NSDT
2004-2005 @ VOZ ALTA
1544 Broadway DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO
(Downtown SD corner of 16th and Broadway)
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NSDT
2004-2005 @ VOZ ALTA
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| "Boundless Music for Boundless Minds" | curated by Curtis Glatter |
| Welcome to the Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 Season of New Sounds Downtown |
| SATURDAY. APRIL 17, 2004 - 8PM |
| THE
SEASON FINALE OF NEW SOUNDS DOWNTOWN (NUEVO SONIDOS EN EL CENTRO) FEATURING |
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 ENSEMBLE
PACIFIQUEa large ensemble featuring members of the Trummerflora Collective, Cosmologic, Tenshun, Wormhole and Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra |
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| Burnett
Anderson - TRUMPET James Andrew Burton - PERCUSSION Jon Calzo -TURNTABLES Marcos Fernandes - PERCUSSION Curtis Glatter - PERCUSSION Nathan Hubbard - PERCUSSION Derric Oliver - TUBA Jason Robinson - SAXOPHONES AND WOODWINDS Al Scholl - GUITAR Ellen Weller - SAXOPHONES AND WOODWINDS |
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| Burnett Anderson is an American jazz musician and educator who has divided his time between performing on trumpet and flugelhorn and recording for more than twenty years. Anderson has performed with Red Garland, Joe Williams, David Newman, Johnny Taylor, Johnny Walker, Max Roach, Daniel Jackson, Jimmie and Jeannie Cheatham, Glen Hariuchi, Frobel Bringhan, Marcelo Radulovich, Marcos Fernandes and Joe Garrison. Anderson received his B.A. in Music Education and his presence can be found on a number of recordings including “THE LIGHT WITHIN” by Tikal, “LA PAZ EN EL CORASON” by the Daagnic Collective, “TWO BRAINS” by Marcelo Radulovich, “LET OLD MEN DREAM THEIR DREAMS” and “NOVENA” by Joe Garrison and “WORMHOLE EFFECT” and “BASTARD SONS OF MESMER” on the Accretions recording label. Currently Anderson is a member of The World’s Least Dangerous Band, Wormhole and The Christmas Experience. | |
| Jon Calzo is
an eclectic turntable/electronic music artiste from San Diego. In recent
years, he has performed concerts in Los Angeles and San Diego’s own Museum
of Contemporary Art-Downtown. Calzo is also a member of an electronic
music duo called TENSHUN which just released a new recording on their
own label. For the past 2 years, Calzo has been blurring the lines of musical genres with his extensively wide range of influences by mixing his own music with trip-hop, funk, polish jazz and scratch-dub. A very brief list of Calzo’s influences include Tudor, Cage, The Executioners, Kid Koala and Qbert. |
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| Born in Yokohama, Japan, percussionist/improviser/phonographer Marcos Fernandes has long been active in the San Diego music scene as performer, producer and curator. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective. Fernandes has performed at the Yokohama Jazz Promenade in Japan, Cyberfest in Hong Kong , the SDTY Art Exchange in Mexico and the Big Sur Experimental Music and Northwest Electroacoustic Music Festivals in the US. He has performed and/or recorded with fellow improvisers Eric Glick Rieman, George Lewis, Haco, Lê Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, Thomas Dimuzio as well as with the Trummerflora collective, Donkey, Fussible, Perfektomat, Wormhole and Ultra 7. | |
Curtis Glatter is an American composer, improviser and percussionist who is currently living and working in Southern California. Glatter was born in Dearborn, Michigan and began performing at the age of eight. In 2000, Glatter graduated with a B.A. in Music Composition from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. In the past ten years, members of the Detroit Symphony, Pontiac Oakland Symphony and Camarada Ensemble have premiered his compositions. Glatter relocated to study in Vienna in 1999 and later the following year he was invited to study with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall. Glatter has studied composition as well as classical and African percussion techniques at Henry Ford Community College, Interlochen Arts Academy and Oakland University thus affording him the luxury to utilize a wide variety of performing possibilities when creating and improvising. Glatter is currently a member of ASCAP, Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, Amnesty International, music critic for the San Diego New Music Newsletter and has also been a featured artist on WHFR and KPBS radio. |
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 Nathan
Hubbard is the founding member and percussionist of Return To One. He is also the main composer for RTO, with
his compositions spanning from solo and duo pieces, chamber works for the
quartet as well as electronic tape pieces and multi ensemble pieces. Hubbard
has produced each of the quartet's three CD's. In addition to his work with
Return To One, Hubbard has performed and/or recorded with George Lewis, Rick Helzer, Holly Hoffman, Mike Keneally, Anthony Davis, Mike Wofford, J.D. Parran, and many others.
Mr. Hubbard has studied with Pat Pfiffner, Mark Lamson, Danlee Mitchell,
Rick Helzer and Brad Dutz. As well as being an active member of the Trummerflora
Collective (a collective of improvisors based out of San Diego), he currently
splits his time between solo recitals, NOD (a found percussion junk trio),
Quibble (noise trio), the quartets Return to One and Cosmologic, and the
twenty two member Skeleton Key Orchestra. |
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 Reedist/improviser/composer Jason Robinson leads a life of fractured multiplicity, dividing his
time between a dynamic performance and recording career, teaching activities,
organizing efforts, and ethno/musicological research. Robinson is an active
member of the improvised and popular music scene(s) of the West Coast -
leading his own "jazz" groups, collaborating in a variety of improvised
and experimental contexts, and touring as a sideman with a number of groups.
In 1998, Robinson founded Circumvention Music, an artist-run independent
record label dedicated to the support and distribution of improvised music.
Robinson has performed/recorded with Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Lisle Ellis, Paul Plimley, Mei Han, Eugene Chadbourne, Earl Howard, Emily Hay, Jeff
Kaiser, Eek a Mouse, Bertram Turetzky, Mel Graves, Marco Eneidi, Mike Wofford, Philip Gelb, J.D. Parran, Gerry Hemingway, Contemporary
Jazz Orchestra (at Pearl's, San Francisco), the La Jolla
Symphony, SONOR (among others), as well as theater-oriented groups
such as the San Francisco Mime
Troupe and the New Pickle Circus. His compositions are featured on Cosmologic
Syntaxis (Circumvention), Jason Robinson Tandem (Accretions), Cosmologic
Staring at the Sun (Circumvention), and Jason Robinson From the Sun (Circumvention).
Robinson's recent release, Tandem, showcases collaborations with of number
of influential musicians, including Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony
Davis, and others, and was selected as a "top 10" critic's pick for 2002
in JazzTimes Magazine. |
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| Derric Oliver is native resident of San Diego and graduated from the University of the Pacific's Conservatory of Music on a tuba scholarship with a degree in Music Business and Entertainment Management. From 1994 to 1999, he lived in San Francisco and worked with Fantasy Records and the Saul Zaentz Film Company. Currently Oliver is an honorary member of Nathan Hubbard’s Skeleton Key Orchestra and is working on "countrified pop" project, Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective, as band leader, songwriter, arranger, producer, lead singer/guitar/piano/trumpet. | |
 Al
Scholl is a guitarist who has recently been added to the Cosmologic
jazz ensemble. Scholl has performed and recorded with numerous original
ensembles including Denver's eclectic Room 40. He has also played with Jack
Wright, Kurt Heyl and Art Lande among others. Largely self taught, his approach
to the guitar has been described as "alternately brash and intensely introspective." Credits include the soundtracks to the 2000 Bravo Channel documentary "In the Green Room" and the award winning 1996 theatrical production of "Bird's End" at the Gascon Center Theatre in Los Angeles. web site |
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 Flutist/Saxophonist/Pianist/Ethnomusicologist/
Improvisor-Composer Ellen Weller divides her musical performance
activities between jazz, klezmer and improvisation. One of the original
members of Maiden Voyage, an all-female big band out of Los Angeles, Weller
has performed with Vanessa Tomlinson, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Muhal
Richard Abrams, Clocked Out Orchestra, Skeleton Key Orchestra, Michael Dessen,
various members of the Trummerflora Collective, Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble,
the Binacional Mambo Orchestra and the Weller Family Jazz Quartet. Her compositions
have been performed in New York, Detroit, San Diego and Los Angeles, and
she composed and performed music for the acclaimed 1996 UCSD revival production
of "Terminal" directed by Joseph Chaiken. Ellen received the Ph.D. in music (Critical Studies and Experimental Practices) from UCSD in 2002. She has taught music at all levels, from kindergarten, junior and senior high, through community colleges, and she currently teaches World Music courses at California State University, Long Beach and the University of California, San Diego. Her research has focused on multicultural performance in San Diego, public arts funding and cultural tourism, with recent interest on a cross-cultural approach to the music of war. - web site |
| SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 2004 - 7PM |
| Curtis Glatter presents the third concert of the NSDT 2003-2004 season, featuring - Jon Calzo turntables and electronics, Nathan Hubbard percussion and electronics, Ellen Weller woodwinds, Curtis Glatter percussion and - from L.A. - Emily Hay flute/vox/electronics | |
 Emily Hay is a flutist, vocalist and pianist who extends the
traditional pre-conceived capabilities of her instruments. Her approach
to music incorporates the complexities of contemporary classical technique
with the spontaneity of free improvisation resulting in startling interpretations
of sound and intense ensemble interaction. As a performer of the flute,
alto flute, piccolo and ethnic reeds, she emits unusual tone colors and
soaring rhythmic structures augmented by electronic manipulation. Her vocalizations
range from primal to operatic, including whimsical word play and lyrics
from the stream of consciousness.
Hay is an active member of the Los Angeles and "left coast" music communities, performing and collaborating in avant garde, alternative art rock, free improvisation, electro-acoustical and contemporary classical ensembles such as U Totem, The Motor Totemist Guild, The 5 UU's , Otherparts, I Am Umbrella, Adam Rudolph's Go Organic Orchestra, The Emily Hay Collective, The Rich West Ensemble, The Jeff Kaiser Okodektet and The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. She is a featured artist on Cuneiform Records, Recommended Records, Nine Winds Records, Meta Records, pfMentum and Dragnet Records. She has toured and performed extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the United States with concert highlights at the Bimhuis/Amsterdam, the Ottomat/Italy, New Music America Festival/Montreal, Art Rock Festival/Frankfurt, Kulturni Dom/Yugoslavia and the Reithalle/Switzerland. Hay is also an entertainment paralegal for the law firm of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie & Stiffelman, LLP where she specializes in music and motion picture contracts and copyright law. She has worked in entertainment law for over 15 years and has supervised and produced numerous film and television soundtracks. Hay was formerly the Music Program Director for the Beyond Baroque Foundation where she booked and promoted live experimental music events by performers such as Fred Frith, Tom Cora, John Adams, and David Moss and curated the 1992 New Music Across America Festival in Los Angeles. Hay is professionally associated with the Association of Independent Music Publishers, the California Copyright Conference, NARAS, the Sweet Relief Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation. Emily Hay co-hosts the alternative college music radio program, "Trilogy", on KXLU 88.9FM, transmitted from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (and at www.kxlu.com). The show features avant-garde music, free jazz/improvisation, world sounds, contemporary classical and experimental electronic music, and includes by live performances and guest interviews. Born in rural Virginia, Hay was educated at Bard College in New York and received her MFA in music from California Institute of the Arts. Emily Hay studied musical improvisation with Karl Berger, Dave Holland and Roswell Rudd, flute with Samuel Baron, Claude Monteaux, Julius Baker, James Walker and Patricia Spencer, piano with German Diaz and Chet Swiatkowski, composition and theory with Joan Tower, Mel Powell, Benjamin Boretz, Luis Garcia-Renart and Eli Yarden. - web site |
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| Flutist/Saxophonist/Pianist/Ethnomusicologist/
Improvisor-Composer Ellen Weller divides her musical performance
activities between jazz, klezmer and improvisation. One of the original
members of Maiden Voyage, an all-female big band out of Los Angeles, Weller
has performed with Vanessa Tomlinson, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Muhal
Richard Abrams, Clocked Out Orchestra, Skeleton Key Orchestra, Michael Dessen,
various members of the Trummerflora Collective, Second Avenue Klezmer Ensemble,
the Binacional Mambo Orchestra and the Weller Family Jazz Quartet. Her compositions
have been performed in New York, Detroit, San Diego and Los Angeles, and
she composed and performed music for the acclaimed 1996 UCSD revival production
of "Terminal" directed by Joseph Chaiken. Ellen received the Ph.D. in music (Critical Studies and Experimental Practices) from UCSD in 2002. She has taught music at all levels, from kindergarten, junior and senior high, through community colleges, and she currently teaches World Music courses at California State University, Long Beach and the University of California, San Diego. Her research has focused on multicultural performance in San Diego, public arts funding and cultural tourism, with recent interest on a cross-cultural approach to the music of war. - web site |
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| Jon Calzo is an eclectic turntable/electronic music artiste from San Diego. In recent years, he has performed concerts in Los Angeles and San Diego’s own Museum of Contemporary Art-Downtown. As well as being soloist, Calzo has also been a member of an electronic music duo called TENSHUN. The duo just released a new recording on their own label. For the past several years, Calzo has been blurring the lines of musical genres with his extensively wide range of influences by mixing his own music with trip-hop, funk, polish jazz and scratch-dub. A very brief list of his influences includes Tudor, Cage, The Executioners and Qbert. When Calzo is not busy working in and around San Diego the members of New Sounds Downtown are honored to have him perform at Voz Alta. | |
| Nathan
Hubbard is the founding member and percussionist of Return To One. He is also the main composer for RTO, with
his compositions spanning from solo and duo pieces, chamber works for the
quartet as well as electronic tape pieces and multi ensemble pieces. Hubbard
has produced each of the quartet's three CD's. In addition to his work with
Return To One, Hubbard has performed and/or recorded with George Lewis, Rick Helzer, Holly Hoffman, Mike Keneally, Anthony Davis, Mike Wofford, J.D. Parran, and many others.
Mr. Hubbard has studied with Pat Pfiffner, Mark Lamson, Danlee Mitchell,
Rick Helzer and Brad Dutz. As well as being an active member of the TrummerFlora
Collective (a collective of improvisors based out of San Diego), he currently
splits his time between solo recitals, NOD (a found percussion junk trio),
Quibble (noise trio), the quartets Return to One and Cosmologic, and the
twenty two member Skeleton Key Orchestra. |
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Curtis Glatter is an American composer, improviser and percussionist who is currently living and working in Southern California. Glatter was born in Dearborn, Michigan and began performing at the age of eight. In 2000, Glatter graduated with a B.A. in Music Composition from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. In the past ten years, members of the Detroit Symphony, Pontiac Oakland Symphony and Camarada Ensemble have premiered his compositions. Glatter relocated to study in Vienna in 1999 and later the following year he was invited to study with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall. Glatter has studied composition as well as classical and African percussion techniques at Henry Ford Community College, Interlochen Arts Academy and Oakland University thus affording him the luxury to utilize a wide variety of performing possibilities when creating and improvising. Glatter is currently a member of ASCAP, Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, Amnesty International, music critic for the San Diego New Music Newsletter and has also been a featured artist on WHFR and KPBS radio. - e-mail |
| SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 2003 - 7PM |
a special evening focusing on the music of Marcos Fernandes Fernandes/Glatter/Hubbard Percussion Trio Marcelo Radulovich/Marcos Fernandes - The Whisper Chipper |
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in Yokohama, Japan, percussionist/improviser/phonographer Marcos
Fernandes has long been active in the San Diego music scene as performer,
producer and curator. He is a founding member of the Trummerflora collective.
Fernandes has performed at the Yokohama Jazz Promenade in Japan, Cyberfest
in Hong Kong , the SDTY Art Exchange in Mexico and the Big Sur Experimental
Music and Northwest Electroacoustic Music Festivals in the US. He has performed
and/or recorded with fellow improvisers Eric Glick Rieman, George Lewis,
Haco, Lê Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, Thomas Dimuzio as well as with the Trummerflora
collective, Donkey, Fussible, Perfektomat, Wormhole and Ultra 7.
Fernandes runs the artist-based independent label Accretions, featuring some of today's more innovative experimentalists. The catalogue boastss over thirty titles, many of which he produced featuring artists such as Fred Frith, Barre Philips, Scott Fields to name just a few. From 1993 to 1996, Fernandes was co-owner of the Wikiup Cafe and Intersection Gallery, an alternative visual and performing arts space in San Diego where he curated weekly performances and promoted concerts by both local and national artists. Fernandes' recordings have appeared on Accretions, Bake/Staalplat, Pan handler, Phonography.org, among others. |
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Marcelo Radulovich is a Chilean-born artist. His interests revolve around composition / production in both, audio and visual arts. His latest production, HELLO, showcases audio, visuals, literature, live performance, and introduces the legend of TITICACAMAN: Instrument maker, ignorant scientist. Composed of looped voice and samples, ruled by infectious essence shrouded in mystery, HELLO is uplifting and one of a kind. Radulovich is a multi-instrumentalist, who began exploring music at age 14. He performed in, and wrote for original music bands around San Diego and LA, most notably Playground Slap (1983-1988), and Merry Go Down (1989-1991). He has been writing and recording music, usually playing all the instruments himself, since 1980. He has produced several CDs under his name, as well as numerous collaborations through the Accretions label, based in San Diego and run by Marcos Fernandes, with whom Radulovich has worked on many projects. Radulovich is a founding member of the Trummerflora Collective, an independent group of music makers dedicated to experimental and improvisational music. He is also founder of the Yahoo group Phonography, and creator of www.phonography.org, both dedicated to field recordings. Radulovich has performed and/or collaborated with members of the Trummerflora Collective, legendary early 80's punk band, The Assholes, George Lewis, Lê Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, Jonathan Glasier, Lisle Ellis, Michael Dessen, and Bostich, among others. He has played in various cities of the U.S., in Mexico, Holland, and most recently toured Japan. |
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Wormhole , a percussion-based improvisational ensemble, began as a duo of percussionists Marcos Fernandes and Robert Montoya in 1994. As a quartet (including multi-instrumentalist Marcelo Radulovich), they recorded three tracks that appear on Trummerflora, a compilation of experimental groups. Wormhole Effect's 1997 eponymous release and the 1998 follow-up The Musicians of Mesmer featured a six-piece ensemble. They collaborated on various dance projects in San Diego during 1999-2000, contributing music to Continuums: one, a Tommy Award-winning performance art piece, and performing as residents at Project Cathedral, an ambient multi-media performance installation. With the Wormhole Brothers, Fernandes and Montoya explored the world of electronica, performing in various settings, collaborating with members of the Nortec Collective, and contributing tracks to the Track Whore compilations (Panhandler). Wormhole continues its mission of creating globally-informed experimental music in 2002. Armed with an arsenal of percussive and electronic source material, Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard and Robert Montoya join forces to explore structured and open improvisation, soundart, beats and other sonic marvels of the 21st century |
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Robert Montoya (improviser-percussionist-sound artist) has been active in the San Diego music scene since the early '80s. He is a founding member of Trummerflora, a musicians collective dedicated to creative music. Montoya's current projects include collaborations with fellow percussionist Marcos Fernandes and bassist Lisle Ellis, and the Nortec Collective.He has performed and/or recorded with Trummerflora, George Lewis, Le Quan Ninh, Mike Keneally, David Gould, Wormhole Effect and Ultra 7. A Tijuana native, Montoya has performed in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico and the US. |
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| Nathan
Hubbard is the founding member and percussionist of Return To One. He is also the main composer for RTO, with
his compositions spanning from solo and duo pieces, chamber works for the
quartet as well as electronic tape pieces and multi ensemble pieces. Hubbard
has produced each of the quartet's three CD's. In addition to his work with
Return To One, Hubbard has performed and/or recorded with George Lewis, Rick Helzer, Holly Hoffman, Mike Keneally, Anthony Davis, Mike Wofford, J.D. Parran, and many others.
Mr. Hubbard has studied with Pat Pfiffner, Mark Lamson, Danlee Mitchell,
Rick Helzer and Brad Dutz. As well as being an active member of the TrummerFlora
Collective (a collective of improvisors based out of San Diego), he currently
splits his time between solo recitals, NOD (a found percussion junk trio),
Quibble (noise trio), the quartets Return to One and Cosmologic, and the
twenty two member Skeleton Key Orchestra. |
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Curtis Glatter is an American composer, improviser and percussionist who is currently living and working in Southern California. Glatter was born in Dearborn, Michigan and began performing at the age of eight. In 2000, Glatter graduated with a B.A. in Music Composition from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. In the past ten years, members of the Detroit Symphony, Pontiac Oakland Symphony and Camarada Ensemble have premiered his compositions. Glatter relocated to study in Vienna in 1999 and later the following year he was invited to study with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall. Glatter has studied composition as well as classical and African percussion techniques at Henry Ford Community College, Interlochen Arts Academy and Oakland University thus affording him the luxury to utilize a wide variety of performing possibilities when creating and improvising. Glatter is currently a member of ASCAP, Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, Amnesty International, music critic for the San Diego New Music Newsletter and has also been a featured artist on WHFR and KPBS radio. - e-mail |
| SUNDAY OCTOBER 19, 2003 - 7PM |
 JON
CALZO (TURNTABLES, SAMPLES AND DRUM MACHINE)
THE GLATTER/HUBBARD
PERCUSSION DUO
JASON ROBINSON (WOODWINDS) AND JUAN SANCHEZ (CONGAS) The opening concert for the New Sounds Downtown concert series will feature turntable virtuoso Jon Calzo, the Glatter/Hubbard Duo and a new quintet put together by Curtis Glatter especially for this evening. |
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| Curtis
Glatter is an American composer, improviser and percussionist who is
currently living and working in Southern California. Glatter was born in
Dearborn, Michigan and began performing at the age of eight. In 2000, Glatter
graduated with a B.A. in Music Composition from Oakland University in Rochester,
Michigan. In the past ten years, members of the Detroit Symphony, Pontiac Oakland Symphony and Camarada Ensemble have
premiered his compositions.
Glatter relocated to study in Vienna in 1999 and later the following year he was invited to study with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall. Glatter has studied composition as well as classical and African percussion techniques at Henry Ford Community College, Interlochen Arts Academy and Oakland University thus affording him the luxury to utilize a wide variety of performing possibilities when creating and improvising. Glatter is currently a member of ASCAP, Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, Amnesty International, music critic for the San Diego New Music Newsletter and has also been a featured artist on WHFR and KPBS radio. - web site |
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| Nathan Hubbard is the founding member and percussionist of Return To One. He is also the main composer for RTO, with his compositions spanning from solo and duo pieces, chamber works for the quartet as well as electronic tape pieces and multi ensemble pieces. Hubbard has produced each of the quartet's three CD's. In addition to his work with Return To One, Hubbard has performed and/or recorded with George Lewis, Rick Helzer, Holly Hoffman, Mike Keneally, Anthony Davis, Mike Wofford, J.D. Parran, and many others. Mr. Hubbard has studied with Pat Pfiffner, Mark Lamson, Danlee Mitchell, Rick Helzer and Brad Dutz. As well as being an active member of the TrummerFlora Collective (a collective of improvisors based out of San Diego), he currently splits his time between solo recitals, NOD (a found percussion junk trio), Quibble (noise trio), the quartets Return to One and Cosmologic, and the twenty two member Skeleton Key Orchestra. | |
| Reedist/improviser/composer Jason Robinson leads a life of fractured multiplicity, dividing his time between a dynamic performance and recording career, teaching activities, organizing efforts, and ethno/musicological research. Robinson is an active member of the improvised and popular music scene(s) of the West Coast - leading his own "jazz" groups, collaborating in a variety of improvised and experimental contexts, and touring as a sideman with a number of groups. In 1998, Robinson founded Circumvention Music, an artist-run independent record label dedicated to the support and distribution of improvised music. Robinson has performed/recorded with Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Lisle Ellis, Paul Plimley, Mei Han, Eugene Chadbourne, Earl Howard, Emily Hay, Jeff Kaiser, Eek a Mouse, Bertram Turetzky, Mel Graves, Marco Eneidi, Mike Wofford, Philip Gelb, J.D. Parran, Gerry Hemingway, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (at Pearl's, San Francisco), the La Jolla Symphony, SONOR (among others), as well as theater-oriented groups such as the San Francisco Mime Troupe and the New Pickle Circus. His compositions are featured on Cosmologic Syntaxis (Circumvention), Jason Robinson Tandem (Accretions), Cosmologic Staring at the Sun (Circumvention), and Jason Robinson From the Sun (Circumvention). Robinson's recent release, Tandem, showcases collaborations with of number of influential musicians, including Peter Kowald, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and others, and was selected as a "top 10" critic's pick for 2002 in JazzTimes Magazine. | |
| Juan Sanchez is a percussionist who was first inspired to perform by watching his older brother in his high school band. Growing up in a home of artists made things easier for Sanchez to step up and try new artistic forms of self-expression. Sanchez first began performing at the age of 2 with his mothers group called Ballet Xochitl. He is quoted as saying: “Being the son of a Dance Director I had no choice but to put on a charro suit and begin to zapatiar.” Sanchez considers his role as a conga player very important since his rhythm and stamina keep an ensemble moving together as a unit. Sanchez also considers “everybody and everything to be a big influence.” For Sanchez, music is his life and music is the path he has chosen to express himself. His goal is to be the best he can possibly be in every subject he tackles. |
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