Friday, June 22, 2012 at 8:00 pm EST
Tribeca
56 Walker Street, New York City 10013Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 8:00 pm EST
Art Music CoffeeHouse (Live Webcast)
http://artmusiccoffeehouse.com/index.php/home
63 Chariton Drive, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301http://www.electricdiamond.com/

ELECTRIC DIAMOND is arguably one of the longest-lived electronic performance ensembles – 35 years plus and going strong. The ensemble first performed in 1976 playing concerts at Carnegie Recital Hall, Symphony Space, the Guggenheim Museum and other venues of the New York 1970s new music scene. In the mid 1980’s electronic wind player founder Stuart Diamond joined forces with the ecletic electric keyboard innovator Don Slepian, whose credits and talents are legendary – from artist-engineer-in-residence at Bell Laboratories to the original ambient sound painter for “Music form the Hearts of Space”.Together they began presenting programs that integrated classical music with free-flowing improvisations – from Bach to Mussorgsky, from medieval dances to Native American soundscapes. They have performed throughout America and Asia, performing for the erudite audiences at Steinway Hall to the mass audiences at the Macy’s 4th of July Celebration in downtown Manhattan.ELECTRIC DIAMOND’s performances are truly “live”, without the use of any computer sequencing or multi tracking techniques. The results are performances of immediacy, power and authentic feeling.ELECTRIC DIAMOND’s performances are seamless and flowing meditations, integrating classical, jazz, pop, folk, medieval music into the original sound that is Electric Diamond. Think electronic-classical-ragaThursday, August 9, 2012 at 7:00 pm

ISAM GALA CONCERT in Ochsenhausen, Germany

You are invited to the ISAM Gala Concert concert and prize giving ceremony held on Thursday 9th August 2012, 7pm, at the Bibliothekssaal Ochsenhausen (Landesmusikakademie Baden-Württemberg, Schloßbezirk 6, Ochsenhausen, 88416, Germany). Violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, cellist František Brikcius, pianist Sabine Sauer-Essl and percussionist Aurélien Hadyniak will feature brand new music written by winners of the Joseph-Dorfman-Composition Competition.

 

 

 

 

Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 3:00 

Firehouse Space

Brooklyn, New York

Tickets $10 at the door

Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity:  Karen Bentley Pollick, Violin & Viola

Videos by Sheri Wills, Stuart Diamond, Erin Elyse Burns & Jeffrey Harrington

Music by Preston Stahly, Stuart Diamond, Nat Evans, Jeffrey Harrington, Jan Jirásek, Ofer Ben-Amots, & Charles Norman Mason

 

Friday, November 16, 2012 at 8:00 pm

Chapel of Good Shepherd Center

Seattle, Washington

IN THE CHAPEL PERFORMANCE SPACE ON THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER
4649 SUNNYSIDE AVE. N, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
(SW CORNER OF 50TH & SUNNYSIDE IN WALLINGFORD)
206-789-1939
http://waywardmusic.blogspot.com/
$5-15 sliding scale at door cash or check only

Violin, Viola & Video Virtuosity:  Karen Bentley Pollick, Violin & Viola

Sapphire for violin and electronics (2010)  Preston Stahly

Baroque Fantasy for violin (1974) Stuart Diamond

Heat Whispers for violin & video (2012) Nat Evans  Video by Erin Elyse Burns World Premiere

Grand Tango for violin (2011) Jeffrey Harrington World Premiere

Dilemma for viola (1987) Jan Jirásek

The Red Curtain Dance for viola (2003) Ofer Ben-Amots

Letter to Avigdor for violin (1990, rev. 1999) 

Metaman for violin with digital sound &video (2009)   Charles Norman Mason

 

 

 

Friday, December 7, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Stanford Hospital Atrium, Bing Concert Series

Free Admission!

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Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 8:00 pm

Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

505 East Charleston Road

Palo Alto, California  94306

General Admission:  $25    Senior $15   Student $10   Family maximum $50

albanyconsort.com     consort@albanyconsort.com    (408) 480-0182

The Albany Consort presents

Four friends in an eclectic mix of styles and a guarantee of no Christmas themes!

A sonata for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, in Marion Rubinstein’s arrangement for recorder, violin, cello and harpsichord.  A violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, in his own arrangement for the same group.  A sonata for violin and harpsichord by Bach, untarnished other than by the inspiration of the moment.  And two new pieces for violin and harpsichord by Alex Shapiro and Sheli Nan.

In his sonatas for violin and harpsichord, Bach paved the way for the two instruments to have an equal say when playing together.  Sheli Nan’s Absinthe is identifiably in this tradition, a lovely mellow musical account of a meeting of two close friends on a rainy day.  Alex Shapiro’s Slip is anything but in any tradition – bringing together the greatest number of different styles ever to be found in a single piece of music – Cuban, Egyptian, Indian, Japanese, Irish, Italian, Bluegrass, Rock-n-roll, Hot Club quintet, Greek – but ironically with no reference to the eighteenth century at all.

The virtuoso ensemble of friends for this program consists of Marion Rubinstein (recorder), Karen Bentley Pollick (violin), Dan Reiter (cello) and Jonathan Salzedo (harpsichord).

 

 

December 14 & 15, 2012 at 8:00 pm

Theater Artaud Z Space

San Francisco, California

Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band concerts with premieres of new works by Paul Dresher, Jack Perla: Pretty Boy and Fred Frith: Rocket Science, and reprises of commissioned works by Bruce Pennycook: For Joe Z and Ryan Brown: Gangbusters.

The Paul Dresher Ensemble’s Electro-Acoustic Band in:
“1-2, 1-2″ 

at Z Space | 450 Florida St. (at 17th St.) San Francisco
December 14 – 15 | 8 PM | $20 general, $12 students/seniors | TICKETS
For 20 years, the Paul Dresher Ensemble’s Electro-Acoustic Band has integrated the traditional instruments of chamber music (violin, woodwinds) with modern instruments and technology (electric guitar, electronic percussion, synthesizers). The Electro-Acoustic Band (EAB) performs contemporary chamber music that crosses traditional aesthetic boundaries and styles. These concerts feature the EAB performing two world premieres by local composers commissioned by the Dresher Ensemble, two recently commission works, and a piece by Paul Dresher himself.

Program:

Jack Perla – “Pretty Boy” (World Premier) – with text by David Brock (based on the life and stories about gangster Pretty Boy Floyd)
Fred Frith – “Rocket Science”(World Premier) – Fred Frith is an art rock legend and associate of John Zorn, Chris Cutler, and currently a professor of music at Mills College
Ryan Brown – “Gangbusters” (2010, revised 2012) – Ryan Brown is a SF Conservatory grad and founder of San Francisco’s Switchboard Music Festival
Bruce Pennycook – “For Joe Z” (2010) – inspired by legendary jazz composer/pianist Joe Zawinul – co-founder of ground-breaking jazz-fusion group Weather Report and a Miles Davis alumni, performance features special guest, John Schott on guitar
Paul Dresher – “Chorale Times Two” (1996) – 2nd movement of Violin Concerto featuring EAB member, Karen Bentley Pollick (violin)