FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14th 8 PMKENNY ENDO + ON ENSEMBLE
I'll be performing with my good friends, the great Kenny Endo and On Ensemble in a concert entitled "Taiko 2.0". Also joining will be Charlene Huang and Eien Hunter-Ishikawa. It's always a joy to be sharing a stage with some of my favorite people!
http://www.pacslo.org/calendar/event/kenny_endo_and_on_ensemble_taiko_2
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011, 7:30 PM -
When I return to NY, I will be performing with Sachiyo Ito and Company at the Ailey Citigroup Theater
The 30th Anniversary Concert of Sachiyo Ito and Company : Mai/Odori/Inori
Celebrating 30 years of Dedication to Japanese Arts
Sachiyo Ito and Company will present their 30th Anniversary Concert to share the richness and beauty of the Japanese tradition with the New York community at Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York City.
TICKETS: $30 at the door ($25 advance purchase)
LOCATION: Ailey Citigroup Theater 405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue NYC
MORE INFO: http://bit.ly/anniversary-concert
Purchase from Smarttix by phone: 212-868-4444
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MONDAYS, NOVEMBER 7th and 21st 8 pm
Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra
LOCATION: Roulette - 20 Greene St., Manhattan, NY (btwn Canal and Grand, 2 blocks west of Broadway)
$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors
Organic Orchestra is unique in the realm of approaches to improvisational conducting. Utilizing non-linear notation in an original music score, Composer and Artistic Director Adam Rudolph conducts between 20 and 50 musicians with his prototypical conducting system. Over the past twelve years he has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians in Organic Orchestra concepts in both North America and Europe, most recently in Naples, Oslo and Istanbul.
For this series Rudolph will present new music with his New York based Organic Orchestra. Most of the 30 musicians (listed below) have been developing the music with the Orchestra for the past 4 years in residence at Roulette Intermedia. The first CD of the NYC Organic Orchestra will be released in fall of 2011 to coincide with the November concerts.
http://www.metarecords.com/go.html
http://www.myspace.com/goorganicorchestra
http://www.metarecords.com/go_youtube.html
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,2011
ALICIA HALL MORAN + the motown project
Produced by Jill Newman Productions
LOCATION: Highline Ballroom - 431 W. 16th St., Manhattan, NY (btwn. 9th and 10th)
Concert starts @ 8PM
Doors open @ 6PM
Tickets $15.00 in advance (buy online)
$20.00 day of show
For more info, visit the Highline Ballroom
What's Going On from Pagan Harleman on Vimeo.
Mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran brings diverse influences and passions together in a rich, quintessentially modern artistic brew. She is constantly balancing performances in the realms of musical theater (currently understudying Bess and Audra McDonald in George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, directed by Diane Paulus), opera-cabaret (currently performing with the motown project at The Kitchen, Le Poisson Rouge, Regattabar, etc.), art performance (currently collaborating with visual artists such as Joan Jonas, Adam Pendleton, Simone Leigh, and Liz Magic Laser), and jazz (most frequently with husband and pianist Jason Moran), while consistently finding outlets for her other loves - dance (music for Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company's award-winning Chapel/Chapter) and writing (in her weekly classical music column Suite Sounds for the New York Amsterdam News).
Upholding the traditions of her great-great uncle Hall Johnson (legendary choral director, composer, and preserver of the Negro Spiritual) and her greatest teachers (Shirley Verrett, Adele Addison, Hilda Harris, David Jones, and Warren Wilson) without being tethered to the classical repertoire, Moran's performances transcend all expectations. Her singing and theatrical sensibilities lead purely into a sensual musical world where the lyricism of Marvin Gaye and the high drama of Puccini collide.
I'm pleased to announce that I will be performing with three of my great musical inspirations, Kenny Endo and my parents Ayako and Haruka Watanabe, in a series of quartet performances in my hometown for the Missouri Botanical Garden. We will be performing original compositions by my father, Kenny and myself, including a piece I wrote specifically for this quartet- violin, harp, taiko and fue.
