Random Access Music is proud to welcome our newest member, Andrew McKenna Lee. Andrew will be sitting in with us for this year, and will be participating in all of our collaboration concerts this year. We’re looking forward to hearing his music. We’ll be posting Andrew’s bio and other information to the site soon.
We’ll also be announcing our two collaborative ensembles in the next few weeks. Please check next week for all the details.
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.
RAM and the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble will once again collaborate to present a concert of world and US premieres. We’ll be presenting two concerts:
Thursday, April 23, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.
venue: Waltz-Astoria, 23-14 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria, Queens
and
Saturday, April 25, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.
venue: University of the Streets, 130 E. 7th Street, New York, NY
Lost Dog will be performing new works by B. Allen Schulz, Jonathan Pieslak, David Fetherolf, Manly Romero, Erin Rogers, and the winner of the 2009 RAM call for scores, Massimo Lauricella.
Please join us for one (or both!) of these concerts.
We’re proud to announce the winner of our 2009 call for scores:
Massimo Lauricella (Italy) for his work entitled Eco di un tempo perduto (in memoria di Arnold Schonberg) for Fl., Cl., Vn., Vc., and Piano
Mr. Lauricella will receive a performance of his work by the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble in New York City this April. (We are trying to arrange a second performance at this time. We’ll announce those details as soon as our plans are solidified.)
Out of the 122 composers who submitted works anonymously, we would like to recognize 7 composers (in alphabetical order) whose works the judges deemed to be exceptional:
l’appel
by Philippe Bodin (Brooklyn, NY)
Peripeteia
by Richard Festinger (Richmond, CA)
Confession
by Vera Ivanova (Orange, CA)
Memoir of Dong-Hak
by Hee Yun Kim (Champaign, IL)
Concert House
by Alex Kotch (Durham, NC)
One More Moment
by Philip Schuessler (Champaign, IL)
Five Elements
by Peiying Yuan (Kansas City)
These 7 composers and Mr. Lauricella were the finalists culled from the entire list of submissions, and their compositions were still anonymous when we selected our winner from this group.
If you’d like to know more about our judging process, we have created a page that explains it in detail, along with some caveats about how to give yourself the best chance to break through a deluge of submissions.
Again, congratulations to Massimo Lauricella.
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
On Saturday night, October 18, at the Nimoy Thalia Hall at Symphony Space the Iktus Percussion Quartet gave a concert of 6 world premiere works written by RAM members especially for them. They rocked the house! It was obvious a great deal of care and work went into every piece. Several audience members told me how well they thought Iktus played and, of course, all of us RAM composers felt the same way. It can’t have been easy to pull all this disparate music together but, true to great performers everywhere, Iktus made it look easy.
If you love percussion music, keep a close eye out for concerts by this up and coming group. You won’t be disappointed.
I’d like to take this platform to second Allen’s message. IKTUS gave us six incredible performances on Saturday night, both a reflection of their exceptional hard work and extraordinary ensemble skills. The composers of RAM are priviledged and thankful to have had the opportunity to work with such a talented and dedicated group. We look forward to collaborating with Chris, Danielle, Justin and Roy again soon!
Highly recommend you check out IKTUS on Thursday, Nov. 20th at 1pm, at Trinity Church (74 Trinity Place, New York, New York 10006) with works by Ligeti, Wolf, White, and Reich.
Best wishes!
Erin
Last night’s concert of our member composers’ music by the Iktus Percussion Ensemble was a huge success. We’d like to thank Roy, Justin, Danielle, and Chris for the hours and hours of hard work they put in on our compositions. Most of the works were very difficult, but the Iktus players did an amazing job of pulling the music together.
We had a large audience of 65 listeners in the Thalia Theater at Symphony Space. We’d like to thank everyone who came out to support RAM and the Iktus Percussion Ensemble.
RAM’s next project will be with the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble. We’ll be writing 6 new works for Lost Dog for a performance on Friday, April 24, 2009, @ 8:00 pm at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, in Long Island City. We’ll post more info as the concert nears.
In the meantime, please check back soon for sound clips from our most recent concert and for other news regarding the Random Access Music composers’ collective. (special news… we’ve decided to have a call for scores to include on one of our up-coming concerts, so keep an eye out for that announcement.)
Please join the composers of Random Access Music this Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:30pm for a concert of six world premieres of music written especially for the Iktus Percussion Ensemble. Included on the concert will be:
David Fetherolf: Whispers to Roars
Jonathan Pieslak: Dancers of a Fractured Method
Erin Rogers: Jubba (Dream of Somalia)
Manly Romero: Temper, Temper/Tempo, Tempo
B. Allen Schulz: Dance in Odd Times
Stefan Weisman: 4th Place
The concert will take place at Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy/Thalia Theater on Saturday, October 18th at 8:30pm. Tickets are $20 at the door ($15 online and for Seniors and students).
