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Contact: Dan Joseph, 718-930-2286, info@interpretations.info
The Interpretations Series returns for its 33rd season of leading contemporary composers, performers and improvisers. From September 2022 to April 2023, Interpretations will present five concerts at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info.
PLEASE NOTE: As of April 1st, 2022, vaccination and masks are recommended but no longer required to enter Roulette. Visit roulette.org/safety for the latest updates.
SEASON SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2022, **6PM**: PETR KOTIK 80th Birthday Celebration
Season 33 opens with Petr Kotík’s monumental, six-hour piece Many Many Women (1975–78) performed by members of S.E.M. Ensemble. This vocal-instrumental composition is a musical rendering of a novel/short story by Gertrude Stein, who has already provided inspiration for several pieces by the composer. This unique staged performance of Kotík’s magnum opus by singers from New York and Graz marks the composer’s 80th birthday.
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3,2022: SCOTT ROBINSON / WADADA LEO SMITH
New York-based saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson will present Hypocycloid, a suite of original compositions based on a set of parametric plane curves including astroid, epicycloid, hypotrochoid and others. He will be joined by composer/performer Elliott Sharp. / Trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and composer Wadada Leo Smith returns to Interpretations with a program that includes eight new works for solo piano, performed by pianist Erika Dohi, and three new works for solo guitar to be performed by guitarist Jordon Dodson.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2023: TYSHAWN SOREY / ADAM RUDOLPH
Composer/percussionists Adam Rudolph and Tyshawn Sorey began their creative association in 2018 with a series of percussion duet concerts at The Stone. For this collaborative program, they will dedicate the first half to a set of duo improvisations utilizing drum kit, handrumset, electronic processing, piano, and other percussion instruments from around the world. For the second half of the program, each will present a composition for a chamber ensemble which will feature the other in a concerto type setting.
THURSDAY MARCH 9, 2023: DAN JOSEPH / MICHAEL BYRON
Brooklyn-based composer Dan Joseph will offer a program of new and recent works for solo piano, including two World Premieres. Pianist to be announced. / Composer Michael Byron will offer In One Second There Are A Thousand Plateaus Perhaps, a new concerto for two pianos and small orchestra featuring pianists Joseph Kubera and Steve Beck and members of the S.E.M. Ensemble, as well as a performance of his 2018 composition Fabric for String Noise performed by violin duo String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris).
THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2023: ALEXANDRA GARDNER / JOHANNES SIDENIUS
Visiting from Finland, composer and cellist Johannes Sidenius will lead an ensemble in a performance of lines in states of explosion/implosion (2022), a new work for electronically generated sounds and live instrumentalists based on the notion of one-dimensional lines reacting to gravitational forces by means of implosion and explosion. / Composer Alexandra Gardner will present new and recent works for instruments and electronics, including Juniper for solo shakuhachi, and Tides for saxophone quartet and soundtrack.
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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.