[Voxnovus] THIS SUNDAY: Composer's Voice presents: FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME: 2X!!!! - October 9, 2011 - 1:00 PM - NYC

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That's Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Kenji Haba, guitar and
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Zentripetal, violin & cello! 
It would be utter madness not to attend this FREE concert! 

The following composers selected for Kenji Haba's Fifteen Minutes of Fame
include: Jay C. Batzner, Justin Breame, Salim Dada, Douglas DaSilva, Joseph
Eidson, Thomas Flippin, Dai Fujikura, Iman Habibi, Stavros Hoplaros, Chia-Yu
Hsu, Ashley John Long, Oswaldo torres Ortiz, Richard Pressley, John
Thompson, and Chris Vaisvil 

The following composers selected for Zentriptetal's Fifteen Minutes of Fame
include: Jay C. Batzner, Joshua Backes, David Bohn, Alex Chilvers, John
Michael Hunt, HyeKyung Lee, Paul Lombardi, John Melcher, David Morneau, Ken
Paoli, Ronald Keith Parks, Sam Pender-Bayne, Russell Podgorsek, Malina
Rauschenfels, and Bob Siebert 

In addition to the plethora composers featured in the above pieces, David
Wolfson will be premiering selections from his "Seventeen Windows" piano
works and violist Midori Witkowski will be premiering Douglas DaSilva's
"From Memory to History".

Sunday, 
October 9, 2011 
1:00 PM 
Jan Hus Church, 
351 East 74th Street,
New York City
Free Admission

Fifteen Minutes of Fame is a collection of 15 one-minute acoustic works
composed specifically for a specific performer or ensemble. Vox Novus places
a call for scores and 15 pieces are chosen from the works submitted. The
works are then premiered on the Composer Voice concert series. The idea grew
out of a celebratory concert for the birthday of Vox Novus founder Robert
Voisey, who is known for his creation and production of the 60x60 project. 


Kenji Haba is a guitarist who is exclusively sensitive to timbres in
appreciating and expressing the beauty of guitar. Haba believes that the
guitar is the perfect instrument to express his musical ideas because of its
beautiful tones and its countless timbres. Recently, he has been focusing on
impressionistic music, especially that of Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and
Toru Takemitsu. In 2006 Haba began studying classical guitar under renowned
guitarist, Kevin R. Gallagher and Oren Fader. With his passion driving his
learning ability, after one year of studying, he was accepted into the
Manhattan School of Music in Master of Music, and there worked with Mark
Delpriora. 

ZENTRIPETAL - Lynn Bechtold, violin and Jennifer DeVore, cello

Zentripetal made its debut in 2006, when violinist Lynn Bechtold and cellist
Jennifer DeVore decided to explore the violin/cello duo repertoire and to
premiere new works for the combo. They have been playing together since they
were students at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. To date,
the duo 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, as well as on series in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. They are finishing up their first CD which will be
released in early fall.