Launching the 2013-14 season, RenegadeEnsemble’s “Poppies in October” features a rich selection of new chamber music from living composers both local and international. The event showcases dramatic floral imagery and an outpouring of virtuosic intensity.
Selections Include: Ariel by American composer Ned Rorem Glint by American composer Roshanne Etezady Escape Wisconsin by American composer Caleb Burhans Snapdragon by New Zealand composer Miriama Young One Bright, Moonlit Night by Minnesota composer Randy Bauer (world premiere!) This concert features: Alyssa Anderson • mezzo soprano David Birrow • percussion Solange Guilliume • piano Jeffery Kyle Hutchins • saxophone Stanley H Rothrock II • piano Christopher Raddatz • clarinet Tickets available online at http://poppiesinoct.brownpapertickets.com/ or at the door with cash, check, or plastic. Adults $10 Students/Seniors $8
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For those in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, come out to Studio Z on Saturday, September 21 at 7:30PM to hear some really fantastic original works for flute and saxophone by a wide collection of composers! The program will include:
We're from the Internet - Josh Clausen Cracked Brick - Anna E. Garman Interactions - Lenka Sturalova deepities - Ted Moore Ever Present - Alvin Lucier BAAYAMI: From the Sky - Mark Oliveiro Janus - Paul Hayden We will be joined by special guest Peter John on piano! The following week, we will be in the studio recording all of these works for an upcoming CD that will be released at the end of the year, so stay tuned for more details on this project! A few months ago I performed at the Nash Art Gallery as part of the Space to Place art exhibit. The performance by the lovely Elizabeth Windnagel and myself was deemed Identity of the Moment. The piece performed was called Jewface by composer Joey Crane, in collaboration with fashion designer Anna Carlson. You can read my blog post here about the exhibit. Here is the video! Kevin Obsatz was the videographer. Last week, Brittany Primavera and I (AVIDduo) traveled to Seoul, South Korea to teach and perform at the Jae Young Summer Camp in Yeongdeungpo, Seoul. It was a pleasure for us to be reunited with our old friend Jinhee Yeo, who organized the camp and brought us there to teach with her. The three of us were the primary teachers for this week-long camp of sixty kids age 4-11 working on speaking English, learning about American customs and culture, and music! Each day centered around a theme and had a variety of activities associated with the theme. Monday was Hello and Experience Day; Tuesday was Color and Movie Day; Wednesday was All About the U.S.; Thursday was Music Festival; and Friday was Outdoor Sports Day. In addition, each day, we worked to teach the kids how to sing a variety of songs in English, as well as common proverbs/quotes to practice speaking. Brittany, Jinhee, and I had a blast teaching and making music with the children, as well as performing for them! At the end of the camp, we had a nice graduation ceremony where the students sang their songs for their parents, were awarded certificates of completion, and then Brittany, Jinhee and I performed for them as well. We are already looking forward to next year!
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of teaching at the E. Rousseau Saxophone Workshop at the Shell Lake Arts Camp. It was a fantastic week of making music with wonderful students and faculty. Over the course of the week, all thirty six students received a lesson with the six faculty members as well as participated in chamber ensembles and a large saxophone choir. There were also a variety of masterclasses and general sessions on various saxophone topics such as extended techniques and practice techniques. Every student got an opportunity to perform their works on the student recitals at the end of the week, and the faculty performed at the beginning of the week. Monday night was a special concert honoring the late Thomas Liley, a terrific colleague and teacher who was involved with the SLAC summer workshop for many years. Below is a picture of David Branter, Julia Nolan, Preston Duncan and myself playing a saxophone quartet on that concert. It was a terrific week working with some exceptional musicians, and I am already looking forward to next year!
(clockwise from left to right) rewind, play, fast forward by Shea Bartel; Into the Woods by Linnea Doyle; Extended Techniques by Jamie Winter Dawson. This past weekend, Renegade Ensemble had our first ever ReneGALA, a gallery show/performance featuring works from this past season's Visual Artist Collaboration Series. We had a different visual artist come on stage with us during each concert series and create a new piece of art while we performed! The paintings were sold in an auction during the exhibit, along with some of the artist's other work. The ensemble performed a few highlights from the past season, as well as a few preview performances for next season! Defined by human activities, places are ever-changing, ever-decaying, and always being reborn, often through collective action and collaboration. From Space to Place features projects from local, national and international artists and designers that reexamine place and one's relationship to it. The projects are a result of collaborative and individual efforts to interpret and investigate the phenomena of place and placemaking—the transformation of a space into that which has a distinct identity.
Featuring CookKIT from 7pm-10pm outside Regis Parallel Hypothetical from 7pm-10pm at Rapson Hall Identity of the Moment, a live performance by Anna Carlson & Joey Crane at 8pm at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery I will be performing on the Identity of the Moment exhibit on May 30! It will be a performance art work for alto saxophone and soprano voice (Elizabeth Windnagel) of Joey Crane's piece Jewface in collaboration with fashion designer Anna Carlson. Come check it out! Proceeds from the event will provide funding for our 2013-2014 season. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased HERE.
Can't make it to the gala but still want to support our 2013 season? Donations can be made through our GiveMN page HERE and thank you! Check out the Facebook event HERE. Visit the Renegade website HERE. Last month I gave the premiere of two new works which now have recordings online! The first was Jeremy Wagner's ...auf einer grunen aue... for two baritone saxophones which I played with Alex Richards at the CMW concert in the Ted Mann Concert Hall, and the second was Ted Moore's is himself no more for tenor saxophone and super collider which was on the RenegadeEnsemble concert series Into the Woods at Studio Z! Alex Richards and I will be playing a concert together next Saturday, May 11 at 2PM at the University of Minnesota. It will feature Louder than Words by Don Freund, Caravan by Tanya Anisimova and Dark Rain by Andy Scott. Dark Rain, a double concerto for two saxophones and wind ensemble, will be performed in a reduced version for piano, bass and drum set! Leah Siltberg (p), Lewis Heald (b), and Jeremy Johnston (d) will be helping us out!
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