[Voxnovus] Composer's Voice Concert - featuring Zentripetal - May 30th - Jan Hus Church - New York City

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COMPOSER'S VOICE CONCERT - FEATURING ZENTRIPETAL

May 30, 2010 (NEW YORK, NEW YORK) Vox Novus in collaboration with the
Remarkable Theater Brigade and Jan Hus Church is proud to present their
monthly chamber concert series Sunday, May 30th at 1:00 featuring
Zentripetal, the cutting edge violin and cello duo of Lynne Bechtold and
Jennifer DeVore performing the works of Dan Cooper, Lei Liang, Earl Maneein,
Eugene W. McBride and Gene Pritsker.

Zentripetal has performed recitals and programs at Galapagos in DUMBO, the
Goethe Institut NYC, the Roerich Museum, the Players Theatre, and the Renee
Weiler Concert Hall at Greenwich House.  Zentripetal will be performing
debuting new works and performing pieces from their upcoming cd due to be
released in the early fall.

Violinist Lynn Bechtold has appeared in recital throughout the U.S., Canada,
Holland, and Switzerland. An advocate of contemporary music, she has worked
with composers such as Gloria Coates, George Crumb, John Harbison, and
Morton Subotnick, and has premiered works on the Princeton Composers' Series
and Composers Concordance. In 2001, she gave the premiere of "Violynn," a
work for violin and electronics written for her by Alvin Lucier.

Cellist Jennifer DeVore has appeared at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Zankel
Hall and Weill Hall and at the Musicorda, Yellow Barn and Spoleto festivals.
Groups she has played with include the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra,
Ensemble Pi, the Jose Limon Dance Company, and the Metamorphosen Chamber
Orchestra.
Heralded as "one of the most exciting voices in New Music" (The Wire), the
works of Lei Liang have been described by The New York Times as "hauntingly
beautiful and sonically colorful." The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
and an Aaron Copland Award, Commissions/performances have come from the New
York Philharmonic, Heidelberger Philharmonisches Orchester, Taipei Chinese
Orchestra, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, the Arditti and
Shanghai Quartets.

The New York Times described composer, rapper, guitarist Gene Pritsker as
"...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The New Music
Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolv[ing] the artificial boundaries
between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea
that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre."

Composer, multi-instrumentalist and SUNY/FIT professor Dan Cooper was an
Aaron Copland composition fellow at Tanglewood.  He has had composed
original scores or several acclaimed Shakespeare & Company productions; plus
awards, commissions, premieres, & residencies from Albany Symphony, Artists
International, ASCAP, Cary Trust, Empire State Youth Orchestra, Engine 27,
Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, International Street Cannibals, Meet the
Composer, among others.

Composer's Voice Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers
to express their musical aesthetic and personal "voice" created in their
compositions. Started in 2001, the "Composer's Voice" concert series is
presenting its 48th concert Sunday May 30th.

Composer's Voice concert
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 
1:00PM
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
351 E 74th St
New York, NY 10021-3798
Free Admission
www.janhus.org