UPCOMING CONCERTS

SUMMER JAZZ CYCLE TOUR
Groningen, The Netherlands

27 Aug. 2011
Dem Ham Church - Groningen, The Netherlands

This festival of music and cycling began in 1987. The Summer Jazz Cycle Tour boasts 24 concerts at a number of different venues. The performances begin on time and contain two sets of 45 minutes with half an hour's break. This allows for the audience members on bicycles to cycle on to the next venue.

Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour
Oostumerweg 19
9893 TB Oostum
The Netherlands
Phone: (31) 504-030-662, or (31) 594-622-091
Email: niels@oostum.nl
Website: http://www.zjft.nl/

"Z" Je me crois en enfer donc j’y suis
Creative Musical Theater Production

16 - 24 Sept. 2011
Les Subsistances - Lyon, France

A return journey to meet Rimbaud, through movement and hearing, was Lukas Hemleb and Ned Rothenberg’s aim. The German theatre director and American musician will allow the audience to hear Rimbaud, the forever white-hot shining star of French poetry, in a different way.
How did they manage to create a show about Rimbaud, the “never-ending dazzling light”, the “thought that never concludes”, a “true incitement to identification"?
“Rimbaud defies any interpretation”, says Lukas Hemleb. “Let’s forget the sung poetry, the reciting of his poems over a jazz or classical music background. Let’s omit the adaptations in which actors play Rimbaud and Verlaine, Rimbaud’s family or the people in his life. Disregard any device in which Rimbaud speaks in the first person. Let’s imagine instead a game with no rules, where everything breaks up and fragments, in order to rebuild itself through music. Let’s not talk about Rimbaud. Let’s imagine an alternate universe. Five people are present - two musicians and three actors who form something like a trio of travellers, spiritual jesters, smugglers, explorers [...]. We will aim to retrace Rimbaud’s impulses, his surges towards the exit door, his tendency to project towards the outside - outside society, outside Europe, outside the world itself."
Director Lukas Hemleb has worked in the theatre and opera on every major European stage. For this journey with Rimbaud, he has invited Ned Rothenberg to join him. This impossibly talented free jazz musician from New York has mapped out new roads in the study of wind instruments. Also with them is Kazuhisa Uchihashi, a Japanese guitarist producing extraordinary sounds. This will be a mad venture, an intense tour entirely dedicated to the discovery of Rimbaud’s language, its melody, its imagery: “Comme je descendais des fleuves impassibles… ”. This return trip will carry risks for those who dare give themselves body and soul to poetry.

Ned Rothenberg Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
with Mivos Quartet

Wed 19 Oct. 2011 8:00 pm $10 advance/$12 door
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium - Pittsburgh, PA

20 Oct. 2011 8:00 pm
Kerrytown Concert House - Ann Arbor, MI

21 Oct. 2011 8:00 pm $15 general, $10 members/students/seniors
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Buffalo, NY

The MIVOS quartet, recently praised by Time Out New York as an "excellent ensemble", is devoted to performing the works of contemporary composers, presenting new music to diverse audiences. Since the quartet's inception they have performed and closely collaborated with an ever-expanding cadre of international composers who represent multiple aesthetics of contemporary classical composition. Commissioning and premiering new music for string quartet is essential to the quartet's mission; MIVOS has performed works by emerging and established composers including Kirsten Broberg, Juan Calderon, Anna Clyne, Luke DuBois, Wayne Horvitz, Sam Pluta, Wolfgang Rihm and Huang Ruo. They have appeared at venues including The Stone, Issue Project Room, The Tank NYC, Monkeytown, CUNY Graduate Center, Galapagos Art Space, Roulette and the Brecht forum, and were featured performers for the 2008 American Music Center Annual Meeting at the Chelsea Art Museum. Beyond expanding the string quartet repertoire, MIVOS is committed to working with guest artists and exploring multi-media projects involving live video and electronics. 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' performance of Ned Rothenberg's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, recently released on John Zorns Tzadik label, was described as "played with spontaneity and dexterity" (The Strad Magazine).

Ned Rothenberg, composer/reeds
Olivia de Prato, violin
Joshua Modney, violin
Victor Lowrie, viola
Isabel Castelvi, cello

MIVOS quartet Website: http://www.mivosquartet.com/

Tori Ensemble
Korean classical and experimental music

Wed 07 Dec. 2011 7:30 pm
Calvary United Methodist Church, Philadelphia

Thu 08 Dec. 2011 7:30 pm
Freer Gallery Meyer Auditorium, Washington DC

Fri 09, Sat 10 Dec. 2011 8:00 pm
Roulette, Brooklyn

Tori Ensemble is a world music ensemble featuring Korean traditional artists and American free jazz artists - transcending musical borders through a mingling of jazz, new music, and Korean influences. “Arirang” is a song of love and longing, an ancient Korean folk music taking on various different musical interpretations in each of Korea’s diverse local regions. Tonight’s performance will show the most basic, instinctive beauty of Arirang, with the unique melodies and rhythms of versions from Gangwon (East), Sangju (South), Wonsan (North), and Seoul (West) fusing seamlessly with the modern sound of the Tori Project. Each of the seven performers move freely between solo and ensemble performances, eliminating the boundaries imposed between instruments and in music.

Featuring HEO Yoon-jeong (geomun-go), KANG Kwon-soon (jeongga), MIN Young-chi (daegum & janggu), LEE Suk-joo (piri), Ned Rothenberg (clarinet & saxophone), Satoshi Takeishi (percussion), Erik Friedlander (cello)

Ned Rothenberg Solo
(double-bill with Marty Ehrlich/Hankus Netsky)
Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture Festival

Wed 21 Dec. 2011 9:00 pm
The Sixth Street Community Synagogue, New York, NY

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