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LABYRINTH INSTALLATION CONCERTOS a man and a woman’s labyrinthine journey through life told through advanced technology and a breathtaking visual realm
LABYRINTHINSTALLATION CONCERTOS
a man and a womanrsquos labyrinthine journey through life told through advanced technology and a breathtaking visual realm
created amp composed by
PAOLA PRESTINI
cellist MAYA BEISER violinist Tim Fain
i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h a r t i s t
E R I K A H A R R S C H amp C A R M E N K O R D A S
director MICHAEL McQUILKEN
ABOUTLabyrinth two conjoined installation concertos commissioned by VisionIntoArt and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts tightly incorporates sound lighting design and projected visuals with the musiciansrsquo performance through the use of the K-Bow (a sensor bow developed by Keith McMillan that can wirelessly transmit detailed real-time information to a computer) and LED technology The work can be done as a site specific installation and as a theatrical work directed by Michael McQuilken Commissioned by the Krannert Performing Arts Center for a February 1 2014 premiere in collaboration with University of Illinois and lllinois eDream Institute (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute)Urbana-Champaign
Ingeniously staged concert pieces that gracefully walk the line between opera and performance art -TimeOut NY
REVIEWSLabyrinth installation dazzles stunshellip the innovative Labyrinth Installation
Concertos premiered at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts taking
viewers on a journey layered with tantalizing visual and audial stimuli
The Daily Illini
The images on the projection screen of human eyes cells two embracing women nude from the waist uphellip and
other visuals were dreamy and beautiful
The News-Gazette
House of Solitude is presented in a simple hologram-like setting on stage creating a three-dimensional snapshot of the solo performerrsquos thoughts including solitude extreme communication and the subsequent lack of connectivity and the search for the lesser known sides of onersquos self The sound world is created from everyday sounds a drum set made from the hiss of a washing machine the beats from an EKG and finally the human voice Images of bodies appearmdash those of humans other life forms and hybridsmdashand Kordasrsquo artwork follows their journey through the four elements as they become part of the manrsquos life story The imagery gradually dissolves into the forces of nature and fluid shapes of dreams take on a life of their own They contort grow fuse and age reminding us of where life originates and the unknown dimension to which we are headed The manrsquos journey through the labyrinth of his mind is represented by a solitary house The bodies symbolize human connection from which he is offered a path of escape House of Solitude ends with the man leaving on an unknown road
HOUSE OF SOLITUDE
INNOVATION K-BOWThe K-Bow is invented by Keith McMillan the famed instrument designer who created the ZETA electronic instruments The K-Bow is a bluetooth sensor bow that responds to movement to interact with sound VisionIntoArt and Beth Morrison Projects have developed the technical interface of the K-Bowrsquos aural capacity for House of Solitude Through this interface a unique language and vocabulary have been established allowing Cornelius to to gain fluency in the manipulation and control of his sounds and how they interact to light and visuals something that has never been done before Working with a core ensemble of designers and lighting specialists the K-Data and K-Apps (the K-Bow software) we are able to interact dynamically to adapt to the realm of visual design
Room No 35 unifies the virtuosic cello performance of Maya Beiser the intricate and vivid visual worlds of Erika Harrsch (with video design by Brad Peterson) and an orchestra of cellos woven into a unique tapestry of sound by Paola Prestini Led by Anais Ninrsquos seminal novella The House of Incest this production maps hidden cravings of the heart traverses shadowy recesses of the mind and seeks to unify the tangential impulses of the human spirit Room No 35 invites its audience into a tranquil dream a fading remembrance of a hotel room submerged in water and surrounded by gaping eyes Then over the course of 30 minutes this room folds back upon itself until tranquility blossoms into a tidal wave of bright light and ecstatic sound and then collapses back to the mouth of a calm sea once again Through the cello enhanced by LED paneling a direct relationship of the musician and her instrument reveals itself as an intimate exposition to the audience This duality reveals the labyrinth Visually the work combines paintings drawings photography and three dimensional elements video animation and the creation of a visual living installation The music contains an interactive component specific to the LED cello developed with Meric Adriansen and eDream Finally the installation concerto creates a larger labyrinth with the symbolic use of advanced technology to depict intimate human turbulence and need for control
ROOM 35
INNOVATION LED CELLOThe visual and sonic aesthetic for Room No 35 exists as a collaborative venture with eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) and LED specialist Meric Adriansen (Times Square Alliance)
Sculpture interactive celloThe Sculpture Interactive copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello communicates with a rear-projection surface A second larger screen interacts with the cello light source moving images and music creating an interactive environment designed to respond to the themes music and movement in the work
The Creation and Collaboration of the copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello httpsvimeocom62646370
LISTEN amp WATCH
Trailerhttpsvimeocom87619153
Room 35 full performancehttpsvimeocom119306038
House of Solitude full performancehttpsvimeocom89241160
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
created amp composed by
PAOLA PRESTINI
cellist MAYA BEISER violinist Tim Fain
i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h a r t i s t
E R I K A H A R R S C H amp C A R M E N K O R D A S
director MICHAEL McQUILKEN
ABOUTLabyrinth two conjoined installation concertos commissioned by VisionIntoArt and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts tightly incorporates sound lighting design and projected visuals with the musiciansrsquo performance through the use of the K-Bow (a sensor bow developed by Keith McMillan that can wirelessly transmit detailed real-time information to a computer) and LED technology The work can be done as a site specific installation and as a theatrical work directed by Michael McQuilken Commissioned by the Krannert Performing Arts Center for a February 1 2014 premiere in collaboration with University of Illinois and lllinois eDream Institute (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute)Urbana-Champaign
Ingeniously staged concert pieces that gracefully walk the line between opera and performance art -TimeOut NY
REVIEWSLabyrinth installation dazzles stunshellip the innovative Labyrinth Installation
Concertos premiered at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts taking
viewers on a journey layered with tantalizing visual and audial stimuli
The Daily Illini
The images on the projection screen of human eyes cells two embracing women nude from the waist uphellip and
other visuals were dreamy and beautiful
The News-Gazette
House of Solitude is presented in a simple hologram-like setting on stage creating a three-dimensional snapshot of the solo performerrsquos thoughts including solitude extreme communication and the subsequent lack of connectivity and the search for the lesser known sides of onersquos self The sound world is created from everyday sounds a drum set made from the hiss of a washing machine the beats from an EKG and finally the human voice Images of bodies appearmdash those of humans other life forms and hybridsmdashand Kordasrsquo artwork follows their journey through the four elements as they become part of the manrsquos life story The imagery gradually dissolves into the forces of nature and fluid shapes of dreams take on a life of their own They contort grow fuse and age reminding us of where life originates and the unknown dimension to which we are headed The manrsquos journey through the labyrinth of his mind is represented by a solitary house The bodies symbolize human connection from which he is offered a path of escape House of Solitude ends with the man leaving on an unknown road
HOUSE OF SOLITUDE
INNOVATION K-BOWThe K-Bow is invented by Keith McMillan the famed instrument designer who created the ZETA electronic instruments The K-Bow is a bluetooth sensor bow that responds to movement to interact with sound VisionIntoArt and Beth Morrison Projects have developed the technical interface of the K-Bowrsquos aural capacity for House of Solitude Through this interface a unique language and vocabulary have been established allowing Cornelius to to gain fluency in the manipulation and control of his sounds and how they interact to light and visuals something that has never been done before Working with a core ensemble of designers and lighting specialists the K-Data and K-Apps (the K-Bow software) we are able to interact dynamically to adapt to the realm of visual design
Room No 35 unifies the virtuosic cello performance of Maya Beiser the intricate and vivid visual worlds of Erika Harrsch (with video design by Brad Peterson) and an orchestra of cellos woven into a unique tapestry of sound by Paola Prestini Led by Anais Ninrsquos seminal novella The House of Incest this production maps hidden cravings of the heart traverses shadowy recesses of the mind and seeks to unify the tangential impulses of the human spirit Room No 35 invites its audience into a tranquil dream a fading remembrance of a hotel room submerged in water and surrounded by gaping eyes Then over the course of 30 minutes this room folds back upon itself until tranquility blossoms into a tidal wave of bright light and ecstatic sound and then collapses back to the mouth of a calm sea once again Through the cello enhanced by LED paneling a direct relationship of the musician and her instrument reveals itself as an intimate exposition to the audience This duality reveals the labyrinth Visually the work combines paintings drawings photography and three dimensional elements video animation and the creation of a visual living installation The music contains an interactive component specific to the LED cello developed with Meric Adriansen and eDream Finally the installation concerto creates a larger labyrinth with the symbolic use of advanced technology to depict intimate human turbulence and need for control
ROOM 35
INNOVATION LED CELLOThe visual and sonic aesthetic for Room No 35 exists as a collaborative venture with eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) and LED specialist Meric Adriansen (Times Square Alliance)
Sculpture interactive celloThe Sculpture Interactive copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello communicates with a rear-projection surface A second larger screen interacts with the cello light source moving images and music creating an interactive environment designed to respond to the themes music and movement in the work
The Creation and Collaboration of the copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello httpsvimeocom62646370
LISTEN amp WATCH
Trailerhttpsvimeocom87619153
Room 35 full performancehttpsvimeocom119306038
House of Solitude full performancehttpsvimeocom89241160
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
ABOUTLabyrinth two conjoined installation concertos commissioned by VisionIntoArt and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts tightly incorporates sound lighting design and projected visuals with the musiciansrsquo performance through the use of the K-Bow (a sensor bow developed by Keith McMillan that can wirelessly transmit detailed real-time information to a computer) and LED technology The work can be done as a site specific installation and as a theatrical work directed by Michael McQuilken Commissioned by the Krannert Performing Arts Center for a February 1 2014 premiere in collaboration with University of Illinois and lllinois eDream Institute (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute)Urbana-Champaign
Ingeniously staged concert pieces that gracefully walk the line between opera and performance art -TimeOut NY
REVIEWSLabyrinth installation dazzles stunshellip the innovative Labyrinth Installation
Concertos premiered at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts taking
viewers on a journey layered with tantalizing visual and audial stimuli
The Daily Illini
The images on the projection screen of human eyes cells two embracing women nude from the waist uphellip and
other visuals were dreamy and beautiful
The News-Gazette
House of Solitude is presented in a simple hologram-like setting on stage creating a three-dimensional snapshot of the solo performerrsquos thoughts including solitude extreme communication and the subsequent lack of connectivity and the search for the lesser known sides of onersquos self The sound world is created from everyday sounds a drum set made from the hiss of a washing machine the beats from an EKG and finally the human voice Images of bodies appearmdash those of humans other life forms and hybridsmdashand Kordasrsquo artwork follows their journey through the four elements as they become part of the manrsquos life story The imagery gradually dissolves into the forces of nature and fluid shapes of dreams take on a life of their own They contort grow fuse and age reminding us of where life originates and the unknown dimension to which we are headed The manrsquos journey through the labyrinth of his mind is represented by a solitary house The bodies symbolize human connection from which he is offered a path of escape House of Solitude ends with the man leaving on an unknown road
HOUSE OF SOLITUDE
INNOVATION K-BOWThe K-Bow is invented by Keith McMillan the famed instrument designer who created the ZETA electronic instruments The K-Bow is a bluetooth sensor bow that responds to movement to interact with sound VisionIntoArt and Beth Morrison Projects have developed the technical interface of the K-Bowrsquos aural capacity for House of Solitude Through this interface a unique language and vocabulary have been established allowing Cornelius to to gain fluency in the manipulation and control of his sounds and how they interact to light and visuals something that has never been done before Working with a core ensemble of designers and lighting specialists the K-Data and K-Apps (the K-Bow software) we are able to interact dynamically to adapt to the realm of visual design
Room No 35 unifies the virtuosic cello performance of Maya Beiser the intricate and vivid visual worlds of Erika Harrsch (with video design by Brad Peterson) and an orchestra of cellos woven into a unique tapestry of sound by Paola Prestini Led by Anais Ninrsquos seminal novella The House of Incest this production maps hidden cravings of the heart traverses shadowy recesses of the mind and seeks to unify the tangential impulses of the human spirit Room No 35 invites its audience into a tranquil dream a fading remembrance of a hotel room submerged in water and surrounded by gaping eyes Then over the course of 30 minutes this room folds back upon itself until tranquility blossoms into a tidal wave of bright light and ecstatic sound and then collapses back to the mouth of a calm sea once again Through the cello enhanced by LED paneling a direct relationship of the musician and her instrument reveals itself as an intimate exposition to the audience This duality reveals the labyrinth Visually the work combines paintings drawings photography and three dimensional elements video animation and the creation of a visual living installation The music contains an interactive component specific to the LED cello developed with Meric Adriansen and eDream Finally the installation concerto creates a larger labyrinth with the symbolic use of advanced technology to depict intimate human turbulence and need for control
ROOM 35
INNOVATION LED CELLOThe visual and sonic aesthetic for Room No 35 exists as a collaborative venture with eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) and LED specialist Meric Adriansen (Times Square Alliance)
Sculpture interactive celloThe Sculpture Interactive copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello communicates with a rear-projection surface A second larger screen interacts with the cello light source moving images and music creating an interactive environment designed to respond to the themes music and movement in the work
The Creation and Collaboration of the copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello httpsvimeocom62646370
LISTEN amp WATCH
Trailerhttpsvimeocom87619153
Room 35 full performancehttpsvimeocom119306038
House of Solitude full performancehttpsvimeocom89241160
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
House of Solitude is presented in a simple hologram-like setting on stage creating a three-dimensional snapshot of the solo performerrsquos thoughts including solitude extreme communication and the subsequent lack of connectivity and the search for the lesser known sides of onersquos self The sound world is created from everyday sounds a drum set made from the hiss of a washing machine the beats from an EKG and finally the human voice Images of bodies appearmdash those of humans other life forms and hybridsmdashand Kordasrsquo artwork follows their journey through the four elements as they become part of the manrsquos life story The imagery gradually dissolves into the forces of nature and fluid shapes of dreams take on a life of their own They contort grow fuse and age reminding us of where life originates and the unknown dimension to which we are headed The manrsquos journey through the labyrinth of his mind is represented by a solitary house The bodies symbolize human connection from which he is offered a path of escape House of Solitude ends with the man leaving on an unknown road
HOUSE OF SOLITUDE
INNOVATION K-BOWThe K-Bow is invented by Keith McMillan the famed instrument designer who created the ZETA electronic instruments The K-Bow is a bluetooth sensor bow that responds to movement to interact with sound VisionIntoArt and Beth Morrison Projects have developed the technical interface of the K-Bowrsquos aural capacity for House of Solitude Through this interface a unique language and vocabulary have been established allowing Cornelius to to gain fluency in the manipulation and control of his sounds and how they interact to light and visuals something that has never been done before Working with a core ensemble of designers and lighting specialists the K-Data and K-Apps (the K-Bow software) we are able to interact dynamically to adapt to the realm of visual design
Room No 35 unifies the virtuosic cello performance of Maya Beiser the intricate and vivid visual worlds of Erika Harrsch (with video design by Brad Peterson) and an orchestra of cellos woven into a unique tapestry of sound by Paola Prestini Led by Anais Ninrsquos seminal novella The House of Incest this production maps hidden cravings of the heart traverses shadowy recesses of the mind and seeks to unify the tangential impulses of the human spirit Room No 35 invites its audience into a tranquil dream a fading remembrance of a hotel room submerged in water and surrounded by gaping eyes Then over the course of 30 minutes this room folds back upon itself until tranquility blossoms into a tidal wave of bright light and ecstatic sound and then collapses back to the mouth of a calm sea once again Through the cello enhanced by LED paneling a direct relationship of the musician and her instrument reveals itself as an intimate exposition to the audience This duality reveals the labyrinth Visually the work combines paintings drawings photography and three dimensional elements video animation and the creation of a visual living installation The music contains an interactive component specific to the LED cello developed with Meric Adriansen and eDream Finally the installation concerto creates a larger labyrinth with the symbolic use of advanced technology to depict intimate human turbulence and need for control
ROOM 35
INNOVATION LED CELLOThe visual and sonic aesthetic for Room No 35 exists as a collaborative venture with eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) and LED specialist Meric Adriansen (Times Square Alliance)
Sculpture interactive celloThe Sculpture Interactive copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello communicates with a rear-projection surface A second larger screen interacts with the cello light source moving images and music creating an interactive environment designed to respond to the themes music and movement in the work
The Creation and Collaboration of the copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello httpsvimeocom62646370
LISTEN amp WATCH
Trailerhttpsvimeocom87619153
Room 35 full performancehttpsvimeocom119306038
House of Solitude full performancehttpsvimeocom89241160
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Room No 35 unifies the virtuosic cello performance of Maya Beiser the intricate and vivid visual worlds of Erika Harrsch (with video design by Brad Peterson) and an orchestra of cellos woven into a unique tapestry of sound by Paola Prestini Led by Anais Ninrsquos seminal novella The House of Incest this production maps hidden cravings of the heart traverses shadowy recesses of the mind and seeks to unify the tangential impulses of the human spirit Room No 35 invites its audience into a tranquil dream a fading remembrance of a hotel room submerged in water and surrounded by gaping eyes Then over the course of 30 minutes this room folds back upon itself until tranquility blossoms into a tidal wave of bright light and ecstatic sound and then collapses back to the mouth of a calm sea once again Through the cello enhanced by LED paneling a direct relationship of the musician and her instrument reveals itself as an intimate exposition to the audience This duality reveals the labyrinth Visually the work combines paintings drawings photography and three dimensional elements video animation and the creation of a visual living installation The music contains an interactive component specific to the LED cello developed with Meric Adriansen and eDream Finally the installation concerto creates a larger labyrinth with the symbolic use of advanced technology to depict intimate human turbulence and need for control
ROOM 35
INNOVATION LED CELLOThe visual and sonic aesthetic for Room No 35 exists as a collaborative venture with eDream (Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute) and LED specialist Meric Adriansen (Times Square Alliance)
Sculpture interactive celloThe Sculpture Interactive copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello communicates with a rear-projection surface A second larger screen interacts with the cello light source moving images and music creating an interactive environment designed to respond to the themes music and movement in the work
The Creation and Collaboration of the copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello httpsvimeocom62646370
LISTEN amp WATCH
Trailerhttpsvimeocom87619153
Room 35 full performancehttpsvimeocom119306038
House of Solitude full performancehttpsvimeocom89241160
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
The Creation and Collaboration of the copyErika Harrsch-LEDCello httpsvimeocom62646370
LISTEN amp WATCH
Trailerhttpsvimeocom87619153
Room 35 full performancehttpsvimeocom119306038
House of Solitude full performancehttpsvimeocom89241160
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
THE ARTISTS
PAOLA PRESTINI
an intoxicatingprofusion of seeminglyunrelated impressionsStraightforward melodicismaugmented with electronicresonance - a happy adaptationof minimalisms more sensual effects
-Steve Smith
Visionary-In-Chief
-TimeOut NY
Radiant and amorously evocative
-The New York Times
Paola Prestini is ldquothe enterprising composer and impresariordquo (New York Times) whose interdisciplinary vision is helping to shape the future of new music Named one of the ldquoTop 100 Composers in the World under 40rdquo (NPR) her music has been commissioned by and been performed at Carnegie Hall by the Chicago Symphony (Music Now) the New York Philharmonic (Biennale) New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet Her compositions have been performed worldwide from the Kennedy Center BAM and the Park Avenue Armory to Londonrsquos Barbican Centre Prestini serves as ldquovisionary-in-chiefrdquo (Time Out New York) of VisionIntoArt (VIA) the non-profit multimedia production company she co-founded as a student in 1999 Last fall Prestini presided over the launch of VIA Records hailed as ldquoan essential new voice in the future of American classical musicrdquo (Q2 Music) She is also the Creative and Executive Director of National Sawdust a nonprofit Brooklyn-based space for arts incubation performance and recording where VIA is in residence Incorporating powerful visual and dramatic components Prestinirsquos multimedia creations address such extra-musical issues as conservation astrophysics and politics Her current and recent projects include works for Los Angeles Philharmonicrsquos 21c Liederabend concert Epiphany a choral installation for BAMrsquos 2015 Next Wave Festival with the Young Peoplersquos Chorus The Hubble Cantata an evening-length collaboration with astrophysicist Mario Livio soprano Jessica Rivera and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Hubble telescope The Colorado a new eco-cantata for Roomful of Teeth with film by Murat Eyuboglu and text by conservationist William deBuys developed at MASS MoCA and to premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Houstonrsquos Da Camera series Aging Magician written for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Rinde Eckert with direction and design by Julian Crouch which will premiere at the Walker Art Center and the Krannert Center Labyrinth a cello and violin installation concerto to premiere at the Isabella Gardner Museum in 2016 and a reprise of her multimedia opera Oceanic Verses (premiered in 2013 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Londonrsquos Barbican Hall) which will return for Watermill Centerrsquos 10th anniversary with Choir of Trinity Wall Street in 2016 Works in development include The Ribbon Project for Mass Re-Imaginings commissioned by Choir of Trinity Wall Street with text by Brenda Shaughnessy and visuals by Anne Patterson a new opera Gilgamesh (commissioned by Friends of Madam Whitesnake) directed by Michael Counts with libretto by Cerise Jacobs that premieres in Boston in 2016 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre and Two Oars a new work with Robert Wilson (based on Old Man and the Sea) recently workshopped at the Watermill Center for Opera Australiarsquos participation in the Commonwealth Games Paola Prestinirsquos music is released on VIA Records Innova and Tzadik Records her writing is published in the Arcana series by Hips Road and she is the editor of the New York Philharmonicrsquos Very Young Composer handbook A graduate of the Juilliard School she studied under Samuel Adler Robert Beaser and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
ERIKA HARRSCH
Visual Artist ERIKA HARRSCH has lived and worked in Mexico Italy Germany and New York Her image-making repertoire includes painting photography video and a scenario building based on elements in artificial and natural environments which find expression in the form of installations and three-dimensional photographic works Her work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Mexico USA Brasil Argentina Korea China Belgium Germany Italy Sweden Spain UK Poland Turkey and Syria She has participated in several Art Biennials including Fokus Lodz Biennale Poland 2010 Beijing 798 Biennale 2009 and the 5th International Media Art Biennale-MediaCity Seoul 2008 Her work has been presented in museum such as the Whitney Museum of American Art-NY Goumlteborgs Konstmuseum-Gothenburg Sweden Museacutee de la Photographie a Charleroi-Beacutelgium Seoul Museum of Art-Korea Harrsch has developed a multidisciplinary practice and has taken part in multimedia festivals and residencies worldwide working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary company VisionIntoArt and its director composer Paola Prestini cellist Jeffrey Zeigler of the Kronos Quartet and acclaimed composer Philip Glass
ldquoHer work simply capturesthe energy and activity that characterizes the contemporary artists of our time
-Phillip Glass
CARMEN KORDAS
Born in Germany and based in New York since 1999 video artist CARMEN KORDAS has shown her work throughout the US and Europe Coming out of video installations and painting her work has developed a wide range of disciplines spanning multimedia art and video projection for theater opera and performance
Kordasrsquo work has been featured by the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective VisinIntoArt (VIA)r the Austrian Culture Forum NYC PS 122 Time Warner Center Joersquos Pub Galapagos Art Space The Stone Performing Arts Residency the Whitney Museum Symphony Space NYC Carnegie Hall Bay Chambers Rockport ZimbabweBemus Belgrade Yugoslavia Gessnerallee Zurich and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Austria
stunning multimedia
-The Huffington Post
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
B
TIM FAIN (violinist) With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing presence on the music scene The ldquocharismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile strong musical instincts and first rate chopsrdquo (Boston Globe) is seen and heard in the film Black Swan and gives ldquovoicerdquo to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film 12 Years a Slave as he did with Richard Gerersquos violin in Fox Searchlightrsquos feature film Bee Season Most recently Fain collaborates with Google on a virtual reality (VR) music and film project RESONANCE that introduces VR capability for YouTube to the world
Launching his career with Young Concert Artists and an Avery Fisher Career Grant he went on to electrify audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop at Lincoln Centerrsquos Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St Lukersquos Fain has also appeared with the Mexico City Tucson Oxford (UK) and Cincinnati Chamber Symphonies Brooklyn Buffalo and Hague Philharmonics the National Orchestra of Spain and the Cur tis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphiarsquos Kimmel Center In addition he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach which he performed again this season in South Korea and he continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN (director) is a writer director and composer His latest directing work includes MACHINE MAKES MAN (winner of the gold prize for Best International Performance at Fringe Amsterdam 2013) OLD SOUND ROOM LEAR (developed by the OLD SOUND ROOM theatre company in NYC for which he also serves as the artistic director) the world-touring theatrical rock show for Amanda Palmer amp the Grand Theft Orchestra THEATRE IS EVIL and an original play with music that Michael scored scripted and directed entitled JIB Score work includes NICKEL AND DIMED (dir Bartlett Sher) and BLUE ORANGE (dir Kate Whoriskey) Michaelrsquos work as a songwriter and sound engineer can be heard via his band THE FEW MOMENTS McQuilken is a graduate of the directing program at the Yale School of Drama
ldquototally riveting McQuilken takes charge of multiple technologies to create a single integrated stage work he uses technology to comment on itself
-Seattle Weekly
MICHAEL MCQUILKEN
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York Los Angeles at its mid-western debut at Omaharsquos KANEKO and at Australiarsquos Melbourne Festival and Le Lieu Unique in France with continued interest and success world-wide The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for Solo Violin a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass the production also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied Leonard Cohen and filmmaker Kate Hackett with radio personality Fred Child appearing on screen
Highlights of the 2015-16 season include solo performances for Pro Musica in Mexico the Pittsburgh and Tallahassee Symphonies and the Portland Chamber Orchestra He also appears with pianist Timo Andres at New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge where hell premiere a new multi-media work by Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho) and John C Walsh on the Composers Concordance Eclectic Virtuosi Series Other appearances include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for Paola Prestinis Labyrinth Installation Concertos project and with the PostClassical Ensemble and pianist Michael Boriskin in a concert of works by Lou Harrison at the Indonesian Embassy in DC Recent engagements include the Cabrillo Chautauqua and McCall Music Festivals the Buffalo Philharmonic and a reprise of his soloist role with the National Orchestra of Spain conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
A dynamic and compelling performer oftraditional works he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano as the Los Angeles Times recently noted his career ldquois based in part on new music and new ways of thinking about classical musicrdquo Fainrsquos discography features River of Light (Naxos) which showcases modern virtuosic short works for violin and piano by living American composers Arches which combines old and new solo works and reflects Fains inquisitive passion and intellect The Concerto Project IV with the Hague Philharmonic featuring Philip Glassrsquos Double Concerto for violin and cellist Wendy Sutter and Tim Fain Plays Phillip Glass (both on Orange Mountain Music) and most recently First Loves (VIA Records) a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired him to be a violinist
Fain has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman Richard Goode Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss and has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group Seaacuten Curran Company and Bill T JonesArnie Zane Dance Company In addition he performed onstage with the New York City Ballet alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepiedrsquos ldquoDouble Ariardquo Never limited by genre Fain has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) Joanna Newsom Bryce Dessner (The National) guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) Matchbox Twenty singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (in an appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center) James Blake and rappers Das Racist and Rahzel
A native of Santa Monica California Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Victor Danchenko and The Juilliard School where he worked with Robert Mann He performs on a violin made by Francesco Gobetti Venice 1717 the ldquoMollerrdquo on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
MAYA BEISER (cellist) described by the Washington Post as ldquothe diva of the cellordquo has captivated audiences worldwide with her virtuosity eclectic repertoire and relentless quest to redefine the boundaries of the cello She has collaborated with composers Tan Dun Brian Eno Philip Glass Osvaldo Golijov Steve Reich Louis Andriessen and Mark OrsquoConnor among many others Maya is a featured performer on the worldrsquos most prestigious stages having appeared as a soloist at the Sydney Opera House New York Cityrsquos Lincoln Center Londonrsquos Barbican and the World Expo in Nagoya Japan
Maya has conceived performed and produced her critically acclaimed multimedia concerts including World To Come which premiered as part of the inaugural season of Carnegie Hallrsquos Zankel Hall Almost Human a collaboration with visual artist Shirin Neshat and Provenance which premiered at Carnegie Hall in October 2008 and forms the basis of her latest recording Her sold-out concerts at Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
ldquoTHE CELLO GODDESSrdquo-The New Yorker
MAYA BEISER
Carnegiersquos Zankel Hall have been chosen by The New York Times critics as among the ldquoBest Of The Yearrdquo
Highlights of her recent US tours included performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Royce Hall in Los Angeles the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia the Mondavi Performing Arts Center the Ravinia Festival in Chicago the Celebrity Series in Boston and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven
Other recent performances include major venues and festivals in Barcelona Paris Tokyo Shanghai and Athens She has appeared with many of the worldrsquos top orchestras performing new works for the cello Her recent appearances with orchestras included the St Paul Camber Orchestra the Montreal Symphony the Brooklyn Philharmonic the Sydney Symphony and the China Philharmonic among many others
Mayarsquos latest recording Provenance has been one of the top-selling classical and world music CDs since its release in May 2010 Her performance of Steve Reichrsquos Cello Counterpoint is featured on the Nonesuch disc You Are which was chosen by The New York Times as one of the top albums of the year She is also the soloist on the Sony Classical CD release of Tan Dunrsquos Water Passion and has performed his Academy Award-winning score Crouching Tiger Concerto with orchestras around the globe She has released four solo CDrsquos with Koch Entertainment label including Oblivion Kinship World To Come and Almost Human
Maya has been a featured soloist on several film soundtracks Collaborating with renowned film composer James Newton Howard she is the featured soloist on M Night Shyamalanrsquos The Happening Denzel Washingtonrsquos The Great Debaters and Edward Zwickrsquos Blood Diamond
Raised on a kibbutz in Israel by her French mother and Argentinean father Maya Beiser is a graduate of Yale University Her major teachers were Aldo Parisot Uzi Weizel Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern Maya was the founding cellist of the new music ensemble the Bang on a Can All-Stars
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
MEET THE BETH MORRISON PROJECTS (BMP) supports the work of emerging and established composers and their multimedia collaborators through the commission development and production of contemporary music-theatre work Established in 2006 the company has quickly developed a reputation for successfully ldquoenvisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realizationrdquo (The New York Times) BMPrsquos critically acclaimed work has been presented throughout the United States Europe and Asia in some of the worldrsquos premier venues including Lincoln Center Brooklyn Academy of Musicrsquos Next Wave Festival The Kitchen Performance Space 122 the Estates National Theater of Prague The Seoul Performing Arts Festival New York Public Library Live Le Poisson Rouge Music on McDougal and The Walker Art Center BMP has garnered support from the Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council for the Arts The Map Fund the Puffin Foundation and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust
Visionintoart ldquoalways intriguing and frequently beguilingrdquo is a multimedia production company that ldquofacilitates flamboyant confounding and enticing collaborationsrdquo (New York Times) With the belief that collaboration sustains artistic innovation VIA creates and commissions works that involve various disciplines presented around the world for the general audience and forged from the most exciting emerging and established artists living today as well as interdisciplinary experts including scientists and conservationists We are a one-stop-shop for artists in many disciplines ndash we incubate produce and disseminate Since Paola Prestini co-founded the company in 1999 at the Juilliard School VIA has created and performed over seventy original works as well as produces through their self titled record label VIArsquos works have been seen at Lincoln Center the Barbican Centre the Atlas Theater HIFA in Zimbabwe The Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Kennedy Center along with residencies at MASS MoCA and The Park Avenue Armory Support for VIA comes from the National Endowment of the Arts NEFA Cary Trust for New Music the Trust for Mutual Understanding the New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council ASCAP the BMI Fund the Kenan Institute Nathan Cummings Foundation National Video Resources the Council on Foundations the Amphion Foundation Morgan Stanley Foundation and individual donors
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
VISIONINTOART25 Columbus Circle 68B
New York NY 10019 infovisionintoartcom wwwvisionintoartcom
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS Beth Morrison Projects
666 Ocean Avenue D1 Brooklyn NY 11226
646-682-7181 (w) bethbethmorrisonprojectsorg
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
