CalArts Creative Music Festival

This season's edition of the storied CalArts creative music revue brings one of the most formidable lineups in the festival's history for two nights of boundary smashing creative music. Trumpeter, composer, improviser and festival founder Wadada Leo Smith leads two different ensembles: his Golden Quintet, with Vijay Iyer (piano), John Lindberg (bass), and Pheeroan akLaff and Famoudou Don Moye (drums, percussion), and the Silver Orchestra, which performs with master baritone Thomas Buckner, Vinny Golia (winds), Vicki Ray (piano), Mark Menzies (violin), and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick (cello). The first night, entitled "Music and the Voice," showcases Smith's Silver Orchestra, as well as the genre-defying pianist, composer and improviser Anthony Davis with his ensemble Episteme, featuring Earl Howard (synthesizer and saxophone), Mark Dresser (bass), J.D. Parran (reeds), and Cynthia Aaronson-Davis (soprano). Completing the first night's program is pianist, organist, gospel singer, composer and improviser Amina Claudine Myers. Myers performs here in a trio with Don Pate (bass) and Reggie Nicholson (drums), and with Paul Berkolds and the CalArts Choir. The second night, entitled "Music and Video," features Smith's Golden Quintet, as well as the Sufi tradition-inspired Lian Ensemble, with Houman Pourmehdi (tonbak, daf, ney, vocals), Mahshid Mirzadeh (santur), Mani Bolouri (kamanche, gheychak, vocals), Amir Koushkani (tar, vocals) and Pirayeh Pourafar (tar, vocals), all set to live video projection by Carole Kim.



September 19, 8:30 pm

Music and the Voice

Thomas Buckner and the Silver Orchestra

Anthony Davis and Episteme

Amina Claudine Myers Trio and the CalArts Choir



September 20, 8: 30 pm

Music and Video

Lian Ensemble

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quintet

live video by Carole Kim



WHERE:

REDCAT

631 West Second Street

Downtown Los Angeles 90012

In the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex



TICKETS:

$20/$16

Purchase tickets at the box office - (213) 237-2800

Or online at

http://www.redcat.org






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