ANNOUNCING: Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis
Brooklyn-based electroacoustic composer/performer Daniel Wohl, praised as one of his generation’s “imaginative and skillful creators” (The New York Times), will release his debut album Corps Exquis June 25 on New Amsterdam Records. Wohl’s music is performed by acclaimed new music quintet TRANSIT on the disc, and features guest performances by Aaron Roche, Julia Holter and So Percussion. Wohl and TRANSIT will celebrate...
yMusic
yMusic performs at Rockwood Music Hall with premieres of music by Timo Andres, Marcos Balter, Mark Dancigers and Sufjan Stevens as well as works by Nico Muhly and Andrew Norman. MORE INFO AND TICKETS
Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis Record Release Show
Electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl’s project Corps Exquis incorporates electronics, chamber music performance and video art to create an immersive multimedia experience. Performed by the virtuosic chamber ensemble TRANSIT with Wohl on electronics, each piece is accompanied by a video created specifically for it by some of New York’s brightest young visual artists: Antoine Catala, Alexis Gambis, Satan’s Pearl...
Press Round-Up: Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society’s Brooklyn Babylon
Brooklyn-based composer-bandleader Darcy James Argue and his innovative 18-piece big band Secret Society released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Brooklyn Babylon, April 30th on New Amsterdam Records, and the album has already been receiving a significant amount of praise from multiple press outlets. Downbeat Magazine recently named the album an Editor’s Pick for May 2013, stating that “Argue refuses to...
Darcy James Argue with Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos
The Jazz Composers Forum concert with the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos features the world premiere of a new work by Darcy James Argue. MORE INFO AND TICKETS
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society performs Brooklyn Babylon in full multimedia performance at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. MORE INFO AND TICKETS
Darcy James Argue on tour with Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra
Darcy James Argue, along with celebrated pianist Sean Wayland, team up with Australia’s Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra for a national tour to celebrate the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra’s 10th Anniversary. Darcy James Argue with Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra live in Australia Tour Dates: May 25 Casula Powerhouse – Liverpool, NSW May 26 Illawarra Performing Arts Centre – Wollongong, NSW May 27...
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society performs at the Da Camera Chamber Music and Jazz Festival in Houston, TX. MORE INFO AND TICKETS
Daniel Wohl’s Corps Exquis
Pianist David Friend presents and performs Daniel Wohl’s multimedia project “Corps Exquis,” an experimental piece initiated by TRANSIT New Music, an NYC-based consortium of performers and visual artists including Antoine Catala, Alexis Gambis, Satan’s Pearl Horses, Andrew Steinmetz and Teddy Stern, Brina Thurston, and Yui Kugimiya. Incorporating sound, live music performance, and video art to create...
Caroline Shaw Wins 2013 Pulitzer Prize
Partita for 8 Voices by Caroline Shaw has been awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music! The 26-minute four-movement work composed between 2009-2012 was recorded by the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth for New Amsterdam (released on October 30, 2012). The prize is for a “distinguished musical composition by an American that has had its...
Victoire
Gotham Chamber Opera and composer-in-residence Missy Mazzoli conspire to present an evening of cutting- edge new vocal works composed in the last 350 years. Works of Purcell, Gounod, Britten, Verdi, Mahler, and John Adams will be performed, along with recent works by Mazzoli, by Gotham Chamber Opera singers and Mazzoli’s band, Victoire, in (le) Poisson Rouge’s celebrated casual,...
Jace Clayton’s The Julius Eastman Memory Depot Press Round-Up
Jace Clayton (also known as DJ /rupture) has been receiving a significant amount of press coverage for his new album, The Julius Eastman Memory Depot, recently released on New Amsterdam Records. Pitchfork’s Jayson Greene gave the album a 7.8 score, stating that Clayton has a ”searingly immediate communion with Eastman’s vital, contrary spirit.” Textura called the album...
