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.

On July 22 from 6-8pm, I’ll be playing solo accordion in Bryant Park, NYC as part of their annual Accordions Around the World festival. I’ll be mainly playing jazz and classical pieces. My friends in the Bachtopus Accordion Quartet may drop by to help out and play some of our contemporary classical repertoire with me as well.

It’s always a fun casual evening with lots of really great accordionist playing all sorts of styles. Come spend the night wandering around the park and hearing us all play!

Lots of accordion related projects and performances upcoming:

• June 10, 5pm – Performing solo accordion music in Bryant Park, NYC as part of the Accordions Around the World Festival.
• June 21, 2pm, 5pm– Performing solo accordion at 2pm and quartet music at 5pm in City Hall Park, NYC.  Classical, jazz, contemporary music, and more – with Robert Duncan, Mayumi Miyaoka, and Denise Koncelik as part of the Make Music NY day.
• July 15, 5pm – back in Bryant Park again playing more accordion quartet music with Mayumi Miyaoka, Robert Duncan, and Denise Koncelik as part of the Accordions Around the World Festival.
• Aug 1-3, 7pm each day – Performing on William Schimmel’s Master Class and Concert Series 2014 at the Tenri Cultural Institute. I’ll be doing several solo performances including a new composition of my own, Paganini’s In There Somewhere, as well as some ragtime accordion and a classic work by Carmelo Pino.
• Sept 9 – Official release on Naxos Records of Oberlin Conservatory’s recording of my piece for piano and electronics, ElectroSonata:Spontaneous Combustion, performed by the incredible Thomas Rosenkranz. Available in Blue-Ray surround as well as stereo!
• Late Sept 2014 – Working a new piece for violin and piano to be premiered by Gregory Fulkerson; based on afro-Cubans rhythms inspired by Peter’s recent professional research trip to Havana, Cuba with the American Composers Forum. Performances in Ohio, Delaware, and (hopefully) NYC.

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

by Peter Flint, Ben Kaplan, and Dorothy Simpson Krause

Sheetflow Songs – “Halfway” from Peter Flint/Avian Orchestra on Vimeo.

Friday, Sept. 20, 2013
8:00pm
The Cell NYC
338 West 23rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
NYC

TICKETS: General admission tickets are available for $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Buy tickets online here now:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/452559

On Friday, Sept. 20th, 2013, Ben Kaplan and I will present a special live performance of Sheetflow Songs, our extended song cycle without words for accordion, electric guitar, electronics, and video. In addition, the program will open with a set of music by pianist/composer Andrew Shapiro with violinist Gregory Fulkerson.

You can listen to a recording of Sheetflow Songs online here:

http://sheetflowsongs.bandcamp.com/

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