7:30pm
Gestaltish
Rachel Condry - clarinet
Gretchen Jude - voice
Jakob Pek - guitar
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
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8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
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Gestaltish is a Bay Area ensemble that explores improvised music in both playful and methodical ways with a surprising array of results. Performers Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jakob Pek (guitar) and Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) have diverse musical backgrounds and met while working with Fred Frith in the Mills College Improvisation ensemble. Since 2012, they have been shaping and exploring sounds to create evocative yet open-ended musical experiences. Using game structures as temporal architectures in which to play, Gestaltish deeply listen to each other and their surroundings, encapsulating sonic moments and reinvigorating the notion of free improvisation with unexpected instrumentation and intuitions.
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Rachel Condry is an Oakland based clarinetist, composer and improviser whose music lives outside the margins of genre and expectation. She is a member of the improvising group Gestaltish and has also been known to occasionally play “heavy chamber music” with the bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles.
In 2005, Rachel made her Carnegie Hall debut as a member of The Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, a group that seamlessly blends jazz, and classical genres with free improvisation. She is also a founding member of the San Francisco Composer’s Chamber Orchestra and regularly curates performances for local composers, including her own. Rachel has an MFA from Mills College, a BM from Oberlin Conservatory and a BA from Oberlin College.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/345/rachel-condry
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Gretchen Jude has received koto certification from the Sawai Koto Instutite in Tokyo and an MFA in electronic music from Mills College, where she also studied improvisation with Fred Frith and vocalist Molly Holm. Gretchen often collaborates with dancers and other musicians. She is also currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis.
http://gretchenjude.weebly.com
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Jakob Pek is a musical artist based on the west coast of North America. A multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and poet.
Jakob’s deepest musical influences come from diverse realms of the musical world. On the one hand, the great finger-style guitarists of the last century have deeply inspired and guided his musical direction (Lenny Breau, Ted Green). On the other, musical artists who have pushed to the frontiers of musical exploration—the outer limits of musical perception—have also had a profound impact on Jakob’s musical life (Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Jakob’s principle musical mentor during the last few years has been composer, theorist and author W.A. Mathieu, former disciple of Classical Indian Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.
Jakob performs and teaches regularly. He has played alongside David Behrman, Rent Romus, Arrington De Dionyso, Alvin Curran, Jennifer Wilsey, William Winant, Andrew Weathers, and many others. Some current musical projects include DunkelpeK, a duo with percussionist Nava Dunkelman, Ell III, a trio unlike any other, with Joshua Marshall and Andrew Jamieson, the composer collective Medium Sized Band, made up of Jon Myers, Brett Carson, and Joshua Marshall, and his ever evolving solo-work.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/380/jakob-pek
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Jennifer Wilsey - percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator - currently performs with improvising ensembles The Bloom (with W. Allaudin Mathieu and George Marsh), Timeless Pulse (with Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, George Marsh, and David Wessel), Gestaltish (Rachel Condry, Gretchen Jude, and Jacob Peck), and Ensemble Luna (Christopher Luna, Rachel Condry, Nava Dunkelman, Jacob Peck, and Jeanie-Aprille Tang).
In addition to activities as a concert percussionist, Jennifer's projects have included work with The Good Sound Band, Wrestling Worms, Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble, Stuart Dempster, and Anna Halprin, among others.
Jennifer's recordings can be heard on the Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Mountain Music, Public Eyesore Records, and Pitch-A-Tent labels. She received her BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Performance and Literature with Improvisation Specialization from Mills College (with the Margaret Lyon Prize), and is a Deep Listening Certificate holder. As an educator, Jennifer teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy, and directs the Percussion and Improvisation Ensemble at Sonoma State University.
At Mills College she teaches Advanced Musicianship while serving as the Musicianship Program Supervisor. She also maintains a private studio, offering creative music lessons in Santa Rosa and Oakland, California.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/365/jennifer-wilsey
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Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010, and scored the Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck” which is currently screening on the festival circuit.
http://www.noertker.com
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13.
Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
http://www.annelisezamula.com
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Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute.
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The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Over the years his passion and curiosity have led him to search out the intersections of musical paths less traveled, and the resulting unique perspective is reflected in his music. Levis holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the California Jazz Conservatory. He is active as a performer and composer in the United States and Europe.
http://www.jasonlevismusic.com
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Gestaltish
Rachel Condry - clarinet
Gretchen Jude - voice
Jakob Pek - guitar
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Gestaltish is a Bay Area ensemble that explores improvised music in both playful and methodical ways with a surprising array of results. Performers Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jakob Pek (guitar) and Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) have diverse musical backgrounds and met while working with Fred Frith in the Mills College Improvisation ensemble. Since 2012, they have been shaping and exploring sounds to create evocative yet open-ended musical experiences. Using game structures as temporal architectures in which to play, Gestaltish deeply listen to each other and their surroundings, encapsulating sonic moments and reinvigorating the notion of free improvisation with unexpected instrumentation and intuitions.
•
Rachel Condry is an Oakland based clarinetist, composer and improviser whose music lives outside the margins of genre and expectation. She is a member of the improvising group Gestaltish and has also been known to occasionally play “heavy chamber music” with the bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles.
In 2005, Rachel made her Carnegie Hall debut as a member of The Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, a group that seamlessly blends jazz, and classical genres with free improvisation. She is also a founding member of the San Francisco Composer’s Chamber Orchestra and regularly curates performances for local composers, including her own. Rachel has an MFA from Mills College, a BM from Oberlin Conservatory and a BA from Oberlin College.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/345/rachel-condry
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Gretchen Jude has received koto certification from the Sawai Koto Instutite in Tokyo and an MFA in electronic music from Mills College, where she also studied improvisation with Fred Frith and vocalist Molly Holm. Gretchen often collaborates with dancers and other musicians. She is also currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis.
http://gretchenjude.weebly.com
•
Jakob Pek is a musical artist based on the west coast of North America. A multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and poet.
Jakob’s deepest musical influences come from diverse realms of the musical world. On the one hand, the great finger-style guitarists of the last century have deeply inspired and guided his musical direction (Lenny Breau, Ted Green). On the other, musical artists who have pushed to the frontiers of musical exploration—the outer limits of musical perception—have also had a profound impact on Jakob’s musical life (Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Jakob’s principle musical mentor during the last few years has been composer, theorist and author W.A. Mathieu, former disciple of Classical Indian Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.
Jakob performs and teaches regularly. He has played alongside David Behrman, Rent Romus, Arrington De Dionyso, Alvin Curran, Jennifer Wilsey, William Winant, Andrew Weathers, and many others. Some current musical projects include DunkelpeK, a duo with percussionist Nava Dunkelman, Ell III, a trio unlike any other, with Joshua Marshall and Andrew Jamieson, the composer collective Medium Sized Band, made up of Jon Myers, Brett Carson, and Joshua Marshall, and his ever evolving solo-work.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/380/jakob-pek
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Jennifer Wilsey - percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator - currently performs with improvising ensembles The Bloom (with W. Allaudin Mathieu and George Marsh), Timeless Pulse (with Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, George Marsh, and David Wessel), Gestaltish (Rachel Condry, Gretchen Jude, and Jacob Peck), and Ensemble Luna (Christopher Luna, Rachel Condry, Nava Dunkelman, Jacob Peck, and Jeanie-Aprille Tang).
In addition to activities as a concert percussionist, Jennifer's projects have included work with The Good Sound Band, Wrestling Worms, Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble, Stuart Dempster, and Anna Halprin, among others.
Jennifer's recordings can be heard on the Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Mountain Music, Public Eyesore Records, and Pitch-A-Tent labels. She received her BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Performance and Literature with Improvisation Specialization from Mills College (with the Margaret Lyon Prize), and is a Deep Listening Certificate holder. As an educator, Jennifer teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy, and directs the Percussion and Improvisation Ensemble at Sonoma State University.
At Mills College she teaches Advanced Musicianship while serving as the Musicianship Program Supervisor. She also maintains a private studio, offering creative music lessons in Santa Rosa and Oakland, California.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/365/jennifer-wilsey
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Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010, and scored the Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck” which is currently screening on the festival circuit.
http://www.noertker.com
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13.
Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
http://www.annelisezamula.com
•
Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute.
•
The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Over the years his passion and curiosity have led him to search out the intersections of musical paths less traveled, and the resulting unique perspective is reflected in his music. Levis holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the California Jazz Conservatory. He is active as a performer and composer in the United States and Europe.
http://www.jasonlevismusic.com
7:30pm
Gestaltish
Rachel Condry - clarinet
Gretchen Jude - voice
Jakob Pek - guitar
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Gestaltish is a Bay Area ensemble that explores improvised music in both playful and methodical ways with a surprising array of results. Performers Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jakob Pek (guitar) and Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) have diverse musical backgrounds and met while working with Fred Frith in the Mills College Improvisation ensemble. Since 2012, they have been shaping and exploring sounds to create evocative yet open-ended musical experiences. Using game structures as temporal architectures in which to play, Gestaltish deeply listen to each other and their surroundings, encapsulating sonic moments and reinvigorating the notion of free improvisation with unexpected instrumentation and intuitions.
•
Rachel Condry is an Oakland based clarinetist, composer and improviser whose music lives outside the margins of genre and expectation. She is a member of the improvising group Gestaltish and has also been known to occasionally play “heavy chamber music” with the bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles.
In 2005, Rachel made her Carnegie Hall debut as a member of The Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, a group that seamlessly blends jazz, and classical genres with free improvisation. She is also a founding member of the San Francisco Composer’s Chamber Orchestra and regularly curates performances for local composers, including her own. Rachel has an MFA from Mills College, a BM from Oberlin Conservatory and a BA from Oberlin College.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/345/rachel-condry
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Gretchen Jude has received koto certification from the Sawai Koto Instutite in Tokyo and an MFA in electronic music from Mills College, where she also studied improvisation with Fred Frith and vocalist Molly Holm. Gretchen often collaborates with dancers and other musicians. She is also currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis.
http://gretchenjude.weebly.com
•
Jakob Pek is a musical artist based on the west coast of North America. A multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and poet.
Jakob’s deepest musical influences come from diverse realms of the musical world. On the one hand, the great finger-style guitarists of the last century have deeply inspired and guided his musical direction (Lenny Breau, Ted Green). On the other, musical artists who have pushed to the frontiers of musical exploration—the outer limits of musical perception—have also had a profound impact on Jakob’s musical life (Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Jakob’s principle musical mentor during the last few years has been composer, theorist and author W.A. Mathieu, former disciple of Classical Indian Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.
Jakob performs and teaches regularly. He has played alongside David Behrman, Rent Romus, Arrington De Dionyso, Alvin Curran, Jennifer Wilsey, William Winant, Andrew Weathers, and many others. Some current musical projects include DunkelpeK, a duo with percussionist Nava Dunkelman, Ell III, a trio unlike any other, with Joshua Marshall and Andrew Jamieson, the composer collective Medium Sized Band, made up of Jon Myers, Brett Carson, and Joshua Marshall, and his ever evolving solo-work.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/380/jakob-pek
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Jennifer Wilsey - percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator - currently performs with improvising ensembles The Bloom (with W. Allaudin Mathieu and George Marsh), Timeless Pulse (with Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, George Marsh, and David Wessel), Gestaltish (Rachel Condry, Gretchen Jude, and Jacob Peck), and Ensemble Luna (Christopher Luna, Rachel Condry, Nava Dunkelman, Jacob Peck, and Jeanie-Aprille Tang).
In addition to activities as a concert percussionist, Jennifer's projects have included work with The Good Sound Band, Wrestling Worms, Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble, Stuart Dempster, and Anna Halprin, among others.
Jennifer's recordings can be heard on the Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Mountain Music, Public Eyesore Records, and Pitch-A-Tent labels. She received her BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Performance and Literature with Improvisation Specialization from Mills College (with the Margaret Lyon Prize), and is a Deep Listening Certificate holder. As an educator, Jennifer teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy, and directs the Percussion and Improvisation Ensemble at Sonoma State University.
At Mills College she teaches Advanced Musicianship while serving as the Musicianship Program Supervisor. She also maintains a private studio, offering creative music lessons in Santa Rosa and Oakland, California.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/365/jennifer-wilsey
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Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010, and scored the Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck” which is currently screening on the festival circuit.
http://www.noertker.com
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13.
Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
http://www.annelisezamula.com
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Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute.
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The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Over the years his passion and curiosity have led him to search out the intersections of musical paths less traveled, and the resulting unique perspective is reflected in his music. Levis holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the California Jazz Conservatory. He is active as a performer and composer in the United States and Europe.
http://www.jasonlevismusic.com
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Gestaltish
Rachel Condry - clarinet
Gretchen Jude - voice
Jakob Pek - guitar
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion
•
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - saxes, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Gestaltish is a Bay Area ensemble that explores improvised music in both playful and methodical ways with a surprising array of results. Performers Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jakob Pek (guitar) and Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) have diverse musical backgrounds and met while working with Fred Frith in the Mills College Improvisation ensemble. Since 2012, they have been shaping and exploring sounds to create evocative yet open-ended musical experiences. Using game structures as temporal architectures in which to play, Gestaltish deeply listen to each other and their surroundings, encapsulating sonic moments and reinvigorating the notion of free improvisation with unexpected instrumentation and intuitions.
•
Rachel Condry is an Oakland based clarinetist, composer and improviser whose music lives outside the margins of genre and expectation. She is a member of the improvising group Gestaltish and has also been known to occasionally play “heavy chamber music” with the bass clarinet quartet, Edmund Welles.
In 2005, Rachel made her Carnegie Hall debut as a member of The Matt Small Chamber Ensemble, a group that seamlessly blends jazz, and classical genres with free improvisation. She is also a founding member of the San Francisco Composer’s Chamber Orchestra and regularly curates performances for local composers, including her own. Rachel has an MFA from Mills College, a BM from Oberlin Conservatory and a BA from Oberlin College.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/345/rachel-condry
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Gretchen Jude has received koto certification from the Sawai Koto Instutite in Tokyo and an MFA in electronic music from Mills College, where she also studied improvisation with Fred Frith and vocalist Molly Holm. Gretchen often collaborates with dancers and other musicians. She is also currently pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis.
http://gretchenjude.weebly.com
•
Jakob Pek is a musical artist based on the west coast of North America. A multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and poet.
Jakob’s deepest musical influences come from diverse realms of the musical world. On the one hand, the great finger-style guitarists of the last century have deeply inspired and guided his musical direction (Lenny Breau, Ted Green). On the other, musical artists who have pushed to the frontiers of musical exploration—the outer limits of musical perception—have also had a profound impact on Jakob’s musical life (Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Jakob’s principle musical mentor during the last few years has been composer, theorist and author W.A. Mathieu, former disciple of Classical Indian Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.
Jakob performs and teaches regularly. He has played alongside David Behrman, Rent Romus, Arrington De Dionyso, Alvin Curran, Jennifer Wilsey, William Winant, Andrew Weathers, and many others. Some current musical projects include DunkelpeK, a duo with percussionist Nava Dunkelman, Ell III, a trio unlike any other, with Joshua Marshall and Andrew Jamieson, the composer collective Medium Sized Band, made up of Jon Myers, Brett Carson, and Joshua Marshall, and his ever evolving solo-work.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/380/jakob-pek
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Jennifer Wilsey - percussionist, improviser, composer, and educator - currently performs with improvising ensembles The Bloom (with W. Allaudin Mathieu and George Marsh), Timeless Pulse (with Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Buckner, George Marsh, and David Wessel), Gestaltish (Rachel Condry, Gretchen Jude, and Jacob Peck), and Ensemble Luna (Christopher Luna, Rachel Condry, Nava Dunkelman, Jacob Peck, and Jeanie-Aprille Tang).
In addition to activities as a concert percussionist, Jennifer's projects have included work with The Good Sound Band, Wrestling Worms, Petr Kotik and the SEM Ensemble, Stuart Dempster, and Anna Halprin, among others.
Jennifer's recordings can be heard on the Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Mountain Music, Public Eyesore Records, and Pitch-A-Tent labels. She received her BA in Music from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Performance and Literature with Improvisation Specialization from Mills College (with the Margaret Lyon Prize), and is a Deep Listening Certificate holder. As an educator, Jennifer teaches percussion, percussion pedagogy, and directs the Percussion and Improvisation Ensemble at Sonoma State University.
At Mills College she teaches Advanced Musicianship while serving as the Musicianship Program Supervisor. She also maintains a private studio, offering creative music lessons in Santa Rosa and Oakland, California.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/365/jennifer-wilsey
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Bassist/composer Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010, and scored the Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck” which is currently screening on the festival circuit.
http://www.noertker.com
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13.
Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
http://www.annelisezamula.com
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Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute.
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The music of composer, drummer, and percussionist Jason Levis lives in the rich spaces where styles intersect and musical languages merge. His career began playing guitar in a high school reggae band, and he has since broadened his artistic scope to include jazz, contemporary improvisation, and modern classical composition. His wide-ranging creative efforts are skillfully bound by his innate sense of timbre, sonic space, rhythmic force, and his insatiable interest in discovery. Over the years his passion and curiosity have led him to search out the intersections of musical paths less traveled, and the resulting unique perspective is reflected in his music. Levis holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the California Jazz Conservatory. He is active as a performer and composer in the United States and Europe.
http://www.jasonlevismusic.com
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