Spectrum Launches Richard Barrett Festival This Week

Spectrum proudly presents a three-day festival of works by the inventive composer/performer Richard Barrett tonight, June 24th, and June 26th & 30th at 8pm.

The festival features a wealth of music luminaries such as Miranda Cuckson, TILT Brass, Milana Zari?, Lester St. Louis, Peter Evans, David Shively, Gleb Kanasevich and Barrett himself.

Each concert will be preceded by a discussion at 7pm. Tickets are $20; $10 for students and seniors.

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FESTIVAL LINEUP:

CONCERT ONE
Wednesday, June 24th at 8pm
Preconcert conversation with Aaron Cassidy at 7pm
Aurora (2010) - TILT Brass: Tim Leopold (trumpet), Will Lang (alto trombone)
tendril (2013) - Milana Zari? (harp) & RB (electronics)
Katasterismoi (1999) - electronic music
basalt (1991) - TILT Brass: Christopher McIntyre (trombone)
EQUALE (2013, composed by RB & Kees Tazelaar) - electronic music
codex XII (2013) TILT Brass: Leopold and Gareth Flowers (trp.), Lang (alto trb.), McIntyre (trb., synths) & RB

CONCERT TWO
Friday, June 26th at 8pm Preconcert conversation with Robert Rowe at 7pm
The Unthinkable (1989) electronic music
air (1993) - Miranda Cuckson (violin)
life-form parts 3, 6 and 7 (2012) - Lester St. Louis (cello) & RB
improvisation - Lori Freedman (bass clarinet) & RB
SIMORGH (2010) - electronic music
codex III (2003) - Lester St. Louis, Milana Zari? & RB

CONCERT THREE
Tuesday, June 30th at 8pm
Preconcert conversation with Matthew Ricketts at 7pm
improvisation - Peter Evans (trumpet) & RB
knospend-gespaltener (1993) - Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet in C)
improvisation - UIIU (Christopher McIntyre & David Shively) & RB
CHARON (1995) - Gleb Kanasevich (bass clarinet)
codex XVI (2015, first performance) - UIIU, Milana Zari?, Peter Evans & RB

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SPECTRUM is located at 121 Ludlow Street, Second Floor, NY (Subway: F, M, J & Z trains to Essex/Delancey station). Admission: $20/$10 students and seniors. For more information, visit www.spectrumnyc.com.

About Richard Barrett, Composer/Performer - Richard Barrett (1959) is internationally active as both a composer and improvising performer, and has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. His long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986 (and its more recent octet version fORCH), composing for and performing with the ELISION contemporary music group since 1990, and regular appearances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003. Recent larger projects include CONSTRUCTION, a two-hour work for twenty-three performers and three-dimensional sound system, premiered by ELISION in 2011, the hour-long life-form for cello and electronics, premiered by Arne Deforce in 2012, and world-line for electric lap steel guitar and ensemble for Daryl Buckley and ELISION, premiered in October 2014. He is currently working on a new evening-length project close-up - a collaboration with Ensemble Studio6 of Belgrade, where he has been based since the end of 2013 - and a new work for the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart. He studied composition principally with Peter Wiegold, and currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and at the University of Leiden, having previously held a professorship at Brunel University in London. His work as composer and performer is documented on over 25 CDs, including six discs devoted to his compositions and eight by FURT. www.richardbarrettmusic.com