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Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, New York City Chapter, Inc. Concert Series 2013
HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID
FEATURING:
JOSE DAVILA (TUBA / TROMBONE)
LIBERTY ELLMAN (GUITAR)
ELLIOT KAVEE (PERCUSSION)
CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN (CELLO)
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HENRY THREADGILL
(FLUTE / BASS FLUTE / ALTO SAXOPHONE)
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AACM member Henry Threadgill is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. He studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He co-majored in piano and flute, along with composition. He studied piano with Gail Quillman and composition with Stella Roberts. He has had a music career for over forty years as both a leader and as a composer. Threadgill's music has been performed by many of his long lasting instrumental ensembles such as the trio Air with Fred Hopkins and Steve McCall, the seven-piece Sextet, Very Very Circus, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, X-75, Make a Move, Aggregation Orb, and his current group Zooid. He has recorded many critically acclaimed albums as a leader of these ensembles with various record labels namely Arista Novus, About Time, Axiom, Black Saint, Sony/Columbia and Pi. Threadgill has had numerous commissions and awards throughout his career. He has composed music for theatre, orchestra, solo instruments, and chamber ensembles. His works for large orchestras, such as Run Silent, Run Deep, Run Loud, Run High (conducted by Hale Smith), and Mix for Orchestra (conducted by Dennis Russell Davies) were both premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1987 and 1993 respectively. He has had commissions from Mordine & Company in 1971 and 1989, from Carnegie Hall for quintet for strings and woodwinds in 1983 and 1985, the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1985, Bang On A Can All-Stars in 1995, Peroxide commissioned by the Miller Theatre Columbia University in 2003 for Aggregation Orb, a commission from the Talujon Percussion Ensemble in 2008, a piece Fly Fliegen Volar commissioned and premiered at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival with the Junge Philharmonic Salzburg Orchestra in 2007, a premier of the piece Mc Guffins with Zooid at the Biennale Festival in Italy in 2004.
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THIS EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE AND GRANTS FROM THE PHAEDRUS FOUNDATION.
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LocationTHE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW YORK (View)
40 EAST 35TH STREET (BETWEEN MADISON AVENUE AND PARK AVENUE)
New York, NY 10016
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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