Suffolk County Community Community College presents



May 1, 2002

Suffolk County Community College Music Department presents

OPEN EARS XVII:

EVAN ZIPORYN

TODD REYNOLDS

This event will also be a webcast event at May 15-June 15

Program

Tight Fitting Garment I (2002) Reynolds/Ziporyn

World Premiere

Don't Even Think About it (2001) Ziporyn

Tight Fitting Garment II (2002) Reynolds/Ziporyn

World Premiere

Jubilee of Indifference (1999) Ziporyn

Tight Fitting Garment III (2002) Reynolds/Ziporyn

World Premiere

Todd Reynolds, violin

Evan Ziporyn, clarinet

Monkey Forest (2002) Ziporyn

World Premiere

Commissioned by the Suffolk Community College Contemporary Music Ensemble

Suffolk Community College Contemporary Music Ensemble

William Ryan, Director

Lauren Kasper, flute Brett Colangelo, percussion

Anne McInerney, flute Michael Clark, electric guitar

Antoinette Blaikie, english horn Keith DeMaio, piano

Jennifer Decaneo, clarinet Lisa Casal, violin

Lauren Kohler, clarinet Miyo Davis, violin

Marissa Sampson, baritone saxophone Malachy Gately, violin

Duane Haynes, trumpet Laura Khalil, violin

Michael Sarling, trumpet Jamie Carrillo, viola

Hector Minaya, trombone Gerry Rulon-Maxwell, electric bass

Justin Cunningham, percussion Robert Tavolaro, electric bass

Todd Reynolds, violin

Evan Ziporyn, clarinet

11:00 AM • Rehearsal Hall • Room H-20 • Southampton Building • Ammerman Campus • Suffolk County Community College

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Open Ears I: Electro Acoustic Music • Open Ears II: Perry Goldstein • Open Ears III: Paul Steinberg/Alan Woy • Open Ears IV: Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players • Open Ears V: Long Island Composers Alliance • Open Ears VI: Tomas Bachli • Open Ears VII: Subject to Change • Open Ears VIII: Todd Reynolds/Walter Thompson Orchestra • Open Ears IX: The Furious Band • Open Ears X: Michael Lowenstern • Open Ears XI: Ethel/Julia Wolfe • Open Ears XII: Phil Kline • Open Ears XIII: Talujon • Open Ears XIV: Jeffery Krieger • Open Ears XV: Nota Bene Ensemble • Open Ears XVI: Evan Ziporyn

Evan Ziporyn has traveled the globe in search of new musical possibilities. His work is informed by his twenty-year involvement with Balinese gamelan, which has ranged from intensive study of traditional music to the creation of a series of groundbreaking works for gamelan and western instruments. His compositions for conventional forces have been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Nederlands Blazer Ensemble, master p'ipaist Wu Man, Maya Beiser and Steven Schick, Arden Trio, California EAR Unit, pianist Sarah Cahill, and Orkest de Volharding. As a bass clarinetist, he has developed a distinctive set of extended techniques which he has used in his own solo works, as well as new works by Martin Bresnick, Michael Gordon, and David Lang. He has been associated with the Bang On A Can Festival since its founding in 1987, appearing as composer, soloist, and ensemble leader. As a member of the Bang On A Can All-stars, he has toured over a dozen countries and worked with composers such as Glenn Branca, Don Byron, Brett Dean, Nick Didkovsky, Arnold Dreyblatt, Steve Martland, Ralph Shapey, Tan Dun, Henry Threadgill, and Julia Wolfe. In addition to writing for the group and co-producing their most recent recordings, he has arranged works by Brian Eno, Hermeto Pascoal, and Kurt Cobain. He also regularly performs and records as a featured soloist with Steve Reich and Musicians. As a conductor, he has toured Europe with Germany's acclaimed Ensemble Modern and has recorded Michael Gordon's "Weather" with Ensemble Resonanz.

Born in Chicago in 1959, Ziporyn received degrees from Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley, where his primary teachers were Martin Bresnick and John Blacking. Upon completing a Fullbright Fellowship in Indonesia, he became Musical Coordinator of San Francisco's Gamelan Sekar Jaya in 1988. He collaborated with Balinese composer I Nyoman Windha on "Kekembangan," a border-crossing work for full gamelan and saxophone quartet. This and subsequent works for gamelan and western instruments have been released on two volumes for New World Records. Moving to Boston in 1990 to take a teaching position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he founded Gamelan Galak Tika in 1993.

As a performer and recording artist, Ziporyn has worked with a range of master musicians from numerous musical cultures, including Paul Simon, Tan Dun, Wu Man, Maya Beiser and Steven Schick, Darius Brubeck, Todd Reynolds and Ethel, Sandhile Shange and Allen Kwela, Bob Moses, and Tony Scott. Venues have included New York's Lincoln Center, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Southbank Centre, and the Bali Arts Festival. His new solo clarinet CD on Cantaloupe Records, "This is not a clarinet," is newly released; other works are recorded on Sony Classical, Koch International, and New Tone. As a player, he has recorded for Nonesuch, Gramavision, New Albion, and Point Music. He has received grants from the Rockefeller Multi-Arts Program, Meet the Composer, the New England Foundation for the Arts, NEA/Arts International, ASCAP, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Todd Reynolds is violinist and assistant conductor for Steve Reich and Musicians and The Walter Thompson Orchestra. He was a student of the late Jascha Heifetz, a student at the Eastman School of Music, former Principal Second Violin of the Rochester Philharmonic, and holds a Master's degree from SUNY at Stony Brook. 

As an improvisor and solo interpreter of new musics from classical to jazz and pop, Mr. Reynolds has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson , Dave Liebman, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts, Wayne Shorter and Cassandra Wilson. 

In addition to his solo appearances at home and abroad, Mr. Reynolds appears as guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is often featured as violin soloist and chamber musician with Bang On A Can. Mr. Reynolds has premiered countless numbers of compositions by composers including Michael Gordon, John King, Steve Reich, Elliot Sharp, Julia Wolfe, and Randall Wolff, and recently appeared as soloist with Yo Yo Ma in Tan Dun's Water Passion after St. Matthew at the Barbican Center in London. 

He is a co-founder of Ethel, New York's hippest string quartet, and as composer/performer, Mr. Reynolds is currently developing Still Life With Mic, a theater piece which incorporates with his own composed and improvised music, elements of video and theater arts. He has recorded for Nonesuch, CRI, and Atlantic Records and can also be heard on Tan Dun's soundtrack for the film Fallen, starring Denzel Washington. 

On Broadway, he originated the role of "The Fiddler", playing and dancing on stage in the Tony Award-winning revival of Irving Berlin's Annie, Get Your Gun, starring Bernadette Peters and Reba McEntire. 

Currently he tours as part of the Mahavishnu Project, a five-piece jazz-fusion band which centers around the music of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, performs often with The Betty Buckley Band, alongside Kenny Werner, Billy Drewes, Tony Marino, Jamey Haddad, and, of course, Ms. Buckley herself. Mr. Reynolds recently returned from a week of educational residencies in our nation's capitol with Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, performing and teaching with composer Bright Sheng, ethnomusicologist Ted Levin, and Yo Yo Ma, culminating in a season opening performance at the Kennedy Center.

SCCC Contemporary Music Ensemble was founded in the fall of 1997. The ensemble was formed with a mission of perfoming new and recent works by both young and established composers. Five years later the ensemble is thriving, having established a reputation as an enthusiastic group of musicians who believe strongly in the music they perform. It is the only contemporary music ensemble at a community college in the country. They have presented 11 concerts and performed 28 compositions (16 composed since 1975) written by 24 composers, 19 of which are living. They have commissioned five new works and performed six world premieres. In May 2000 the ensemble recorded Phil Kline’s work Unsilent Night, which has just been released on Cantaloupe Music.

Since its inception four years ago, the Open Ears concert series has presented 16 concerts with 62 compositions performed (48 composed since 1975), including six world premieres, written by 28 composers, 25 of which are living. The concerts take place with perfomers placed in front of, in the center, or scattered throughout the audience, with lighting at full power or in total darkness, in a variety of locations throughout the college, including a traveling concert through administrative offices and reverberant stairwells. The format of every event is an open exchange with the audience. Very often the resulting dialogue is as interesting as the music. Guest artists discuss with the audience the music, their backgrounds and career paths, technology, audience issues, performance practices, and have even ventured into where to find the best bagel in New York. This year the series was awarded a secondprize ASCAP/Chamber Music America Adventurous Programming Award—one of only twelve awarded to presenters and performers of contemporary chamber music across the country.

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