Dan Cooper
Dan Cooper was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated at Columbia, NEC, and Princeton. The recipient of an Aaron Copland fellowship to Tanglewood, he has received awards, commissions, residencies, and premieres from Albany Symphony, ASCAP, Cary Trust, Engine 27, ESYO, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, NARAS, NEA, North River Music, NYYS, Shakespeare & Company, ACO / Sonic Festival, Vox Novus 60x60, Walter W. Naumburg Fund, and Zentripetal Duo, among others. As a multi-instrumentalist, Cooper has performed internationally at venues including Anadolu Auditorium Istanbul, ACF, AMNH, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, BNH, BWAC, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Casino de Paris, CBGB, Chicago Theater, Davies Hall, Dom Omladine Beograda, Drom NYC, Galapagos Art Space, Gallery MC, Grande Auditório do Centro Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong City Hall, IndieScreen, Irving Plaza, Joe's Pub, Koseinenkin Hall Osaka, LPR, Lisner Auditorium, Mäntyniemi Helsinki, Massey Hall, Mercury Lounge, Munich Philharmonic Hall, Nublu, Palau de la Música Catalana, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Pori Jazz Festival, Rockefeller Center, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royce Hall UCLA, Shapeshifter Lab, Staatsoper Berlin, Sydney Opera House, Taplin Auditorium, Teatro Albeniz Madrid, Teatro Cultura Artística São Paulo, Teatro Grand Rex Buenos Aires, The Blue Note, The Knitting Factory, The Metropolitan Room, The Players Theatre, The Stone, and Town Hall. In 2002, Cooper was appointed to the faculty of the State University of New York / FIT, where he has created new SUNY General Education Requirement courses in American Music, European-Classical Music, and Latin-American and Caribbean Music. In addition, Cooper teaches composition at the 92nd St Y School of Music, and music and Shakespeare classes at Greenwich House Senior Center. He is a co-director of Composers Concordance.
Gene Pritsker
Composer/guitarist/rapper/Di.J. Gene Pritsker has written over four hundred fifty compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. All of his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble who have released cd's on Col-legno, Composers Concordance and Innova Records. Gene's music has been performed all over the world at various festivals and by many ensembles and performers, including the Adelaide Symphony, MDR Symphony, The Athens Camarata, Brooklyn and Berlin Philharmonic. He has worked closely with Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies.
The New York Times described him as "...audacious...multitalented." Joseph Pehrson, writing in The Music Connoisseur, described Pritsker as "dissolving the artificial boundaries between high brow, low brow, classical, popular musics and elevates the idea that if it's done well it is great music, regardless of the style or genre". Raul d'Gama Rose writes in All About Jazz: "Barring the obvious exceptions, much of 21st century composition appears to be thinning in significance, but this might be about to change. Gene Pritsker is one of a very spare handful of composers effecting this change." Evan Burke writes in ICareIf YouListen: "Pritsker seems to look at all music as one genre, in which all other possible styles, sounds and traditions are meant to be used as building blocks and palette colors, combined in various configurations to create a boundless whole. This result is almost always more interesting, and representative of how most new music will be born in the 21st century, as genres and barriers begin to vanish, and as styles begin cross-fertilizing in previously unimagined ways."
Organizations he is associated with include: Composers' Concordance, Composers' Concordance Records, Absolute Ensemble, The International Street Cannibals and the Austrian Outreach Festival. Gene Pritsker's music is published by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers music recordeds on: Col Legno, Enja, Eutrepe, Wergo, Innova , Composers' Concordance Records, and Capstone record labels.
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Milica
Paranosic
Critically acclaimed composer Milica Paranosic has established herself as one of New York’s finest and most daring composers, performance artists, producers, and educators. The New York Times described her music as: “Amazing…astonishing,” and, “Like liquor-filled pralines,” by Germany’s Morgenpost; “A painter, a musical Jackson Pollack,” by SEAMUS. Milica’s works range from one-woman multimedia shows and sound installations to operatic and symphonic works. Inspired by her travels and international collaborations, Milica ingeniously incorporates music of her Serbian homeland in addition to cross-continental influences, such as the ones of Brazil, Ghana and China. Milica strives to create new sound worlds in which contrasting concepts vividly coexist in unique textures.
Since 1995, Milica has been on the music faculty of The Juilliard School. She has taught and created curricula in varied settings (Belgrade Music University, San Diego State University, Franklin Marshall College, Brotherhood Sister Sol, and 92nd Street Y). She maintains an active private teaching studio, working with professional musicians and beginners, ranging from 5 to 93.
Furthering her deep commitment to education and outreach, Milica founded Give to Grow, an education initiative which brings music technology to developing communities in Ghana.
She is currently in Shanghai, China, as a Composition Faculty of FaceArt Internations, where she is implementing composition and music technology programs.
Milica is a current co-director of Composers Concordance.
American Composers
Orchestra
CC_Edu and their individual members have collaborated with the American Composers Orchestra is projects at Brotherhood Sister Sol, WC Bryant High School, Brandeis High School, and 92nd Street Y.
Peter Javis / William Paterson University
Composers Concordance Ensemble has been the resident ensemble at WPU since 2008. Now CC_Edu and the head of the WPU percussion department team up for exciting new initiatives in the areas of education.
Gallery MC
Starting in the fall of 2013, this multicultural venue, with a long collaborative history with the CC-Edu founder Milica Paranosic, will host master-classes and workshops by the CC-Edu founders and their guests. Confirmed lecturers include Grammy winners and an Oscar-nominated film composers.
