Performers
Anthony Burr, clarinet
Richard Carrick, piano
Jennifer Choi, violin
Jane Rigler, flute
Michael Ibrahim, saxophone
Ariana Kim, violin
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Andrea Schultz, violin
David Shively, percussion
Alex Waterman, cello
Anthony Burr
has enjoyed a distinguished career as an exponent of contemporary music.
He has performed in this repertoire with many leading groups, including
Elision, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Sospeso, and the Chamber Music Sociey
of Lincoln Center, often as soloist. He has worked widely outside the
classical arena too with artists including Jim O'Rourke, Laurie Anderson,
John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Ikue Mori, Tim Barnes,
Alan Licht, Mark Dresser and many others. Ongoing collaborations include
a duo with Icelandic bassist/composer Skuli Sverrisson, The Clarinets
(a trio with Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega), a series of recordings with
cellist Charles Curtis, and a series of live film/music performances with
experimental filmmaker Jennifer Reeves. He has produced and/or engineered
records for La Monte Young, Charles Curtis, Skuli Sverrisson, Ted Reichman
among others, and has a doctorate from University of California, San Diego.
Upcoming releases include a new Anthony Burr/Skuli Sverrisson double CD
with guest vocalists Yungchen Lamo and Arto Lindsay.
Richard Carrick (Either/Or artistic co-director) is
a composer, pianist and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber
ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, electronics and concert music with
video. Described as “exoticism and sheer infectiousness” by
Allan Kozinn of The New York Times, his music draws inspiration from his
French, North African, and UK roots, his studies in mathematics and philosophy,
and his experience as performer of notated and improvised music. Richard
has spent the past few years developing his musical ideas in New York,
where he concurrently founded the Either/Or Ensemble. Richard’s
music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan by
the New York Philharmonic (Ensemble Series), Vienna’s Konzerthaus,
ISCM World Music Days, MATA Festival, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Darmstadt
Summer Festival, and other festivals. Carrick has received commissions
by the Nieuw Ensemble, The Nouvel Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, the Ensemble-On-Line
of Vienna, Brown University, soloists Magnus Andersson, Carin Levine,
Rohan de Saram, and others.
As pianist and conductor he has performed a unique repertoire of solo
works and unusual chamber pieces on the Green Umbrella Series in Los Angeles,
at The Kitchen, the Banff Centre, Canada and regular appearances in New
York. He co-founded Either/Or in 2004 and is currently on Adjunct Faculty
at New York University. www.richardcarrick.com
Hailed by Time Out New York as "one of New York's most reliably adventurous
performers", violinist Jennifer
Choi has charted a career that breaks through the
conventional boundaries of solo violin, chamber music, and the art of
creative improvisation. As a soloist, she has performed with
the Oregon Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the String
Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), among others, and as a recitalist
and chamber musician, she has performed in venues worldwide like the Library
of Congress in Washington D.C., Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Mozartsalle
in Vienna, and the RAI National Radio in Rome. In 2000, she was ‘Winner’
of the Artist International Award, leading to a debut recital in Weill
Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Highly sought after for her performances of contemporary works, Jennifer
gave the world premiere of John Zorn's solo violin work, 'Goetia' for
the Works and Process series at the Guggenheim Museum, the premiere of
'Serenade in Isolation' by Wang Jie presented by the Music Theater Group,
and the U.S. premiere of 'Capriccio' by Jacob ter Veldhuis.
In 2006 she received a grant from the New York State Music Fund
for the premiere and performances of 'Holding Fast' for violin and video
written for her by Randall Woolf. She can be heard on over a dozen
albums for TZADIK record label in compositions by new music icons, John
Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Leo Wadada Smith, and the Susie Ibarra Trio with
whom she has toured Europe and North America extensively as a creative
improvisor and chamber jazz musician. Her debut solo record, 'Bodegas
- Works for Solo Violin and Electronics' will be released this spring
with Major Who Media.
A prominent chamber musician, Jennifer was a former member
of the Miro String Quartet. With her involvement, the group won
Grand Prize at the the 1996 Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions.
Since then, she has collaborated with Fireworks Ensemble, Sirius String
Quartet, members of the Corigliano Quartet, and Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center.
In praise of Michael Ibrahim’s
solo recording, Saxophone Journal wrote, “The listener is in for
an exciting musical ride.” Noted for his “sheer virtuosity
and musical intensity” (Calgary Herald), Michael enjoys an active
career of solo, chamber, and orchestral work in both contemporary and
traditional realms. Michael has won numerous competitions including the
2007 Eisenberg- Fried Concerto Competition for Woodwinds, the 2006 Kranichsteiner
Musikpreis for contemporary music performance in Darmstadt, Germany; and
the 2004 North American Saxophone Alliance Classical Artist Competition.
Michael studied at the University of Regina; University of Calgary; Université
Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France; and Bowling Green State
University. His teachers include Karen Finnsson, Jeremy Brown, John Sampen,
Claude Delangle, Marcus Weiss, and Paul Cohen. After having taught at
the University of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Michael currently freelances
in New York while completing his doctoral studies at the Manhattan School
of Music.
Noted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune for being “a superb musician,
playing with assurance and flair,” violinist Ariana
Kim made her New York recital debut in Carnegie's Weill
Hall in March of this year, and recently completed an interim season as
acting concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans. After
making her debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra at the age of 17,
Ariana went on to be a featured recitalist on the Schubert Club International
Young Artists Series and has since become one of the budding young artists
of her generation.
An avid and committed performer of both the traditional and avant-garde
literature, Ariana has premiered over three-dozen new works, including
Andrew Imbrie’s Concertino, written especially for her and debuted
with the Richmond Symphony in 2005. Shortly after her performances in
Richmond, she traveled to Spain to perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto
with pianist Alasdair Beatson, cellist Adolfo Gutierrez, and the Orbon
Chamber Orchestra. This year marks her fifth season with the New York
Times-acclaimed contemporary music ensemble, Ne(x)tworks, with whom she
composes, improvises, performs, and records. Their most recent CD of Earle
Brown chamber works was released on Mode Records in April of 2007. She
is also a senior artist of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, through
which she also teaches as a faculty member of their educational branch
summer festival, the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute. Ariana currently
co-resides in Chicago and New York City while completing dissertation
revisions for her D.M.A. degree from The Juilliard School where she studies
with Robert Mann.
Jane Rigler, flutist,
composer, educator and producer is an active featured performer in contemporary
music festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist as well as
within chamber ensembles. Besides premiering works written especially
for her, Jane’s own compositions cover the gamut of simple solo
acoustic pieces inspired by language, to complex interactive electronic
works that pay homage to painting, poetry and dance. After receiving a
B.M. (Northwestern University) and then pursuing flute studies in various
parts of Europe and North America, she gained her M.M. and Ph.D. (UC San
Diego) completing The Vocalization of the Flute, a book demonstrating
both new and ancient methods of singing-while-playing-the-flute. Her collaborations
have led to performances in operas, theater and dance events as well as
other interactive electronic works. After living in Spain for 9 years,
Jane resides in NY and organizes events such as the Relay~NYC! at MoMA,
the Spontaneous Music Festival and collaborations with other festivals.
She has received Brooklyn Arts Council grants and several artist residencies
from Harvestworks, Art Omi and RPI’s Create@iEar Studios. Currently,
Jane travels offering lecture-demonstrations, residencies in composition,
improvisation, advance performance techniques and teaching development
workshops. She is also Technology Program Coordinator for the Manhattan
New Music Project where she is co-designing and developing the Music Cre8tor,
a new interactive sensor-driven music composition program for the special
needs population.
Violinist Andrea Schultz currently
performs and tours with a wide array of groups, including Sequitur, the
Cabrini Quartet, the New York Chamber Ensemble, Trio of the Americas,
and several of New York City’s leading orchestras, including the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Brandenburg Ensemble, and Mostly Mozart.
Ms. Schultz was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble
for four years, including performances with Yo-Yo Ma and the Schumann
Piano Quintet. She has also appeared as guest with the Casssatt String
Quartet, Apple Hill Chamber Players, Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble
Sospeso, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Limon Dance Company and has
recorded contemporary chamber music for the Albany, New World, and Phoenix
labels. Ms. Schultz has spent summers performing at the Tanglewood, Aspen,
Caramoor, Ravinia, and Cape May Festivals as well as the Pundakit International
Chamber Music Festival in the Phillipines. A graduate of Yale University,
the Cleveland Institute of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook, Ms. Schultz studied
violin with Sydney Harth, Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, and Joyce Robbins.
Acclaimed by the New York Times as an "extraordinary violist"
of "immense flair," Dov
Scheindlin has been violist of the Arditti,
Penderecki and Chester String Quartets. He has performed in 28 countries
around the globe, and won the Siemens Prize in 1999. He has appeared as
soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Radio Symphony
of Berlin, and the Munich Philharmonic. Mr. Scheindlin has recorded extensively
for EMI, Teldec, Auvidis, Col Legno, and Mode, and won the Gramophone
Award in 2002 for the Arditti Quartet's recording of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's
Pulse Shadows. He has premiered nearly 100 works by composers such as
Elliott Carter, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, and Wolfgang
Rihm. He has performed regularly in summer festivals including Salzburg,
Luzern, and Tanglewood with members of the Juilliard, Alban Berg, Tokyo,
and Borodin String Quartets.
David Shively (Either/Or artistic co-director) has
appeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and
Europe. As a performer of various instruments, ranging from traditional
percussion to Hungarian cimbalom to electronic systems, he has collaborated
with artists from a wide range of experimental music contexts. A
member of Ethos Percussion Group since 2005, with whom he tours nationwide,
he has also performed with groups such as Collegium Novum Zürich,
Del Sol Quartet, Ensemble Sospeso, Gruppe für neue Musik Baden, ICE,
and Speculum Musicae. Festival appearances include Other Minds 13 (San
Francisco), MATA 2008 (New York), Wittner Tage für neue Kammermusik
(Witten), ICMC (Thessaloniki), Schwerpunkt: Strom! (Zürich), and
Ciclo International de Percusiones (Mexico City). Stage musician
credits include Pnima... ins innere (Munich, 2000; Stuttgart, 2010), The
Persians (National Actors' Theatre), and Ice Floes of Franz Josef Land
(Whitney Biennial). He has recorded for CRI, Einstein, Mode, Quecksilber,
Traditional Crossroads, Tzadik, and other labels in addition to numerous
works for film and radio broadcast.
Alex Waterman is a founding member of the Plus Minus
Ensemble, based in Brussels and London, specializing in avant-garde and
experimental music. In New York he performs with the Either/Or Ensemble.
Alex has worked with musicians such as Richard Barrett, Keith Rowe, Marina
Rosenfeld, Anthony Coleman, Elliot Sharp, Ned Rothenberg, Gerry Hemingway,
David Watson, Chris Mann, Alison Knowles, Thomas Meadowcroft, and Michael
Finnissy. He has performed as guest musician with numerous ensembles,
including Trio Event (Berlin), Champs d'Action-Antwerp, Q-O2-Brussels,
and Black Jackets Company-Brussels. As a curator he has organized events
at Les Bains:Connective in Brussels, OT301 in Amsterdam, and Miguel Abreu
Gallery and The Kitchen in New York. His project with the Bach Cello Suites
has toured in Switzerland, Italy, Holland, and the Opera of Monaco. In
2007 Alex curated two exhibitions in New York, one on experimental music
and poetics: Agapê (June 2-July 28th, 2007) at Miguel Abreu Gallery;
and the other on graphic notation, Between Thought and Sound: Graphic
Notation in Contemporary Music (September 7-October 20, 2007) at The Kitchen
in Chelsea. Alex is presently working on his PhD in musicology at NYU
as well as writing a book about the composer Robert Ashley with the designer
and writer Will Holder. He has appeared in and written for magazines including,
Artforum, Bomb, Dot Dot Dot, and FoArm Magazine. Alex is also composing
a new piece and participating in Dexter Sinister's residency at the Armory
for the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
