Saturday, April 24th
LIRA PRODUCTIONS
presents
Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
with
Dana Reason - piano
+Alex Cline - percussion
at
THE
DOWNTOWN
PLAYHOUSE
105 Vignes Street
Between 1st and 2nd Street
4 blocks EAST of Little Tokyo
in downtown Los Angeles
$10.00 General Admission
(323)267-1830 for additional info
+=LIRA ARTIST
http://www.liraproductions.com
click on CONCERT CALENDAR
for additional info on the artists
www.philipgelb.com
for info on Philip Gelb
www.t3.rim.or.jp/~emajima/
for info on Eri Majima
www.liraproductions.com
for info on Alex Cline
click on Alex Cline
or www.cryptogramophone.com
Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
Philip Gelb is one of the most active shakuhachi performers and
teachers in North America. He runs the Bay Area shakuhachi School,
teaching traditional and modern music to over 30 students, with
branches in Oakland, San Francisco and Santa Rosa. Although he
performs traditional music (both Japanese and Jewish), he focuses on
new and contemporary music.
His current projects include:
* The Natto Quartet with Shoko Hikage (koto), Tim Perkis
(computer) and Chris Brown (piano, computer) (their recent CD has
made 3 top ten CD release lists for 2003)
* The Wind Trio of Alphaville with Jon Raskin (saxophones) and
Phillip Greenlief (clarinets, saxophones)
* The Space Between with Pauline Oliveros (just intonation
accordion) and Dana Reason (piano)
* A trio with Alex Cline (percussion) and Dana Reason (piano)
* collaborations with dancer/choreographer, Eri Majima
His long time duet collaboration with bassist, Matthew Sperry was
tragically cut short by Matt's passing in 2003. He is also a member
of two of California's prominent new music ensembles: The SFSound
Ensemble and The Triaxium Ensemble. In addition he has an active
freelance career as an improvisor and is a frequent guest soloist
with various ensembles including the Oakland Symphony, The Seattle
Creative Orchestra and numerous other groups.
He has premiered numerous pieces for shakuhachi solo and in a variety
of contexts with other instruments. Some of the composers he has
collaborated with and premiered pieces by are: Pauline Oliveros,
Chris Brown, Dana Reason, Melissa Hui, Jon Raskin, Phillip Greenlief,
Matthew Speryy, Tom Baker, Christian Asplud, Hugh Livingston, William
Ludtke, Yoshiaki Onishi, and Christopher Shainan.
As a composer himself, he has written music for solo shakuhachi, for
all his own ensembles and for shakuhachi and string ensembles. He
frequently colaborates with choreographers such as Eri Majima, Koichi
Tamano, and June Watanabe.
He frequently gives lectures, demonstrations and performances at many
Colleges in North America such as Stanford, Mills, UC Berkeley, UC
San Diego, UC Riverside, U. of the Pacific, U. Florida, Florida State
Universit, Stetson College, Mcgill Unviersity, Rollins College, and
Cornish College of the Arts.
He has performed all over the United States and In Japan, Europe and Canada.
He has released numerous CDs on labels such as 482 music, Deep
Listening, EMI-japan, Leo, Sparkling Beatnik, Abray, Limited
Sedition, Artship and Ryokan.
Philip Gelb began studying shakuhachi in 1990 while a graduate
student in Ethnomusicology at Florida State University with Dale
Olsen. He then continued his studies in New York with Ronnie Seldin
and now studies with Yoshio Kurahashi.
http://www.philipgelb.com
Alex Cline has a musical sensibility and sensitivity that belong to
another time... a time when intimate thoughts were best expressed by
someone sitting down, setting pen to paper, and sending their
innermost feelings by land or sea, to be read by the intended a few
days or weeks later... in short, a time when "time" really counted.
Peter Erskine
Alex Cline has converted his years as a presence in the jazz and new
music scenes of Los Angeles into a musical career international in
scope. A veteran of numerous domestic and European tours as well as
over fifty recordings, Alex has sonically contributed to the music of
such artists as Vinny Golia, Julius Hemphill, Tim Berne, Quartet
Music, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Richard Grossman, and Charlie
Haden, as well as numerous dancers and dance companies.
Aside from his continued presence in Mr. Golia's ensembles, some of
the settings in which he can currently be heard are the G.E. Stinson
Group, the Jeff Gauthier Quartet, the Bobby Bradford Mo'tet, Gregg
Bendian's Interzone, Open Gate Theatre, and the European group
Shooting Stars and Traffic Lights. As the leader of his own group,
the Alex Cline Ensemble he can be heard on the ECM album The Lamp and
the Star and the 9 Winds CD Montsalvat. Alex Cline endorses PAISTE
cymbals and gongs, ATTACK drumheads, and VIC FIRTH drumsticks. He
continues to play on early-1970s vintage Camco drums, as he has for
the last twenty-six years, and uses MONTINERI custom snare drums.
http://www.cryptogramophone.com/crypto/html/artist.php?id=3
Dana Reason - Pianist
Canadian born pianist, composer and improvisor Dana Reason has
performed at the California Institute for the Arts, Colorado
University, Guelph Jazz Festival, Frau Musica (Nova) Cologne, San
Francisco Jazz Festival, Beyond the Pink Festival, (LA), Knitting
Factory (NYC), Music Gallery (Toronto), and Newfoundland Sound
Symposium. Ms. Reason has been featured on National Public Radio,
Radio Canada and has recorded for Music & Arts, Red Toucan, Deep
Listening, Sparkling Beatnik and Ryokan labels. This past fall
Musicworks magazine published a feature article titled The Piano
Artistry of Dana Reaons by Dan Given. Ms. Reason holds a Ph.D in
music from the University of California San Diego where she studied
with George E. Lewis. Her dissertation research is titled Playing
like a Girl: Women Improvisors in the Second Half of the Twentieth
Century: A Cross-Cultural Investigation into Musical Performativity.
Ms. Reason is a freelance writer for the Twentieth Century Music, The
Improvisor and Musicworks
-- xoxoPhilip Gelb Bay Area Shakuhachi School phil@philipgelb.com http://www.philipgelb.com http://www.bayareashakuhachi.com _____________________________________________
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