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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
at Roundhouse Performance Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver
Doors 8pm • Show 9pm
Tickets $25 General • $15 Students & Seniors
$15 Groups (5+) • cash only at the door
Mark this date on your calendar. Come out and dance!
Drum + Light is a night of high-energy sonic and visual extravagance featuring percussion, improvised and jazz music, electronica, and visual projections by some of Vancouver’s best and brightest artists. Each year since 2008, Vancouver’s Hard Rubber Orchestra has unleashed Drum + Light, a series of sold-out multimedia dance events featuring a 14-piece groove orchestra and eye-popping visuals.
The dance party continues in 2013.
Drum + Light combines the most cutting-edge music and lights for a breathtaking evening at the Roundhouse Performance Centre. This high-energy dance event features a 14-piece mondo-groove ensemble, five drummers, electronic music and turntables. Music by an all-star collection of Vancouver artists - featured musicians include drummers Randall Stoll (Soulstream) and Ali Siadat (Mother Mother), Tim Proznick (Kyprios), keyboardist Chris Gestrin, guitarist Russ Klyne, and Stefan Smulovitz on laptop. Plus dazzling lights by Mychal Heidro and some of Vancouver’s hottest b-boys & b-girls. The Roundhouse’s Locomotive Room will be transformed into a chill room with downtempo DJ.
Hard Rubber New Music has presented concerts of original music by some of Canada’s most exciting composers, performed by some of Vancouver’s finest musicians. Under the artistic direction of composer, conductor, musician John Korsrud, previous large-scale works include Alcan Award-winning Enter/Exit, a multi-media extravaganza featuring the premiere of compositions by Giorgio Magnanensi, Brad Turner and John Korsrud as well as visual projections by jamie griffiths, Brian Johnson, Rena del Pieve Gobbi, Riel Roussopoulos and HoneyBee Visuals. Other projects include The Ice Age, ice shows (2000, 2010) featuring the talents of hockey players, curlers and figure skaters; White Hot Core, a collaboration with Kokoro Dance; and The Elvis Cantata, which took an irreverent look at pop icons. The all-star Hard Rubber Orchestra features the finest of Vancouver’s jazz community and performs music that is influenced by jazz, pop, world, contemporary classical and improvised music. Since its debut in 1990 the Orchestra has toured to Europe and across Canada including concerts in Amsterdam and at FIMAV in Quebec.
HARD RUBBER IS, NO QUESTION, CONSISTENTLY THE BEST VANCOUVER BAND EVENT YOU CAN SEE Discorder Magazine
Tags: bass, composition, concert, drums, guitar, Hard Rubber Orchestra, improvisation, jazz, John Korsrud, Music, new music, orchestra, percussion, trumpet, Vancouver
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
The Standing Wave Society Presents
Vansterdam
Sunday April 21, 2013, 8pm
The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver
$22.00 general / $17.00 students & seniors
Tickets through The Cultch box office • tickets.thecultch.com
or call 604.251.1363
For more info call 604.683.8240 or visit standingwave.ca
From week-long rains to Bixi bikes to pot café culture, residents of Vancouver are often made aware of parallels between our city and the Dutch capital, Amsterdam. These connections are especially evident in Vancouver’s musical community. Vansterdam will explore the musical kinship that exists between Vancouver and the Netherlands.
The program will feature brand new works from two of BC’s brightest and best composers, both greatly influenced by the music and culture of the Netherlands. Dutch – born Vancouver composer Edward Top‘s new piece, Pots ‘n Pans Falling, an Acoustic Panel commission, will touch on themes of violence and lost innocence, while Ladner native and graduate of the Netherlands’ Koninklijk Conservatorium, Justin Christensen‘s new work, Critical Distance, draws its inspiration from the films of French New Wave director and enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard. Putting these two new works in relief, the ensemble will put their stamp on Workers Union, Louis Andriessen’s 1975 classic work for ‘any loud sounding group of instruments’. Internationally celebrated Dutch composer Robin de Raaff will be represented by his gorgeous and popular work Un visage d’emprunt, as will Vancouver’s own enfant terrible John Korsrud, who will contribute a new arrangement of his own piece Two Tastes of the Hague, a tribute to his former teacher Louis Andriessen.
This concert also celebrates the release of Liquid States, Standing Wave’s third CD of commissioned contemporary chamber music featuring works by Jeffrey Ryan, Jocelyn Morlock, Rodney Sharman and Linda Bouchard.
Standing Wave is an ensemble of six exceptional musicians who perform contemporary music with virtuosity and style, cutting across musical landscapes with sharpness, wit and intelligence. The ensemble is equally comfortable performing complex chamber compositions, new music and works with electro-acoustics. Their adventurous programming and dynamic performances combine to capture listeners’ hearts and imaginations, placing Standing Wave at the forefront of Canada’s new music scene.
It’s no cinch to accurately reproduce this dizzying beauty, but Vancouver’s most accomplished contemporary chamber music group did just that, without even breaking a sweat. Alex Varty, The Georgia Straight
Tags: AK Coope, Allen Stiles, Amsterdam, April, Bixi bikes, CD, cello, clarinet, composition, concert, Cultch, Edward Top, flute, Jeffrey Ryan, Jocelyn Morlock, John Korsrud, Justin Christensen, Linda Bouchard., Liquid States, Louis Andriessen, Music, Netherlands, Peggy Lee, percussion, piano, rain, Rebecca Whitling, Robin de Raaff, Rodney Sharman, standing wave, Vancouver, Vansterdam, Vern Griffiths, violin
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Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Join Talking Pictures’ Ron Samworth and Dylan van der Schyff & Pugs and Crows for an evening of improvisation and new compositions.
8pm, Saturday April 13, 2013 at the VCC Auditorium, 1155 East Broadway. Tickets $5-10 at the door (CASH ONLY)
www.pugsandcrows.com
www.barkingsphinx.com
Tags: April, bass, crows, drums, Dylan van der Schyff, guitar, improvisation, jazz, Music, new music, piano, pugs, Ron Samworth, Vancouver, VCC, violin, workshop
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
Friday April 5, 2013, 9pm
Ironworks, 235 Alexander Street, Vancouver
Tickets through Brown Paper Tickets • brownpapertickets.com
$18.00 (general) / $15.00 (students & seniors)
box office opens at 8pm, CASH ONLY at the door
INFO & RESERVATIONS: 604.683.8240
PEGGY LEE, cello • JESSE ZUBOT, violin • KEVIN ELASCHUK, trumpet • CHRIS GESTRIN, fender rhodes • RON SAMWORTH, guitar • TORSTEN MULLER, bass • ANDRÉ LACHANCE, bass • DYLAN VAN DER SCHYFF, drums
Film in Music invites you on a cinematic ride inside the music. This project, led by cellist Peggy Lee, features eight improvisers from Vancouver’s rich and diverse creative music community. Each musician becomes a character within the framework of this musical suite, voicing their ideas through unaccompanied solos and in small groupings. While the composed sections of the music imply the arc of a story, they are also intended as launching pads for the musicians to make extended improvised statements, taking the listener on a journey that is never the same twice.
Since moving to Vancouver from Toronto in 1989, Peggy Lee has become a major voice in the city’s creative music community. Film in Music was originally conceived of in 2009. Current projects besides Film in Music include the Peggy Lee Band, Ron Samworth’s Talking Pictures, The Tony Wilson Sextet, Wayne Horvitz’ Gravitas Quartet, a duo with Robin Holcomb, the string quartet Microcosmos, a new collaboration with Mary Margaret O’Hara called Beautiful Tool, Dave Douglas’ Mountain Passages and the new music ensemble Standing Wave.
The Peggy Lee Band, has released five recordings of original music, the most recent being Invitation, released in October 2012 on the Drip Audio label. This latest recording has garnered rave reviews both internationally and right here at home.
Imagine a modern-day Duke Ellington combo spiced up with shards of noise, and you’d be on the right track; it’s music that combines the timeless and the otherworldly in equal measure. – The Georgia Straight
…there is an overall sense of completeness that makes this a great album, rather than just an assemblage of good songs. – All About Jazz
This is beautiful music played by master musicians of a sort that is all too rare. - The Province
Media Contact: Koralee at Diane Kadota Arts Management, 604.683.8240 ♦ koralee@dkam.ca ♦ www.dkam.ca
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of BC through Direct Access to Charitable Gaming.
Tags: andre lachance, April, cello, chris gestrin, concert, dkam, drums, Dylan van der Schyff, film, improvisation, ironworks, jazz, jesse zubot, kevin elaschuk, Music, Peggy Lee, Ron Samworth, torsten muller, Vancouver
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Saturday, October 6th, 2012
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – CONCERT RESCHEDULED
Regretfully, due to a family emergency, our Northern Visions concert has been postponed and rescheduled. The new date for the concert is Tuesday November 6, 2012, 8pm at The Cultch.
Thank you for your understanding. We hope to see you there.
- Standing Wave
NORTHERN VISIONS
standing wave ensemble
NEW DATE! Tuesday November 6, 2012, 8pm at the Cultch, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver
$22.00 general / $17.00 students & seniors
Christie Reside, flute • A-K Coope, clarinet • Rebecca Whitling, violin
Peggy Lee, cello • Allen Stiles, piano • Vern Griffiths, percussion
The North, “that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga country,” as Glenn Gould called it, holds a special fascination for many artists, composers, and musicians. On , November 6, 2012, join Standing Wave, Vancouver’s intrepid new music sextet, on a circumpolar expedition through a vast, echoing landscape of music inspired by the physical and metaphorical aspects of the North.
The centerpiece of Northern Visions will be a new work by the Yukon’s Daniel Janke, who found a visual template for a beautifully acrobatic piece in the aerial display provided by flocks of small indigenous northern birds against the backdrop of a bleak northern landscape.
The ensemble will also perform renowned Alaskan composer John Luther Adams’ The Light Within, called a “shimmering spectrum of massive, merging harmonies” (Thomas May, Seattle Weekly), Swedish composer Fabian Svensson’s relentless, combative Two Sides, as well as The Age of Wire and String, by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. Standing Wave’s newest member, the spectacular flutist Christie Reside, will be featured in Kalais, by Icelandic composer Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson. Standing Wave will also premiere a new arrangement by Marcus Goddard of Terry Riley’s minimalist classic Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight.
Standing Wave is an ensemble of six exceptional musicians who perform contemporary music with virtuosity and style, cutting across musical landscapes with sharpness, wit and intelligence. The ensemble is equally comfortable performing complex chamber compositions, new music and works with electro-acoustics. Their adventurous programming and dynamic performances combine to capture listeners’ hearts and imaginations, placing Standing Wave at the forefront of Canada’s new music scene.
“…fresh sounds that twist and surprise… Standing Wave is a vital contemporary voice with drop-dead ingenious musicians.” Vancouver Sun
Tags: AK Coope, Allen Stiles, cello, clarinet, composition, concert, flute, new music, Peggy Lee, percussion, piano, Rebecca Whitling, standing wave, Vancouver, Vern Griffiths, violin
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
NORTHERN VISIONS 
standing wave ensemble
Thursday October 11, 2012, 8pm at the Cultch, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver
$22.00 general / $17.00 students & seniors
Christie Reside, flute • A-K Coope, clarinet • Rebecca Whitling, violin
Peggy Lee, cello • Allen Stiles, piano • Vern Griffiths, percussion
The North, “that incredible tapestry of tundra and taiga country,” as Glenn Gould called it, holds a special fascination for many artists, composers, and musicians. On October 11, 2012, join Standing Wave, Vancouver’s intrepid New Music Sextet, on a circumpolar expedition through a vast, echoing landscape of music inspired by the physical and metaphorical aspects of the North.
The centerpiece of Northern Visions will be a new work by the Yukon’s Daniel Janke, who found a visual template for a beautifully acrobatic piece in the aerial display provided by flocks of small indigenous northern birds against the backdrop of a bleak northern landscape.
The ensemble will also perform renowned Alaskan composer John Luther Adams’ The Light Within, called a “shimmering spectrum of massive, merging harmonies” (Thomas May, Seattle Weekly), Swedish composer Fabian Svensson’s relentless, combative Two Sides, as well as The Age of Wire and String, by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. Standing Wave’s newest member, the spectacular flutist Christie Reside, will be featured in Kalais, by Icelandic composer Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson. Standing Wave will also premiere a new arrangement by Marcus Goddard of Terry Riley’s minimalist classic Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight.
Standing Wave is an ensemble of six exceptional musicians who perform contemporary music with virtuosity and style, cutting across musical landscapes with sharpness, wit and intelligence. The ensemble is equally comfortable performing complex chamber compositions, new music and works with electro-acoustics. Their adventurous programming and dynamic performances combine to capture listeners’ hearts and imaginations, placing Standing Wave at the forefront of Canada’s new music scene.
“…fresh sounds that twist and surprise… Standing Wave is a vital contemporary voice with drop-dead ingenious musicians.” Vancouver Sun
Tags: AK Coope, Allen Stiles, cello, christie reside, clarinet, composer, composition, concert, Daniel Janke, flute, new music, Peggy Lee, percussion, piano, Rebecca Whitling, standing wave, Vancouver, Vern Griffiths, violin
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
ETHOS COLLECTIVE presents PRELUDES
Saturday, September 15, 2012, 8pm
Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street
$25 general / $15.00 students & seniors
Tickets: ethos.brownpapertickets.com or at the door. Box office will open at 7 pm
For more info visit www.ethosmusic.ca or phone 604.683.8240
Ethos Collective
Samantha Fu flute ♦ Kathryn Emiko Lee violin
Stefan Hintersteininger cello ♦ Christopher Morano piano
Katie Rife percussion ♦ Timothy Van Cleave percussion
Special Guests
Bob Becker percussion ♦ Vern Griffiths percussion
Daniel Tones percussion ♦ Domagoj Ivanovic violin
Marcus Takizawa viola ♦ Leanna Wong bass
Melanie Krueger soprano ♦ Leslie Dala conductor
On Saturday, September 15, Ethos Collective will present a concert featuring Preludes, a recently commissioned work for string quartet, percussion quartet and piano by the renowned Toronto percussionist & composer, Bob Becker. Becker will be the featured composer as well as one of eight stellar guest artists to perform with Ethos, Vancouver’s exciting new contemporary music ensemble.
A founding member of the seminal percussion ensemble NEXUS, Becker’s performing experience spans nearly all of the musical disciplines where percussion is found, and he is generally considered to be one of the world’s premier virtuoso performers on the xylophone and marimba. He has performed and recorded with orchestras and contemporary music ensembles around the world, both as a soloist and with NEXUS, and has been a regular member of the ensemble Steve Reich and Musicians since 1973. Becker’s compositions and arrangements are performed regularly by percussion groups world-wide. This will be his first visit to Vancouver since performing here with NEXUS in 1994.
The program will also feature Becker’s Prisoners of the Image Factory, Unseen Child, and Never in Word, as well as premieres of works written for Ethos by Vancouver composers Jordan Nobles and François Houle.
Ethos Collective, Vancouver’s newest contemporary music ensemble, takes an outward and experimental approach to classical music, seeking to discover new musical realms. For this concert, they will delve into three new compositions as well as improvisation and collaboration.
This past season, Ethos’s performances included a concert produced by Redshift Music, featuring the premiere of works written for them as part of the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian League of Composers’ emerging composers program. In April, Barking Sphinx presented Ethos in a concert of improvised music at the Western Front. Preludes will be Ethos’ first self-produced concert at Vancouver’s new concert venue, the Orpheum Annex.
Tags: bob becker, cello, Christopher Morano, composition, concert, Ethos Collective, flute, Kathryn Emiko Lee, katie rife, leslie dala, Music, new music, Orpheum Annex, percussion, piano, Samantha Fu, Stefan Hintersteininger, Timothy Van Cleave, Vancouver, Vern Griffiths, viola, violin
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
An evening of original music at Ironworks Studio featuring
Peggy Lee, cello ▪ Brad Turner, trumpet
Jon Bentley, saxophone ▪ Jeremy Berkman, trombone
Ron Samworth, guitar ▪ Tony Wilson, guitar
André Lachance, bass ▪ Dylan van der Schyff, drums
Friday, June 8, 2012 at 8pm
The Ironworks Studios
235 Alexander Street, Vancouver
$15 (general) / $12 (students & seniors)
Tickets at www.brownpapertickets.com
For reservations & info, call 604.683.8240 or e-mail diane@dkam.ca
The Peggy Lee Band performs original music with intensity, emotion and beauty at the intimate Ironworks on the evening of Friday, June 8. New compositions by leader and cellist Peggy Lee will be presented alongside favourite repertoire written for this octet of fantastic Vancouver musicians.
The Peggy Lee Band was formed in 1998 as a vehicle for Peggy Lee’s compositions and to improvise within these compositions. The band has released four CDs and toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. The band is comprised of local greats whose individual sounds and strengths are critical to the band’s unique sound.
Since moving to Vancouver in 1989, the Toronto born cellist has become a major voice in the creative music community. Current projects besides the Peggy Lee Band include Ron Samworth’s Talking Pictures, The Tony Wilson Sextet, Wayne Horvitz’ Gravitas Quartet, a duo with Robin Holcomb, the string quartet Microcosmos, a new collaboration with Mary Margaret O’Hara called Beautiful Tool, Dave Douglas’ Mountain Passages and the new music ensemble Standing Wave.
This music will be recorded at the Warehouse Studio in June for release on Drip Audio in the fall of 2012.
…fearless and sweet, … adventurous and diverse. The Georgia Straight
… a strikingly original composer. Wonderfully expressive and individualistic, her pieces defy categorization even as they exploit the free-flowing interplay of her bandmates. Globe and Mail
Tags: beauty, cello, invitation, ironworks, jazz, june, Music, Peggy Lee, Peggy Lee Band, Vancouver
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Raven Tales
standing wave ensemble
Sunday May 27, 2012, 8pm at The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street
$22.00 general / $17.00 students & seniors
Tickets through The Cultch box office • tickets.thecultch.com • 604.251.1363
Join Standing Wave, Vancouver’s cutting edge chamber ensemble and special guests The Git Hayetsk Dancers for an evening of music borne of myth, legend, and nature featuring the premiere of award-winning Vancouver composer Marcus Goddard’s Raven Tales, inspired by the work of renowned Nisga’a artist Mike Dangeli, and George Crumb’s classic Vox Balaenae, with visual design and masks by Dangeli. Also including works of Steven Mackey, Michael Colgrass and Paul Frehner, along with Olivier Messiaen’s Le Merle Noir, newly arranged by Jennifer Butler.
Standing Wave, in collaboration with Vancouver composer Marcus Goddard and First Nations artist Mike Dangeli, have created an evocative program combining dance, visual installations and new music. In First Nations culture, the raven holds a significant place, described alternately as a powerful creative force, a trickster, or a reflection of oneself. Goddard’s new work, Raven Tales draws on this history, musically exploring how the complexities of the raven’s character are echoed in the human world.
Standing Wave is an ensemble of six exceptional musicians who perform contemporary music with virtuosity and style, cutting across musical landscapes with sharpness, wit and intelligence. The ensemble is equally comfortable performing complex chamber compositions, new music and works with electro-acoustics. Their adventurous programming and dynamic performances combine to capture listeners’ hearts and imaginations, placing Standing Wave at the forefront of Canada’s new music scene.
www.standingwave.ca
“…fresh sounds that twist and surprise… Standing Wave is a vital contemporary voice with drop-dead ingenious musicians.”
Vancouver Sun
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the British Columbia Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC through Direct Access to Charitable Gaming, The Hamber Foundation and the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs.
Tags: AK Coope, Allen Stiles, cello, clarinet, First Nations, George Crumb, Git Hayetsk Dancers, Marcus Goddard, May 27, Mike Dangeli, new music, Nisga'a, Peggy Lee, percussion, piano, Rebecca Whitling, standing wave, The Cultch, Vancouver, Vern Griffiths, violin
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
Hard Rubber Orchestra Plays Mahavishnu Orchestra
John Korsrud’s 18-piece jazz powerhouse, plays the music of the famed Mahavishnu Orchestra
Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 8pm
Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre ● Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
SFU Woodward’s ● 149 W.Hastings Street
Tickets $25 General, $15 Students/Seniors
Buy tickets at www.brownpapertickets.ca
For more info: www.hardrubber.com or phone 604.683.8240
On April 14, 2012 Hard Rubber Orchestra, John Korsrud’s 18-piece jazz powerhouse, plays the music of the famed Mahavishnu Orchestra. In the early 70’s, this five-piece unit, lead by guitarist John McLaughlin, blew minds and drew a cult following with their ground-breaking fusion of jazz, Indian ragas and high volume rock n roll. Hard Rubber will perform original arrangements by John Korsrud, Fred Stride, Bill Runge and others, with guests; drummer Randall Stoll, and Chris Gestrin on keyboards, along with the 18-piece orchestra. Come and see the Mahavishnu Orchestra re-visited and re-imagined by Vancouver’s one and only Hard Rubber Orchestra.
Formed by artistic director John Korsrud twenty years ago, the Hard Rubber Orchestra has consistently been Canada’s most active and unpredictable ensembles of creative music, presenting concerts of original music by some of Canada’s most exciting composers, performed by Vancouver’s finest musicians. They have toured across Canada several times and to Europe, released 2 CDs, and have produced operas, TV specials, ice shows and raves. They are the recipients of the 2005 Alcan Arts Award, the largest arts award for creation in Canada.
Described by the Georgia Straight as the “Godzilla of the Vancouver jazz scene, a big, goofy monster that stomps through complex charts with the swagger of big swing band and the heat of a thermonuclear explosion,” The Hard Rubber Orchestra has commissioned many of the finest composers from Vancouver and across Canada, including Scott Good, Linda Bouchard, Ian McDougall, Brad Turner, Phil Dwyer, Michael Blake, Fred Stride, Hugh Fraser, Peter Hannan, Howard Bashaw and Montreal’s Jean Derome and René Lussier.
The performance was one of the most exhilarating I’ve been to in ages. I’ve rarely encountered such a magical combination of terrific musicians exploring well-crafted new repertoire with wit and intelligence. The sheer energy and commitment that went into the event was staggering . . . it was one of the most impressive musical events I’ve experienced in Vancouver in several years.”
Denise Ball, Producer, CBC Radio
Tags: April, fusion, godzilla, guitar, jazz, John Korsrud, John McLaughlin, Music, orchestra, SFU Woodward's, trumpet, Vancouver
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