The Interpretations Series continues on Thursday February 9th, 2023 with composer/percussionists Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey.Continuing a creative association that began in 2018 with a series of percussion duet concerts at The Stone, Rudolph and Sorey will present a two-part collaborative program. The first half will feature a set of duo improvisations utilizing drum kit, handrumset, electronic processing, piano, and other percussion instruments from around the world. In the second half of the program, they will be joined by guest percussionists Sae Hashimoto, Levi Lorenzo and Russell Greenberg who will form a percussion ensemble that Rudolph and Sorey will take turns playing and directing. Each will utilize his own spontaneous conducting methodology to bring forth a new composition.
The concert will take place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info.
About the artists:
For the past four decades composer and percussionist Adam Rudolph has performed extensively throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has released over 30 recordings under his own name, featuring his compositions and percussion work. Rudolph composes for his ensembles Moving Pictures, Hu Vibrational, and Go: Organic Orchestra, a 30-piece group for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians worldwide in his Go: Organic Orchestra concept. Rudolph has performed with Don Cherry, Jon Hassel, Sam Rivers, Pharaoh Sanders, Muhal Richard Abrams, Shankar, Dave Liebman, Wadada Leo Smith, Philip Glass, and Fred Anderson, among others. He toured extensively and recorded 15 albums with Yusef Lateef including duets and their large ensemble compositional collaborations. His compositions have been performed by the Momenta String Quartet, The Oberlin Percussion Group, Figura new music group, and the Odense Percussion ensemble, among others. His rhythm methodology book, Pure Rhythm was published in 2006 and has been used by composers, performers, students and music institutions around the world. His newest book, Sonic Elements expands to include Rudolph’s concepts of intervals, spontaneous composition and philosophy.
Newark-born composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is celebrated for his incomparable virtuosity, effortless mastery and memorization of highly complex scores, and an extraordinary ability to blend composition and improvisation in his work. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as artists such as John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Wadada Leo Smith, Marilyn Crispell, George Lewis, Claire Chase, among many others. Sorey has composed works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the International Contemporary Ensemble, soprano Julia Bullock, PRISM Quartet, JACK Quartet, as well as for countless collaborative performers. His music has been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Village Vanguard, the Ojai Music Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Kimmel Center, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Sorey has received support for his creative projects from The Jerome Foundation, The Shifting Foundation, Van Lier Fellowship, and was named a 2017 MacArthur fellow and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. Sorey has taught and lectured on composition and improvisation at numerous colleges and universities and will join the composition faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall of 2020.
UPCOMING INTERPRETATIONS CONCERTS:
THURSDAY MARCH 9, 2023: DAN JOSEPH / MICHAEL BYRON
THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2023: ALEXANDRA GARDNER / JOHANNES SIDENIUS
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The Interpretations series, now in its 33rd season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Joseph Kubera, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.
Interpretations began as a collaboration with Robert and Helene Browning and the World Music Institute, presenting concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, then at Roulette, at its Greene Street location in Soho. When Roulette moved to the current space in Brooklyn, Interpretations moved with it. Interpretations is thrilled to co-produce at Roulette, which has developed into a premiere venue for new and innovative music, with excellent acoustics and world-class technical facilities.
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ROULETTE:
509 Atlantic Ave. Downtown Brooklyn
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains & LIRR.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info. All concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.