Malcolm Goldstein (violon) et Ellwood Epps (trompette)
solo performances @ articule
730 doors, music at 8pm sharp
262 Fairmount West (@ Jeanne-Mance)
$10
$10
Une soirée notable avec deux performances solo et acoustique par deux des improvisateurs montréalais le plus créatif et actif. Les performances seront presenté au articule, une gallerie intime et charmant dans le Mile End. À ne pas manquer!
Malcolm Goldstein travaille depuis le début des années 1960 à New York City dans le domaine de la musique nouvelle et de la danse, en tant que compositeur et violoniste, co-fondateur et l’un des directeurs du Tone Roads Ensemble (avec Philip Corner et James Tenney), ainsi qu’en tant que participant au Judson Dance Theater, au Festival de l’Avant-Garde de New York et à la Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Depuis cette époque, il a fait de nombreuses tournées à travers l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe, donnant des concerts de violon solo et se produisant avec de nombreux ensembles de musique nouvelle et de danse. Sa musique fut jouée entre autres aux festivals : New Music America, Inventionen (Berlin), Prix Ars Acustica de la radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Pro Musica Nova (Brême), TonArt (Berne) et Sound Culture (Tokyo). En outre, il travaille entre autres avec l’Ensemble für Neue Musik de la radio Hessischer Rundfunk, L’art pour l’art, Essential Music, le New Performance Group (Cornish Institute). Goldstein a travaillé à plusieurs reprises avec John Cage et la Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Il dirigea le Festival de Musique Nouvelle de la radio Hessischer Rundfunk et participa en 1992 au festival de Francfort : ‘’John Cage Anarchic Harmony’’. Ces dernières années, Goldstein a collaboré avecLiu Fang sur l'improvisation en duo, et sort un nouvel album sous le titre "Along the Way" en 2010.
Ellwood Epps (Montréal/New York City) est un trompettiste-improvisateur, et il est un des musiciens le plus actif et plus bien connue dans le monde de la musique créative au Canada. Il a joué avec Steve Lacy, William Parker, Josh Zubot, Henry Grimes, Le Quan Ninh, Joe McPhee, et Marshall Allen, et il se trouve sur plus que 50 enregistrements. Ellwood est actif à Montréal comme présentateur; en 2008 il a co-fondé l’espace L’envers, ou il est directeur artistique, en plus d’avoir co-fondé et d’être co-directeur de la serie hebdomadaire Mardi Spaghetti. Collectivement, ces deux organismes presentment entre 150 et 200 concerts par année. Il enseigne aussi les cours de trompette privé, et au Studio d’Improvisation de Montréal.
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A special night of acoustic solo performances by two of Montreal's most creative and prolific improvising musicians, presented in the lovely and intimate articule gallery space in Mile End. Not to be missed!
Malcolm Goldstein (b. Brooklyn, New York, United States, March 27, 1936) is a composer, violinist and improviser who has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s. He received an M.A. in music composition from Columbia University in 1960, having studied with Otto Luening. In the 1960s in New York City, he was a co-founder with James Tenney and Philip Corner of the Tone Roads Ensemble and was a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then, he has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe, with solo concerts as well as with new music and dance ensembles.
His "Soundings" improvisations have received international acclaim for having "reinvented violin playing", extending the range of tonal/sound-texture possibilities of the instrument and revealing new dimensions of expressivity.
Since the mid-1960s he has integrated structured improvisation aspects into his compositions, exploring the rich sound textures of new performance techniques within a variety of instrumental and vocal frameworks. Numerous ensembles such as Essential Music, Relâche, Musical Elements, The New Performance Group of Cornish Institute, L'Art pour l'art, Quatuor Bozzini and Klangforum Wien have performed his music, as well as the Ensemble for New Music/Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, of which he was the director in the 1990s. His music has been performed at several New Music America festivals, Meet the Moderns/Brooklyn Philharmonic, Pro Musica Nova Bremen, Acustica International/WDR Cologne, Invention '89 Berlin, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, De Ijsbreker Amsterdam, Maerz Music Berlin, Cologne Triennale, Sound Culture Tokyo, Neue Horizonte and Ton Art Bern, and Musique Action Nancy.
He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Inter-Arts (USA), the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, as well as numerous commissions from Studio Akustische Kunst/WDR Cologne. In 1994 he received the Prix International award for his acoustic art/radio work "between (two) spaces".
He has written extensively on improvisation as in his book Sounding the Full Circle. His critical edition of Charles Ives's "Second String Quartet", which was commissioned by the Charles Ives Society, is now being prepared for publication.
He now resides in Sheffield, Vermont, USA and Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Ellwood Epps (Montreal/New York City) is an improvising trumpet player, and one of the leading lights of Canada’s creative music scene. He has performed with Steve Lacy, William Parker, Josh Zubot, Henry Grimes, Le Quan Ninh, Joe McPhee, Butch Morris, John Butcher, and Marshall Allen, and appears on more than 50 recordings. He has appeared internationally at the Stone, CBGB’s, The Jazz Gallery, the Guelph, Vancouver, Halifax, and Toronto Jazz Festivals, FIMAV, Festival of New Trumpet (NYC), Earshot (Seattle), Suoni Per Il Popolo, and the Off Festival de Jazz (Montreal). Ellwood currently focuses his energy on two groups: the longstanding Pink Saliva (an electric band with Michel F Côté and Alexandre St-Onge) and the acoustic Land of Marigold, with violinist Josh Zubot; Land of Marigold has just completed a 10-concert coast-to-coast tour of Canada.
Ellwood is active in Montreal as a concert presenter; in 2008 he co-founded the space L’envers, where he is artistic director, as well as co-founding and co-directing the weekly Mardi Spaghetti series. Collectively these two organizations present 150-200 concerts each year. He also teaches privately and at the Studio d’Improvisation de Montreal.
http://www.philmultic.com/artists/goldstein/
www.ellwoodepps.blogspot.com
www.lenvers185.blogspot.com
www.articule.org
