INTERPRETATIONS SERIES SEASON 32
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Joseph, 718-930-2286, info@interpretations.info
ROSCOE MITCHELL
WITH TANI TABBAL, WAVEFIELD ENSEMBLE
AND ANNA WRAY
OCT 28 AT ROULETTE
After a long pandemic hiatus, the Interpretations Series opens its 32nd season on Thursday October 28th, 2021 with NEA Jazz Master and founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Roscoe Mitchell. The concert will take place at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info.
A frequent guest on the series, and a featured artist on the inaugural season of Interpretations, Mitchell will offer a range of works spanning over thirty years.The program will feature a new multi-media solo performance that juxtaposes Mitchell live on saxophone and percussion, with himself performing on screen in a video by Wendy L. Nelson. Percussionist Tani Tabbal will join Mitchell for an extended improvised duet, and the evening will include two chamber works: Sunrise on an Ice Moon (2017-18) for solo vibraphone, performed by percussionist Anna Wray; and Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet (1984/85) performed by the Wavefield Ensemble comprised of Roberta Michel (flute), Katie Scheele (oboe), Eric Umble (clarinet), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) and John Gattis (french horn).
PLEASE NOTE: Prior to entering Roulette, everyone aged 12 and older must show proof of having received at least one dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine. We also ask that everyone please wear a mask.
Roscoe Mitchell is an internationally renowned musician and composer. His virtuosic resurrection of overlooked woodwind instruments spanning extreme registers, visionary solo performances, and assertion of a hybrid compositional/improvisational paradigm have placed him at the forefront of contemporary music. Mr. Mitchell is a founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and the trio Space. He is also distinguished as the founder of the Creative Arts Collective, The Roscoe Mitchell Sextet & Quartet, The Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, The Sound Ensemble, The New Chamber Ensemble, and the Note Factory.
His instrumental expertise includes the gamut of the saxophone and recorder families, clarinets, flute, piccolo, and the transverse flute in addition to his elaborate invention, the Percussion Cage. His oeuvre boasts hundreds of albums. His vast discography includes “Sound” (1966, 5-star review in DownBeat Magazine), “People in Sorrow” (1969, with the AEOC), “Nonaah” (1977, DownBeat Magazine Record of the Year), “Bells for the South Side” (2017, featured as one of the NYTimes’s best jazz albums of the year) and “Discussions” (distinguished on the NYTimes’s list of 2017’s best classical albums).
Mitchell’s honors include the 2020 NEA Jazz Master Fellowship, the United States Artist Award (2019), ASCAP Founders Award (2018), Multiple Reeds Player of the Year: Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards (2018), Doris Duke Artist Award and Audience Development Fund (2014), a CMA Presenting Jazz grant (2010), Golden Ear Award, Deep Listening Institute (2009),The Shifting Foundation Grant, Meet the Composer, and the John Cage Award for Music-Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc. From 2019 to 2021 he has completed several commissions for small ensembles and up to full orchestra. Additionally, he celebrated two 50-year anniversaries this decade: the AACM’s in 2015, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s in 2019.
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The Interpretations series, now in its 32nd season, is a New York-based concert series focusing on the relationship between contemporary composers and their interpreters. Sometimes the interpreters are the composers themselves; more often, the series features performers who specialize in the interpretation of new music. Since its inception in 1989, Interpretations has featured leading figures in contemporary music and multimedia, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, Joseph Kubera, Annea Lockwood, and Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Pauline Oliveros, Ursula Oppens, and Morton Subotnick.
Interpretations began as a collaboration with Robert and Helene Browning and the World Music Institute, presenting concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, then at Roulette, at its Greene Street location in Soho. When Roulette moved to the current space in Brooklyn, Interpretations moved with it. Interpretations is thrilled to co-produce at Roulette, which has developed into a premiere venue for new and innovative music, with excellent acoustics and world-class technical facilities.
UPCOMING:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18TH: MARI KIMURA / JOSEPH KUBERA
THURSDAY DECEMBER 2ND: AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS / DOUGLAS EWART
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ROULETTE:
509 Atlantic Ave. Downtown Brooklyn
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains & LIRR.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for students & seniors, available at Roulette.org and Interpretations.info. All concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise noted.
