Neues Kabarett Music Series 10th Anniversary Season

The Brecht Forum's Neues Kabarett music series celebrates its 10th anniversary season

The Brecht Forum celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Neues Kabarett music series with a season focused on new works by some of today's most exciting musical creators. Recently called "intrepid" and "exemplary" by Time Out New York and lauded in the past by such publications as The Wire and All About Jazz, Neues Kabarett has for the last decade presented a fascinating combination of artists.

The series, organized by a dedicated collective of volunteers, continues its commitment to artistic excellence and high-quality performing opportunities along with the city-wide development of a thriving, healthy economy for artists. Seeking to carve out a viable new space for creative and experimental music, the Neues Kabarett collective began organizing concerts in October 1998. Since then, the series has presented more than 100 concerts and premiered an extraordinary amount of new work including 16 new commissions in the last two years (made possible by the New York State Music Fund).

From free-jazz to experimental, improvised to through-composed, known instruments to those just invented, Neues Kabarett has connected audiences with established and upcoming artists in intimate concerts at its Brecht Forum home. In the coming year, the series will also continue to provide important behind-the-scenes context for artists' work by hosting master classes and workshops and such events as post-concert dialogues.

Season highlights include

Sept 13 Double Bill

Katie Down with Miguel Frasconi
featuring steel cello, glass instruments, tea cups electronics, she will create an aural and visual landscape through physical placement of sound objects throughout the space
William Hooker's Orchestra
with Adam Lane, David Soldier, Jesse Heffler, Darius Jones, Mark Hennen, Matt Lavelle, Jennifer Rosa,

Ar-braf and others to be announced.

September 27, 2008

Kenny Wollesen + Himalayas will lead a large, roving ensemble. This outdoor, free event will feature a "mobile Mobile" of sculptural instruments.

October 11
Katie Down Kids Workshop

October 18
Neues Kabarett 10th Anniversary Celebration with many special guests!

November 1
Connie Crothers with Richard Tabnik, Roger Mancuso and Ken Filiano

December 6 and 7
Shahzad Ismaily will premiere a new, multi-disciplinary piece involving text and choreography and lead a workshop.

January 31, 2009
Carl Maguire performing with Floriculture.

February 28, 2009
Ned Rothenberg's new, 14-minute piece for string quartet along with other works.

March 2009 (date tba)
Hans Tammen's Third Eye Orchestra, featuring a new, open form composition for 14-piece ensemble and live electronics fusing contemporary classical elements with minimal music.

April 25, 2009
Laura Andel's new piece for large ensemble on a program with her other compositions.

May 23, 2009
Marc Ribot's Scelsi Project featuring Italy's renowned Ensemble Dissonanzen, the culmination of a week-long multi-venue retrospective celebrating the guitarist's 55th birthday.

June 6, 2009

Okkyung Lee premieres new works for string quartet.

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, performances, 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.

Most events at the Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune)

New York, N.Y. 10014

212-242-4201

Advance tickets and workshop registration at www.brechtforum.org/nk

Neues Kabarett's 2009-09 season is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, and by the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund and Meet The Composer's Creative Connections program.

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