[Voxnovus] Composer's Voice concert - Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:00 PM - Featuring Alex Sramek and The West Point Woodwind Quintet

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This Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:00 PM Composer's Voice concert Features Alex
Sramek and The West Point Woodwind Quintet at Jan Hus Church in New York
City.

Alex Sramek is a Los Angeles-based clarinetist, composer, and purveyor of
shenanigans. MFA from CalArts in hand, this refugee from software
engineering has recently made a playful nuisance of himself playing in a
klezmer/rock band, guesting with a drone/doom tuba duo, leading improv
sessions across Europe, teaching a room full of Clarinetfest attendees
grotesque extended techniques, writing minimalist songs for
obsessivecompulsive children, and thrilling unsuspecting guests with
impromptu restroom concerts. More on his shenanigans can be found at
mostlydifferent.com. 

The West Point Woodwind Quintet will perform its "Fifteen Minutes of Fame"
commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. 
Fifteen Minutes of Fame is a collection of 15 one-minute acoustic works
composed by 15 different composers specifically for a specific performer or
ensemble. Composers selected for West Point Woodwind Quintet's Fifteen
Minutes of Fame include: Malcolm Dedman, Andy Francis, Stanley M. Hoffman,
Francis Kayali, Daniel J. Knaggs, Tim Labor, David Miller, Peter Nickol,
Michael Pepper, James Soe Nyun, Juan Maria Solare, Pasquale Tassone, Audun
G. Vassdal, Douglas Wagoner, and David Wolfson.
http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/West_Point_Woodwind_Qui
ntet/

Also featuring Saxophonist, Ray Blue regularly performs on numerous world
stages with musicians from many different cultures, throughout the world. He
was an Artist-in-Residence, with the Beijing Midi Music School in Beijing,
China, where he taught jazz saxophone. He also traveled to South Africa,
wherein he began to intensely study, compose, perform and teach about
African rhythms and their relationship to jazz. Founder of Cross-Cultural
Connection, Ray continues to reinvent his music a encompass his experiences
to present to new audiences. 

And

Vincent Scialla teaches drums/percussion at Teachers College and at LREI. US
Department of Defense entertainment tours have taken him to the Middle East,
Caribbean, Asia and Egypt. Scialla is best known for his innovative fusion
of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Indian and American musical traditions.
His recording history includes tracks for producers Miles Copeland, Rick
Rubin, Mophonics music, and DJ FS to name a few, including producing full
length albums for Mission: on Mars and Snehasish Mozumder (Random Chance
Records). Vin recently performed at Lincoln Center out-of-doors, the Jazz
Gallery, and Blue Note New York. Vin received his B.M. at the Hartt School
of Music, and Masters at the Conservatory at Brooklyn College. 

More can be found at:
http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/history

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 has
presented over 75 concerts in New York City. Composer's Voice Concert Series
is a collaboration with Jan Hus Church, The Remarkable Theater Brigade and
Vox Novus.


Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:00PM 
Composer's Voice concert 
www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church 
www.janhus.org 
351 East 74th Street 
New York, New York 10021-3798 
FREE ADMISSION 

We accept donations of food, clothing, and toiletries for the HOAP