7 PM at Spectrum: The latest of savant Seth Gilmans Early/Late series: Marta Bagratuni, cello and voice (Go Blue!) Guy Barash, electronics* Seth Gilman, baritone vox (Go Blue!) *Spectrum would like to take this opportunity to assert that Guy Barash is, well, a great guy, despite the fact that he neglected to land on the fair shores of Ann Arbor and return laden with a degree therefrom. The Early/Late series at Spectrum continues with cellist/vocalist Marta Bagratuni, who will perform works by Vache Sharafyan inspired by 10th Century Armenian sacred music and devotional texts. She will be joined by Seth Gilman and Guy Barash in highly improvisatory and remote explorations of sacred and secular music of medieval France. Sunday, March 9 at 7:00 Spectrum, 121 Ludlow St., New York City Admission $15/$10 students & seniors Vache Sharafyans (b. 1966) compositions have been performed in renowned halls Cologne Philharmonie, Brussels Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebow, in USA: Carnegie (Stern) Hall, Carnegie (Zankel) Hall, Berkeley University, Stanford University, Seattle/ Benaroya Hall/, Washington National Mall, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Hall, in Italy: Rome, Florence, Milan., and other venues in USA and Europe. Most recently, his Arrangements and transcriptions was performed at the Sochi 7th Winter International Festival of the Arts Closing Ceremony in partnership with the XXII Olympic Winter Games. His two pieces, eyes color of the sea and a gem rose were written for a solo cellist with singing abilities and are intended to be played back to back. Both pieces are inspired by Armenian authentic sacred music with verses written by the Armenian canonized Saint of the Armenian Church, St. Grigor Narekatsi (951-1003). The repeating melodic structures are sympathetic to the form of ancient Armenian sharakans (melismatic, monophonic chants). eyes color of the sea and a gem rose are unusual in that both pieces require interpretation tricks, freedom to make the monophony more active while interpreting the small differences to describe a flowing hymn-like meditative state. Giving her first public performance the Newport Music Festival at age five, her international debut in St. Gallen International Festival in Switzerland at age nine and her orchestral debut at age twelve performing Haydn’s C Major concert with the Leopolis Chamber Orchestra of L’viv, Ukraine; cellist Marta Bagratuni has since firmly established a multi-faceted career path, as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. In 2013 Marta released her debut concept recording, Pieces of the World, funded by the popular crowd-fusing website, Kickstarter. Pieces of the World is a 300 year journey of music written for the cello spanning 13 composers from different countries, ending with a piece specifically written for the recording featuring singing and playing. Marta is currently performing as a cellist and vocalist throughout the United States. Her most recent performances in Charleston, South Carolina earned her praise as she played beautifully, providing lyricism (Charleston Post and Courier). Guy Barash is a composer of modern music. Among his compositions are symphonic, chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works. He has written an extensive body of work that incorporates text in various settings and arrangements. Barashs Proteus, a chamber oratorio based on Nick Flynn’s second memoir The Ticking Is The Bomb was premiered at Galapagos Art Space in 2010. Blind Huber for two singers and chamber ensemble based on the eponymous book of poems by Flynn was premiered fall 2011 at Greenwich House. His score to Hildegard, a multimedia opera conceived by Pioneers Go East Collective, was presented in 2013 at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. In 2012 Guy Barash was a composer-in-residence at Turtle Bay Music School as a recipient of Exploring the Metropolis Con Edison Composition Award. Currently he is a fellow composer in the American Opera Projects Composers & the Voice program. In 2010 Barash founded Eavesdropping, new music series at The Tank. Since 2013 Eavesdropping is hosted by Spectrum. Seth Gilman is a classically trained vocalist active in new and early music in New York. He has performed in recent years with with Anti-Social Music, Big Apple Baroque, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, the Center for Contemporary Opera, Dr. Faustus, Experiments in Opera, Hotel Elefant, New Brew, Opera on Tap, operamission, and Pioneers Go East Collective. In addition, he is curator of the Early/Late series at Spectrum, and is excited to organize a program of 10-minute operas, including two world premiers, for New Brew in April.
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