[Voxnovus] A special CIRCUIT BRIDGES with cellist CRAIG HULTGREN

[Robert Voisey (Vox Novus)]

Circuit Bridges presents cellist Craig Hultgren on Monday, March 7 at
Gallery MC. Hultgren, an accomplished performer of new and adventurous
music, will perform works for cello and electronics, many written
specifically for him. Composers featured on this concert include Rusty
Banks, James Bohn, Monroe Golden, Melissa Grey, Dorothy Hindman, Douglas
Ovens, and Robert Voisey.  Hultgren will also perform his Improvisation for
amplified cello. He will be joined by the composer James Bohn on his piece
Chamone for cello, toy piano, and sound file.

For several decades, cellist Craig Hultgren has been a fixture on the scenes
for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde. Recently
leaving Birmingham after more than 30 years as a member of the Alabama
Symphony, he now resides outside of Decorah, Iowa as the farmer-cellist. A
recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the
Arts, he was a member for many years of Thámyr is, a contemporary chamber
music ensemble in Atlanta. He is a founding member of Luna Nova, a new music
ensemble with a large repertoire of performances available as podcast
downloads on iTunes.

Hultgren is featured in three solo CD recordings including The
Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist Recordings. For ten years, he
produced the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international
competition that highlighted the best new compositions for the instrument.
He taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Alabama School of
Fine Arts and Birmingham-Southern College where he directed the BSC New
Music Ensemble. He is a founding member and former President of the
Birmingham Art Music Alliance and was on the Board of Directors of the
Metropolitan Youth Orchestras of Birmingham and their Scrollworks program.
Hultgren recently performed a Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame concert titled Occupy
Cello in New York for the Composer’s Voice Concert Series. That program
featured 15 one-minute solo compositions that challenge the traditional
boundaries of the instrument. Last fall, he was the featured performer for
the La Crosse New Music Festival in Wisconsin.

Founded in 2014 by Robert Voisey, Circuit Bridges is a concert series
dedicated to creating a community for creators of electroacoustic music and
strives to explore all that is included, and currently being innovated,
under the electroacoustic umbrella, such as sonic art, radio art, glitch,
circuit bending, electronica, real-time improvisation, network performance,
audiovisual composition, mash-up, and data sonification. Our mission is to
connect with similar organizations from around the globe that foster and
promote innovative electroacoustic music and sound. Concerts feature local
composers and sound artists and those from visiting communities and immerse
audiences in the vast wealth of electroacoustic music being created today.

For more information visit: www.CircuitBridges.com
Circuit Bridges: 
Monday, March 7, 2015 7:30pm (doors open at 7:15pm)
Gallery MC
(ride the freight elevator to the 8th floor)
549 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019
Between 10th Avenue and 11th Avenue
Closest subway A/C/E at 50th Street, 8th Avenue
$15 admission
$7 students
www.GalleryMC.org