chancentre.com
Tickets and info at chancentre.com
Presented by:
Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® • OCT 1 SOLD OUT Paco Peña • OCT 24 Youssou N'Dour • NOV 10 Carminho and Sara Tavares • NOV 21 Branford Marsalis • FEB 13 Dee Dee Bridgewater and Irvin Mayfield with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra • FEB 27 Anoushka Shankar • APR 8 Arlo Guthrie • APR 21 Cécile McLorin Salvant • MAY 1
PHOTOGRAPHY: BETHANIE HINES ILLUSTRATION + DESIGN: COPILOT DESIGN
A Sound Experience.
A concert for voice, body and strings. Fri Sept 25 2015 I 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
The Beyond Words series is presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and explores the power of words in performance both as an agent of change and as a means of igniting conversation. In Spring 2016, don’t miss Words in Motion, where choreographers Olivia C. Davies, Anusha Fernando and Paraskevas Terezakis will be paired with writers Carmen Aguirre, Aislinn Hunter and Nancy Lee to create three new works combining the cerebral and the physical. Produced in partnership with The Dance Centre, March 18 + 19. Full details at chancentre.com/BeyondWords. The Chan Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Chan Endowment Fund, the UBC Faculty of Arts, The Government of Canada, The Georgia Straight, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Ethical Bean Coffee. Please remember to turn off your phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Tonight’s performance will be 70 minutes with no intermission.
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), violin and keyboards
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, spoken word and movement
DBR’s acclaimed work as a composer and performer spans more than two decades, and has been commissioned by venerable artists and institutions worldwide. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR is perhaps the only composer whose collaborations traverse the worlds of Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Savion Glover and Lady Gaga.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a pillar of American performance, arts education, and artistic curation. After appearing on Broadway as a young actor, Joseph wrote and performed in a series of poetically-based works for the stage that have toured worldwide. His full-evening theatre work, red, black & GREEN: a blues premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2011, was nominated for a Bessie award in 2013, and completed touring the following year.
Known for his signature violin sounds infused with a myriad of electronic and urban music influences, DBR takes his genre-bending music beyond the proscenium. He has been nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Musical Composition for his work with ESPN; featured as keynote performer at technology conferences; and written large scale, site-specific music for public parks. DBR made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 with the American Composers Orchestra. He went on to compose works for the Boston Pops Orchestra; Carnegie Hall; the Library of Congress; the Stuttgart Symphony, and myriad others. DBR’s commitment to arts education has garnered long-term relationships with countless universities, orchestras, and performing arts centres. He is currently the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence (University of Houston) and a Center for Art and Performance Resident Artist at UCLA. DBR earned his doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan, where he currently serves as Guest Entrepreneur. DBR is currently working on a chamber opera commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, and an oratorio commissioned by Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Joseph’s commissions include the libretto for Home in 7 for the Atlanta Ballet and theatre work for the South Coast Repertory Theater. His essays have been published in “Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility,” (Harvard Education Press); and “Total Chaos: Next Elements,” (Basic Civitas). Joseph has lectured at more than 200 colleges, has carried adjunct professorships at Stanford and Lehigh, among others, and currently serves as Director of Performing Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He co-founded “Life is Living,” a national series of one-day festivals designed to activate under-resourced parks and affirm peaceful urban life. Named one of “America’s Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences,” he graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine (2007), received the inaugural US Artists Rockefeller Fellowship (2007), and was an inaugural Doris Duke artist (2012).
The Beyond Words series is presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and explores the power of words in performance both as an agent of change and as a means of igniting conversation. In Spring 2016, don’t miss Words in Motion, where choreographers Olivia C. Davies, Anusha Fernando and Paraskevas Terezakis will be paired with writers Carmen Aguirre, Aislinn Hunter and Nancy Lee to create three new works combining the cerebral and the physical. Produced in partnership with The Dance Centre, March 18 + 19. Full details at chancentre.com/BeyondWords. The Chan Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Chan Endowment Fund, the UBC Faculty of Arts, The Government of Canada, The Georgia Straight, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Ethical Bean Coffee. Please remember to turn off your phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Tonight’s performance will be 70 minutes with no intermission.
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), violin and keyboards
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, spoken word and movement
DBR’s acclaimed work as a composer and performer spans more than two decades, and has been commissioned by venerable artists and institutions worldwide. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR is perhaps the only composer whose collaborations traverse the worlds of Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Savion Glover and Lady Gaga.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a pillar of American performance, arts education, and artistic curation. After appearing on Broadway as a young actor, Joseph wrote and performed in a series of poetically-based works for the stage that have toured worldwide. His full-evening theatre work, red, black & GREEN: a blues premiered at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2011, was nominated for a Bessie award in 2013, and completed touring the following year.
Known for his signature violin sounds infused with a myriad of electronic and urban music influences, DBR takes his genre-bending music beyond the proscenium. He has been nominated for an EMMY for Outstanding Musical Composition for his work with ESPN; featured as keynote performer at technology conferences; and written large scale, site-specific music for public parks. DBR made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 with the American Composers Orchestra. He went on to compose works for the Boston Pops Orchestra; Carnegie Hall; the Library of Congress; the Stuttgart Symphony, and myriad others. DBR’s commitment to arts education has garnered long-term relationships with countless universities, orchestras, and performing arts centres. He is currently the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence (University of Houston) and a Center for Art and Performance Resident Artist at UCLA. DBR earned his doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan, where he currently serves as Guest Entrepreneur. DBR is currently working on a chamber opera commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, and an oratorio commissioned by Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Joseph’s commissions include the libretto for Home in 7 for the Atlanta Ballet and theatre work for the South Coast Repertory Theater. His essays have been published in “Cultural Transformations: Youth and Pedagogies of Possibility,” (Harvard Education Press); and “Total Chaos: Next Elements,” (Basic Civitas). Joseph has lectured at more than 200 colleges, has carried adjunct professorships at Stanford and Lehigh, among others, and currently serves as Director of Performing Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He co-founded “Life is Living,” a national series of one-day festivals designed to activate under-resourced parks and affirm peaceful urban life. Named one of “America’s Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences,” he graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine (2007), received the inaugural US Artists Rockefeller Fellowship (2007), and was an inaugural Doris Duke artist (2012).
chancentre.com
Tickets and info at chancentre.com
Presented by:
Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® • OCT 1 SOLD OUT Paco Peña • OCT 24 Youssou N'Dour • NOV 10 Carminho and Sara Tavares • NOV 21 Branford Marsalis • FEB 13 Dee Dee Bridgewater and Irvin Mayfield with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra • FEB 27 Anoushka Shankar • APR 8 Arlo Guthrie • APR 21 Cécile McLorin Salvant • MAY 1
PHOTOGRAPHY: BETHANIE HINES ILLUSTRATION + DESIGN: COPILOT DESIGN
A Sound Experience.
A concert for voice, body and strings. Fri Sept 25 2015 I 7:30pm
Telus Studio Theatre
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts