Global Connections 2006 recipients:
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Composer:
Elena Kats-Chernin (Coogee, Australia)
www.boosey.com/katschernin
Hosting Organization:
Present Music (Milwaukee, WI)
www.presentmusic.org
A 6-day residency with Present Music in Milwaukee, including the premiere of a new work, 2 public performances, 2 youth workshops, 1 master class, 1 pre-concert talk and 5 rehearsals.
Composer:
Brian Allen (Clute, TX)
www.braintone.com
Hosting Organziation:
Associacion de Jazz Yucateco (Meridan, Mexico)
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Allen will be in residence in Mexico for a week, collaborating with local musicians on a new composition. There will be 3 days of rehearsal and 2 days of performance.
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Composers:
Harris Eisenstadt (Los Angeles, CA)
www.harriseisenstadt.com
Willow Williamson (Los Angeles, CA)
www.willowwilliamson.com
Hosting Organization:
Association Consultants Associes pour l'Education aux medias (Dakar Fann, Senegal)
www.caemsenegal.org
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Eisenstadt and Williamson will travel to Senegal to workshop and premiere a new multimedia work called "Urban Baobab" including live video footage from local
artists.
Composer:
Mary Ellen Childs (Minneapolis, MN)
www.maryellenchilds.com
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Hosting Organization:
Yaroslavi Association of Contemporary Dance and Performance (Yaroslavi, Russia)
Childs will attend the 7th International Festival of Movement and Dance on the Volga, for performances of her work "Kolokol" in 3 Russian cities, to participate in the festival activities and to meet with Russian bell-makers and players.
Composer:
Mariana Sadovska (Cologne, Germany)
www.mo-productions.com/marianasad.html
Hosting Organization:
KITKA, Inc. (Oakland, CA)
www.kitka.org
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A 4-week composer residency in Oakland, CA, during which KITKA and the composer will collaboratively
revise, rehearse, and remount "The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between The Worlds", leading to productions in SF, NYC, and Warsaw.
Composers:
Steven Hilmy (Washington, D.C.)
Audrey Chen (Baltimore, MD)
Hosting Organization:
Isadora International Festival of Modern Dance (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
www.dancemaster.ru
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Chen and Hilmy will travel to Siberia for an encore performance of their collaborative work with choreographer Maida Withers "Thresholds Crossed".
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Composer:
Ken Field (Cambridge, MA)
http://fieldk.home.att.net/
Hosting Organization:
Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Japan)
Mr. Field will speak to audiences at the Festival screenings of animations works using his music as soundtrack. Additionally, Field will perform in Kyoto and Kobe prior to the festival.
Mr. Field and his Revolutionary Snake Ensemble have been ivited to give multiple performances at the 2nd Bali International Jazz Festival as well a series of perfromances and student and professional workshops in several other cities in Indonesia.
Composer:
Michael Vorfeld (Germany)
http://www.vorfeld.org/
Hosting Organization
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (USA)
http://www.artleak.org/
Mr. Vorfeld has been invited to travel to LA to give a concert at LACE in collaboration with two LA-based musicians. He will also give a talk on technology and collaborative processes in composition
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Composer:
John Luther Adams (Fairbanks, AK)
http://www.johnlutheradams.com/
Hosting Organization
Orkest De Volharding (Germany)
http://www.volharding.com/
Orkest De Volharding has commissioned Adams to write a new work and has invited him to attend the premiere in Amsterdam.
Composer
Ricardo Arias (USA)
Hosting Organization
Admill (Association for the Development of Music in Lebanon)
Mr. Arias has been invited to be a guest artist in the 2006 Irtija Festival in Beirut. During the course of the festival he will perform at least three times and give at least two workshops related to his work with unorthodox instruements (found, invented or prepared).
Composer
Sam Newsome (USA)
http://www.samnewsome.com/
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Hosting Organization
ArCuB (Romania)
http://www.arcub.ro/
Mr. Newsome has been invited to give two performances as part of the 2006 Bucharest International Jazz
Festival and conduct two workshops for students at the George Enescu High School and the National University fo Bucharest.
He will also be interview on Bucharest
National Radio.
