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04/11 Sunday

2:00 PM Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble

"redefining musical boundaries" San Francisco Classical Voice 9/1/09
The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, combines acoustic instruments, electronic hardware, composed material and structured improvisation. The Ensemble treats analog synth as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument. The Ensemble's contemporary electroacoustic music, abstract, calm, spacious, free form, and transcendental, is performed and recorded live with no overdubs or sequencing.

The Ensemble has played chamber concert series, new music series, galleries, alternative performance spaces, and has also presented programs of live music to experimental film.

The Ensemble is based in San Francisco and includes NEC graduate Fred Morgan on drums and percussion. Their sonic language is at times comparable to Neu! and Cluster.

www.destijlmusic.com/jcde.html
www.sequenza21.com/2009/09/ten-questions-for-jack-curtis-dubowsky/
www.myspace.com/jcde
www.cdbaby.com/cd/jackcurtisdubowsky
www.pandora.com/music/artist/jack+curtis+dubowsky

6:00 PM Gillypad

6pm Ian Power
http://myspace.com/ianhpower

7pm Jon DeLucia and David Tronzo and Garth Stevenson
http://www.jondelucia.com/

8pm
Zoltan Lantos and Tanya Kalmanovitch Violin Duo

Meeting for the first time in performance at the 2008 Amsterdam India festival, violinists Zoltán Lantos and Tanya Kalmanovitch immediately found common ground: both had trained in the great violin traditions of European and Indian classical music, and both have since made their careers in the spaces between musical traditions.

Their duo blends the intimacy of a traditional music session with the elastic, impulsive nature of free improvisation and a dazzling array of influences from their wide-ranging musical travels. They trace the violin’s global routes with fiery virtuosity and sublime interaction, touching on Hungarian folk music, Irish traditional music, free improvisation and contemporary jazz.

Tanya Kalmanovitch, violin & viola
www.tanyakalmanovitch.com

Born in Fort McMurray, Alberta, violist and violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch works in the intersection of European classical music, contemporary jazz, and free improvisation. Based in New York City since 2004, she has been named the city's "Best New Talent" by All About Jazz, and described by Time Out New York as "the Juilliard-trained violist who’s been tearing up the scene”. She has performed throughout Europe and North American with a diverse range of artists including Benoît Delbecq, Dominique Pifarély, Ernst Reijseger, Ted Reichman, Anthony Coleman, Mat Maneri, the Turtle Island String Quartet, Martin Hayes, John Cage and Shujaat Husain Khan. Her most recent recording with pianist Myra Melford, "Heart Mountain", topped many critics' lists in 2007.

Tanya is the Assistant Chair of the Department of Contemporary Improvisation at Boston’s New England Conservatory. She teaches regularly at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London UK and the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag NL, and has led workshops on improvisation throughout Russia, North America, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

Zoltán Lantos, violin & tarangini
www.majazz.hu/lantoszoltan/index_eng.htm

Zoltán Lantos received his initial training in classical violin from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Drawn to experimental and Asian music from an early age, he traveled to India to study Indian classical music in 1985. Returning to Budapest nine years later, he developed a compelling voice as an improviser, blending his musical roots in European classical music and Hungarian folk music with Indian classical music and contemporary jazz.

In the past decade Zoltán has emerged as the pre-eminent performer in the European world-jazz scene, appearing on major concert stages and festivals with artists such as Márta Sebestyén, Dhafer Youssef, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Aruna Narayan, Urna, the Karnataka College of Percussion, Didier Lockwood, Charlie Mariano, Dave Liebman, Ramesh Shotham, Lars Danielsson, Markus Stockhausen, Achim Tang, Patrice Heral, and others. Equally important to his musical life, however, are numerous collaborations with folk musicians he encounters in his extensive musical travels: Roma musicians in Granada, Bulgarian wedding band soloists, and traditional musicians in the Rajasthani deserts and the Mongolian steppes.

Zoltán is a founding member of the Society of Hungarian Jazz Artists. He plays a 5 string violin and a custom-built 5+16 sympathetic string violin (Tarangini) created by Ricardo Margarit.

9:30pm Allan Chase and Carmen Staaf

10:30pm The Gill Aharon Trio

The band is:

Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Rick Stone- Alto
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar