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© 2002-2008
by Avian Music LLC
ensemble info: upcoming composers, performers, past composers, past guest artists
Mission
The New York City-based Avian Music is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to building bridges between audiences, performers, and composers in various musical styles and media. The group’s mission is to provide opportunities for emerging American composers side by side with more established composers in an ongoing series of thematic concerts and recordings that engage and broaden the audience for new music.
Past concerts have focused on such themes as birds and music; sports-inspired music performed in a 19th century gymnasium, a Valentine’s Day concert of songs of love, lust, sex, and jealousy, which featured the burlesque performer Miss Dirty Martini, and an election weekend revue of music about politics in late October 2004. Their performances have been popular and critical successes, described in the New York Times as “played beautifully and sensitively.” Their “Play Ball!!!” concert was a featured web-cast on the NewMusicBox website. Upcoming projects include a spring tour in 2008 with a program of video art and live music and in 2009 a program of music about plants to be performed in various botanical gardens in the region.
Upcoming Composers and Featured Performers
Bret Battey
Ben Dorfan
Peter Flint
Michael Gandolfi
Tom Lopez
John Mallia
Andreia Pinto Correia
Neil RolnickPerformers
Arash Amini, cello
Donald Berman, piano
Blair McMillen, piano and keyboards
Chris Nappi, percussion
Sarah Schwartz, violin
Andrew Sterman, woodwinds
Ann Cecil Sterman, flutePast Featured Composers
Richard Belcastro
Phillip Bimstein
Conrad Cummings
Michael Daugherty
Philip Glass
Michael Gandolfi
Kyle Gann
Annie Gosfield
David Laganella
David Lang
Ray Lustig
Jonathan Newman
Sophocles Papavasilopoulos
David Rubinstein
Arlene Sierra
Andrew Sterman
Jacob ter Veldhuis
Stewart Wallace
Matthew Welch
Scott WheelerPast Guest Artists
Jeff Carney, bass
Frank Cassara, percussion
Oren Fader, guitar
Mark Feldman, violin
Gregory Fulkerson, violin
Kevin Gallagher, guitar
Laura Heimes, soprano
Curtis Streetman, baritone
Chris Pedro Trakas, baritone
Dirty Martini, burlesque dancer
Mick Rossi, piano and percussion
