Peter Flint to perform
with Oberlin Conservatory Alumni

Saturday, April 28, 2012

7:30pm

Dimenna Center
Mary Flagler Cary Hall
450 West 37th Street
New York City, NY

• I started accordion lessons with William Schimmel in January and have been have a great time working on all sorts of new things with him. He’s been pushing my boundaries in areas where I am not so comfortable, which is great. I’m really looking forward to some new creativity coming out of this.
• In April I’m starting a collaboration with my cousin-in-law, post-metal guitarist Ben Kaplan. We will be creating some new material for some performances this summer. We will be processing his guitar and my accordion electronically, starting with long rich timbres that exist outside of the time and rhythm of traditional music, and then seeing where it takes us. Stay tuned for updates and samples as we get into this project in April and May.
• I’ve been thinking about my John Brown Opera project again this spring and am hoping to carve out time to get back into some libretto construction work on it as well.  Not sure where it’s going but it still holds a fascination for me so I owe it to myself to keep it simmering.
• As soon as I can figure out the new version of Final Cut Pro X, I’ll put together videos from my last concert for you all to check out too. Stay tuned…
• Finally, listen to a live recording of my latest piece, Extending Tendrils, in the Music Player in the right column. The recording is from a performance last September by the Avian Orchestra here in NYC.

Thanks for your interest! Hope to see you at a performance soon!

The Avian Orchestra returned this fall with a lush new program of music about plants. World premieres from Bret Battey, Max Duykers, Peter Flint, and Jonathan Newman as well as new arrangements for the group by Michael Gandolfi from his acclaimed symphony The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. The orchestra performinged against a backdrop of video created by the composers with other collaborators. An evening of fun, progressive, and approachable new music with something for everyone. 

September 24, 2011, 8:00pm

The Barn at Flint Woods
205 Center Meeting Road
Greenville, Delaware

September 26, 2011, 8:00pm

The Cell
338 W. 23rd Street (bet. 8th and 9th Avenues)
New York, NY

Bret Battey-Clonal Colonies preview from Peter Flint/Avian Orchestra on Vimeo.

Program to include:

Bret Battey – Clonal Colonies (2011) world premiere
Max Duykers – Arborescence (2011) world premiere
Peter Flint – Extending Tendrils (2011) world premiere
Michael Gandolfi - Two Arrangements from The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (2011) world premiere
Jonathan Newman – These Inflected Tentacles (2011) world premiere

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The Avian Orchestra is:

Ann Sterman, flute
Andrew Sterman, woodwinds
Cyrus Beroukhim, violin
Arash Amini, cello
Blair McMillen, piano
Chris Nappi, percussion
Peter Flint, accordion

-Guy Trebay – Village Voice

 International burlesque sensation, Miss Dirty Martini, is one of the most recognized names in new burlesque. In 1997, she traveled to Sarajevo, to perform her show-stopping fan dance to a shell shocked public shortly after the peace accord was signed and the Serbian siege had ended. Since that time, she has declared herself the first fan dancer to perform in post-war Bosnia. In her native Manhattan, Miss Martini has delighted audiences with her Fan Dance, Balloon Striptease, Dance of the Several Veils, Shadow Strip and other classic burlesque revivals in such venues as The Slipper Room, Bombshell!, The Red Vixen Burlesque, The Supper Club, Joe’s Pub, Spa, and infamous gay leather bar The Lure. She has performed for Tristan Taoramino’s True Lust book release party and The Hoboken Historical Society’s first annual Masked Ball. She is a featured performer at The VaVaVoom Room in its successful run at The Fez on Lafayette Street and she proudly performs every summer in Coney Island at “Burlesque by the Beach”.

Miss Martini has performed at the out door, day long marathon of drag performance, Wigstock, in 1999 and 2000. In September 2001, she performed an astounding and exhausting five different numbers in the show, appearing as a Wigstock Dancer, with the girl group trio “The Fortunettes”, and with Miss Shasta Cola’s huge production number that was slated to end the evening’s festivities.

In May 2001, Dirty Martini appeared at the first new burlesque convention, “Tease-o-rama”, in New Orleans, and in June, won the Sally Rand Award for Fan Dance at Dixie Evans’ burlesque museum in California. She has performed twice this year with The Velvet Hammer Burlesque at the historic El Ray Theater in Hollywood, CA and returned to the West Coast last September for Tease-o-rama in San Francisco, where she was the only new burlesque performer to receive two standing ovations in one night.

Dirty Martini has been photographed and interviewed for articles in Esquire, The NY Post, Backstage, Hustler, Bizarre, Max, Time Out NY and Bust Magazines. She has completed two interviews that will be shown on German television and she has been seen on The Metro Channel and Oxygen TV. In the near future, Miss Martini will appear in several independent films and book projects regarding the history of women in burlesque and its current revival in nightclubs and theaters across the nation.

Berman co-directs the New Music Ensemble at Tufts University. He studied with Leonard Shure, John Kirkpatrick, George Barth, and Mildred Victor.

Kevin R. Gallagher began playing rock guitar in his formative years but his musical appetite quickly led him to study jazz and ultimately, classical guitar. His renowned gift for the classical guitar won him numerous scholarships and awards while studying with Benjamin Verdery at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and at the Julliard School under the tutelage of Sharon Isbin.

As one of the world’s leading classical guitarists, he was the first-prize winner in the 1993 Guitar Foundation of America, the 1994 American String Teachers Association, and the 1993 Artists International Competition. Most notably, Mr. Gallagher also earned the distinct honor of being the only American classical guitarist ever to win first prize in the prestigious Francisco Tárrega Guitar Competition in Spain (1997).

Following his studies at Julliard, Mr. Gallagher gave many classical guitar performances and masterclasses throughout the world, including those in Spain, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, and England. He has recorded four classical guitar CDs. His recording for Naxos Records – Guitar_Recital_- Music from the Renaissance_and_Baroque was hailed as “…one of the very best NAXOS guitar recordings” by Classical Guitar Magazine (London) in 2000.

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Mr. Cassara has toured extensively with the Newband/Harry Patch Ensemble, performing and recording with Partch’s instruments. He has also performed or toured with groups as Music From China, Manhattan Marimba Quartet, Talujon Percussion Quartet, North/South Consonance and Parnassus. Principal percussion of the Connecticut Grand Opera and member of the Riverside Symphony and Hudson Valley Philharmonic, he has also performed with many area orchestras such as the Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Long Island Philharmonic, and the Westchester Philharmonic. Mr. Cassara has played for Broadway shows “Lion King”, “42nd Street” and “Music Man” among others, and heads the percussion departments at Long Island University and Vassar College. He can be heard on recordings such as Philip Glass’ “Hydrogen Jukebox”, Gavin Bryars’ “Jesus’ Blood” (Grammy nominated), Chou Wen-Chung’s “Echoes From The Gorge”, and many others.

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Mark Feldman Premiered the Violin Concerto of Guus Janssen as soloist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the Contemporary Music Festival Nederland Muziek Dagen. He also premiered the Concerto for Violin and Jazz Orchestra with the WDR Big Band of Colonge, Germany. A european tour of that piece included a sold out concert in the Grosse Saal of the Vienna Concert House. In years past he has also been a soloist with the WDR Radio Orchestra and the Basil Symphonetta. In chamber music he has performed and recorded the complete string quartets of John Zorn (Tzadik Records) and his own works for string quartet Book of Tells (Enja Records). With the Trio “Abaton” he performs the works of composer Sylvie Courvoisier resulting in the CD Abaton on ECM Records.

He is currently a member of the John Abercrombie Quartet. In addition to international concert tours the resulting recordings “Open Land” “Cat n’ Mouse” and “Class Trip” all on ECM records. Composer John Zorn has included him in many concert and recording projects over the past 10 years including Massada String Trio, Bar Kakhba, film scores, chamber music and performances of the Game Piece “Cobra”.

In 2001 he perfomed in Duo with Painist Paul Bley in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Series. In 2004 he performed in the Trio of Painist-Composer Muhul Richard Abrams at Alice Tully Hall. With composer-performers Dave Douglas and Uri Caine, Mr. Feldman performed many European and U.S.concert tours playing on many of their recordigns on RCA, Winter and Winter and Black Saint Records. In 2004 he recieved a grammy certificate for his performance on Michel Brecker’s Verve Album “Wide Angles”. In past years he was also a member of groups lead by saxophonist Joe Lovano and drummer Billy Hart. These groups also recorded and concertized. He has also performed or recorded with Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Tim Berne, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Richard Galliano, Michael Formanek, Bobby Previte, The Arcado String Trio, Louis Sclavis, Ray Anderson and Kenny Warner among others.

Mr. Feldman is found on over 150 jazz recordings as a soloist including his own releases “Music for Violin Alone” (Tzadik), “Music for Violin and Piano” (avant), “Book of Tells” (enja), “Masada Recital, Masada Aniversary Vol.4″ (tzadik), “Masada String Trio, 50th Vol 1 ” (tzadik).

As a composer he has been commissioned and performed by the Kronos Quartet and the WDR Radio Orchestra. For six Years violinist and composer Mark Feldman received the first place award for “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” in Down Beat magazine’s critics poll. In commercial music he has appeared as a studio musician with such groups as Cheryl Crow, The Manhattan Transfer, Diana Ross and Carol King among others.

Before moving to New York City in 1986, Mr. Feldman lived in Nashville Tennessee where he was a member of the ensembles that traveled and accompanied country western singers Loretta Lynn and Ray Price. In Nashville as a studio musician he appeared on over 200 Recordings including albums by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis and Television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Gregory Fulkerson was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He studied at Oberlin College and at The Juilliard School, where his teachers included Paul Kling, David Cerone, Robert Mann, Ivan Galamian, and Dorothy DeLay. His debut recording (on New World Records) was chosen one of the year’s best by The New York Times, and his recording of the complete Violin Sonatas of Charles Ives (on Bridge Records) has become the standard for that repertoire; other Bridge recordings include the complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach (chosen one of the Best CDs of 2000 by The New Yorker magazine) and the Stephen Jaffe Violin Concerto.