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Published: The Brecht Forum's Neues Kabarett Music Series Presents Joelle Leandre
Concert and 3-Day Workshop
World Premiere, Brecht Forum Commission with Mat Maneri on viola and J.D. Parran on woodwinds opening set with poet Steve Dalachinsky
CONCERT
Friday, March 21, 2008, 9pm
Admission: $10
WORKSHOP
Monday-Wednesday, March 17-19, 2008, 10 am to 1 pm
Fee: $125
at the Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune)
New York, N.Y. 10014
212-242-4201
The Brecht Forum is delighted to welcome France's Joëlle Léandre and present the premiere of her new commission with this stellar ensemble featuring Mat Maneri (viola) and J.D. Parran (woodwinds), after an opening set with poet Steve Dalachinsky.
Léandre will also lead a three-day workshop focused on "deep listening, responsibility, forms and structures, sounds, risk and jubilation." The workshop is open to all musicians, and is for all instruments, voice and electronics. Participation is limited to 10, and pre-registration is required.
French double bass player, improviser and composer Joëlle Léandre is one of the dominant figures of the new European music. Trained in orchestral as well as contemporary music, she has played with Itinéraire, 2e2m and Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain. Léandre has also worked with Merce Cunningham and with John Cage, who has composed especially for her - as have Scelsi, Fénelon, Jolas and Clémenti. As well as working in contemporary music, Léandre has played with some of the great names in jazz and improvisation, such as Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, Evan Parker, Irène Schweizer, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith and John Zorn.
She has written extensively for dance and theatre, and has staged a number of multidisciplinary performances. Her reputation is international, and her work as a composer and a performer, both in solo recitals and as part of ensembles, has put her under the lights of the most prestigious stages of Europe, the Americas and Asia. Joëlle Léandre also has more than a hundred recordings to her credit. She was Visiting Professor at Mills College in 2002/2004 and 2006 (Darius Milhaud Chair for composition and improvisation).
The Brecht Forum is a place for people who are working for fundamental social change and a new culture that puts human needs first. The Brecht Forum offers a year-round program of classes, lectures, seminars, art exhibitions, performance s, popular education workshops and language classes in its new, beautifully renovated home looking out over the Hudson River.
The Brecht Forum's Neues Kabarett music series has presented monthly avant-garde / free jazz and experimental music concerts since 1998. We create performing opportunities for established and emerging artists (sometimes involving visual artists, dancers and poets) and have helped create a viable, visible new performance space at The Brecht Forum. In addition, Neues Kabarett presents occasional events in other venues such as galleries and community gardens, and is a volunteer-run collective.
Neues Kabarett is made possible by the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts.
Advance tickets and workshop registration at www.brechtforum.org/nk
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