Archive for the ‘Interval 3.2’ Category

3.2 Program

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

MATA 3.2 - poweRed Line Wedneday, March 10th - 8PM ISSUE Project Room featuring five premiere performances by Red Line Sax Quartet Secret Corners - Baljinder Sekhon Parallel Circuit - Matt Barber dmhs - Andrew Colella ~INTERMISSION~ Red Bird - Robert Pierzak Amalgamation - Andy Akiho

poweRed Line – Ready to go!

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The past several months have been full of hard work and excitement as the final preparations and rehearsal for "poweRed Line" have provided many challenges and provoked many thoughts with regard to "electronic music."  The members of Red Line have worked around the clock preparing these pieces, amidst there already ...

Interval 3.2 – Web Resources

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Web Resources MATA Interval 3.2 - poweRed Line Red Line Sax Quartet Andy Akiho Matt Barber Andrew Colella Robert Pierzak Baljinder Sekhon, II Issue Project Room (scroll down to view bios and multimedia work samples)

Red Line Sax Quartet

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The Red Line Sax Quartet is comprised of students from the Eastman School of Music, a school of the University of Rochester and America's "Hottest School for Music" according to the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek How to get into College guide. Since the group began playing together in ...

Andy Akiho

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Andy Akiho is an award winning composer and performer with a broad range of interests that stretch from steel pan to western classical music.  Akiho was recently featured as a composer on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and as a percussionist at Carnegie Hall in New ...

Matt Barber

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Matt Barber (b. 1980 in Denver, Colorado) is a composer, performer, and teacher currently residing in Rochester, NY.  His music has been performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Arapahoe Philharmonic, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Ossia New Music Ensemble, Musica Nova, and other ensembles around the ...

Andrew Colella

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Andrew Colella is a master’s student in the Music Technology program at Georgia Tech, where he is focused on integrating the creative applications of music with the current revolutions in technology.  He seeks to expand the methods in which computers interact with music and in turn, how ...

Robert Pierzak

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Robert Pierzak is a composer and has written music for small instrumental chamber combinations, electronics, voice, and large numbers of homogeneous instruments. He studied composition at Ithaca College and the Eastman School of Music and is currently in the PhD program in composition at UC San Diego.  ...

Baljinder Sekhon, II

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Baljinder Sekhon, II is an active composer, percussionist and teacher whose works range from ensemble to solo pieces to electronic music.  His recent awards include the Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize (2007 and 2009), Audio Inversions Composition Contest, Brian M. Israel Prize, Percussive Arts Society Composition ...

Curatorial Statement: poweRed Line

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

In a society riddled with the sounds of technology, from ring tones to car alarms, the sonorities of our environment have become increasingly diverse.  Over the past 50 years, this growing collection of assorted sounds has slowly permeated the classical music scene; it is perhaps one of the most obvious ...