Duo with Sam Pluta: Electronics and Bryan Jacobs: Guitar and Electronics
Trio with Alice Teyssier: Voice and Flute, Michael Weyandt: Baritone, and Bradley Rosen: Voice
Tonight will feature two sets of solos and duos with live electronics followed by a trio performing a cohesive set of vocal/theatrical pieces and sound images.
Alice Teyssler: Flutist and lyric soprano Alice Teyssier brings “something new, something fresh, but also something uncommonly beautiful” to her performances. Hailed as possessing a voice with “unusual depth,” Alice’s mission is to share lesser-known masterpieces and develop a rich and vibrant repertoire that reflects our era.
Alice was recently featured on a San Diego Symphony Masterworks concert; James Chute of UT San Diego wrote that her performance of Faure’s Requiem and Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras “commanded your complete attention.” Mark Swed of the LA Times called her “an arresting soprano, in all senses” for her world premiere performance of Rolf Riehm’s chamber oratorio ‘Pasolini in Ostia’.
This season, Alice is on tour with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in Washington, D.C., Nashville, Los Angeles, San Diego and will be a mainstay of the group’s residency at the Ojai Festival. She plays the music of Chaya Czernowin and Bernard Rands on Miller Theatre’s portrait concert series and returns to the Monday Evening Concerts twice this season with music by Ramón Lazkano and Lewis Nielson. As a vocal soloist, Alice will join the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble in a new work by Aaron Helgeson and will be singing the role of Maddalena in Händel’s ‘La Resurrezione’ with the Bach Collegium San Diego. Alice is thrilled to be working collaboratively through residencies at Long Island University, the Abrons Arts Center and Lee University.
Sam Pluta is a New York City-based composer, laptop improviser, electronics performer, and sound artist. Though his work has a wide breadth, his central focus is on the laptop as a performance instrument capable of sharing the stage with groups ranging from new music ensembles to world-class instrumental improvisers. By creating unique interactions of electronics, instruments, and sonic spaces, Pluta’s vibrant musical universe fuses the traditionally separate sound worlds of acoustic instruments and electronics, creating sonic spaces which envelop the audience and resulting in a music focused on visceral interaction of instrumental performers with reactive computerized sound worlds.
As an improviser, Sam has collaborated with some of the finest creative musicians in the world, including Peter Evans, Evan Parker, Ikue Mori, Craig Taborn, Jim Black, Anne La Berge, and George Lewis. Sam is a member of multiple improvisation-based ensembles, the jazz influenced Peter Evans Quintet, the free improvisation-based Rocket Science (with Evan Parker, Craig Taborn and Peter Evans), the analog synth and laptop duo exclusiveOr (with Jeff Snyder), his longstanding duo with Peter Evans, and the New York City-based power group Sonic Overload (with Jim Altieri, Dan Peck, Tom Blancarte, Peter Evans, and Jeff Snyder). With these various groups he has toured Europe and America and performed at major festivals and venues, such as the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the Moers and Donaueshingen Festivals in Germany, Bimhuis in Amsterdam, and The Vortex in London.
Here is a look at all of the upcoming concerts in the TAK Presents series
