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April 6: Cutting Edge Concerts 2015 Presents American Modern Ensemble at SubCulture

March 27, 2015 | By Classical Music Communications
PRESS RELEASE
March 10, 2014
For Immediate Release
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Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2015 opens with American Modern Ensemble

April 6 at SubCulture in New York City
                  
Program features premieres by Victoria Bond, Robert Paterson, Nicolas Scherzinger, Carl Schimmel, and Mark Winges        

 

"...a full-throttle commitment to contemporary music"

- Chamber Music America
 

"...a gift to New Yorkers thirsty for new sounds"

- Time Out New York

Victoria Bond

On April 6 at 8pm, Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival opens with the festival's debut at the downtown hotspot SubCulture featuring the "simply first-rate" (The New York Times) American Modern Ensemble. American Modern Ensemble and Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival join forces to share their love of music by living composers on a program full of premieres celebrating American Modern Ensemble's 10th anniversary season.

   

The program features the world premiere of "Skylights" by Robert Paterson and the New York premieres of "Fractured Mirrors" by Nicolas Sherzinger, "Road Show for Otto" by Carl Schimmel, and "ShapeShifter" by Mark Winges. The program also includes "The Visitor" by Paul Frucht and a new arrangement of "Instruments of Revelation" by Victoria Bond.  

Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 the day of the performance, available at subculturenewyork.com or at the box office (212) 533-5470.

 

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival features established as well as emerging composers performed by leading new music ensembles and soloists. Onstage discussions between each composer and artistic director Victoria Bond give special insight into the composer and the music. For more information about the festival, visit CuttingEdgeConcerts.org.  

 

In addition to the festival's debut with American Modern Ensemble at SubCulture, Cutting Edge Concerts' 18th season includes three concerts at Symphony Space: a Thomas Jefferson Birthday Bash (April 13) featuring violinist Frank Almond and the Sirius Quartet performing world premieres, the Cutting Edge Concerts debut of Miho Hazama's  m_unit jazz ensemble (April 20) and pianist Paul Barnes, and a staged workshop performance of Victoria Bond's opera Clara, inspired by the life of Clara Schumann (April 27) featuring The Gramercy Trio.

      

Robert Paterson

Founded in New York City in 2005 by Robert Paterson and Victoria Paterson, American Modern Ensemble is a dynamic, creative force in the modern music scene. A world-class ensemble made up of NYC's finest musicians, AME has performed works by over 150 living composers in venues ranging from Lincoln Center to The Roulette, and has "consistently demonstrated a flair for inventive programming" (Steve Smith, Time Out New York). Recent collaborations include the Prototype Opera Festival, the Dance Theater of Harlem, and Talujon percussion ensemble.

 

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Cutting Edge Concerts presents
American Modern Ensemble

April 6, 2015 at 8pm

SubCulture
(45 Bleecker Street, Downstairs)

Program:
Victoria Bond: Instruments of Revelation***
Paul Frucht: The Visitor
Robert Paterson: Skylights*
Nicolas Sherzinger: Fractured Mirrors**
Carl Schimmel: Road Show for Otto**

Mark Winges: ShapeShifter**

 

*World premiere / **NYC premiere / ***World premiere of this version

 

Tickets are $20 in advance and $30 the day of the performance, available at subculturenewyork.com or at the
box office (212) 533-5470.
 

 

 
Cutting Edge Concerts 2015 continues with three concerts at
Peter Norton Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia

April 13 

 

A Thomas Jefferson Birthday Bash featuring violinist Frank Almond performing the world premiere of Victoria Bond's "Soul of a Nation" and the Sirius Quartet performing compositions written by its members, as well as the premiere of "Hudson Spiral" by Kyle Gann. 

 

 
April 20 

Miho Hazama's m_unit jazz ensemble performs Hazama's "Journey to Journey" and compositions by  Scott Ninmer and  Chris Reza. Pianist Paul Barnes opens the program with a set of world premieres by Lukas Floyd, Jason Bahr and Zack Stanton.


More information and tickets.   
April 27 

CEC 2015 concludes with a staged workshop performance of Victoria Bond's opera Clara, inspired by the life of Clara Schumann. Featuring The Gramercy Trio, and singers Meredith Mecum, Benjamin Bloomfield, Robert Osborne, and Paul Han.



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