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Vocalist Sabrina Lastman can be heard this month at the Flea Theater on February 7th, at the Tutuma Social Club on February 17th, and at the Teatro Heckscher of El Museo del Barrio on February 20th.

On Sunday, Feb. 7 at 3pm Sabrina will appear at “Music with a View”, a free composer series at the Flea Theater entitled “Singer/Songwriters?” curated by Kathleen Supové. She’ll be singing ‘Green Man’, a composition by Sasha Bogdanowitschwith with The M6: Emily Eagen & Sasha Bogdanowitschwith, with invited singers Daisy Press, Jeremy Lydic and Raphael Sacks. This is a showcase for composers working in the medium of song, but doing it in quirky, unusual, and innovative ways. These artists straddle the boundary between classical and alt pop.

Sunday, February 7 | 3pm
Music with a View – “Singer/songwriters?”
Guest Moderator: Kitty Brazelton
The Flea Theater
41 White Street (bet. Broadway & Church Streets)
Free admission
Transportation: A, C, E, N, R, Q, W, 6, J, M, Z to Canal St. or 1 to Franklin St.

On Wednesday, Feb. 17, Lastman will be performing with residents musicians at Tutuma Social Club, experimenting Peruvian rhythms with other Latin American music, originals as well as music by great Latin American songwriters. The concert is free and they have delicious Peruvian food & drinks.

Wednesday, Feb. 17 | 8 & 10:30 pm
Sabrina Lastman – voice/songs
Yuri Juárez – guitar
Freddy “Huevito” Lobatón – cajon
Shirazette Tinnin – drums
Tutuma Social Club
164 E 56th St. (at 3rd Ave)
Free admission

On Saturday, Feb. 20 Sabrina will be playing with the Candombe Jazz Project at the beautiful Teatro Heckscher of the El Museo del Barrio, in a day celebrating and exploring Carnival’s African influence.

Saturday, February 20 | 4 pm
Candombe Jazz Project
Sabrina Lastman – voice/songs
Beledo – guitar
David Silliman – drums/percussion
Arturo Prendez – candombe drums
Special guests: Agrupación Lubola Macú
Teatro Heckscher – Museo del Barrio
1230 5th. Ave (at 104 St.)
Free admission
Transportation: 6 to 103rd St., 2 or 3 to 110th St.

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imageCultivating Your Authentic Artistic Voice: A Piano Master Class with Madeline Bruser, featuring young artists Nathaniel LaNasa and Anna Shelest will take place on Thursday, February 4th at 7:00pm at the Bechstein Piano Center, 207 West 58th Street, New York.

The Golden Key Salon Series at Bechstein features new and distinguished performers,wine receptions and premiere performances. Concerts are on the first Thursday of the month, October through May.

All performances begin at 7:00pm

Suggested donation: $20 general admission; $10 for students with ID

Seating is limited, reservations are required.

For more information, or for reservations, call 212-581-5550

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image_980673A performance by New York City-based Threefifty Duo (Brett Parnell, guitar and Geremy Schulick, guitar) will kick off the inaugural season of Music at First on February 19th, 2010 at 7:30pm. Music at First is a new music series to be held at First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn from February through May of 2010. First Presbyterian Church is located in Brooklyn Heights at 124 Henry St. There is a $10 suggested donation which will be collected at the door. There will be no advance reservations or ticket sales. For more information, please contact [email protected].

This series, curated by Wil Smith (New York composer who also serves as organist at First Presbyterian), occurs monthly, featuring one performer or ensemble per evening. Each concert will last about an hour and half each. Smith describes the new series, Music at First, as “a diverse mix of New York City’s best new music ensembles and performers, accessible to a wide audience of both community members and seasoned new music listeners.” Future performances include pianist Kathleen Supové on March 26, cellist/vocalist Jody Redhage and Fire in July on April 16 and flute/percussionist duo Conor Nelson and Ayano Kataoka on May 28 (CD release). Continue reading “Threefifty Duo headlines new Brooklyn Music Series”

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Composers Concordance presents a marathon concert entitled ‘Composers Play Composers’
on Sun., Jan. 31, 2010 – 6PM doors, 7-10PM performance.
Drom
85 Avenue A (between 5th & 6th), New York, NY
212-777-1157.
Live visuals by Astrid Steiner (luma.launisch) and media by Carmen Kordas.

The 23 composers, chosen by a somewhat “random criterion” from an initial list of 150 are: Roger Blanc, Thomas Bo, Luis Andrei Cobo, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Larry Goldman, David Gotay, Patrick Grant, Franz Hackl, Don Hagar, Arthur Kampela, Alon Nechushtan, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic, Akmal Parwez, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Paola Prestini, Jody Redhage, Kamala Sankaram, William Schimmel, Andrew Violette, and Theodore Wiprud.

This concert, in collaboration with VisionIntoArt, will consist of a 3 hour performance with 23 composers playing their own works. The marathon will have 3 sets with 2 short 10 minute breaks.

Each set will start off with a trio composed by Franz Hackl, trumpet, Charles Coleman, baritone voice and Gene Pritsker on electric guitar. Works and composers featured in the marathon include Arthur Kampela playing and strumming the cello like a guitar, Joseph Pehrson’s piece for piano based on a Beatles song, a composition by Dan Cooper for 7-string electric bass, piano and percussion, a piece for voice and berimbau by Milica Paranosic, a work for soprano sax and piano by Alon Nechushtan, a piece for voice and electronics by Kamala Sankaram and a piano piece by Luis Andrei Cobo.Gene Pritsker, Composers Concordance co-director talks about the concept for this presentation:

“We are exploring the relationship composers have with their instruments and how they go about writing music in which they know that they will be the performer. Dan Cooper and I talked about assembling a large group of composers and requesting a four minute composition from each. We are programming them back-to-back in a marathon setting and constructing a performance that highlights the composer as a performer: short compositions as vehicles for direct expression, from the composer’s mind to body to the audience.”

On the selection of composers: “We selected 150 composers and e-mailed them all on a secretly chosen day and time. The first 23 to respond to this e-mail were programmed for the event. We created a random criterion as opposed to a competition for choosing the participating composers, though all 150 candidates were composers whom we, the Composers Concordance directors, knew and respected.”

Tickets are $10 with a mandatory 2-drink minimum.