• Ben Kaplan and I are planning summer and fall performances of our Sheetflow Songs in New York and the mid-Atlantic area. Look for more details shortly.
• I’m working on rewriting my piece, Microconcerto:Spontaneous Combustion; originally for piano and string quartet, I am reworking it for piano and electronics for a recording in September 2013 sponsored by Oberlin College and pianist Tom Rosenkranz.  Look for the recording to released in 2014.
• On July 26-28, 2013 in NYC, I will be participating in the American Accordionist Association Master Class and Concert Series, performing a number of pieces for accordion, including a world premiere of a new solo accordion piece I am finishing, entitled The Waning Days of Raphus cucullatus, inspired by a fictional account of the dying days of the last existing Dodo bird.
• I continue accordion lessons with the incomparable William Schimmel and have been have a great time working on a lot of challenging music with him, including solo pieces by Henry Cowell, Alan Hovhaness, Paganini, and jazz accordion legend Leon Sash.

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

 

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

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.

(Photo-Peter Cook)