music Festival 2007 in Los Angeles, The Knitting Factory, The Kitchen, LaMama, E.T.C., Cooper Union, Music With A View at the Flea Theater, and AMC theaters in New York City as well as a wide range of International venues. She has been recently featured on the Voice of America international telecast, and several New York's MNN Public TV broadcasts. Her work in film has been nominated for Best Independent Feature at the 2006 Black Reel Awards for "Proud," which was an official selection at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. She has received awards from the American Composers Forum, New England Foundation for the Arts, the Institute On The Arts And Civic Dialogue at Harvard University and the Soros Foundation as well as ASCAP's Buddy Baker Film Scoring Scholarship and multiple ASCAPlus Awards. She conceived, composed and produced theVoyage, a multi-media fantasy play set in space, which received its premiere in Sarajevo after the conflict in the nineties. Svjetlana holds a B.A. in musical Composition, a B.A. in musicology from Sarajevo University's Academy of Music and an M.F.A. in integrated electronic arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Among her teachers were Josip Magdic, Neil Rolnick, Martin Bresnick, and Miroslaw Rogala. She teaches music technology at New York University and Pratt Institute. Upcoming shows include a fall multi-media performance at the Times Center in New York City and a spring premiere at the American Festival of Microtonal Music.
For more information, visit www.svjetlanamusic.com.
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| Caleb Burhans |
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Caleb Burhans
(Composer/Electric Violin & Voice)
Performing with Nadia Sirota (Viola)
Caleb Burhans is quickly establishing himself as a significant presence in the New York contemporary music scene, active as both a performer and composer. Amazingly versatile, Burhans is a composer, violinist, violist, electric guitarist, pianist and countertenor whose composition teachers have included Augusta Read Thomas and Joseph Schwantner. He has been hailed by the New York Times as, "animated and versatile," and being a, "sweet voiced countertenor." Mr. Burhans specializes in baroque performance practice, contemporary music, rock/pop music, electronica and free improv. He has been commissioned by Lincoln Center, Albany Symphony, Trinity Wall Street Church, Tarab Cello Ensemble and the Janus Trio. His music has been performed throughout North America and Europe. He has won the Music Educators National Conference Composition Competition as well as Eastman's Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Prize. As a performer Mr. Burhans has worked with groups such as the Steve Reich Ensemble, Ensemble 21, New York New Music Ensemble, Nexus, SO Percussion, Charleston Symphony, Madison Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Princeton Symphony. He is currently a member of Alarm Will Sound, Anti-Social Music, the Trinity on Wall Street Choir, St. Thomas Cathedral Choir, Vox Vocal Ensemble and the New York Ensemble for Early Music. As a recording artist Mr. Burhans has recorded for Nonesuch, Harmonia Mundi France, Virgin, Winter & Winter, Bridge, Universal, Cantaloupe, Hanssler, Lujo, New Amsterdam, Vagrant, MSR Classics, Hybrid, Arthaus Musik DVD, Sweet Spot DVD and Oxford Press. He has premiered numerous works as well as working with such composers as Steve Reich, John Adams, La Monte Young, Lou Harrison, Meredith Monk, Gavin Bryars, David Lang, Michael Gordon, George Crumb, Brian Ferneyhough, Steven Stuckey, Martin Bresnik, David Liptak, and Augusta Read Thomas. Mr. Burhans currently resides in New York City with his wife, soprano Martha Cluver.
For more information, visit www.calebburhans.com.
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| Caroline Mallonée |
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Caroline Mallonée
(Composer/Violin)
Performing with Eric Hubner (Piano)
Caroline Mallonée is a New York-based composer who has written solo, chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music as well as electroacoustic music, opera, and music for film. She was born in Baltimore, where she studied violin, flute and piano in the Preparatory Department of the Peabody Conservatory. She studied composition privately with Pamela Layman Quist and attended the Walden School in the summers. She did her undergraduate work at Harvard University, where she studied with Mario Davidovsky and Bernard Rands. She earned a Masters Degree from the Yale School of Music. She earned a Ph.D. from Duke University, where she studied with Scott Lindroth and Steve Jaffe. She lived in the Netherlands from 2004-2005, where she held a Fulbright Fellowship for study with Louis Andriessen at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. Dr. Mallonée's compositions have been played by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Da Capo Chamber Players, counter)induction, the Contemporary Music Forum, the Women Composer's Orchestra, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Virginia Pops Symphony, Non Sequitur, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, the Ciompi, Alexander, Del Sol and Mendelssohn String Quartets, and American Opera Projects. Her music has broadcast several times over National Public Radio on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion. Some of her choral music is published by Boosey & Hawkes. Dr. Mallonée has been on the faculty of The Walden School for young composers in Dublin, New Hampshire since 1998, where she teaches composition and musicianship. She holds the position of Director of Composer Forums and is the Assistant Academic Dean. She has been co-commissioned by the Walden School and artists-in-residence for a new work five times. Dr. Mallonée is the violinist in pulsoptional, a band of composers based in Durham, NC, as well as in Glissando bin Laden and His Musichideen, an experimental violin/laptop band based in New York City.
For more information, visit www.carolinemallonee.com.
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