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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, 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 Poétesse : Diana Norma ( Saxophoniste : Dennis Shafer (US), Pianiste : Matthias Leboucher ( ... 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 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. 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
… 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, World Saxophone Congress XV Presents Jean-Michel Goury’s BB Saxophone Ensemble WORKS
BY CARLOSEMA, REICH, AND MORE JM Goury’s
saxophone ensembly plays for 2,000 people in 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 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 Dennis Shafer and Friends POETRY
OF DIANA NORMA AND MUSIC OF DAVID KREBS 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 @ Oregon State Department of Art Presents… William Shafer Celebration Concert Sounds in Bloom and Dennis
Shafer interact with the art of graduating Seniors
from Saturday 16 May @ Longy
Longy
Chamber Orchestra Presents… Concerto Competition Winners: Dennis Shafer plays Berio Chemins IV Edward
M. Pickman Recital Hall, Longy
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
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 Longitude
New Music Ensemble Presents… New Music Extravaganza Works
by Davidofsky, Gabriele, and more! Edward
M Pickman Recital Hall, Longy
Central
Square T Stop Dennis Shafer will play the THURSDAY
APRIL 9, 2009 AT 7:30PM TRICOTISM: saxophonist Dennis
Shafer and pianist Simon Tedeschi 71
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 NEW Come
hear a wonderful collaboration between artists of all disciplines at the New
School of Music in 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, 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
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 FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2009 AT 7:30PMDennis Shafer and Friends: VOX 4 String Quartet, Shafer Saxophone Quartet, Sounds in Bloom, Dr. T, and 5 World-Premieres!
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