[Voxnovus] COMPOSER'S VOICE CONCERT - March 25, 2012 1:00 PM Women's History Month-Part II - New York City

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This Sunday, March 25, 2012 Composer’s Voice presents:  A Celebration of
Women’s History Month Part II 

This Composer's Voice is being curated by soprano Delea Shand who is
dedicated to performing and promoting new music. As a performer she was a
fellow at the Bang on a Can summer festival at MassMoca, where her
performance of George Crumb’s “Madrigals, Book Two” was hailed by the Albany
Times Union as “Especially impressive
even while delivering some swooping
and percussive vocal affects.”  Delea also directs Opera on Tap’s new music
ensemble, New Brew, whose mission is to present contemporary opera with the
same rowdy energy audiences have come to love and expect.

Also presented this Sunday's Composer's Voice concert is:
Anne Goldberg is the founder/artistic director of the Synthesis Aesthetics
Project, a collaborative between musicians, dancers, multimedia and spoken
word artists.  Anne is a freelance pianist and oboist-English hornist, and
was a member of the New England Philharmonic and Berklee Contemporary
Symphony Orchestra.  She and three of her friends recently formed the Tempus
Continuum Ensemble, a touring mixed quartet that premiers new music.

Soprano Kjersti Kveli established the experimental ensemble Cochlea Freedom
Ensemble, which debuted at the TANK, NYC. With Asami Tamura, (Toy Piano) she
creates alternative performance art, as DUO TAMUVELI. Kveli is currently
focused on songwriting in a modern folk style, performing solo and with her
band (KK GROUP), playing regularly at venues in New York City as well as in
Norway. 

Julia Meinwald's music has been heard at the York Theatre (NEO5), the Cherry
Lane Theatre (Edgewise), Barrington Stages (Bill Finn Presents Ridiculously
Talented Composers and Lyricists That You’ve Probably Never Heard of But
Should), Goodspeed Opera House (Shelter), and the Hangar Theatre (The
Adventures of Haarlem Berlin.) She was a 2009-2010 Dramatists Guild fellow,
where she developed Pregnancy Pact with her collaborator Gordon Leary.
Pregnancy Pact received the 2011 Weston Playhouse New Musical Award. 

Rachel Peters has scored many plays including the critically acclaimed
Stretch (a fantasia)by Susan Bernfield, The Bacchae, Unrequited, and
Veritas, The Tale of the Good Whistleblower... and Definite Possibilities,
all by Stan Richardson. Her cabaret songs jave been performed at Lincoln
Center, the D-Lounge, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don’t Tell Mama, Cornelia
Street Café. and the Voice.

Come join us at Jan Hus Church "the place you were welcome, long before you
arrived!"

Composer's Voice Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers
to express their musical aesthetic and personal "voice" created in their
compositions. Composer's Voice performances are short chamber concerts held
monthly on the last Sunday of the month at Jan Hus Church. Works are chosen
from a wide range of contemporary composers and performed by dedicated
musicians devoted to new music.  Started in 2001, the “Composer’s Voice”
concert series has presented over 75 concerts.  Composer's Voice concert
series is a collaborative effort between Vox Novus, the Remarkable Theater
Brigade and Jan Hus Church. The series is co-directed by Monica Harte,
Christian McLeer, and Robert Voisey. Douglas DaSilva is the Artistic
Director.Composer’s Voice is presenting its 6th concert for 2012 Sunday,
March 25, 2012.


Sunday, March 25, 2012  1:00 PM
Composer’s Voice concert
http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church 
www.janhus.org
351 E 74th St
New York, NY 10021-3798

FREE ADMISSION

This concert will support the Homeless Outreach & Advocacy Program (HOAP).
We accept donations of food, clothing, and toiletries for the HOAP