OTHER COLLABORATORS
Alejandro T. Acierto is a musician and multi-media artist that employs music, sound, performance, and video to explore notions of fluid identities and the slippages of cultural definitions. His musical and performative works have been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, thingNY, Loadbang in New York, and Vox Humana in Montreal. He had his first solo exhibition at Untitled Gallery at Marwen in Chicago and has been part of several group shows in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Madison. Acierto holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and DePaul University, and is pursuing his MFA at University of Illinois in Chicago. [www.alejandroacierto.net]
Isabel Castellvi is a versatile musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer performing and composing a broad range of music from contemporary classical, experimental, rock, pop, various traditional musics to avant-garde performance art and free-improvisation. Current collaborations include The Bell Cycle, Diane Cluck, CocoRosie, Sasha Siem and thingNY. Previous ensembles include the Mivos Quartet (founding member) and the Wet Ink ensemble. She studied cello performance at DePaul University and received her Master's in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. In addition to an active performance career as a cellist she is a singer/songwriter and studies North Indian classical music. [www.isabelcastellvi.com]
Dr. Pat Thomas Thomas-More Muchmore is a real stand-up guy, a bon vivant, a cellist/pianist/trombonist/guitarist/composer, and an incurable romantic. His hobbies include skiing, writing sentences with ridiculous amounts of comma-delimited lists, and playing his various instruments in avant-garde shows, rock/hip-hop shows, and numerous recording projects. He is a performer/composer member of NYC's Anti-Social Music and they have released a record of his music entitled Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore. Pat has also played with World/Inferno Friendship Society, the CUNY Graduate Center Contemporary Ensemble, Dälek, thingNY and Quiet City. He likes compound words with slashes in them, and he has studied/composed with John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, David Olan, Carolyn Bremer, and Brian Shepard. For more info, please check out www.patmuchmore.com, operators are standing by. (se habla español)
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, pianist Vicky Chow has been described as “brilliant” (New York Times), “a monster pianist” (Time Out New York), "virtuostic" (New Jersey Star Ledger), and “one of the new stars of new music” (Los Angeles Times). She is the pianist for the New York based sextet Bang on a Can All-Stars, New Music Detroit and is also a founding member of X88, and GRANDBAND. Vicky studied at The Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin before continuing studies at Manhattan School of Music with Christopher Oldfather. In addition to performing, she also produces and curates “Contagious Sounds”, a new music series focusing on adventurous contemporary artists and composers in New York City.
www.vickychow.com
Flautist Andrea Lee Smith spends the better part of her free time puzzling as to why more people don't play the flute. Whether bringing a little uptown to downtown or downtown to uptown....whether taking the stage at Carnegie Hall or the persian rug in the living room, it's not Andrea's party without a mink, a mask, or a little black dress. And as everybody knows, "it's not a party without a flautist." www.andrealeesmith.com
Andrea La Rose
Stefanos Tsigrimanis
Barry Seroff
Ilias Pantoleon
Ivan Barenboim
Tarik Ghiradella
Tom Swafford
Brian McCorkle
Esther Neff
Alejandro T. Acierto is a musician and multi-media artist that employs music, sound, performance, and video to explore notions of fluid identities and the slippages of cultural definitions. His musical and performative works have been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, thingNY, Loadbang in New York, and Vox Humana in Montreal. He had his first solo exhibition at Untitled Gallery at Marwen in Chicago and has been part of several group shows in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Madison. Acierto holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and DePaul University, and is pursuing his MFA at University of Illinois in Chicago. [www.alejandroacierto.net]
Isabel Castellvi is a versatile musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer performing and composing a broad range of music from contemporary classical, experimental, rock, pop, various traditional musics to avant-garde performance art and free-improvisation. Current collaborations include The Bell Cycle, Diane Cluck, CocoRosie, Sasha Siem and thingNY. Previous ensembles include the Mivos Quartet (founding member) and the Wet Ink ensemble. She studied cello performance at DePaul University and received her Master's in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. In addition to an active performance career as a cellist she is a singer/songwriter and studies North Indian classical music. [www.isabelcastellvi.com]
Dr. Pat Thomas Thomas-More Muchmore is a real stand-up guy, a bon vivant, a cellist/pianist/trombonist/guitarist/composer, and an incurable romantic. His hobbies include skiing, writing sentences with ridiculous amounts of comma-delimited lists, and playing his various instruments in avant-garde shows, rock/hip-hop shows, and numerous recording projects. He is a performer/composer member of NYC's Anti-Social Music and they have released a record of his music entitled Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore. Pat has also played with World/Inferno Friendship Society, the CUNY Graduate Center Contemporary Ensemble, Dälek, thingNY and Quiet City. He likes compound words with slashes in them, and he has studied/composed with John Corigliano, David Del Tredici, David Olan, Carolyn Bremer, and Brian Shepard. For more info, please check out www.patmuchmore.com, operators are standing by. (se habla español)
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, pianist Vicky Chow has been described as “brilliant” (New York Times), “a monster pianist” (Time Out New York), "virtuostic" (New Jersey Star Ledger), and “one of the new stars of new music” (Los Angeles Times). She is the pianist for the New York based sextet Bang on a Can All-Stars, New Music Detroit and is also a founding member of X88, and GRANDBAND. Vicky studied at The Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin before continuing studies at Manhattan School of Music with Christopher Oldfather. In addition to performing, she also produces and curates “Contagious Sounds”, a new music series focusing on adventurous contemporary artists and composers in New York City.
www.vickychow.com
Flautist Andrea Lee Smith spends the better part of her free time puzzling as to why more people don't play the flute. Whether bringing a little uptown to downtown or downtown to uptown....whether taking the stage at Carnegie Hall or the persian rug in the living room, it's not Andrea's party without a mink, a mask, or a little black dress. And as everybody knows, "it's not a party without a flautist." www.andrealeesmith.com
Andrea La Rose
Stefanos Tsigrimanis
Barry Seroff
Ilias Pantoleon
Ivan Barenboim
Tarik Ghiradella
Tom Swafford
Brian McCorkle
Esther Neff