Matthew Greenbaum, composer, animation artist
AMPHIBIAN: NEW MUSIC/VISUAL MUSIC/IMPROV
March 1 2016 8pm $20/15
THE HIART STUDIO 227 West 29th STREET
Three Concerts In One!
MUSIC: Elliott Carter’s GRA,
Vicente Alexim’s SHADOWS, STAINS, TRAILS
ANIMATION: The four LICHTSPIEL films of Walter Ruttmann (1921-25) scored by Hans Eisler, Max Bunting, and Anthony Ciesielka;
Dennis Miller’s VARIATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE, and
Matthew Greenbaum’s LINE STUDY
IMPROV: works by Stephanie Griffin (composer!), Hilliard Greene, and Thomas Heberer
AND François Couperin: Les Goûts réunis: Treiziéme Concert
MARCH 1 2016 8PM
$20/15
March 1
François Couperin Les Goûts réunis: Treiziéme Concert
Elliott Carter Gra
Matthew Greenbaum Line Study (2016)
Dennis Miller Variations (in black and white) 2015
Walter Ruttmann/Max Bunting Lichstpiel 1 (1921)
Walter Ruttmann
Lichstpiel 3 (1924)Walter Ruttmann/Anthony Ciesielka Lichstpiel 4 (1925)
(+ more)
Vicente Alexim, clarinet
Thomas Heberer, cornet
Stephanie Griffin, viola
Hilliard Greene, double bass
Matthew Greenbaum, recorder
MATTHEW GREENBAUM was born in New York City in 1950. He studied composition with Stefan Wolpe and Mario Davidovsky and holds a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Greenbaum’s awards, fellowships and commissions include the Serge Koussevitzky Music Fund/Library of Congress, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer, the Fromm Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Penn Council on the Arts.Performances of his works include the Darmstadt Summer Festival, the Leningrad Spring Festival, the Jakart Festival (Indonesia), Hallische Musiktage, Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), Ensemble 21 (Odense), the Da Capo Chamber Players, Cygnus, Parnassus, Fred Sherry, Marc-André Hamelin, David Holzman, Stephanie Griffin, the Momenta Quartet, Network for New Music, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, Orchestra 2001, Christopher Taylor and the Riverside Symphony, and the Houston Symphony.