Vol. 1, Issue 4

OME ZINE Vol. I, Issue 4 February/March

Saturday, Feb 21st 12p-8p 2nd Annual

"oh my god, my body, my ears" marathon concert of new music Trunk Space 1506 Grand Ave, Phx AZ

Also in this issue: More deets about the marathon concert Dominique Holley Plays the Clarinet Jen Wang of Wild Rumpus tells it like it is Feb/March New Music Events GCC X-Fest ohmyears.com

contact us: admin@ohmyears.com

"oh my god, my body, my ears!"

New Music Marathon Concert

Guest Composers: Jay Batzner and Pam Stein

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SCHEDULE (subject to change, if it does, it won’t change much) (start times are approximate) OME House Band performs an open-score master work Parker Davis, guitar Megyn Neff, vln (North Brother Island) *WORLD PREMIERE* Twitch by Jay Batzner Michael Ferraro, guitar performs Number Station by Jay Batzner Fixed Media: Shiney and Near Burning by Jay Batzner Brian McKee, bassoon The Driftwood Quintet Confession by Pamela Stein *WORLD PREMIERE* Paper Hats Band performs Hymn in B Major by Cody Brookshire Brian McKee, bassoon Ashley Oakley performs a set of minimalist piano music Fixed Media by Cody Brookshire Quick Dinner Break Static Announcements, a free electro-acoustic improv ensemble Elizabeth Kennedy Bayer, flute performs Fire Walk by Jay Batzner and performs Weld for iPad and speakers by Tony Marasco The Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State A Fluid Dynamics Demonstration Jacob Adler + friends Paradise Winds

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Dominique Holley plays the

CLARINET )

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Jen Wang tells it like it is: (of Wild Rumpus)

Composition Competition Application for Beginners

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Commissioning Project Deadline: March 1, 2015

Wild Rumpus is a San Francisco-based new music ensemble dedicated to collaboratively developing works with emerging composers. We’re looking for submissions of portfolios for our fourth annual Commissioning Project. Selected composers will be invited to write a new piece to be premiered on a future Wild Rumpus concert during the 2016 calendar year, with a required reading session for their work-inprogress (either in person or via Skype) in the months before their deadline.

We are committed to paying composers for their work.

However, selected composers must be willing to actively participate in fundraising efforts, including (but not limited to) assisting with a crowdfunding project (i.e.

Kickstarter) to help raise commission fees. Our goal is to pay $750 per composer; however, please note that this is contingent upon the success of our fundraising, and is not guaranteed.

SEE WILDRUMPUSMUSIC.ORG FOR MORE DETAILS

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FEBRUARY New Music FRI 13 FEB 5p-11p

EX-FEST EXPERIMENTAL ARTS FESTIVAL

SAT 21 FEB 12p-8p

"oh my god, my body, my ears!" MARATHON CONCERT

MON 23 FEB 7:30p

ASU COMPOSITION RECITAL

WED 25 FEB 10:30a

ASU CONTEMPORARY PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

SAT 28 FEB 7p

PHILIP GLASS

26, 27, 28 FEB 7:30p 1 MAR 2:30p SUN 1 MAR 10a

Free/Glendale Community College X-ing 32nd Street and more perform experimental new music (see back of zine)

$15/Trunk Space/1506 Granv Ave Phoenix 8 hours of new music!!

Free/ASU School of Music/Katzin Recital Hall New music by graduate and undergraduate composers.

$7/Musical Instrument Museum ASU’s percussion students present a program of exotic rhythms & vibrant colors, drawing from the formative repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.

$30+/ASU Gammage Philip Glass is one of the world's most influential composers whose works are included in major motion pictures, opera, theater and dance that are routinely performed around the globe.

OWEN WINGRAVE $8-21/PASU School of Music/ Evelyn Smith Music Theatre Music by Benjamin Britten; libretto by Myfanwy Piper; after a short story by Henry James; stage direction by Graham Whitehead; musical direction by William Reber.

PHILIP GLASS MASTERCLASS Free/ASU School of Music/5th Floor Recital Hall Master class by composer Philip Glass. Free & open to the public.

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MARCH Calendar TH 5 MAR 7:30p SUN 22 MAR 2:30p

GUEST ARTIST SERIES: FROM THE WEST, ASU ALUMS Free/ASU School of Music/Katzin SoM Alums and From the West duo return to ASU. Hear works by

by Nielsen, Lutoslawski, Young, and more!

GUEST ARTIST SERIES: AN AFTERNOON OF FLUTE AND PIANO $5-9/ASU School of Music/Katizin Austrian flutist Ulrike Anton joins Russell Ryan for the U.S. premiere of a

work by Austrian composer Gabriele Proy.

MON 1 APR 7:30p

ARIZONA CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE

SAT 13 APR 12a-8p

ARIZONA COMPOSERS CONCERT

Free/ASU School of Music/Katzin ACME presents a concert of works for small ensemble, soloists, electronics. This program provide a view of the varied creative activity in the music of our time.

$10/Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts Experience the new wave of post-modern chamber with James DeMars, violinist Boro Martinic, cellist Jan Simiz, and works by Irish composer Christopher Norby and Israeli composer Gil Dori.

2015 OME Guest Composers JAY BATZNER

Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974) is a composer and zazen practitioner in the Soto Zen tradition. Jay’s music has been performed at all the usual academic new music festivals (SCI, CMS, SEAMUS, EMM, etc.) and instrument performance societies (NFA, IHS, NASA). Most recently, his 25-minute composition for piano and electronics as if to each other was recorded by R. Andrew Lee and will be released by Irritable Hedgehog in early 2015. Jay is currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University where he teaches composition, theory, and technology courses and serves as the co-director of the Center for Innovation, Collaboration, and Engagement. jaybatzner.com.

PAMELA STEIN

Praised for her “rich dramatics“ (Boston Globe), Pamela Stein has earned a reputation for bringing passion and intelligence to every performance. Ms. Stein completed her Master’s degree in 2007 at The Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where she was awarded The Phyllis Bryn-Julson Prize for Commitment to and Performance of 20th/21st Century Music and a Peabody Career Development Grant. Pamela’s recent premiers have included composer Trevor Weston’s song cycle Comfort Songs at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Pamela currently teaches on the voice faculty of the College of Saint Elizabeth. She is a singer-in-residence with the composition department of Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, and teaches voice, music theory, and chamber music at the Mason Gross Extension Division Young Artist Program, where she directs a composer-geared new music chamber ensemble.

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