Composer Pianist Gregg Kallor Performs at NY's Subculture Tonight

Composer/pianist Gregg Kallor performs tonight, September 26, 2013, 7:30 p.m. (Doors 7:00 p.m.) at SubCulture (45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette, Downstairs). Kallor, joined by special guest Laura Metcalf, will present the world premiere of Undercurrent, his composition for cello and piano.

In addition, Kallor will perform excerpts from his latest album, the nine-movement solo piano suite, A Single Noon - a musical tableau of life in New York City, told through composition and improvisation - and premiere his new music video "Broken Sentences," which was shot using the Sing for Hope Pianos.

Tickets are $20, available through Ticketfly: www.ticketfly.com.

"Broken Sentences": 88 Pianos. 5 Boroughs. 1 Crazy Idea.

Kallor's new music video, "Broken Sentences" (see a sneak peek here), directed by Alan McIntyre Smith, is a journey through New York City set to the second movement of Kallor's suite A Single Noon. The video features the 88 artist-designed pianos that Sing for Hope placed in parks and public spaces in all five boroughs from June 1-15, 2013. As Kallor explains, "Alan and I thought that the Sing for Hope Pianos would make a stunning visual component to my New York City-inspired piano suite, A Single Noon. We chose "Broken Sentences" - the second movement - which evokes the buzzing, exuberant energy of this incredible city, and ran around the five boroughs chasing pianos!"

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COMPOSER/PIANIST Gregg Kallor

Composer. Pianist. Improviser

Gregg Kallor is the recipient of an Aaron Copland Award for composition. One of ten composers nationwide selected for this prestigious residency, Kallor composed a concerto for piano and orchestra during his time at the home of the late eminent American composer.

Kallor's new album, A Single Noon, is a nine-movement piano suite about life in New York City told through a combination of classical composition and improvisation. Kallor premiered the suite at Carnegie Hall in 2011. Five-time GRAMMY-nominee Fred Hersch calls it "the work of an extraordinary pianist, a composer of great distinction and a true conceptualist... this ambitious and unique suite really takes us somewhere that is very deeply heartfelt and dazzlingly executed. This is 21st-century music that has clearly absorbed the past and looks to a bright and borderless musical future."

Kallor's first music video, "Espresso Nirvana," is set to the sixth movement of the suite. His new music video, "Broken Sentences," will be released at SubCulture in September.

Kallor's previous album, Exhilaration, features his acclaimed song-cycles of poems by Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats, and settings of Christina Rossetti and Herschel Garfein, sung by mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala. Opera News wrote: "Kallor knows how to make these words sing, and Zabala gives perfect flight to them."

www.GreggKallor.com

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Cellist Laura Metcalf, lauded for her "sensitive, melodic touch" (BlogCritics Magazine) enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and teacher. She is the cellist of acclaimed string quintet Sybarite5, winners of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Emaleh Competition, and has performed sold-out concerts at the Library of Congress, Lincoln Center and many other venues across the country.

Laura has given solo recitals at the New England Chamber Music Festival, the Strad for Lunch Series, the Hewlett-Woodmere Gold Series, Chatter New Mexico, Shandelee Music Festival Series, and the Livingston Music Club Series. This season she was a soloist with the Laredo Philharmonic, and has also been featured as soloist with the One World Symphony, Ensemble 212 Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa.

Laura is a member of the cello-percussion quartet Break of Reality, whose albums have sold more than 30,000 copies worldwide, and of the conductorless Salome Chamber Ensemble, with whom she appeared in Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum and Steinway Hall.

Outside of the classical realm, Laura has appeared on the David Letterman Show, the Today Show, The View, Late Night with Conan O'Brian, and at the US Open and New York Fashion Week.

www.laurametcalf.com

About SubCulture

SubCulture is a new venue bringing eclectic yet accessible music and creative arts performances to the vibrant NoHo neighborhood. A home away from home for those who love art in all its many facets, the venue plays host to a dynamic range of performances, genre-defying music series, and stimulating cultural presentations. With its intimate and evocative space, SubCulture was designed to put the focus on performers and their craft, producing a unique connection between artist and audience.

Ultimately, SubCulture is a place like no other in the city - a subterranean music-and-arts oasis hidden beneath the streets of New York.

www.subculturenewyork.com

About the Sing for Hope Pianos

From June 1-15, 2013, 88 artist-designed pianos were placed in parks and public spaces throughout NYC's 5 boroughs for anyone and everyone to play. On June 16th, all 88 Sing for Hope Pianos made their "debut" on Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza in a free festival of music and art. After their public residency, the pianos were donated to local schools, healthcare facilities, and community organizations, where Sing for Hope artists and community members continue to bring the pianos to life year-round through classes, performances, and workshops.

www.singforhope.org

Photo by Steve Pool

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