Joshua Radin US Tour ft. Laura Jansen

Laura Jansen. Photo: Heidi Ross













Monday, February 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM
House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Vogue Theatre - Indianapolis, IN
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Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 7:00 PM
The Pabst Theater - Milwaukee, WI
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Friday, February 25, 2011 at 7:00 PM
The Blue Note - Columbia, MO
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Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Liberty Hall - Lawrence, KS
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Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Boulder Theatre - Boulder, CO
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Club Sound - Salt Lake City, UT
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Thursday, March 03, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Knitting Factory - Boise, ID
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Snowbox at the Market - Seattle, WA
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR
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Friday, March 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA

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One night, Joshua Radin was in the club and asked Jansen to audition for his touring band. She landed the gig, quit her day job, and spent six weeks on the road singing back-up vocals and playing piano, as well as opening for Radin in 2008...

Laura Jansen, a Dutch-born, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and musician, chronicles those little things, like cutting her hair, buying pink floral sheets, and venturing out for a drink with the guy down the hall, on "Single Girls" - the deceptively simple, but emotionally devastating first single from Bells, Jansen's upcoming debut album for Universal's Decca Records. A dreamy collection of piano-driven alt-pop songs, Bells has already gone platinum in Jansen's native Holland, propelled by "Single Girls" and a stunning cover of Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody," which has spent more than a year lodged in the Top 10 on the Dutch singles chart. In the U.S., Jansen is a fixture in the constellation of artists associated with Los Angeles nightclub The Hotel Cafe - a musical haven, creative incubator, and ultimately, national launching pad for such confessional-minded artists as Joshua Radin, whom Jansen toured with in 2008 and will hit the road with again this year.

From Cleveland via New York and LA, Joshua Radin is the uniquely word-of-mouth global success story that's just about to get a whole lot bigger with the release of his third album The Rock and The Ride, due out this fall on Mom and Pop Records.
Radin only turned to music after college, when he moved to New York City, bought a guitar and began learning to play his favorite Beatles and Bob Dylan tunes. Soon he was writing songs of his own. "I was always trying to find some medium to express myself," says Radin, who had previously studied art and spent six years writing screenplays. "When I started writing songs, I thought, 'This is as honest as I can be: getting onstage with my guitar and my voice and singing for people.'"

Commission prize for Carlos Micháns in New York

Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM

St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church - New York, NY
Admission: $10
Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Church of St. Luke in the Fields - New York, NY
Admission: $10

Carlos Micháns - born, raised and educated in Argentina - is one of the five composers who have been selected (out of over 200 entries) by the "C4 Comissioning Competition", sponsored by the "David and Minnie Berk Foundation" and the "Yale School of Music Alumni Ventures Program", to compose a choral piece for the "Choral Composer/Conductor Collective" (C4). All five new pieces (which must be completed by November 2010) will be premiered by C4 on March 3 and 5 2011 in New York City. 

Micháns extensive catalogue comprises works in almost every genre, among which five ‘sinfonie concertante’, two overtures, several compositions for choir and orchestra (including a symphony for double choir and large orchestra), a harp concerto, a saxophone concerto, quartets and quintets for a variety of combinations (strings, saxophones, clarinets and mixed ensembles), countless solo pieces and for small and large chamber groups. Most of them are commissioned by the Dutch Fund for Performing Arts for distinguished Dutch and international soloists and ensembles, such as Ronald Brautigam, Isabelle van Keulen, Liza and Dmitry Ferschtman, Arno Bornkamp, Lavinia Meijer, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Chamber Orchestra, Holland Symfonia, etc. They are published in Amsterdam by Muziek Centrum Nederland (Donemus). He is also active in the field of literature.

Janine Jansen at Le Poission Rouge

Monday, February 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM

Le Poission Rouge - New York, NY
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Music review in The New York Times: Recreating a Bill of the Obscure and the Familiar (by Allan Kozinn, Feb 26, 2011)

Ever since her Concertgebouw debut in 1997, Janine Jansen has been a huge star in her native Holland. Today she is internationally recognised as one of the great violinists – a truly exciting and versatile artist.
Janine Jansen is a fresh faced and energetic Dutch violinist who entered the classical music scene in the late '90s. She studied violin at the University of Utrecht and made her debut with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in 1997. The response to Jansen's debut in Europe was immediate, and her international reputation was established after an appearance made in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra in November 2002. Shortly thereafter she began to record for Decca in the U.K.
Jansen's first album gained generally positive critical notices; however, the response to her second, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, came as a bit of a reality check to many. Jansen's willful, anti-historic, and highly interventionist reading of the familiar Vivaldi work was a little over the top for many reviewers. The front cover of the disc also made some wonder if the thrust of Jansen's marketing was on her looks rather than her artistic ability. In this respect, her first American tour, held in late 2005 -- early 2006, was inconclusive, though generally well attended. Time will tell if Jansen is an artist of the class that is here to stay, or a player whose primary effect is to make other violinists jealous and serve a magnet for the wrath of classical music purists.

PIANO GUITAR DUO

 


Tuesday, February 22 - Monday, February 28, 2011

Robert Bekkers concerts & lessons - Phoenix, AZ

Robert Bekkers concerts & lessons - Tucson, AZ

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The piano and guitar, two of the most popular instruments, once accompanied each other in 19th century chamber music. Nowadays it is a rare but special occasion to see this unusual combination in the classical music scene.

Anne Ku and Robert Bekkers formed their PIANO GUITAR DUO in 2001, reviving this almost forgotten tradition of music making. This once favourite pastime of bringing together performers, composers and enthusiastic audiences has left a largely untapped legacy of published music specifically written for the piano and guitar.Using modern instruments, the duo has rekindled music from earlier periods. Just as importantly, Ku and Bekkers’ performances are encouraging contemporary composers to write for this deserving combination. Their collaboration has already inspired original music for piano and guitar, expanding the existing repertoire with exciting new possibilities. 

This husband-wife team have performed in London, North Cyprus, Cape Town, Italy, Belgium, Spain and throughout the Netherlands. Their first visit to the USA in December 2007 included two house concerts in Houston and a live radio appearance on Houston Public Radio followed by live radio broadcast on Manao Radio Wailuku and a sponsored public concert in Maui, Hawaii.

Available Jelly US Tour

Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Perspective 2 - Lansing, IN
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Friday, February 18, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Kerrytown Concert House - Ann Arbor, MI
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Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM
The Bishop Bar - Bloomington, IN
Admission: $5
Sunday, February 20, 2011at 10:00 PM
Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL
Admission: $15 suggested donation
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Chicago Cultural Center - Chicago, IL
Admission: free
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Hungry Brain - Chicago, IL 
Admission: $10 suggested donation

Expect the unexpected. That’s the best advice for someone attending an Available Jelly concert. Through the years, the line-up and the repertoire have changed many times. But there’s one thing that you can be sure of: there’ll be plenty of strong melodies. The music can be wild, dense, smooth, empty, swinging or poin tillistic, but it’s always interesting.
Available Jelly is a 5-piece group featuring some of the Netherlands’ top improvisers. It’s a pocket brass band that ingeniously blends written material and free improvisation in a warm and natural way. They play originals, and an eclectic mix of jazz, world music (from Balkans to Madagascar) and popular songs (Kurt Weill, Burt Bacharach), cleverly arranged by Michael Moore and with plenty of room for improvisation and interpretation.

TUNE-IN MUSIC FESTIVAL: PowerFUL ft. Louis Andriessen

 

Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Park Avenue Armory - New York, NY

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Chinua Achebe’s angry dismissal inspires the musical argument for the negative, powerFUL, a concert based around the belief that art can be a political tool. Here is music that gives an impassioned, disruptive clarion call for social consciousness and action. 

Frederic Rzewski’s blistering Coming Together sets a prescient text by a victim of the Attica prison riot, and Louis Andriessen’s ear-shattering Workers Union combines freedom and discipline to “express collective solidarity.” John Cage intended his percussion work Credo in US, with its satirical use of phonograph records, as a pointed critique of American society, while Matt Marks paints a musical portrait of Glenn Beck and David T. Little sings a love song to crude oil.

Festival curators Lisa Kaplan, and Tim Munro of eighth blackbird and the composer David T. Little of Newspeak introduce the context and the concepts behind the concert and introduce the ensembles performing the material.

Frances-marie Uitti US City Tour

Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM
ISSUE Project Room - Brooklyn, NY
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Sunday, February 13, 2011at 6:30 PM
Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 7:30 PM
St. Mary's Episcopel Church Foggy Bottom - Washington, D.C.
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Friday, February 18, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Chapel Performance Space - Seattle, WA
Admission: $5 - $15

Frances-Marie Uitti (composer, performer) pioneered a revolutionary dimension to the cello by transforming it for the first time into a polyphonic instrument capable of sustained chordal capabilities (two, three, and four-part) and intricate multi-voiced writing through the use of two bows. She has collaborated with an extensive list of luminary composers and performers including John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Sharp, and Pauline Oliveros.

As part of the 5th-annual Chamber Music Month, a thematic series presenting experimental works from around the world and highlighting cutting-edge developments in contemporary performance practice, ISSUE Project Room will present a solo performance from Dutch cellist/composer Frances-Marie Uitti. This is just one part of a three-city tour. Uitti will present a diverse repertoire of innovative works for solo cello, spanning more than 50 years of modern and contemporary avant-garde history, including works by: Annie Gosfield, Lisa Bielawa, Rocco Di Pietro, John Cage, and György Kurtág, as well a new work by Uitti herself.

For a rave review for Frances-Marie Uitti in the Washington Post!

DJ Afrojack wins Grammy

Dutch DJ and producer Nick van de Wall better known as Afrojack
Delirious with joy he shared the good news with his Twitter friends: "I have won a Grammy, I love you all." won a prestigious Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording for a remix of the song from Madonna's Revolver, which was a production with David Guetta.

Afro Jack was delighted to attend the big international award ceremony. He was very impressed to shake hands with Will Smith, and tweeted, "I just said "oh shit thats will smith" and then he shook my hand and said "waddup bro"!". His colleague David Guetta was also delighted with the award. "I cannot believe I won a Grammy for the second time and I am very happy and proud", he tweeted.

The 53rd annual Grammy Awards took place Sunday evening, Feb 13, 2011 at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Debut recital of Amber Docters van Leeuwen at Carnegie Hall

Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Weil Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall - New York, NY

For tickets: 1-212-247-7800

Amber is a prizewinner at solo and chamber music competitions including the Princes Christina competition, Stichting Jong Muziek Talent Nederland, Inter Provinciaal muziek Concours and the Charles Hennen concours. She is also first prizewinner of the second edition of the National Cello Competition 2008 in Amsterdam.The program of Amber's debut recital includes the Sonata for Cello by Claude Debussy, Cello Sonata by Alfred Schnittke and the world premiere of 'Flavours'. A piece specially composed for the occasion by the Dutch composer Eef van Breen. The program ends with the big Cello Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. 

Utrecht String Quartet US mini Tour

Friday, February 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM
The Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium - Washington, DC
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Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Ukranian Institute of America - New York, NY
For tickets: 212-288-8660
Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts - Cambridge, MA
For tickets: 617-876-5160

The Utrecht String Quartet is one of the most renowned chamber-music ensembles, known internationally for its versatile and dynamic approach. Resident in the Netherlands, the musical world of the Utrecht String Quartet is borderless and boundless, and whichever work its musicians choose to play in the genre of string-quartet music, it is their general policy to avoid any hint of treating them like museum exhibits. Even when it comes to traditional works, the musicians succeed, time and again, in discovering elements that can be interpreted anew, or in finding unusual concert locations in which to perform them. However, it is mainly because of their search for lost or forgotten repertoire and for their collaboration with contemporary composers that the members of the Utrecht String Quartet have gained their excellent reputation in the music world.

Their mini tour in the US will be started off with the String Quartet no. 1 by Auerbach, a Washington premier!