| September 23, 2024 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Peter Flint and the Bachtopus Accordion Ensemble will be performing at Accordions Around the World at Bryant Park, NYC between 5:30-7:30. Program will feature music of Slovenians and Slovenian-Americans.
Events
La Familia ReggaeSon at The Shrine
| November 23, 2019 | ||
| 10:00 pm | to | 11:59 pm |
La Familia’s run at La Cubana in Chelsea has come to an end for now as the restaurant has closed at least until January.
But that doesn’t mean we won’t be performing elsewhere! Next gig is this week. We’ll be playing our signature mix of Cuban Son, Colombian Cumbia, and Reggae, adding a few new tunes for this gig. The Shrine is always a great party on Saturday nights! Come out and get your dance on!
Saturday, Nov. 22
10pm-Midnight
at
The Shrine
2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd
New York, NY
La Familia Reggae Son at the
| October 19, 2019 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
For the past couple years, I’ve been playing accordion with La Familia Reggae Son, a high energy 8-piece Latin band playing Cuban Son, Colombian Cumbia, and Reggae. This fall we are performing regularly in NYC at the restaurant La Cubana in Chelsea and at The Shrine in Harlem. We put on a great show and always get the audience dancing. Come and check out one of our gigs! And we’re available for private parties too. Email phfweb (at) gmail.com for information.
Upcoming gigs:
Oct. 19, 25 and
Nov 2, 8, 22
8-11pm
La Cubana Restaurant
408 W. 15th Street, NYC
646.869.8873
Reservations a good idea, if you want a table.
Nov. 23
The Shrine NYC
10-Midnight
2271 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd
New York, NY
La Familia Reggae Son at La Cubana Oct 25
| October 25, 2019 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Oct. 25
8-11pm
La Cubana Restaurant
408 W. 15th Street, NYC
646.869.8873
Dinner and dancing Reservations a good idea, if you want a table.
La Familia Reggae Son at La Cubana Nov 2, 8, 22
| November 2, 2019 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
For the past couple years, I’ve been playing accordion with La Familia Reggae Son, a high energy 8-piece Latin band playing Cuban Son, Colombian Cumbia, and Reggae. This fall we are performing regularly in NYC at the restaurant La Cubana in Chelsea and at The Shrine in Harlem. We put on a great show and always get the audience dancing. Come and check out one of our gigs! And we’re available for private parties too. Email phfweb (at) gmail.com for information.
Nov 2, 8, and 22, 2019
8-11pm
La Cubana Restaurant
408 W. 15th Street, NYC
646.869.8873
Reservations a good idea, if you want a table.
Kaleidosonic Music Festival Nov. 16
| November 16, 2019 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 11:30 pm |
On Saturday, November 16, 2019, I will be participating in the Kaleidosonic Music Festival in Finney Chapel on the Oberlin College campus, as part of a year-long celebration of Oberlin Conservatory’s TIMARA electronic music program. I’ll be contributing a segment of improvised music for solo accordion and electronics, with long complex drones and squawky chaos on top of it!
The Kaleidosonic Music Festival is a FREE event on Saturday, November 16, 2019. It will start at 7:30 pm in Finney Chapel and run continuously for approximately 4 hours.
The festival will be an exciting evening-length event with musicians representing a wide array of styles: Gospel, classical, rock and roll, jazz, early music, marching band, serious, funny, and avant-garde!
Over 250 musicians will perform in a single extended musical collage: Imagine a brass fanfare alongside taiko drumming, and then organ alongside bagpipes, and over 16 speakers surrounding the audience for a fully immersive sonic experience!
Just a few of the local groups include Oberlin Choristers, Northern Ohio Youth Orchestra (NOYO) musicians, the Oberlin College Black Musicians Guild, the Obertones a capella group, and many faculty, students, and alumni from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music.
Audience members can come and go as they wish and there will be 3 food trucks from 7-10 pm in the parking lot of Finney Chapel – so you can listen to music, take a break to grab a slice of pizza or a bagel sandwich, and return for more music.
For more detailed information, please visit Kaleidosonic Music Festival or the TIMARA website. I believe the event will be live-streamed. Look for details in the previous links.
Performing with Bachtopus, Oct 9, 2016
New music for accordion
I will be performing some of my own music with the Bachtopus Accordion Ensemble on Sunday October 9, 2016 in Chelsea in NYC.
Sunday, Oct 9, 2016
4:00 pm
St. Peter’s Church
346 W. 20th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues
New York, NY
$10 suggestion donation – proceeds to their food pantry program
We will be playing three compositions of mine for accordion ensemble: Vegetative States, Halfway, and my newest work, High Summer: Brood V inspired by the annual emergence of the cicadas. These are all part of what I call my ambient classical project – very meditative and evocative – they should sound fabulous in the lovely live space at St. Peter’s. In addition the group will be playing music by Bach, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and other contemporary composers.
I’ll be performing with my colleagues Robert Duncan, Mayumi Miyaoka, Denise Koncelik and Jeanne Velonis in our first formal indoor concert. (We’ve played out in the parks a great deal during the past two summers.)
It should be a fun and unique sounding concert in a great space and will last about an hour. Children welcome.
For more information about the group and to hear some samples of us performing visit:
www.bachtopus.com
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July 18, Havana
| July 18, 2015 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
I’ve just confirmed that internationally acclaimed Camerata Romeu will be premiering the string orchestra version of my piece, Dance Dance Dance, in Havana Cuba on Saturday, July 18! They are the first all women’s string orchestra in Latin America and fabulous group of musicians. I’m very excited and honored to have them playing my music! If anyone happens to be in Havana that night, plan on coming to the concert at the Basilica in Habana Vieja at the corner of Oficios and Amargura streets. It should be a great show! (Not sure of the exact time. When I find out, I’ll post it here.)
Aug 7-9, Performing on AAA concerts
| August 7, 2015 7:00 pm | to | August 8, 2015 9:00 pm |
I’ll be playing accordion on the annual American Accordionist Association workshops and concerts with Bill Schimmel at the Tenri Cultural Institute on W. 13th Street in NYC. In addition to playing some Bach with Bill, I’ll be performing a Scott Joplin rag and the world premiere of the all-accordion version of my piece, Halfway.
Check back for more details shortly.
Projects 2015
Things are starting to ramp up for a number of different projects. Upcoming activites include:
- July 18, evening – World premiere of my string orchestra composition, Dance Dance Dance by the Camerata Romeu in Havana, Cuba!!!
- July 22, 6-8pm – I’ll be playing solo accordion in Bryant Park as part of their Accordions Around The World festival. My friends in the Bachtopus Accordion Quartet may drop by to play a few tunes with me as well.
- August 7-8 – I’ll be playing accordion on the annual American Accordionist Association workshops and concerts with Bill Schimmel at the Tenri Cultural Institute on W. 13th Street in NYC. In addition to playing some Bach with Bill, I’ll be performing a Scott Joplin rag and the world premiere of the all-accordion version of my piece, Halfway.
- A new group, yet to be named, featuring a lot of new music I’ve been writing, inspired by my recent study of Afro-Cuban rhythms. It will include accordion, percussion, flute, cello, and like bass as a core with perhaps others added later. We’ll be doing preliminary read-throughs of the material this summer and planning to starting to play out in the fall of 2015
- Performances with the Bachtopus Accordion Quartet. We’re a group of four NYC accordionists playing both classical and contemporary repertoire. We’ll be playing in Bryant Park in July with dates and other details to be announced.
- I’ll be recording and releasing some of my accordion music, including The Waning Moments of Raphus Cucullatus for accordion and guitar, and Halfway for four accordions. Links here when they’re ready.
- My piece for piano and electronics, Electrosonata:Spontaneous Combustion, performed by incomperable Thomas Rosenkranz, has just been released on the Oberlin Music record label. It’s a magnificent recording in both stereo and BluRay surround sound, and includes music by a number of really great Oberlin Conservatory alumni composers. You can find it on Naxos Direct here or on Amazon here.