7:30pm
Vox Venefica
Valentina Osinski - voice
Chiara Viscomi - voice
Eli Wallace - piano
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute
Brett Carson - piano
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10-$15 sliding scale
•
Vox Venefica is a brand-new collaboration between vocalists Valentina Osinski and Chiara Viscomi, accompanied by pianist Eli Wallace. Their various influences are distilled through one unifying ethos: an exploration of the sonic tapestries of the female voice and experience: from ethereal to chthonic; and refined to raw, uninhibited, and undomesticated. Ultimately, this exploration is fueled by allowing the music to become a channel for the collective un/conscious, by duende, and by the relationship between performers and audience.
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Valentina Osinski has sung as a soloist throughout the US for major opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis, has performed for Hillary Clinton at the Palace of Fine Arts, sung on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on MTV, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, at the Seattle Center, and as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. Valentina was an award-winning vocal arranger with her a cappella group Screaming Divas, and recently received the 2014 Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle Award for Featured Actress for her portrayal of Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles. Her newly commissioned show "Edith Piaf: Beneath Paris Skies" opened for an extended run in January 2015 at Cinnabar Theater to unanimous, rave reviews. Ms. Osinski currently performs with Tri-Cornered Tent Show and is at work producing and recording her solo chill wave music project Nymphya.
http://www.valentinaosinski.com/
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Chiara Viscomi is a vocalist, pianist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. A classically trained coloratura soprano, she draws upon a wide variety of influences, from the sounds of the Silk Road and the Balkans to free jazz to “voice as instrument” to extended vocal techniques incorporating loops and electronics.
Ms. Viscomi is currently in the process of recording an album for her solo project, called ChiaraOscuro. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she is also the recipient of several awards and honors for her multimedia performances and arts scholarship, including the Works in Progress Award from New York University, the Artward Bound residency from The Field NYC, and the Jill Mellick Award for Excellence in Creative Expression from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
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Eli Wallace, pianist/composer/improviser, is an active player in the San Francisco Bay Area music community, playing in groups ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to indie rock, to free improvisation, to classical music. In addition to Cabbages, Captain, & King, he also leads his concept ensemble Platform Series as well as his solo piano project. Recently, he performed a commissioned work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY and Oberlin Dance Conservatory, San Francisco, CA with dancer/choreographer Randee Paufve. He was also awarded Honorable Mention after submitting his piece “Influx Rebellion” to the EarShot Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings. His musical education was granted by Lawrence University, Appleton WI, and New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, where he completed a bachelor’s of music and a master’s of music, respectively.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/353/eli-wallace
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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, and 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.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
https://www.noertker.com
•
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.
https://www.annelisezamula.com
•
As a composer, Brett Carson seeks to imbue with power an alternate psychic reality, revolving around the (recent) discovery of the ancient order of the Quattuor Elephantis (Four Elephants). The excavation of myth and pursuit of a synaesthetic ideal drive the fractured groove of his soundworlds. The unending search for surprise and the need for self-amusement serve as the cornerstones of the transformational (perhaps cinematic) nature of his metaphysical musical excursions.
As a pianist, he is active in the Bay Area improvisation and new music scenes. He is originally from Georgia and spent some time working in the Atlanta experimental music scene before moving to Oakland, California. He holds an MA in Composition from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Robert Schwartz.
brettcarson.weebly.com/bio.html
•
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.
https://www.jasonlevismusic.com
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Vox Venefica
Valentina Osinski - voice
Chiara Viscomi - voice
Eli Wallace - piano
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute
Brett Carson - piano
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10-$15 sliding scale
•
Vox Venefica is a brand-new collaboration between vocalists Valentina Osinski and Chiara Viscomi, accompanied by pianist Eli Wallace. Their various influences are distilled through one unifying ethos: an exploration of the sonic tapestries of the female voice and experience: from ethereal to chthonic; and refined to raw, uninhibited, and undomesticated. Ultimately, this exploration is fueled by allowing the music to become a channel for the collective un/conscious, by duende, and by the relationship between performers and audience.
•
Valentina Osinski has sung as a soloist throughout the US for major opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis, has performed for Hillary Clinton at the Palace of Fine Arts, sung on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on MTV, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, at the Seattle Center, and as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. Valentina was an award-winning vocal arranger with her a cappella group Screaming Divas, and recently received the 2014 Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle Award for Featured Actress for her portrayal of Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles. Her newly commissioned show "Edith Piaf: Beneath Paris Skies" opened for an extended run in January 2015 at Cinnabar Theater to unanimous, rave reviews. Ms. Osinski currently performs with Tri-Cornered Tent Show and is at work producing and recording her solo chill wave music project Nymphya.
http://www.valentinaosinski.com/
•
Chiara Viscomi is a vocalist, pianist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. A classically trained coloratura soprano, she draws upon a wide variety of influences, from the sounds of the Silk Road and the Balkans to free jazz to “voice as instrument” to extended vocal techniques incorporating loops and electronics.
Ms. Viscomi is currently in the process of recording an album for her solo project, called ChiaraOscuro. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she is also the recipient of several awards and honors for her multimedia performances and arts scholarship, including the Works in Progress Award from New York University, the Artward Bound residency from The Field NYC, and the Jill Mellick Award for Excellence in Creative Expression from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
•
Eli Wallace, pianist/composer/improviser, is an active player in the San Francisco Bay Area music community, playing in groups ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to indie rock, to free improvisation, to classical music. In addition to Cabbages, Captain, & King, he also leads his concept ensemble Platform Series as well as his solo piano project. Recently, he performed a commissioned work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY and Oberlin Dance Conservatory, San Francisco, CA with dancer/choreographer Randee Paufve. He was also awarded Honorable Mention after submitting his piece “Influx Rebellion” to the EarShot Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings. His musical education was granted by Lawrence University, Appleton WI, and New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, where he completed a bachelor’s of music and a master’s of music, respectively.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/353/eli-wallace
•
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, and 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.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
https://www.noertker.com
•
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.
https://www.annelisezamula.com
•
As a composer, Brett Carson seeks to imbue with power an alternate psychic reality, revolving around the (recent) discovery of the ancient order of the Quattuor Elephantis (Four Elephants). The excavation of myth and pursuit of a synaesthetic ideal drive the fractured groove of his soundworlds. The unending search for surprise and the need for self-amusement serve as the cornerstones of the transformational (perhaps cinematic) nature of his metaphysical musical excursions.
As a pianist, he is active in the Bay Area improvisation and new music scenes. He is originally from Georgia and spent some time working in the Atlanta experimental music scene before moving to Oakland, California. He holds an MA in Composition from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Robert Schwartz.
brettcarson.weebly.com/bio.html
•
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.
https://www.jasonlevismusic.com
7:30pm
Vox Venefica
Valentina Osinski - voice
Chiara Viscomi - voice
Eli Wallace - piano
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute
Brett Carson - piano
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10-$15 sliding scale
•
Vox Venefica is a brand-new collaboration between vocalists Valentina Osinski and Chiara Viscomi, accompanied by pianist Eli Wallace. Their various influences are distilled through one unifying ethos: an exploration of the sonic tapestries of the female voice and experience: from ethereal to chthonic; and refined to raw, uninhibited, and undomesticated. Ultimately, this exploration is fueled by allowing the music to become a channel for the collective un/conscious, by duende, and by the relationship between performers and audience.
•
Valentina Osinski has sung as a soloist throughout the US for major opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis, has performed for Hillary Clinton at the Palace of Fine Arts, sung on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on MTV, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, at the Seattle Center, and as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. Valentina was an award-winning vocal arranger with her a cappella group Screaming Divas, and recently received the 2014 Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle Award for Featured Actress for her portrayal of Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles. Her newly commissioned show "Edith Piaf: Beneath Paris Skies" opened for an extended run in January 2015 at Cinnabar Theater to unanimous, rave reviews. Ms. Osinski currently performs with Tri-Cornered Tent Show and is at work producing and recording her solo chill wave music project Nymphya.
http://www.valentinaosinski.com/
•
Chiara Viscomi is a vocalist, pianist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. A classically trained coloratura soprano, she draws upon a wide variety of influences, from the sounds of the Silk Road and the Balkans to free jazz to “voice as instrument” to extended vocal techniques incorporating loops and electronics.
Ms. Viscomi is currently in the process of recording an album for her solo project, called ChiaraOscuro. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she is also the recipient of several awards and honors for her multimedia performances and arts scholarship, including the Works in Progress Award from New York University, the Artward Bound residency from The Field NYC, and the Jill Mellick Award for Excellence in Creative Expression from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
•
Eli Wallace, pianist/composer/improviser, is an active player in the San Francisco Bay Area music community, playing in groups ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to indie rock, to free improvisation, to classical music. In addition to Cabbages, Captain, & King, he also leads his concept ensemble Platform Series as well as his solo piano project. Recently, he performed a commissioned work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY and Oberlin Dance Conservatory, San Francisco, CA with dancer/choreographer Randee Paufve. He was also awarded Honorable Mention after submitting his piece “Influx Rebellion” to the EarShot Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings. His musical education was granted by Lawrence University, Appleton WI, and New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, where he completed a bachelor’s of music and a master’s of music, respectively.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/353/eli-wallace
•
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, and 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.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
https://www.noertker.com
•
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.
https://www.annelisezamula.com
•
As a composer, Brett Carson seeks to imbue with power an alternate psychic reality, revolving around the (recent) discovery of the ancient order of the Quattuor Elephantis (Four Elephants). The excavation of myth and pursuit of a synaesthetic ideal drive the fractured groove of his soundworlds. The unending search for surprise and the need for self-amusement serve as the cornerstones of the transformational (perhaps cinematic) nature of his metaphysical musical excursions.
As a pianist, he is active in the Bay Area improvisation and new music scenes. He is originally from Georgia and spent some time working in the Atlanta experimental music scene before moving to Oakland, California. He holds an MA in Composition from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Robert Schwartz.
brettcarson.weebly.com/bio.html
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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.
https://www.jasonlevismusic.com
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Vox Venefica
Valentina Osinski - voice
Chiara Viscomi - voice
Eli Wallace - piano
8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute
Brett Carson - piano
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jason Levis - drums
•
Outsound presents the SIMM Series
at Musicians' Union Hall
116 Ninth Street (near Mission) San Francisco CA 94103
$10-$15 sliding scale
•
Vox Venefica is a brand-new collaboration between vocalists Valentina Osinski and Chiara Viscomi, accompanied by pianist Eli Wallace. Their various influences are distilled through one unifying ethos: an exploration of the sonic tapestries of the female voice and experience: from ethereal to chthonic; and refined to raw, uninhibited, and undomesticated. Ultimately, this exploration is fueled by allowing the music to become a channel for the collective un/conscious, by duende, and by the relationship between performers and audience.
•
Valentina Osinski has sung as a soloist throughout the US for major opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, and Opera Theater of St. Louis, has performed for Hillary Clinton at the Palace of Fine Arts, sung on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on MTV, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, at the Seattle Center, and as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. Valentina was an award-winning vocal arranger with her a cappella group Screaming Divas, and recently received the 2014 Bay Area Theatre Critic Circle Award for Featured Actress for her portrayal of Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles. Her newly commissioned show "Edith Piaf: Beneath Paris Skies" opened for an extended run in January 2015 at Cinnabar Theater to unanimous, rave reviews. Ms. Osinski currently performs with Tri-Cornered Tent Show and is at work producing and recording her solo chill wave music project Nymphya.
http://www.valentinaosinski.com/
•
Chiara Viscomi is a vocalist, pianist, composer, improviser, and multimedia artist. A classically trained coloratura soprano, she draws upon a wide variety of influences, from the sounds of the Silk Road and the Balkans to free jazz to “voice as instrument” to extended vocal techniques incorporating loops and electronics.
Ms. Viscomi is currently in the process of recording an album for her solo project, called ChiaraOscuro. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, she is also the recipient of several awards and honors for her multimedia performances and arts scholarship, including the Works in Progress Award from New York University, the Artward Bound residency from The Field NYC, and the Jill Mellick Award for Excellence in Creative Expression from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
•
Eli Wallace, pianist/composer/improviser, is an active player in the San Francisco Bay Area music community, playing in groups ranging from straight-ahead jazz, to indie rock, to free improvisation, to classical music. In addition to Cabbages, Captain, & King, he also leads his concept ensemble Platform Series as well as his solo piano project. Recently, he performed a commissioned work at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY and Oberlin Dance Conservatory, San Francisco, CA with dancer/choreographer Randee Paufve. He was also awarded Honorable Mention after submitting his piece “Influx Rebellion” to the EarShot Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings. His musical education was granted by Lawrence University, Appleton WI, and New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, where he completed a bachelor’s of music and a master’s of music, respectively.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artist/353/eli-wallace
•
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, and 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.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
https://www.noertker.com
•
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.
https://www.annelisezamula.com
•
As a composer, Brett Carson seeks to imbue with power an alternate psychic reality, revolving around the (recent) discovery of the ancient order of the Quattuor Elephantis (Four Elephants). The excavation of myth and pursuit of a synaesthetic ideal drive the fractured groove of his soundworlds. The unending search for surprise and the need for self-amusement serve as the cornerstones of the transformational (perhaps cinematic) nature of his metaphysical musical excursions.
As a pianist, he is active in the Bay Area improvisation and new music scenes. He is originally from Georgia and spent some time working in the Atlanta experimental music scene before moving to Oakland, California. He holds an MA in Composition from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Robert Schwartz.
brettcarson.weebly.com/bio.html
•
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.
https://www.jasonlevismusic.com
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