Composers Concordance

COMPOSERS CONCORDANCE RECORDS 1st release, BALLETS & SOLOS, combines engaging larger recently-written contemporary pieces with solo works. The ensemble pieces are performed by the versatile International Street Cannibals.
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Keve Wilson - oboe

Music By:
Chuck Pierce, Jeff Marder, Astor Piazzolla, Henry Mancini, Lady Gaga, Walter Milbank, Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, Ennio Morricone, traditional tunes.

Performers:
Keve Wilson, oboe and english horn. Jeff Marder, keyboards. Chuck Pierce, guitar. Mat Fields and Mike Valerio, fretless bass. Greg Heffernan, cello. Mr. Lei, erhu. Andy Beall, percussion. Gene Pritsker, computer sampling.
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The Chamber and Electronic
Music of Gene Pritsker
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Cello Lounge
Noizepunk & BorisLove
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Music By:
Gene Pritsker

Performers:
Borislav Strulev - cello, guitar. Gene Pritsker, Di.J, Guitar.

“Eclecticism that opens new horizons in the perceptions of music”
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Matthias Kronsteiner - Bassoon

Music By:
Gene Pritsker, Hector Villa-Lobos, Till Alexander Körber, Christof Cech, Gernot Wolfgang, David Lang and Johannes Berauer/Philipp Sageder
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Sonata For The Creation Of The World
Andrew Violette
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WILLIAM JAMES'S VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
a chamber opera by
Gene Pritsker
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Subversion
Greg Baker - Guitar
Music By: Greg Baker
"Baker is well along the way to his own contrapuntal kind of art-rock" "...surprising juxtapositions and very interesting guitar work."
-Gapplegate Guitar and Bass Blog

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Song of Light
JOHN CLARK - French horn •
MICHAEL COCHRANE - Piano •
RON McCLURE - Bass •
VICTOR LEWIS - Drums

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Adam Holzman - composer/keyboards
Parallel Universe - Adam Holzman
solo electronic explorations
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Music By:
Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Gernot Bernroider

Gene Pritsker - guitar
Dan Cooper - 7-string bass guitar
Gernot Bernroider - drums

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Heinz, Roland - guitar
Holzman, Adam - keys
Hirshfield, Jeff - drums

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Sound Liberation performs music encompassing a diverse range of musical genres. 'Days', focuses on hip-hop and r&b, but is also influenced by rock, chamber music, opera and jazz. The groups musical philosophy, developed by band founder Gene Pritsker, is based upon ""ending the segregation of sound vibration (i.e. musical Genres)"".

Messier Catalogue of Star Clusters and Nebulae
- Bruce Lazarus
solo piano composition

Composed by Bruce Lazarus between 2004 and 2011, Messier Catalogue of Star Clusters and Nebulae is a series of piano pieces based on the work of Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who compiled a list of approximately 110 diffuse objects in the night sky.

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Samplestra
Electro-Acoustic music of Gene Pritsker

John Clark - horn
Peter Krysa - violin
Cesar Papetti - percussion
Michiyo Suzuki - clarinet
Lynn Bechtold - violin
Keve Wilson - oboe
Matthias Kronsteiner - bassoon
Martin Kuuskmaan - bassoon
Margaret Lancaster - flute
Kathleen Supové - piano
Gene Pritsker - guitar

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Love Songs is ten genre-crossing songs that combine Shakespeare's Sonnets with modern poetry. David Morneau - composer

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Cellist Borislav Strulev boasts exceptional temperament, charismatic personality, a powerful sound and virtuoso technique. He lives and works between New York and Moscow. “CelloTango” presents his vision of crossover classical music, jazz, tango and even rap - a stylish, high-quality fusion, on the edge of shocking. A “soloist...with a rich, singing tone” - NYTimes. He “boasts an enormous, gripping sound, full of color and power…he commandeers the sonic spotlight with ease. ”

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Zentripetal’s debut CD on Composers Concordance Records features works written for them by Alvin Lucier, Lynn Bechtold, Dan Cooper, Milica Paranosic and Gene Pritsker, with additional pieces by Lei Liang, Alfred Schnittke and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

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"CELLO SHOW" - IS THE NEW MUSIC, NEW SOUND, NEW COLORS IN CELLO PLAYING. ''CELLO SHOW'' IS NEW WAY OF PLAYING FOR THE 21 ST CENTURY.
THIS NEW CD HAS IT ALL, MUSIC FROM WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES IN SOCHI 2014 TO OLD BACH SARABANDE WITH SPECIAL AMBIENT, FROM DEDICATION TO WORLD WAR II TO CELLO ROBOT MEGA FUN

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Love Songs is an experiment in songwriting. The lyrics for each track pairs one of Shakespeare's Sonnets with a contemporary poem. The music draws on the structures and sensibilities of familiar love songs from popular music idioms and exists in that small slice of common ground where art song and pop song overlap.

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2/15

Manhattan in Charcoal, composed by Gene Pritsker for the libretto written by Jacob Miller, explores the life and loves of an artist in New York City in the early days of the 21st Century who is struggling to find his way, retain his integrity and, in the meantime, not go entirely crazy — all while enduring economic hardships and nominal recognition.

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4/15

The Odd Couple Quintet
John Clark - horn,
Mike Rabinowitz - bassoon

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Saxophonist Yaacov Mayman joins composer, DJ, Guitarist Gene Pritsker aka Di.J. Noizepunk for an album that blends jazz standards, hip-hop beats, electronic grooves, contemporary compositions and improvisation.

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11/15

Innocent Speller
Charlie Rauh
"In having made this record, the listener is reminded that loss itself is not senseless, it is our attempting to deny it’s inevitability that makes it so."
- Valerie Kuehne (TheSuperCoda music Blog)

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5/15

CD of chamber music by Emily Doolittle, performed the Seattle Chamber Players and friends

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7/15

Album Title: Liquid Gravity+
Composer(s): Rubens Salles,Djavan,Hermeto Pascoal
Artist(s): Rubens Salles

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6/15

NAKED SINGULARITY (Killer Tuba Songs V.2). Every selection reflects one or more of Mr. Rozen's various musical interests, from commissioning/performing new works to composition, improvisation, unique instrumental combinations, canons, as well as music for multiple tubas and Frank Zappa .

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The Dave Taylor Octet Live Cd is a recording of a concert at the Knitting factory in NYC. The band features great improvisers and guest vocalist Jessica Taylor playing the music of David Taylor, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, William Grant Still, Virgil Thompson, and Charles Mingus

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Music and Poetry by David Gotay, Zach Seely, Thomas Carlo Bo, Toby Roberts , Gene Pritsker, Jacob Miller, Dorrie Weiss, Patrick Hardish, Luis Andrei Cobo, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wilbur, Eleanor Cory, Lester Trimble, Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Mozart influence - nay, the very spirit of Mozart - is still vital in our contemporary daily lives, and his impact, still at work in our society. It's not merely the music of the master that so stays with us, but the essence of the man as a very emblem of what is inextinguishable in the human spirit, of man's innate urge for investigation and experimentation, and for his evidently inborn appetite - ever so ungovernable and febrile in each and every one of us . COMCON0030

Jai Jeffryes
Fanfare Magazine writes that Jai, “is clearly one of those pianists
constitutionally incapable of unmusical playing,“ while American Record Guide writes: “These are gentle performances, all quite lovely and all played with affection ... The Steinway D has rarely been treated with such respect.” www.jeffryes.net

Composer/guitarist Gene Pritsker and Composer/percussionist Peter Jarvis team up for an album of new music for electric guitar and drum set. For this endeavor, besides writing their own compositions, the duo reached out to a few composers and requested some new music for this unusual combination.

Improvisations by a trio of two guitars and a theremin.

Groove Possessed
The Electronic Groove Music of Gene Pritsker

Music by Gene Pritskerr
Art by Mark Kostabi
Feat: Peter Petro Krysa - Violins, Edmundo Ramirez - viola, David Gotay - cello, Ninni Lindh - voice, Borislav Strulev - cello
Sebastian Izya Pritsker - voice, Kim Pritsker - voice,
Chanda Rule - -voice, Joe Abba - drums,
David Banks - voice.

The debut album from Mixed Doubles, "Unforced Errors," showcases the acoustic guitar skills of Lisa Liu and Justin Gonzales, as they volley ideas, riffs, and solos, between each other with equal aplomb.

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Composer Gene Pritsker has written over five hundred eighty compositions, ‘Melodies Alone Can Proudly Carry Their Own Death’ focuses on Gene Pritsker's solo, duo and trio compositions, including unusual instrumentation such as: piano/drum set, bass clarinet/electric guitar, and bass clarinet/percussion as well as more standard instrumentation like violin/cello, flute/clarinet/piano and solo music for violin and cello.

The debut album “The Big Green Apple” by Emerald Trio features 5 pieces written for and premiered by the Emerald Trio by 7 New York City based composers. One of the pieces is a suite, each movement written by a different member of the Composers Concordance. This eclectic mix of pieces is written for the trio, using flute, piccolo, alto flute, violin, viola and piano.

I began collaborating with Ron, on this CD, around the year 2003. It was not long after then that Ron tragically passed and work on the project came to an abrupt halt.
Our intention was to produce a CD of music of his and mine. The idea was for me to per form his pieces (most of them composed for me) and my friends from the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and the William Paterson University music community would per form my pieces. And, the two ensemble pieces would be per formed by the New Jerse

Kostabi, Mark (Composer)
Kostabi, Mark (Lyricist)
KostaBlanc (Ensemble)
Langovits, Greesi Desiree (Lyricist)

Rite Through an Eclectic Spectrum’ performed by Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation Live @ The Outreach Music Festival.

Violin duo Miolina presents a unique mix of works by some of today's leading composers.

MI OBLIVION is a solo album by violinist Machiko Ozawa with music by Astor Piazzolla and other traditional Argentine tangos.

The Breath
Miloš Katanić - Classical Accordion

Music By:
Tauan Gonzalez Sposito, Antonio Correa, Robert Moran, Wolfgang Mayer, Anthony Fiumara, Wellington E. Alves, Ivan Božičević, Gene Pritsker.

​The highly acclaimed, Grammy-nominated New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, in residence at William Paterson University, directed by Peter Jarvis and managed by Payton MacDonald.

Jarvis and Friends, Volume 1. A Collection of Duos for drum set plus. Peter Jarvis: drum set Set # 1 - Glen Velez: frame drums, Set #2: - Franz Hackl: trumpets, Set #3 - William Schimmel: accordion, Set #4 - John Clark: horn

Eclectic Music eXtravaganza (EMX) is a collective of an international array of musicians who meet up in Berlin (and other world stages) to produce a very eclectic chamber music concert, a music salon for the 21st century. On their first recording, they take various chamber music of Gene Pritsker, performed at various veneus, and put together an eclectic chamber CD that demonstrates the groups philosophy.

New compositions by Payton MacDonald, realized by Payton MacDonald, marimba, with Elliott Sharp on guitars and Steven Crammer on drums.

Cello Lounge Volume II “Eclecticism that opens new horizons in the perceptions of music”
The New York based duo BorisLove & Noizepunk & are combining elements form classical, jazz, electronic, house, hip-hop, experimental, etc. It is hard to put into one word the genre of music they are playing, hence they do not try to classify. The originality lies in the openness to musical sound in all its forms, in getting out of the box which constricts our understanding and this duo does just that.

Marimba virtuoso Payton MacDonald presents six new works for solo marimba, all composed for him, including music by Elliott Sharp, Stuart Saunders Smith, Peter Jarvis, Jeffrey Kresky, and Robert Morris. Payton MacDonald is a percussionist who works across a wide range of musical disciplines

Rosary is a selection of music with saxophones written by Christoph Enzel. It includes the ''Rosary Soundscapes'' for choir, organ and saxophone quartet, which is based on the amazing music of Ignaz Franz Biber as well as solo and duo compositions for saxophones.

Jarvis and Friends Volume 2 is the second release in a series of CDs comprising collections of mostly improvised duos. Volume 2 includes bass trombone, electric guitar, multiple percussion, mallet percussion, drum set and vocals. As before, Peter Jarvis has teamed up with some of the finest musicians in the world, including David Taylor (bass trombone and vocals), Gene Pritsker (electric guitar), Kevin Norton (vibraphone and percussion) and Payton MacDonald (marimba.) Peter Jarvis is playing mar

"STYLE-QUARTET" (Russia) - ensemble of folk instruments, the Prize-winner of the World Terem-Crossover Competition (St. Petersburg, 2012, 2018), the winner of the Nizhny Novgorod Prize. Members of the group: Svetoslav Suvorkin (violin), Daria Gitelson (domra-alto), Venedikt Peunov (bayan), Aleksandr Belyaev (balalaika-contrabass). The style of the team is new, sometimes very unexpected and bold readings of world classics and famous melodies. "STYLE-QUARTET" - people and instruments!

Operatic Electric:
Juecheng Chen - Counter tenor
Gene Pritsker - Composer/ Di.J. / Guitar

SINCERELY MINE
Andrey Knyshev
composer / pianist
feat Borislav Strulev

‘Maggots’ is a collection of various recordings, from an array of diverse ensembles, of composer Gene Pritsker’s very eclectic chamber music. From larger chamber music like the baritone concertino ‘Maggots’, ‘Berlin Suite’ and ‘Kostabi-isms’ to the sitar and string quartet piece ’The Most Incorrigible Vice’ and the duet ‘Bitter Suite’ as well as two solo compositions ‘Memories Are Not Enough’ & ‘Figar-OH!’. The album spans a wide timber range and the eclectic nature of these compositions takes

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Gene Pritsker & ensembleKONTRATE

Re-imagine Beethoven. Featuring the Di.J. concerto 'EroicAnization