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Bassoon in the Wild
FREE CONCERT Struthers Library Theatre MICHAEL RABINOWITZ For over twenty years Michael Rabinowitz has been on the cutting edge as a versatile bassoonist. His broad musical experience makes him as comfortable with Bach and Mozart as he is with Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. He has recorded with Ira Sullivan, Red Rodney, Wynton Marsalis, John Hicks, Dave Douglas and Joe Lovano. His recordings have received high praise from around the world; and his fifth commercial CD, OCEAN EYES, has mostly original compositions. He has performed at many jazz clubs across the country, including the Green Mill jazz club in Chicago several times, and was favorably reviewed by the Chicago Tribune. Michael is a regular member of The Charles Mingus Orchestra, NYC; and has also performed at The Vanderbilt Planetariium, Frick Museum (PA), Penn State, and The Kavehaz in NY. The Music Group (Schreiber Bassoons) has been Michael's sponsor for the past two years and continues to support his efforts in participation in Bassoon MasterClasses; most recently in an appearance at Bassoon Day in Indianapolis DIANA HEROLD Diana Herold received her two graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory and Rice University respectively. Equally adept at performing both improvised and non-improvised music, Herold has worked with composers and musicians such as Yo Yo Ma, Lou Harrison (with the Mark Morris Dance Group), Anthony Davis and Buddy DeFranco. She has performed as a featured soloist and as a percussionist with several larger new music groups and orchestras, including the Discovery Orchestra, the BMI Orchestra, Muhal Richard Abrams, Butch Morris, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Her performances have taken her throughout Europe, Central America, the United States, and Canada (where she attended the Banff Centre for the Arts). She can be heard on recordings with They Might Be Giants, Tony Trischka, Sam Rivers, Fred Ho, Rob Henke, and Chuck Clark. Diana leads her own jazz group featuring her own compositions. GRISHA ALEXIEV Grisha Alexiev has been playing drums and writing music for 30 years. His performance experience with such varied artists as Archie Bell, Ken Werner, Sinfonia of Auckland (New Zealand), Sam Rivers, Randy Weston, Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill, John Cage, Arnett Cobb, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, and Richard Stoltzman, has given him a unique and impressive style. As a composer, Alexiev has been commissioned by dance companies and is recorded on The Jazz Club and Mapleshade Labels. While a student at New England Conservatory of Music, Alexiev was honored with the Presser Award, a grant given annually to the most promising student at each of the conservatories in the United States. In 1994, he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant, and he has received several Meet the Composer Grants since 1996. He is co-founder (with Neal Kirkwood) of the Discovery Orchestra, (with Sam Bardfeld) The Atomic Strings, and leads his own 11-piece group, No Western Shirts. A native of Amsterdam, New York, Joe Fonda received his musical training from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied composing and arranging. He is the organizer and producer of the Joe Fonda Ensemble which has performed throughout the United States, and is the recipient of many grants from Meet the Composer Foundation. He has performed with Brenda Buffalino and Company at Town Hall in New York; toured Europe with the Fonda/Stevens Group; and toured Portugal with Carlo Morena and Jeff Hershfield. He has also toured with the Fonda/Stevens Group in Holland, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland. He has performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, and at the Istanbul Jazz Festival in Turkey. As a bassist, Joe has performed all over the world with ensembles and orchestras; and he has more than 25 recordings to his credit. |
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