Vendredi 25 juin @ La Baraka, 20h, FREE/GRATUIT

Opus Jazz Duo

Dîner Musical

70, rue Daguerre

Paris 14e

Metro Denfert Rocherau

 

Enjoy your dinner with live music from the Opus Jazz Duo.  Copious amounts of delicious couscous provided with equally satisfying jazz and classical standards!  This cozy venue provides outdoor seating and indoor seating in on the lovely pedestrian rue Daguerre.

 

Lundi 21 juin @ Chateau de Sacy, 20h, FREE/GRATUIT

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Présente

Fête de la Musique, France

1, rue Verte, Sacy-le-Petit, France

 

Venu directement de Boston pour vous faire connaître les arts vivants des Etats-Unis, le Chagall Performance Art Collaborative vous fera entendre, sur des poésies de Diana Norma, des œuvres de Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten... ainsi que des improvisations.

 

Décrit dans le journal Boston Globe comme "nightlife pick", le Chagall Performance Art Collaborative s'est fait connaître pour sa programmation avant-gardiste à la fois raffinée et très accessible au public. Récemment, sa tournée Choose Your Own Adventure a été très appréciée à Boston et à Kansas City. Elle incluait des créations mondiales par des danseurs, artistes visuels, compositeurs, poètes, et musiciens de Kansas City, Boston, Paris, Bordeaux, Rome, et Sudbury (Canada).

 

Poétesse : Diana Norma (Hongrie, US),

Saxophoniste : Dennis Shafer (US),

Pianiste : Matthias Leboucher (Paris),

... et autres!

 

ChagallPAC presents a lively set of contemporary and classical music mixed with poetry.  Musical features include the Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten and Sequenza VII by Luciano Berio.  These pieces are blended seemlessly with poetry recited by Diana Norma, and other poems and music inspired by other works of art, poetry, and literature!  This concert also features the sonic sensation of Soundpainting, the live composition of music with gestures, invented by Walter Thompson.  Come learn how to Soundpaint, and become an active part of this artistic soundspace painted by the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative!

 

For more information on past events, soundbytes, and the mission of ChagallPAC, visit www.ChagallPAC.ning.com

 

 

Friday 21 May @ OUTPOST, 9pm, $5/10

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE Finale Concert

Featuring Rita Banerjee

 

Choose between original poems and music and get a sneak preview of poems from Rita Banerjee’s chapbook Cracklers at Night, which will be published this Fall at Finishing Line Press!  Be careful what you choose—you may be involved in the performance yourself!

 

Rita Banerjee, poet

Diana Norma, poet

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Jonathan Hurley, guitar

Rob Rudin, drums

 

Monday 17 May @ Wellesley MS Auditorium, 3PM

Soundpainting Workshop

Beginners Soundpainting Workshop

 

Dennis Shafer and Diana Norma bring Soundpainting to 4th through 7th graders and their parents at Wellesley Middle School’s Auditorium.  These students learn the core Soundpainting gestures in 30 minutes then finish with a 10 minute Soundpainting performance with no preparation or precomposed music!  Poetry is used to engage the audience and parents, and to help the students to apply meaningful musical interpretation to a text.

 

Diana Norma, poet, Soundpainter

Dennis Shafer, musician, Soundpainter

 

Check out a recording of the workshop!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpXrFwS45Xs

 

Friday 16 April @ OUTPOST, 9pm, $5/10

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE Visiting Composer Concert

Featuring Robert Lemay

With Special Guest Anne de Fornel

186.5 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge

 

Choose the order in which you hear music by Robert Lemay, played for Robert Lemay!  Meet and greet with the Canadian composer afterwards with refreshments and find out how the music is made!  Featuring works he wrote for saxophone and various instruments, and poetic interludes inspired by Diana Norma inspired by the music. Also featuring concert pianist Anne de Fornel from Lyon, France!

 

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Diana Norma, poet

Lesley O’Donel, flute

Anne de Fornel, piano

Rebecca Wellons, saxophone

 

Monday 12 April @ The Boston Conservatory, 8PM, FREE

Boston Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble Saxtravaganza!

Concert Featuring the Music of Robert Lemay and Etienne Rolin

8 The Fenway, Boston

Hynes Convention Center

 

Dennis conducts Calligramme by Robert Lemay for Robert Lemay himself, who is visiting from Canada to hear his works played, and lecture about his music.  The concert will also feature a Soundpainting piece by Etienne Rolin called Mural Treatment and other transcriptions for this versatile group of saxophonists!

 

SUNDAY APRIL 4TH AT LIBERTY HALL, 6-10PM

Americana Music Academy Presents…

Fundraising Music Festival and Soundpainting Extravaganza!

$12 door, $10 advance, $7 student

644 Mass St, Lawrence, KS

785-749-1972

Tickets available at www.LibertyHall.net or Ticketmaster

 

Big Stack Daddy

Lawrence Clarinet Choir

Bob Ross Soundpainting Group

The Chagall Performance Art Collaborative

DJs Aaronmac and AlanPaul

 

Please join us for a blow-out show featuring amazing musical variety in Americana Music Academy’s 2010 Grand Feature event in Liberty Hall! Featuring a Silent Auction with services and goods donated from vibrant downtown businesses, Americana members, local artists and performers. Performers from across the musical spectrum present a lively, one-of-a-kind celebration featuring classy clarinets, sexy saxophones and the sonic sensation known as Soundpainting.  Lawrence’s matchless good-time band, Big Stack Daddy, rounds the evening out with music sure to send you home smiling.

 

Friday 26 March @ Jewett Hall, First Church of Cambridge

8PM, $10

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE SERIES PREMIERE CONCERT!

11 Garden Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge

 

First ever of its kind, this concert lets you choose your own destiny.  When you arrive at the concert, choose which door to walk through, and depending on where you sit, you will see and hear the concert differently!  Then, after the first piece of the concert, YOU will decide what to hear next!  Be careful which page you turn to, because who knows what awaits you at the end of this unique musical adventure!  What is for certain: you will hear World Premieres by Claudio Gabriele, Paul Klein, Etienne Rolin, and a Soundpainting concept-piece by Dennis Shafer (and friends!).

 

Collaborating artists:

 

Dennis Shafer, Director, saxophone

Diana Norma, poet

Emily Beattie, dance

Trevor Martin, visual artist

Lesley O’Donel, flute

Sachiko Murata, oboe

Kathleen Leblanc-Hood, clarinet

Ara Sarkissian, piano

Tim Pence, guitar

Olga Patramanskya, violin

Lilit Hartunian, violin

Keith Sanders, viola

Rachel Arnold, cello

Jennifer Bill, saxophone

Rebecca Wellons, saxophone

Sean Mix, saxophone

Rich Labedz, saxophone

Vitalius Visovskis, saxophone

David Krebs, Sound artist

Jon Amon, saxophone

 

For full press release, visit www.ChagallPAC.ning.com

 

LIMITED SPACE! RESERVE TICKETS NOW BY EMAILING soundsinbloom@gmail.com

 

Friday 19 March @ OUTPOST, 9pm, $5/10

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents

DEBUT CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE SERIES CONCERT!

186.5 Hampshire Street

Inman Square, Cambridge

 

Remember those children’s books?  A concert with 4 different endings—you decide!  Don’t miss this mind-bending concept concert!  Featuring Soundpainting and works by Berio, Scelsi, Britten, Jakob T.V. and more!

 

Rebecca Wellons, saxophone

Jennifer Bill, saxophone

Ashley Addington, flute

Rich Labedz, saxophone

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Diana Norma, poet

Emily Beattie, dancer

 

Saturday 6 March @ Concord Performing Arts Center, 8pm $5/15

Concord Band Celebrates French Music and the Saxophone

 

Dennis Shafer will join the Concord Band to perform an arrangement of Claude Debussy's The Girl With the Flaxen Hair. He is a member and co-founder of the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet, who will be the Concord Band's guest ensemble for the upcoming concert. The other members of this innovative and dynamic quartet are Jennifer Bill, Lauren Nicholas, and John Knasas. Together with the band, they will perform composer Bill Holcombe's piece Stephen Foster Revisited, which is a collection of familiar Foster tunes. The program will also include works by French and American composers, including Milhaud, Berlioz, Dukas, and Ives.

 

The Concord Band, founded in 1959, is one of the leading community concert bands in the United States. It is well known for its innovative programming and the exceptional quality of its commissioned pieces. It presents both formal and Pops concerts throughout the year. Thousands attend its summer concerts each year at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts.

 

www.ConcordBand.org

www.BackBayQuartet.com

 

Saturday 6 March @ Wellesley Free Library 3pm, Free

Studio Recital featuring the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet

 

See Dennis Shafer’s extraordinary saxophone and clarinet students can play, then see what they could play if they keep it up for 20 years in an encore by the Back Bay Saxophone Quartet!

 

 

Saturday 6 March @ Salem State College, 12noon, Free

Saxophone clinic and workshop by Dennis Shafer

 

Dennis Shafer performs Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten, Arianna by Francois Rosse, speaks briefly about extended techniques on the saxophone, and then leads a Soundpainting workshop!

 

Friday 19 February @ OUTPOST, 9pm, $5/10

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents…

A MUSICAL AND POETIC JOURNEY FROM FREEDOMVILLE TO BREAKDOWNS

 

Featuring Poet Scott Ruescher, Cellist Rachel Arnold, and Flutist Ashley Addington.

Take a journey with Ruescher’s new chapbook Sidewalk Tectonics (2009 Pudding House Press). Musically enhanced by this ruthless duo, Jim Scully’s Duplicitous Encounter will start the trip from Lincoln’s birthplace to the site Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, highlighted by Christopher Gainey’s Breakdowns.  No kidding, there’s blues in this one--and Soundpainting, too!   Bring your own contribution in the form of poetry, sound, spirits, and be ready for a surprise from the exhibited visual artist, Sarah Kinne!

 

Scott Ruescher, poet

Ashley Addington, flute

Rachel Arnold, cello

Dennis Shafer, Soundpainter, saxophone

Diana Norma, poet

Sarah Kinne, visual artist

 

Wednesday February 17 @ Kansas University, Swarthout Recital Hall

Masterclass with Dennis Shafer

Presenting Extended Techniques, Luciano Berio, and Etienne Rolin

 

Dennis Shafer presents a workshop with extended techniques that are found in Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIIb for Soprano Saxophone, and Etienne Rolin’s Mural Treatment for saxophone ensemble. 

 

Saturday 30 January 2010 @ Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, $16-$46

Dennis Shafer’s Concerto Debut Concert with…

The New England String Ensemble **buy tickets**

Frederic Cortese, Conductor

30 Gainsborough Street

Boston, Symphony T-Stop

 

In his debut concerto performance at Jordan Hall, Dennis Shafer performs Chemins IV for Soprano Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra with Frederic Cortese conducting.  Also on the program: Mozart, Piazzolla, and Beethoven. 

 

Friday 15 January @ OUTPOST, 9pm, $5/10

Sounds in Bloom Presents…

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative

 

DEBUT SOUNDPAINTING AND POETRY WORKSHOP! Come enjoy some Soundpainting, the live composition of music with gestures, and paint or BE painted with sound at the OUTPOST.  Come with or without your instruments to jam with Dennis Shafer, Diana Norma, and the hottest, newest string quartet, fresh off the press.  Also featuring Sequenza VIIb by Luciano Berio, and Constriction by Paul Klein.

 

Diana Norma, poet

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Olga Patramanskaya, violin

Lilit Hartunian, violin

Keith Sanders, viola

Javier Cavallero, cello

Friday 18 December @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10 or b/o

Sounds in Bloom presents...

Chagall Performance Collaborative

186.5 Hampshire Street, Inman Square

Cambridge, Central Square T-Stop

 

Inter-Holiday Party Collaborative Concert !

Featuring twisted holiday-style live film scoring of short films by David Lynch (backed up by our Collaborators), and the poetry of special guest Raffael de Gruttola and Diana Norma in silent film-interludes by the Lumiere Brothers.  Raffael will read his renku poetry and we will finish with a Haiku jam featuring his jazz haiku!

 

Bring your friends and come have your holiday party here!  All religious/non-religious followings welcome!  Followed by an open mic and cocktail so bring your own favorite original words and music to jam with us!

 

Collaborating Artists

 

Raffael de Gruttola, poet

Diana Norma, poet

Entropy Machine:

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Jonathan Hurley, guitar

Jason Felitto, bass

Christopher Montecalvo, percussion and wind up toys

 

Friday 11 December @ Tiki Jazz Lounge, 9pm FREE

Dennis Shafer is featured in the debut show of…

Entropy Machine

at the Howard Johnson Hotel

1271 Boylston Street, Boston

Hynes Convention Center T-Stop

 

Come enjoy two sets of entirely new originally composed jazz by all the members!  This new group makes jazz more entertaining than it ever used to be!  New songs that sound great and won’t let you down in energy, freshness, and character!

 

Entropy Machine:

Jonathan Hurley, guitar

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Dawson Hill, keys

Jason Felitto, bass

Christopher Montecalvo, drums

 

Friday 5 December @ Acton Jazz Cafe, 9pm, $15door/$12advance

MUSANER Armenian-Jazz Fusion

Ara Sarkissian, director/pianist

452 Great Road

Acton, MA 01720

 

Dennis Shafer’s debut performance with the stellar fusion ensemble MUSANER. 

 

For more information on the line-up of musicians, to buy tickets, or to buy their new album, go to www.lucentmusic.com/musaner

 

Friday 20 November @ OUTPOST, 9pm, $5/10

Sounds in Bloom Presents…

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative

 

Special guest poet Judson Evans performs unheard poems from his Museum of Impossible Inventions and Sounds in Bloom plays Steve Lacy’s Jazz combined with spoken word by Diana Norma.  Also, Sounds in Bloom’s own Lacy-inspired Jazz heads will be with a glorious rhythm section of equally experimental players.  Bring your own spoken word to try it out with melodic jazz improvisation!

 

Judson Evans, poet

Diana Norma, poet

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

John Hurley, guitar

Jason Felitto, bass

Rob Rudin, drums

 

Monday 16 November @ Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory, 8PM FREE

The Boston Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble Presents…

SAXTRAVAGANZA! Ken Radnofsky, Director

Dennis Shafer conducts Robert Lemay’s Calligramme

 

This saxophone ensemble, comprised of all sizes of saxophones numbering from 12 to 14 saxophones in instrumentation, will be playing works written and transcribed for the ensemble, and features the Boston premiere of Robert Lemay’s Calligramme, conducted by Dennis Shafer.  All other works on the program are performed sans conductor!

 

Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November @ BU Dance Theatre, 8pm, $20/15(students and seniors)

Composer/Choreographer Consortium 2009 Debut Season

JUDDERTONE Presents…

 

915 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, St Paul St T-Stop

FOR TICKETS, CALL 617-358-2500 

 

Dennis Shafer premieres a work by John Morrison in this composer/choreographer showdown!

 

The Juddertone Performance Series, an annual rotating consortium of accomplished composers and choreographers, announces its 2009 Debut Season. The 2009 line-up includes a diverse group of artists including Longy School of Music Chair of Composition, John Morrison, Brooklyn New York choreographer Eva Perotta, and Mobius Artist Group member and fight-dance choreographer, Alissa Waller.

 

Tuesday 13 October @ University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

Masterclass and Concert with Jonathan Amon, Visiting Professor of Saxophone

 

Dennis Shafer gives a performance and masterclass on composers Luciano Berio and Bernard Carlosema, with an improvisation workshop on how to improvise with extended techniques.  He is also featured in a faculty recital, performing Ximix by Francois Rosse, and Das Mosaik Vom Tonfrequenzspektrum by Seongyoun Hong for saxophone duo and live electronics.

 

Friday 18 September @ OUTPOST, 8pm, $5/10

Sounds in Bloom Presents…

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative

186.5 Hampshire Street, Inman Square

Cambridge, Central Square T-Stop

 

Sounds in Bloom presents its latest line-up of classically-trained musicians making their instruments dance, poets making words walk on tightropes while holding a lantern, dancers losing their bodies in paintings, a whole lot of artistic happenings packed into a cozy gallery space.

 

Composer Ara Sarkissian presents his choose-your-own adventure compositions, Gil Cruz his crazy solo trombone, and much, much more.

 

Diana Norma, poetry

Ellen Godena, dance

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Gil Cruz, trombone

Ara Sarkissian, piano and composition

 

 

Monday 31 August @ University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music, 5pm

Solo Performance and Masterclass

3601 Pacific Ave

Stockton, CA

Dennis Shafer leads a masterclass hosted by David Henderson, saxophone professor, and his saxophone class at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music.  Works presented by Berio, Carlosema, Rosse, and Bach.  Also features a workshop on contemporary improvisation and with poetry.

 

 

  

Friday 28 August @ The Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, 12pm

A solo interpretation of Mark Applebaum’s

The Metaphysics of Notation

Rowland K. Rebele Gallery and Geballe Family Balcony

Dennis Shafer interacts with a work of art that simultaneously acts as a musical score called The Metaphysics of Notation by Mark Applebaum, Associate Professor of Composition at Stanford University.

Tuesday 25 August @ Hale Kapuna Heritage Home 10am

Outreach Event

4297A Omao Road

Lawai, HI

 

Friday 21 August (7pm) and Monday 24 August (12pm) @ Hanapepe Cafe

Diner Musicale

Dennis Shafer solo Hawaiian CD release!

3830 Hanapepe Road

Western Kauai, Hawaii

 

Thursday 9 July @ Music Auditorium, Mahidol University, 7:00pm

World Saxophone Congress XV Presents

Jean-Michel Goury’s BB Saxophone Ensemble

WORKS BY CARLOSEMA, REICH, AND MORE

Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

 

JM Goury’s saxophone ensembly plays for 2,000 people in Bangkok, Thailand!  Featuring the greatest works ever written for 12 saxophones!

 

Friday 26 June @ La Baraka, 7pm 5/10 Euro Donation

Diner Musicale

Opus Jazz Trio

Matthias Leboucher, piano; Hussein El Azab, Percussion

70, rue Daguerre, 14eme

Paris, France

 

Enjoy a wonderful couscous dinner and live arab-jazz fusion music!  One and only performance of the year! 

 

Thursday 11 June @ The Percolator, 7:30pm $5 Donation

Lawrence Arts Center Presents…

Dennis Shafer and Friends

POETRY OF DIANA NORMA AND MUSIC OF DAVID KREBS

913 Rhode Island Street

Lawrence, Kansas

 

Come see an unforgettable fusion between the performing arts of poetry and music and the visual arts!  Dreams of Mazes by David Krebs and Diana Norma, Sequenza VII by Luciano Berio, Rhapsody for Clarinet by William Osborne, and much, much more!

 

Friday 5 June @ Fairbanks Art Gallery, 4pm $5 Donation

Oregon State Department of Art Presents…

William Shafer Celebration Concert

220 SW 26th Street

Corvallis, Oregon

 

Sounds in Bloom and Dennis Shafer interact with the art of graduating Seniors from Oregon State University.  All donations will go to William Shafer, Dennis Shafer’s newest nephew!

 

Saturday 16 May @ Longy School of Music, 8pm FREE

Longy Chamber Orchestra Presents…

Concerto Competition Winners: Dennis Shafer plays Berio Chemins IV

Edward M. Pickman Recital Hall, Longy School of Music

One Follen Street, Cambridge, Harvard Square T Stop

 

Dennis Shafer performs Chemins IV of Luciano Berio.  This piece was originally written for oboe, then transcribed for saxophone by Claude Delangle.  It was later arranged for chamber orchestra (11 strings) by Berio himself. 

 

Friday 15 May @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10 or b/o

Sounds in Bloom presents...

Chagall Performance Collaborative

INSTALLATION PERFORMANCE ART AND SPATIAL POETICS

 

Come see this ephemeral, ethereal art event featuring sculptors, video art, poetry, and music.  Stretch your imagination of what is a performance in this interactive show!

 

Friday 17 April @ OUTPOST, 8pm $5/10 or b/o

Sounds in Bloom presents...

Chagall Performance Collaborative

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET

OUTPOST 186.5 Hampshire Street

Cambridge, Central Square T Stop

 

Artists from all disciplines, from poetry to installation art to music, all combine in an extravaganza show at the OUTPOST, with hosts Sounds in Bloom and Momentum.

 

Thursday 16 April @ Longy School of Music, 8pm FREE

Longitude New Music Ensemble Presents…

New Music Extravaganza

Works by Davidofsky, Gabriele, and more!

Edward M Pickman Recital Hall, Longy School of Music

One Follen Street, Cambridge

Central Square T Stop

 

Dennis Shafer will play the Boston premiere of Bleu, Rouge, Brun, Violet inspired by Paul Cezanne and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille.  Other works performed by Longitude New Music Ensemble.

 

THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2009 AT 7:30PM

TRICOTISM: saxophonist Dennis Shafer and pianist Simon Tedeschi

 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH 

71 EIGHTH STREET

NEW BEDFORD, MA

 300 Years of Music in One Hour!  An Unforgettable Evening of Saxophone and Piano

 Dennis Shafer and Simon Tedeschi present the best of the what was written for saxophone and piano in the last 300 years--and what wasn't as well!  Since its invention in 1840, the saxophone has become an attraction for composers of new music, as well as for transcriptions of the old.  Pianists have always had hard music to play as Simon Tedeschi and Franz Liszt will show you! 

Tuesday 7 April @ New School of Music, 7pm $5 donation

Chagall Performance Art Collaborative presents…

The Deadly and Wide Oceans Inside

Art Opening of Foxman James with Dance, Poetry, and Music

Works by Sounds in Bloom, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Part, and David Krebs

Special guest: Ellom in Voice from Estonia

NEW SCHOOL OF MUSIC

25 Lowell Street, Cambridge

Harvard Square T Stop

 

Come hear a wonderful collaboration between artists of all disciplines at the New School of Music in Cambridge.  Performing artists will react to the wonderful art of Foxman James in dance, performance poetry, and music.  Works also programmed include the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata, poems inspired by the art of Foxman James, and more!  Don't miss this ephemeral art event!

 

Kai-Ching Chang, piano

Kirsten Swanson, viola

Olha Patramansak, violin

Dennis Shafer, saxophone

Ellomal Toomet, poetry

Diana Norma Szokolyai, poetry

Artwork by Foxman James

 

Sunday 6 April @ The Boston Conservatory, 8pm FREE

The Boston Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble Presents…

Saxtravaganza 2009!

FEATURING: STRAVINSKY’S PULCINELLA STE FOR SAX SEXTET

DENNIS SHAFER, CONDUCTOR

8 The Fenway, Boston

Hynes Convention Center T Stop

 

Other works include a transcription of Pictures at an Exhibition, and Myopia for 12 saxophones by Curtis Hughes

 

Sunday 5 April @ OUTPOST, 6pm $5/10 or b/o

Sounds in Bloom presents...

Chagall Performance Collaborative

Opening Concert:  POETRY IN DIALOGUE

OUTPOST 186.5 Hampshire Street

Cambridge, Central Square T Stop

 

Sounds in Bloom: Diana Norma Szokolyai (Hungarian & American), poetry; Dennis Shafer, saxophone and musical guests Simon Tedeschi (piano) and Kirsten Swanson (viola)

Ellom in Voice, Estonian poet: American debut performance

 

Drawing on Eastern European imagery, mystical connections to their Finno-Ugric ancestry, and a deep connection to forests and mountain rivers, Norma and Ellom explore "the deadly and wide oceans inside" and "the dusty gold of souls tangled inside the Earth, that cosmic ball" (excerpts of some of the poetic dialogue, Ellom's followed by Norma's verse).  This is the first time they will perform together in the U.S., bringing their debut Parisian show to American audiences in April 2009.  Musical direction by Dennis Shafer. 

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009 AT 7:30PM

Dennis Shafer and Friends: VOX 4 String Quartet, Shafer Saxophone   Quartet, Sounds in Bloom, Dr. T, and 5 World-Premieres!


JEWITT HALL, LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
11 Garden Street, Cambridge, HARVARD SQUARE T-STOP

Dennis Shafer proudly presents composers Claudio Gabriele (Rome,   Italy), Paul Klein (Yale University), David Krebs (Lawrence,  Kansas),  Julie Case (Vermont), and Anthony Solitro (Worcester) in  wild end-of  year extravaganza featuring some of the most open- minded, fresh visual  and performing artists of our time.

This non-stop avant-garde fringe thriller concert brings together  the  most wonderful musical and artistic experiences Dennis Shafer  has had  during his studies as an Artist Diploma Candidate at the  Longy School  of Music.  Cross-disciplinary experiences from poetry  to video art,  music inspired by sculpture and then turned to  poetry, and work with  composers exploring new performance  techniques and sounds are Dennis  Shafer and Friends hope to share  with you!

Collaborators:
www.myspace.com/brexmusic David Krebs electronic music
www.myspace.com/vox4stringquartet VOX4 String Quartet
www.myspace.com/claudiogabriele Claudio Gabriele, composer
www.julietcase.com Juliet Case, Composer
www.myspace.com/tonysolitro Anthony Solitro, composer
www.myspace.com/dnorma Diana Norma Szokolyai, Sounds in Bloom,   performance artist
www.foryourhead.com Emile "Dr. T" Tobenfeld, Spontaneous Video Art


Nicolucci Concert Series Afternoon Concert

SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2009 AT 3PM 

Wellesley Free Public Library

Works by Frederic Rzewski, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

ART OPENING AT THE ZEITGEIST OUTPOST: NICK OLESZCZUK, DANA CHILDS   JERRY SLAYTON and HUY CHU
Sounds in Bloom reacts to the art of Nick Oleszczuk, Dana Childs,   Jerry Slayton, and Huy Chu
FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS: SIMON TEDESCHI AND THE VOX 4 STRING QUARTET
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8th, at 2pm
Zeitgeist OUTPOST
186.5 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA
CENTRAL SQUARE T STOP

Sounds in Bloom will premiere works by David Krebs and compose   performance art in reaction to the exhibition of art by Nick   Oleszczuk, Dana Childs, Jerry Slayton and Huy Chu.  Don't miss this   exciting, fresh new art in all its dimensions!

 

-------2008 Events------

 

Wednesday, 24 December @ Episcopal Church of St Augustine and St Martin, 10pm

31 Lenox Street, Roxbury
LENOX ST
T STOP

 Come hear Dennis Shafer play in a church service in the beautiful Episcopal Church of St Augustine and St Martin, who recently celebrated 100 years of service in their historic location on the border of Boston and Roxbury.  A vibrant, open-minded congregation, they frequently have special musical guests.  This Christmas Eve, I will accompany many Carols, and play the Flute Partita in A minor by J.S. Bach as well as a traditional Hungarian melody, St Istvan (St Stephens in Hungarian).

Reception to follow service


 Wednesday, 17 December @ Stan Herd’s Ninth Street Studios, 8pm

512 E 9th Street, Lawrence, KS

 

**FEATURING A SURPRISE BALL-PLAYING EXPERIENCE !!**

 

The solo saxophone recital features music from J.S. Bach and contemporary composers Bernard Carlosema, Francois Rosse, Juliet Case, Claudio Gabriele, and Frederic Rzewski, as well as traditional folk music from Serbia, Hungary, and Turkey.  

SPECIAL GUESTS: David Gnojek, saxophones; Brian Gnojek, clarinet; Chris Nichols, clarinet; Jose Espinosa, ball-player

 


Friday, 14 November @ Longy School of Music, 8pm

One Follen Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Dennis Shafer plays Luciano Berio's Chemins Iv for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra
Longy Chamber Orchestra Concert


Tuesday, 11 November @ Longy School of Music, 8pm Free

One Follen Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Longitude New Music Concert Featuring Clepsydre by Bernard Carlosema, for Soprano, Tenor, and Bass Saxophone and Tape


Monday, 10 November @ The Boston Conservatory, 8pm FREE

Saxophone Ensemble Concert Featuring Claudio Gabriele's La coefficient de la viscosite angelique for 12 saxophones,
Dennis
Shafer Conducting


 

Friday, 7 November @ The OUTPOST

186 and-a-half Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge
VORTEX series for new & improvised music presents:
"The Vortex Other Dimension Ensemble and Sounds in Bloom with Special Guest Guitarist Srdjan Grujicic (Serbia)"

A Special Collaboration with:
Todd Brunel - Clarinet
Emile Tobenfeld - video art
Diana Norma Szokolyai - poetry, movement
Dennis Shafer - saxophones
Chris Montecalvo - percussion

Noted for his "extreme musicality and originality" by French guitarist and composer Roland Dyens, Srdjan Grujicic composes and performs in all musical genres, in chamber groups and solo performances. Since his debut concert at age ten in Serbia, he has toured France, Switzerland, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Canada. Since 2005 he has studied at the National Superior Conservatory of Music in Paris, where he is currently a Masters Degree candidate. As laureate of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, Srdjan has the honor of a semester of study this year at the Peabody Institute. Classical, Jazz, Ethnic and especially music from the Balkans are the genres he where he finds again and again inspiration for his art.


Saturday, 1 November @ Mobius Art Space, 8pm $5/10

725 Harrison Ave, Boston
Sounds in Bloom in concert with the Gleason's Twins

2x2
An Evening of 2 Duo Collaborations with Poetry, Music and Dance
The Gleason's Twins is Joe Moffett (trumpet, poems), Kristin Slipp (voice, poems).
Sounds In Bloom is Diana Norma Szokolyai (poet, dancer, visual artist), Dennis Shafer (saxophonist, composer).
Sounds in Bloom will also be performing the world premiere of "Who Abandoned the Sinking Ship?" by Juliet Case.


Saturday 26 July at 8pm — La Baraka Restaurant: Diner Musical
Opus Jazz Trio — Sax, Piano, Percu Egyptien

70, rue Daguerre
Metro Denfert-Rocherau
Reservations 01 43 22 07 02
Entree Gratuite

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Thursday 31 July at La Cite International des Arts 8pm
Sounds in Bloom in Concert

Featuring Poets Diana Norma Szokolyai and Elom in Voice,
Matthias Leboucher (piano) and others!

Also featuring book signing of Roses in the Snow by Diana Norma Szokolyai.

18, rue de l'Hotel de Ville
Metro Pont-Marie
10 Euros/8 Euros avec Reservations (
shaferds@gmail.com)

For more information about Sounds in Bloom and the concert at Cite des Arts, please visit www.myspace.com/dnorma

For Elom in Voice, visit www.myspace.com/alonetimewithme

and for Dennis Shafer, www.dennisshafer.com

 

 
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