Cellist Maya Beiser, described by the Boston Globe as having "virtuoso chops, rock-star charisma, and an appetite for pushing her instrument to the edge of avant-garde adventurousness," will see the New York premiere of her new production, ELSEWHERE
At 36, Paola Prestini has already forged a singular and celebrated path in new music. Both through her production company, VisionIntoArt, and as a composer, she has garnered praise from fellow artists, presenters and critics. Osvaldo Golijov has described Prestini's music as "wrenching and tender and luminous and pure and exuberant: always vivid and always generous." Terry Riley has called it "music [that] speaks from the heart and inspires," and The New York Times has called it "radiant" and "amorously evocative."
At 36, Paola Prestini has already forged a singular and celebrated path in new music. Both through her production company, VisionIntoArt, and as a composer, she has garnered praise from fellow artists, presenters and critics. Osvaldo Golijov has described Prestini's music as "wrenching and tender and luminous and pure and exuberant: always vivid and always generous." Terry Riley has called it "music [that] speaks from the heart and inspires," and The New York Times has called it "radiant" and "amorously evocative."
Paola Prestini's multimedia opera Oceanic Verses is described as :the most ambitious undertaking of her career to date, and the one that best reveals her sensibility. With her collaborators-including the film artist Ali Hossaini, the librettist Donna Di Novelli and the directorKevin Newbury-Prestini has expanded the work from a 35-minute oratorio to an evening-length opera commissioned by VisionIntoArt and produced by her frequent cohort, Beth Morrison Projects in association with Washington Chorus and Trinity Wall Street.'
The Robert Wilson/Philip Glass collaboration Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts has announced a 2012-2013 international tour. The revival, helmed by Wilson and Glass along with choreographer Lucinda Childs, marks the first full production in 20 years.
Park Avenue Armory announced today its second full season of cultural programming, comprising productions of visual art, dance, and music that are conceived and performed "outside the box" of conventional theaters and museums.
Scott Barbarino and the Iridium Jazz Club will welcome Back Kat Gang and the Nate Mayland Quartet on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 9pm at the Iridium Jazz Club
The Plaza Hotel in Association with Donald Schaffer Management and Ward Morehouse III Presents Kat Gang at The Plaza's Rose Club every Wednesday at 9 p.m. for an open-ended engagement.
The Plaza Hotel, in Association with Donald Schaffer Management and Ward Morehouse III, presents Kat Gang at The Plaza's Rose Room, every Wednesday at 9 p.m.
The Plaza Hotel, in Association with Donald Schaffer Management and Ward Morehouse III, presents Kat Gang at The Plaza's Rose Room, every Wednesday at 9 p.m.
The Plaza Hotel, in Association with Donald Schaffer Management and Ward Morehouse III, presents Kat Gang at The Plaza's Rose Room, every Wednesday at 9 p.m.