RAM is proud to announce that our first associate member will be composer Gilbert Galindo. Gilbert will join RAM on an open-ended basis, composing for and working with at least one of our collaborating ensembles in 2011 and beyond.
Click here to read up on Gilbert. His sound clips will be posted soon.
All the RAM composers are looking forward to working with Gilbert this season.
The RAM composers would like to thank Ryan Muncy, Sean Patayanikorn, David Wegehaupt, and Allison Balcetis of the Anubis Quartet for their amazing performances these past two nights. The audience was abuzz with appreciation for Anubis’ obvious passion for new music. The six works presented this weekend were all difficult and challenging, but the Anubis Quartet played flawlessly. We all think Anubis has a very bright future, indeed. Thanks, again, Anubis!
Please join us for our second concert of the season. Our collaborating ensemble is the Anubis Saxophone Quartet–winners of the 2010 Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists. Anubis will perform world premieres by Erin Rogers, B. Allen Schulz, David Fetherolf, Jonathan Pieslak, and Andrew McKenna Lee. Also on the concert will be Howling at the Moon by the 2010 RAM call for scores winner, Dana Wilson.
We will present the program twice:
Friday, May 21 8:00 PM
The Secret Theatre
44-02 23rd St.
Long Island City, Queens [map]
(7 train to 45th Rd/Courthouse, walk north on 23rd st for 3.5 blocks, destination on your left; or
E,V, or G train to 23rd St/Ely, walk north on 23rd st for 1.5 blocks, destination on your left; or
N,W, or R train to Queensboro Plaza, walk 2 blocks west on Queens Plaza, turn left and walk 3.5 blocks south on 23rd st, destination on your right)
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Saturday, May 22 8:00 PM
St. Peter’s Church
346 West 20th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
New York, NY
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The concert in Queens is made possible, in part, with funds from the decentralization program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts. Both Concerts are funded, in part, with support from the Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.
First, on behalf of all the RAM composers, we’d like to thank everyone who attended our first concert series of the 2009-2010 season. Jessica Mathaes and Colette Valentine performed our works with great attention to detail and unparalleled artisty. The audience got a chance to spend time with both of the performers and with all the composers after both concerts.
We’d also like to remind everyone of our second collaborating ensemble for the 2009-2010 season: the Anubis Saxophone Quartet. We will present a concert with 5 world premieres, and the work of the winner of our second annual call for scores. The concert is scheduled for Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the historic Saint Peter’s Church in Chelsea, 346 West 20th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). We will also present a Queens performance of the concert during the same weekend. Details concerning that concert will be posted shortly.
Please join the Random Access Music composers’ collective for our first concerts of 2010! We’re excited to be working with violinist Jessica Mathaes, concertmaster of the Austin Symphony.
Jessica will be accompanied by pianist Colette Valentine, and they will perform 6 works by the composer-members of Random Access Music, including 4 world premieres. While Jessica keeps busy as the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Austin Symphony, she is also developing her solo career. Jessica has recently released a CD with another of her accompanists, Rodney Waters on Centaur Records called Suites & Sweets, which includes music by Cowell, Stravinsky, Korngold, de Falla, Ravel, and Massenet. Suites and Sweets will be on sale at the concerts for $20.
Jessica and Colette will perform the concert twice:
Friday, February 12, 2010 8:00pm
Waltz-Astoria
23-14 Ditmars Blvd.
Queens, NY 11105
(N/W train to Ditmars Blvd, walk 1 block to Ditmars Blvd., turn west (left) and walk 7 blocks to Waltz-Astoria)
Tickets: $15 table charge (drinks, desserts, and light snacks)
and
Saturday, February 13, 2010 8:00pm
TenRi Cultural Institute
43-A W. 13th Street (near 6th Ave.)
Manhattan
Tickets: $20 adults; $15 seniors/students
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The concert will include music by Andrew McKenna Lee, David Fetherolf, Erin Rogers, Jonathan Pieslak, Stefan Weisman, and B. Allen Schulz.
The concert in Queens is made possible, in part, with funds from the decentralization program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts. Both Concerts are funded, in part, with support from the Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.
We’re pleased to announce our second collaborating ensemble for the 2009-2010 season: the Anubis Saxophone Quartet. We will present a concert with 6 world premieres, including the winner of our second annual call for scores. The concert is scheduled for Saturday, May 22, 2010 at the historic Saint Peter’s Church in Chelsea, 346 West 20th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).
The Anubis Saxophone Quartet is Sean Patayanikorn, Allison Balcetis, Ryan Muncy, and David Wegehaupt. Anubis is a new-generation modular saxophone ensemble committed to the creation, progression, and performance of new art music. The quartet establishes a symbolic connection between Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Underworld, and the volatile yet sensual world of sound, color, and transformation which is vital to contemporary music. Since they were formed in 2007, the group has quickly gained regard as one of North America’s major contemporary saxophone ensembles, having been guest artists at Bowling Green State University and at the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to a Chicago debut performance at Nichols Concert Hall of the Music Institute of Chicago, engagements during the previous concert season included the presentation of new works in Bangkok, Thailand at the World Saxophone Congress, and a performance at the NASA Region IX conference in Edmonton, Alberta. The quartet has premiered works by Mikel Kuehn, Philippe Laval, Claudio Gabriele, Thierry Alla and Vincent Bouchot.
The composers of Random Access Music are excited about working with Anubis. Some mp3s of their work may be listened to below:
Durch by Fabien Levy
[audio:http://www.ram-nyc.org/audio/durch.mp3]
Rasch by Franco Donatoni
[audio:http://www.ram-nyc.org/audio/rasch3.mp3]
Rasch II by Franco Donatoni
[audio:http://www.ram-nyc.org/audio/rasch4.mp3]
Chace by Anonymous, arr. Salvadore Sciarrino
[audio:http://www.ram-nyc.org/audio/chace6.mp3]
Chose Grave sans Consequence by Philippe Laval
[audio:http://www.ram-nyc.org/audio/chose8.mp3]
We’re excited to announce that the composers of Random Access Music will be working with two collaborators this up-coming season. Our first collaboration will be with violinist and concertmaster of the Austin Symphony, Jessica Mathaes.
Jessica and her accompanist will come to NYC to perform six new works on Saturday, February 13, 2010. While Jessica keeps busy as the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Austin Symphony, she is also developing her solo career. Jessica has recently released a CD with her accompanist, Rodney Waters on Centaur Records called Suites & Sweets, which includes music by Cowell, Stravinsky, Korngold, de Falla, Ravel, and Massenet.
We’re looking forward to writing new works for Jessica and to working with her next season.
Random Access Music and the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble will, once again, team up to present a concert of 6 world premieres:
B. Allen Schulz Crazy Cat Lady for solo Flute
Jonathan Pieslak Shards for solo Piano
Erin Rogers Rise Up Singing for Clarinet and Violoncello
Manly Romero Three Songs for a Wedding for Baritone and Piano
David Fetherolf Septuagenaria for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Massimo Lauricella Eco di un tempo perduto for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Please join us for one of our two concert dates:
Thursday, April 23, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.
venue: Waltz-Astoria, 23-14 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria, Queens
or
Saturday, April 25, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.
venue: University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th Street, New York, NY
Tickets will be $20 at the door, or may be purchased online for $15.
Joining the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble will be guest artists Theodore Sipes, Baritone, and Erica Sipes, Piano. The Lost Dog New Music Ensemble is Christine Perea, Flute; Thomas Piercy, Clarinet; Miranda Cuckson, Violin; Emily Brausa, Violoncello; and Laura Barger, Piano.
We’d like to announce our upcoming collaboration with the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. Please join us on Friday, April 24, 2009, 8:00 pm, at the
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center – Little Theater (31-10 Thompson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101) for the premieres of 5 new works by the composers of Random Access Music. As a special treat, we’re going to be choosing a work from an open call for scores and including it on the concert. As soon as we make our choice (mid-february), we’ll announce the winner.
Ram is excited to announce our first open call for scores. We are looking for adventurous new music, regardless of style. One winning composition will be performed at RAM’s 2009 spring concert with the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble.
Please submit a solo or chamber ensemble work 6-12 minutes in length, and scored for any of the following instruments (no more than one per part): flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano.
Submission materials:
• one score
• CD recording (encouraged but not required)
• composer’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address
Key materials must be submitted ANONYMOUSLY. Only the title of the piece and instrumentation may appear on the score and CD. On a separate sheet, the composer will provide full name, address, phone number and email address. Materials will be returned only if a self-addressed stamped envelope is enclosed.
All submissions must be received on or by Feb. 1, 2009.
RAM was founded in 2005 to help composers find performance opportunities with like-minded performing ensembles and individuals.
Mail materials to:
Jonathan Pieslak
CCNY Music Department
Shepard Hall, Rm. 72
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
