Ears Wide Open
presents
Sunday, September 19th, 2010 @ 7pm
Trans-Atlantic Connections: Triple Bill @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street,
New York, NY 10018 Click here for advance ticket sales
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Celebrating the release of three great new CDs on the Diatribe and Tzadik labels:
Isabelle O’Connell - piano: RESERVOIR (Diatribe)
Simon Jermyn - guitar: HYMNI (Diatribe)
Ned Rothenberg & MIVOS Quartet: Clarinet Quintet (Tzadik)
Dublin-born and New York-based pianist Isabelle O’Connell, celebrates the release of her debut solo CD, RESERVOIR. Called a “lioness of the keys” by the West Allegemeine Zeitung, Isabelle brings effortless virtuosity and innate lyricism to repertoire in all genres. RESERVOIR brings together contemporary piano works by nine Iiving Irish composers, including the title composition by Donnacha Dennehy, a leading light of the younger generation. Varying widely in style, these works attest to the striking vitality of Ireland’s new music scene.
Since her critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall in 2002, Isabelle O’Connell has performed as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, U.K. and Ireland. A dynamic interpreter and energetic advocate of music by living composers, she regularly commissions and premieres new works. In 2007, Isabelle was co-Artistic Director of “New Music, New Ireland, New York,” a concert that showcased contemporary Irish composers at Weill Recital Hall. As an ensemble musician, Isabelle has toured with Alarm Will Sound and Ireland’s CRASH ensemble, and has performed with John Adams at Carnegie's Zankel Hall, Meredith Monk at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, and the New Zealand String Quartet at Banff in Canada. Isabelle has appeared on television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic, with performances broadcast on WQXR, WFMT Chicago, BBC3, RTE, TV3 and Lyric FM.
This event is made possible with funding from Culture Ireland
Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 30 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He performs primarily on the alto saxophone, clarinet , bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi (endblown Japanese bamboo flute). He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Sync's Harbinger, Intervals, Live at Roulette with Evan Parker and Are You Be and The Fell Clutch on Rothenberg’s Animul label. Chamber music releases include Inner Diaspora and Ghost Stories on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World.
Formed in 2008, MIVOS is a string quartet consisting of violinists Olivia De Prato and Joshua Modney, violist Victor Lowrie, and cellist Isabel Castellvi. Since the quartet's inception they have performed and closely collaborated with an ever-expanding cadre of international composers, including Anna Clyne, Luke DuBois, Wayne Horvitz, Wolfgang Rihm and Huang Ruo. Improvisation is also an integral part of their performances, and has led to collaborations with artists such as Ned Rothenberg, Chris Speed and Mark Feldman. MIVOS’s performance of Ned Rothenberg’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, recently released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, was “played with spontaneity and dexterity” (The Strad). www.mivosquartet.com
Simon Jermyn is an electric bassist/guitarist and composer from Ireland, currently living in New York. Simon, who regularly tours worldwide, spent time living in The Hague, Reykjavik and Dublin before moving to New York. He holds a Masters Degree in Jazz Performance from The Royal Conservatory of The Hague in The Netherlands. Some recent performance highlights include premiering new music with Morla and the Smith quartet at the 2010 Sligo New Music Festival for BBC Radio 3, as well as two European tours with the Pete Robbins Trans Atlantic-Quartet. His new solo CD, Hymni, was recorded over a five day period in June 2009. The album consists of compositions and improvisations with a focus on sound and texture, featuring Simon on various basses, guitars, percussion instruments and a variety of electronics.
