Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano US MarchTour

Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano. Photo: www.janvis.nl

Sunday, March 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM
Miami Mansion - Miami Beach, FL
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Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Provocateur - New York, NY
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Friday, March 11, 2011 at 9:30 PM
Royale - Boston, MA
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Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Fur NIghtclub - Washington D.C., DC
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Thursday, March 17, 2011 at t.b.a.
Senseo Supperclub - Orlando, FL
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Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 12:00 AM
NOS Events Center, Beyond Wonderland - San Bernadino, CA
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Mixmag's Beach Party - Miami Beach, FL
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Sunday, March 26, 2011 at 12:00 AM
LIV Nightclub - Miami, FL
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Sunday, March 26, 2011 at 12:00 AM
Ultra Festival - Miami, FL
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Sunday, March 26, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Pool @ Shelborne South Beach - Miami Beach, FL

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Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano, two notable personalities with a single goal: to entertain as many people as possible with their deep and funky house sound. As a DJ duo, they are irresistible. Put them in a DJ booth together and instant interaction and chemistry is there, with an eye for the audience and an ear for each other. Effortlessly adapting to one another seems to be no problem for these two best friends and partners in crime. 


From the moment they entered the DJ profession, they agreed to do something serious with their common passion: house music. Quickly after their first gig together Sunnery and Ryan established themselves as top DJs.

Besides performing, they are very busy with producing. Even that is something they do together. As if they don’t see enough of one another during gigs and their private lives, they’re also studio buddies. In May 2008 they released their first track ‘Pina. One month later, Sunnery and Ryan released the club hit ‘Lift U Up’, featuring Melvin Reese and Chappell. After these successful productions, Sunnery & Ryan continued with tracks such as ‘The Desert’, which has been released on D.O.N.S.’s Kingdome Cuts, and several remixes such as Sander Kleinenberg’s ‘This Is Our Night’ and Kaskade’s ‘Dynasty’.
In February 2010, Sunnery and Ryan launched their very own ‘Amazone Project’ event in Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam. 5500 fans came to join the SJ-RM-hype and witnessed an exclusive 5-hour-set. The Amazone Project compilation album entered #2 in the charts. Amazone Project also hosted areas at the Dirty Dutch Indoor event (30.000 visitors) and the Dirty Dutch VS The World Festival.

Joris Roelof March Gigs

Joris Roelofs. Photo: Pieter Hijma

Friday, March 4, 2011 at 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 PM

Ft. Greg Hutchinson, Aidan Carroll

The Bar Next Door - New York, NY 

Admission: $12

Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Ft. Brad Mehldau and Friends

Zanckel Hall, Carnegie Hall - New York, NY 

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Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM

Ft. Brad Mehldau and Friends

Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall - Cambridge, MA

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Monday, March 14, 2011 at  7:00 PM

Ft. Camila Meza

Zinc Bar - New York,  NY 

Admission: $8

Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 8:30 PM  

Ft. Carlo Costa

I-Beam - Brooklyn, NY

Admission: $10 suggested donation

Joris Roelofs, born 1984 in Aix-en-Provence (France), raised in Amsterdam (Netherlands), plays saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet and flute. He started to play classical clarinet at the age of six, and then started the alto saxophone at the age of twelve.

Joris has been a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra since 2005. Joris also plays lead alto in the Jazz Orchestra Of The Concertgebouw in the Netherlands. He graduated in 2007 as a Master of Music at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and has won many national and international prices. Among others, Joris played with Ari Hoenig, Eric Harland, Aaron Goldberg, Lionel Loueke, Reginald Veal, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lewis Nash, Greg Hutchinson, WDR Big Band and Christina Branco. Also as a soloist he performed with many leading orchestra's, like the Orkest van het Oosten (classical) and Jazz Orchestra Of The Concertgebouw (jazz), among others. Next to that he recorded as a special clarinet soloist with the Metropole Orchestra. As a leader he performed twice at the North Sea Jazz Festival, several times at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Smalls Jazz Club in NYC, among other places. In october 2008 he did a European release tour with Ari Hoenig, Aaron Goldberg and Johannes Weidenmüller to promote his debute album ‘Introducing Joris Roelofs’. This CD was recorded in New York for Wolfgang Muthspiel’s record label Material Records. He just finished his second tour in october with Aaron Goldberg, Greg Hutchinson and Reginald Veal. Joris also plays in a trio with Jesse van Ruller and Clemens van der Feen, and is currently one of the candidates for lead alto in the WDR big band, in Cologne. As a sideman Joris has been playing at a large number of international jazzfestivals and jazzclubs, all over the world.

Joris moved to New York City on March 4 2008.

Joris Teepe & the New York comes to Groningen Program

Joris Teepe. Photo: De Werf

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is excited to announce the winners of the fifth annual Groningen Award. The 2011 recipients are bassist Ian Kenselaar of Maplewood and vocalist Brittany Henderson of Newark.

The Groningen Award provides two current students in NJPAC’s acclaimed Wachovia Jazz For Teens (WJFT) program with a trip to the “New York comes to Groningen” program at the Prince Claus Conservatory in Groningen, the Netherlands.

NJPAC's Wachovia Jazz for Teens bass instructor Joris Teepe, as chairman of the jazz department at the Prince Claus Conservatory, implemented and continues to oversee the “New York comes to Groningen” program, a unique approach to undergraduate jazz education that emphasizes professional mentoring, diverse music styles and strong focus on performance. The outstanding faculty of this program includes NJPAC's WJFT Music Director Don Braden.

Louis Andriessen and Han Bennink at 16th Other Minds Festival of New Music

Louis Andriessen

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - Saturday, March 5, 2011

Panel discussion at 7:00 PM

Concert at 8:00 PM

Kanbar Hall, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA

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For Andriessen's interview with Joshua Kosma, Chronicle Music Critic in the San Fransico Chronicle (March 3, 2011)
For a review of Andriessen of Joshua Kosma, Chronicle Music Critic in the San Fransisco Chronicle (March 7, 2011)

Other Minds 16 features nine maverick composers from around the world in concerts and panel discussions. Other Minds 16 is a festival of new music featuring eight maverick composers from around the world in concerts and panel discussions. Including two legendary Dutch musicians, composer Louis Andriessen and the radical improvising drummer Han Bennink.

Louis Andriessen's music will be performed by performers including Monica Germino (US/Netherlands), Cristina Zavalloni, the Seattle Chamber Players, and some of the best musicians residing in the SF Bay Area. The composer will participate in pre-concert panel discussions and also perform at the piano on both evenings.

Jazz and improv pioneer Han Bennink, co-founder of the Instant Composers Pool, will join forces with noise-making guitarist Fred Frith for a raucous set.  

Han Bennink

Giulia Mureddu 2 weeks Residency at Dance New Amsterdam

Giulia Mureddu. Photo: www.dnadance.org

Modern Guest Artist Classes

Monday Feb 28 - Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 2:00-4:00 PM

DNA's Theatre - New York, NY

Public Residency Showing

Friday, March 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM

DNA's Theatre - New York, NY

Admission: free

 

DNA is pleased to host choreographer Giulia Mureddu, from The Netherlands, for a two-week creative residency in March 2011. DNA first presented Mureddu in the OBject.obJECT series in February 2011. DNA is thrilled to not only welcome her back, but also to provide their community with the unique opportunity of working with an international artist of this caliber and to continue their relationship with The Netherlands through the Netherlands Cultural Services and the Netherland-America Foundation.

The work of Giulia Mureddu (IT/NL) is characterized by multilayered performances in which disarming humor, theatrical and physical dance intermingle. Mureddu is a dance theatre artist whose priority is to act beyond the borders of already known forms and aesthetics. Her performances consistently build a close relationship with the viewer through provocation and play. Also, Mureddu aims to initiate possibilities of exchange and discussion within the performing field, crossing the borders between makers, performers, specialists and public by way of linking performances, workshops and encountering.

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.