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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
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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.