Native Flora Garden

Native Flora Garden

the biophony project

Native Flora Garden

9/18/2021 / 1pm-4pm / Brooklyn Botanical Garden - 990 Washington Avenue (40.6655240,-73.9624815)

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andPlay
andPlay

Described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration” and performing “with a welcoming and dynamic spirit,” andPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire by commissioning new works and actively collaborating with living artists. The “genre-busting” (Midwest Records) New York City-based duo of Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola, first played to an eager crowd on Fire Island in the summer of 2012 and has since commissioned over forty works. andPlay’s performances have been described as “sheer virtuosity” (Cinemusical), “otherworldly” (New York Music Daily) and “an awful lot of fun for people who gravitate towards stark, edgy harmonies and textures” (Lucid Culture).

Karl Ronneburg
Karl Ronneburg

Karl Ronneberg is a composer, percussionist, and multimedia artist based in New York City and Seattle. Winner of the University of Michigan’s Brehm Prize for Composition and the Mannes College of Music’s Dean’s Award, Karl is the co-artistic director of Fifth Wall Performing Arts and has worked with artists and companies including Radiolab, Meredith Monk, Musicambia, Sō Percussion, and the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors’ Lab. His work has been played by bell towers, rock bands, orchestras, arcade machines, and people dressed in squirrel costume, among others.

Maya Bennardo
Maya Bennardo

Violinist Maya Bennardo is an active performer living in Brooklyn, NY. Maya is passionate about opening the dialogue between composers and performers, and is devoted to performing music of the present. She is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay, described by I Care If You Listen as “enthusiastic champions for new music and collaboration.” She is a core member of Mivos Quartet, Nouveau Classical Project and Hotel Elefant, and has performed with ensemble mise-en, Contemporaneous, Mimesis Ensemble, Ensemble Signal, and [Switch~ Ensemble]. Maya also performs new and traditional repertoire for violin and piano with pianist, Karl Larson, in their duo, Bennardo/Larson.

Jim Hopkins
Jim Hopkins

Based in Brooklyn, Jim Hopkins primarily works as an organist and, once things get more back to normal, choral conductor and educator, and is currently the Director of Music at All Saints’ Episcopal Church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His musical interests are wide ranging, though he has a special love for Renaissance choral music, 20th-century French music, and noisy “popular” music, and also enjoys playing harpsichord, piano, Indian harmonium, and synthesizers. He passed much of the time in the pandemic doing what many did in that situation: by baking sourdough bread and playing Animal Crossing. Both by necessity and by choice in the pandemic, he discovered a new interest in collaborating with solo singers and began to explore his interest in electronic music. He also enjoys sailing, cycling, cooking, and nerding out about coffee, music, and Christian liturgical minutiae.

Tracy Cowart
Tracy Cowart

Tracy Cowart is the co-managing director of the medieval-experimental ensemble Alkemie, with whom she ponders the perspectives and sounds of centuries past, especially as they resonate with (and challenge) our modern-day perceptions. Heralded as “enchanting” and “indicating [the] future health of the field of early music,” Alkemie is based in NYC and tours nationally. Tracy is currently programming a concert of 15th-century song from the feminine or non-gendered perspective that challenges our inherited narrative of courtly love. She also performs as an early and new music soloist and chamber singer with groups including Rose of the Compass, Musica Sacra, and the Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine, and nurtures a love of foraging and amateur mycology.

 
 

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Cranford Rose Garden

Cranford Rose Garden

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Cranford Rose Garden

9/18/2021 / 1pm-4pm / Brooklyn Botanical Garden - 990 Washington Avenue (40.6684241,-73.9654062)

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Lucie Vítková
Lucie Vítková

Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, hichiriki, synthesizer, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic, living in New York. Their compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects) while in their improvisation practice Lucie works with characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In Lucie’s recent work, they are interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing trash to build sonic costumes.

Jules Biber
Jules Biber

Jules Biber is a cellist, educator and musical curator based in Brooklyn, NY. An accomplished chamber musician and soloist, Jules’ versatility in early, standard and modern repertoire, as well as non-classical styles, makes her sought-after for a variety of high-profile concerts and recording projects, and her deep commitment to inclusive community has made her one of the city’s progressive curators of classical music spaces.

Jonah Rosenberg
Jonah Rosenberg

Jonah Rosenberg is a Sunset Park, Brooklyn based musician and composer who is interested in facilitating human communication via decorated cakes.

Kallie Sugatski
Kallie Sugatski

Violist Kallie Sugatski performs regularly with Pittsburgh Symphony, New York City Ballet, International Contemporary Ensemble, New Jersey Symphony, and on Broadway. In response to the pandemic, Kallie is organizing/curating outdoor distanced concerts centered around queer and composers of color for her newest project Vigorous Tenderness. A catalyst for radical change in the arts, Vigorous Tenderness presents relevant, powerful concert experiences that respond to immediate social, political, and environmental circumstances. These experimental performances resemble an art museum experience, with chamber music ensembles spread across the landscape while the audience forges a self-curated path through the installation. She will spend her 2021-2022 season as a section violist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

 
 

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Circle in Native Flora Garden

Circle in Native Flora Garden

the biophony project

Circle in Native Flora Garden

9/18/2021 / 1pm-4pm / Brooklyn Botanical Garden - 990 Washington Avenue (40.6655240,-73.9624815)

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Aaron Wolff
Aaron Wolff

Aaron Wolff is a New York City-based cellist and performer active in solo, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary capacities. Recent performances include a solo program of music by Philip Glass and Arthur Russell at the New York City Reliquary, Debussy’s Cello Sonata on CNN’s Quest Means Business, collaboration with the Argus Quartet and American Modern Opera Company, and a fourth summer at Yellow Barn music festival in Putney, Vermont.

Lauren Siess
Lauren Siess

Lauren Siess is an NYC-based composer, violist, and improviser. Mass, chaos, and irrationality are integral to her work. By combining and manipulating found objects, she enjoys discovering the nuance and life inside of physical materials. 2021 projects included works for National Sawdust Ensemble, SICPP Festival, and and Line Upon Line Percussion…

Alice Ivy-Pemberton
Alice Ivy-Pemberton

Praised by the New York Times for her “sweet-toned playing,” violinist Alice Ivy-Pemberton studied with Nurit Pacht at the Kaufman Music Center in New York for ten years before continuing her studies at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho. Alice received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School in May of 2019 as a recipient of both a Kovner Fellowship and a Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant, in recognition of “tremendous talent, promise, creativity, and potential to make a significant impact in the performing arts."

 
 

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Cherry Esplanade Overlook

Cherry Esplanade Overlook

the biophony project

Cherry Esplanade Overlook

9/18/2021 / 1pm-4pm / Brooklyn Botanical Garden - 990 Washington Avenue (40.6700252, -73.9653354)

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Sergio Tabanico
Sergio Tabanico

Sergio Tabanico is a tenor saxophonist based in New York City. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, he made way to New York in 2015 to study at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Discovering his passion for saxophone at the age of 10, Sergio’s playing style has been deeply rooted in traditional jazz music and modern era jazz.

Kevin Oliver, Jr
Kevin Oliver, Jr

Born in Atlanta, Kevin Oliver, Jr, is just a kid with a horn and something to say. He is a saxophonist and stand-up comedian currently pursuing an undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School. Kevin started performing at the age of 11. He started off busking in downtown Atlanta at sporting events, parks and street corners eager to share his gift with the world. He was inspired to keep playing by the happiness that he saw on the faces of people who stopped to listen and meet him.

Immanuel Wilkins
Immanuel Wilkins

Immanuel Wilkins is a saxophonist, composer, educator, and bandleader from the greater Philadelphia area. While growing up, Wilkins honed his skills in the church and studied in programs dedicated to teaching jazz music like the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts…

 
 

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Perch in Herb Garden

Perch in Herb Garden

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Perch in Herb Garden

9/18/2021 / 1pm-4pm / Brooklyn Botanical Garden - 990 Washington Avenue (40.6650497,-73.9633566)

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Cleek Schrey
Cleek Schrey

Cleek Schrey is fiddler, improviser, and composer from Virginia, now based in NYC. Frequent collaborators include David Behrman, the viol da gamba player Liam Byrne, traditional fiddle icon Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and the avant-pop collective Exo-Tech. He is currently a Sound Artist-in-Residence on Governor’s Island and pursuing doctoral studies in Music Composition at Princeton University.

Erica Dicker
Erica Dicker

Erica Dicker is a New York-based violinist and improvisor making music reflecting her interest in experiencing eidetic memories as aural phenomena, a sensibility she brings to the Brandon Seabrook Trio, Carl Testa’s SWAY, Anna Webber’s Idiom, her electro-acoustic trio Vaster than Empires and Blood Luxury with Dennis Sullivan.

Henry Fraser
Henry Fraser

Born in Boston, MA in 1991, Henry Fraser grew up immersed in music - singing, playing piano and cello, studying theory and ear training. He began playing the double bass at 14, sparking an interest in improvisation via the music of Charles Mingus. Fraser moved to NYC in 2014, after graduating from New England Conservatory of Music, and has been actively working in the areas of jazz, free-improv, noise, and spectral music…

 
 

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Biophony 1.25

September 17th, 2021

PinkNoise performs at Prospect Park near the Endale Arch as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.24

September 17th, 2021

Nora Stanley, Chase Keusel, and Noah Gershwin performs at Herbert Von King Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.23

September 15th, 2021

Skyler Hill, Henry Mermer, and Isabel Crespo Pardo perform at Maria Hernandez Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.22

September 13th, 2021

Adam O’Farill, David Leon, and Yuma Uesaka perform at the Boathouse in Prospect Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.21

September 13th, 2021

Alfredo Colon, Chris Williams, Sana Nagano, Dierk Peters, Ben Rolston, and Stephen Boegehold perform at Sunset Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.20

September 12th, 2021

Eddy Kwon. Zekkereya El-Magharbel, Isabel Crespo, and Lesley Mok perform at the southernmost tip of the peninsula in Prospect Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.19

September 11th, 2021

Aaron Quinn, Erika Dohi, Deric Dickens, and Brad Linde perform at Belvedere Castle in Central Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.18

September 11th, 2021

Isabel Crespo Pardo, Alison Philips, Kalia Vandever, DoYeon Kim, and Anna Abondolo perform at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Ft. Green Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.17

September 11th, 2021

Mary Prescott, Chris Ryan Williams, Kayleigh Butcher, Ariadne Greif, and Paul Pinto perform at the Tunnel at W 72nd leading down to Riverside Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.16

September 6th, 2021

Emily Brandenburg, Bixby Kennedy, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, and Julian Müller perform at East end and E 86th st. as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.15

September 6th, 2021

Henry Mermer, David Leon, Noah Becker, and Maeve Schallert perform at the Fort Greene Park Prison Ship Martyrs Monument as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.14

September 5th, 2021

Henry Fraser, Miranda Agnew, Lesley Mok, and Isabel Crespo Pardo perform at Maria Hernandez Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.13

September 3st, 2021

Leo Sussman, Wilden Dannenberg, Tamara Winston, and Yen-Chen Wu perform at Inwood Hill Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.12

September 2nd, 2021

Isabel Crespo Pardo, Amanda Ekery, Shara Lunon, Carrie Furniss, and Miriam Elhajli perform at the Endale Arch in Prospect Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.

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Biophony 1.11

August 29th, 2021

Abby Swidler, Thea Mesirow, and Leia Slosberg perform at the West Entrance of Prospect Park as part of the 2021 Biophony project.