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2018-11-14
COMING UP AT BAR THALIA / SYMPHONY SPACE. NYC ON DEC 21
BAR THALIA
SOPHIE DUNÉR / MARK KOSTABI / GENE PRITSKER ‘ECLECTIC SONGS’
Dec 21 2018 | 9pm
BAR THALIA
SOPHIE DUNÉR / MARK KOSTABI / GENE PRITSKER ‘ECLECTIC SONGS’
Dec 21 2018 | 9pm
Very excited to hear my piece Pey Vav Yud performed! And feeling honored for my composer feature in this beautiful event:
“…..stretching vocal and instrumental technique so that she not only fits the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, but seemingly all of the desperate fear and unbridled joy of human existence into every the extraordinary lyric.” “Miss Dunér’s attempt creates a new expression of Mr Mingus’ experience in a mash up of the surreal and a kind of modernist realism that is reminiscent of the kind of theatre of August Strindberg used to historicise and address social and political issues.” – Jazz da Gama, September 2018
On the occasion of the 120. th birthday of the great Lotte Lenya, I take the opportunity to post my Kurt Weill inspired piece “Captain Crunch”:
Thrilled over my collaboration together with great composer José Luís Greco:
https://grecomusica.wordpress.com/
“….stretching vocal and instrumental technique so that she not only fits the music of the 20th and 21th centuries, but seemingly all the desperate fear and unbridled joy of human existence into every the extraordinary lyric” -Jazz da Gama
Excited to announce that I will be performing in NYC at Bar Thalia/Symphony Space on December 21!
MUSIC
BAR THALIA
SOPHIE DUNÉR / MARK KOSTABI / GENE PRITSKER ‘ECLECTIC SONGS’
Dec 21 2018 | 9pm
…so grateful to be featured as a composer for this upcoming multi-media event: Composers Concordance presents CHORUS 72
Composers Concordance presents CHORUS 72 https://t.co/uO3cmiDvKd pic.twitter.com/FJViWmfOPx
— Gene Pritsker (@GenePritsker) August 27, 2018
Feeling honored to be featured as a composer for the upcoming season of Composers Concordance!
Composers Concordance Upcoming Season 2018-2019
Featuring “Hey Doctor” by Sophie Dunér ©
Review excerpt: “As always, the Swedish singer Sophie Dunér presents something brilliant and out of the norm . It has always been like that, a jazz singer, but in her own way – all the instrumentalists who left their mark on improvised music were in their own way. Note how she has control of what she does by simultaneously bringing her emotions to the outside, also expressed through verses that make her a respectable poet. She is one of the great contemporary singers. The album is among the most original savorine sounds of the year.” For full review, press link below.
Honored to have my video interview for DONNE featured in Gabriella di Laccio´s interview in Limelight Magazine
Gabriella di Laccio: there’s still a lot of ignorance of repertoire written by women
The DONNE project features “Ugly Beautiful” during Sophie´s video interview for them. The composition is from The City of My Soul (produced by Michael Haas & released on PARMA Recordings). One of the great CD reviews: “This is a first class creator and this is a stunning album, the music of which certainly opens up new and quite astonishing possibilities for other jazz vocal artists to emulate and expand” – Fanfare Magazine. Check out the DONNE playlist here: DONNE – Youtube Playlist
Nice photo feature at the new site of photographer petrabjorstad.se
DONNE | Women in Music has been featured in The Guardian, UK (see related articles below)
Female Composers largely ignored by concert line-ups
Women Composers Why are so many voices still silent?
The great Gabriella DiLaccio has her DONNE project (where I was lucky to be featured as a composer) in The Guardian today!
Also, check out Sophie´s video interview on DONNE´s Youtube playlist
Review excerpt: “As always, the Swedish singer Sophie Dunér presents something brilliant and out of the norm . It has always been like that, a jazz singer, but in her own way – all the instrumentalists who left their mark on improvised music were in their own way. Note how she has control of what she does by simultaneously bringing her emotions to the outside, also expressed through verses that make her a respectable poet. She is one of the great contemporary singers. The album is among the most original savorine sounds of the year.” For full review, press link below.
The City of Dizzy by Vittorio Lo Conte / MusicZoom
Proud to be apart of the playlist next to these amazing composers participating in DONNE – Women in Music – Celebrating Women Composers
