Music Omi International Musicians Residency
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Overview
Each August, approximately a dozen musicians-composers
and performers from around the globe-gather for two and a half weeks to
share in a unique collaborative music making residency program. A diverse
group of fellows will be selected through a competitive application process.
It is free to attend, though a fellowship does not include travel to the
Omi campus. While at Omi, musicians will composer for each and explore
each other's music practices. Residents attend with an open mind and come
with an interest in expanding their ways of thinking about and making
music. A singular feature of the Music Omi artist colony experience is
the presentation of two public concerts at the conclusion of the program.
Application Guidelines
2009 Session: Thursday, July
23rd through Sunday, August 9th / NYC Concert Monday, August 10th
Postmark Deadline: Monday, February
2nd, 2009
2009 Residency: How to Apply
Applicants should include
the following:
Please note that materials will not be returned. Be sure to make a copy
of your application for your own records.
Mail applications to:
Jeffrey Lependorf, Music Omi Director
Art Omi, Inc.
55 Fifth Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10003
USA
Fellowships & Prizes
Francis Greenburger Fellowship
on Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict: Fellowship only
for an artist whose work relates to managing and/or mitigating religious
and ethnic conflict. Work made at Omi must be in direct relation to
this area.
Questions may be directed to Music
Omi
Music Omi 2009 Guest
Mentor
Soo-Jung Kae
Pianist/composer/improvisor Soo-Jung Kae (b.1969 Seoul,Korea)
describes her music as a "melting pot of, 20th century classical, free
improvisation, punk,and jazz." Among her influences, Kae lists artists
ranging from Henry Cowell, John Cage, Ran Blake, Byoungki Hwang, and
J.S.Bach, Beethoven, to Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Elvis Costello,
and the Sex Pistols.
Soo-Jung Kae has performed in Asia, Europe, and North America as a soloist,
and with other artists including the Seoul City Orchestra, Hans Poppel,
Jim Hobbs, Taylor Ho Bynum, JCA Orchestra, Tomas Fujiwara, and Chang
U Choi. She has also composed and recorded music for movies, dance performances
and animations.
Soo Jung Kae currently resides in Korea where she teaches at the Dong
Ah Institute of Media and Arts. She continues to fearlessly search for
new ways to advance her art, and in the process provides listeners with
an extraordinarily unique experience.
http://www.soojungkae.com
Past Guest Mentors:
Summer 2008 - Katie Down
Summer 2007 - Adam-Simmons
Summer 2006 - Carsten Radtke
Summer 2005 - Hazel Leach
Summer 2004 - Laura Andel
Summer 2003 - Scott Fields
Summer 2002 - Ursel Schlicht
Summer 2001 - C. Bryan Rulon
Summer 2000 - Bill McHenry
Music Omi 2009
Invited Residents
Minako Arai
The improvised music of “Instrumental
voice player,” composer and arranger Minako Aria doesn't stick to
any one genre, moving freely through jazz, rock, classic, and folkloric
music. Living in her native Japan, she appears regularly in festivals,
concerts and with such musicians at Satoh Masahiko, Hino Terumasa, Takase
Aki, and Kan Te Fan both inside and outside of the country. She was awarded
1st 'Grand Prix' at the 1993 Yokohama Jazz Promenade competition and has
been the subject of a TVK Television documentary. She has released four
albums and is currently researching new methods for breathing and body
maintenance toward increasing her performance potential, combining oriental
marshal arts and western exercise physiology.
http://homepage2.nifty.com/arai-m/
Ricardo Cavalli
Ricardo Cavalli received
a scholarship to study Jazz Composition at the Berklee College of Music
in 1995, where worked with Frank Tiberi and Greg Hopkins, Joe Maneri and
Jerry Bergonzi. Later, at the New York Lake Placid Institute, he worked
with Bob Brookmayer, Jim Mc Neely, Maria Schneider and others. After working
professionally in the New York scene, he returned to Argentina to take
part in some of most important bands, being considered by the press as
1999 Revelation Artist. He won a contest to teach in a public music conservatory,
and also teaches reeds both privately and in both an elementary and high
school. In 2000 he was selected by the Argentine press as the best saxophone
player of the year, and in 2002 his first work as a soloist was declared
the Best Jazz Album of the year by the local press. Currently, his band
performs his original music, inspired by Afro-American roots, expressing
the spirit of the great musicians that inspired his style.
Alberto Fiori
Alberto Fiori is an Italian
composer and pianist, concentrating in recent years in the field of improvisation.
He has produced work for theatre, films, dancers and other performers,
and played in festivals and theatres throughout Europe, as well as for
broadcast. He is interested in all forms of arts exchange.
www.myspace.com/albertofiori
Anthony Garcia
Guitarist composer Anthony Garcia is a soulful artist who touches audiences with his unique ability to blend formality with colourful improvisatory flair. A highly trained classical musician well versed in styles such as jazz, Latin folk and popular music, Anthony manages to bring together the threads of these genres to create an original and communicative soundscape of universal appeal. Anthony has performed his original music for classical guitar as soloist and in collaboration with a diverse array of musicians throughout Australia, Japan and Mexico.
Cory Hills
Percussionist, composer, and improviser Cory Hills thrives
on breaking down musical barriers through innovative and creative endeavors.
He received his bachelor’s degree (percussion performance and music
education) from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and his
master’s degree (percussion performance) from Queensland Conservatorium
in Brisbane, Australia. In 2005, Hills was awarded a research fellowship
to Institute Fabrica, United Colors of Benetton’s research center
for the contemporary and exploratory arts located in Treviso, Italy. Currently,
Hills is a doctoral fellow in percussion performance and music theory
at the University of Kansas. An advocate of new music, Hills has commissioned
and premiered dozens of new works for solo percussion. He is the creator
of The Percussive Art of Storytelling, an interdisciplinary arts performance
that brings contemporary music to children in accessible ways. As a member
of SI2, an interdisciplinary arts duo with Matthew Coley, Hills has been
a featured performer at the 2008 convention for the International Society
for Improvised Music and the Days of New Music Festival (Chisinau, Moldova;
June 2009). In addition, Hills sponsors the annual Con/un/drum Solo Percussion
Composition Competition designed to increase repertoire for solo percussion.
Hills is a frequent guest artist and clinician throughout the United States
and Europe, giving numerous master classes and recitals.
www.coryhills.com
James Ilgenfritz
photo: Scott Friedlander
Bassist/Composer
James Ilgenfritz approaches the double bass as an archeologist,
examiningrarified aspects of the instrument's sonic palette to confound
thestatus quo. His work has been praised in Time Out New York, Signal
ToNoise, All About Jazz – New York, and Downbeat Magazine. Recentperformances
include work with George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Dick, John Zorn,
Gary Lucas, Marilyn Crispell, Ned Rothenberg, Lukas Ligeti, and Dave Ballou.
In 2007 James received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum
for a cross-country tour, performing newly commissioned semi-improvisational
notated works for contrabass by composers Jeffrey Treviño, Stephen Rush,
and Gordon Beeferman, culminating in a performance at Roulette in New
York. Other notable performance venues where James has performed include
The World Financial Center Winter Garden, Tonic, The Stone, Symphony Space,
The New Museum in SoHo, and the Knitting Factory Main Stage. Improvisation
is central to James’s work, and he has written and lectured on the art
of improvisation and its metaphorical relationship to the practical complexity
of daily life.
www.jamesilgenfritz.com
and www.myspace.com/jamesilgenfritz
Hyelim Kim
photo:
Trent Barton
A native of Korea,
Hyelim Kim is a pioneer musician in fusion music developing
a new aspect of Korean traditional music in Daegum (Korean traditional
flute) performance, improvisation and composition. She earned a BA and
an MA in Korean traditional music, which is her original resource of musical
inspiration. Upon graduating, she was recommended as an excellent performer
to enter the “Nationwide Korean Traditional Music Concert for New Performers”.
She has been appointed as Young Artist from the Korean council in 2009
and Kumho Cultural Foundation in 2006. Along with the practical activities,
Hyelim Kim has a further commitment to explore the way Korean music has
interacted with various kinds of music to make a new heterogeneous musical
culture by doing a research at Queensland Conservatorium in Australia.
http://www.myspace.com/hyelimkimdaegum
Almut Kühne
Almut Kuehne is a singer/composer
living in Berlin. She improvises, sings composed contemporary and old
music, jazz, german chansons and sang in several music theater productions.
She worked with Georg Graewe, Gebhard Ullmann, Phil Minton, Tobias Delius,
Ann le Baron, Kent Kessler, Dresden Chamber Choir and others in Europe,
the US and Mexico.
Dennis William Lee
Dennis William Lee is
a composer/drummer/guitarist/vocalist living in Montreal. He plays traditional
thrash metal, post-free jazz, fourth-wave ska-core, Canadiana singer-songwriter
folk and some other stuff too. His favorite dinosaur is ankylosaurus.
www.dwlee.com
Celia Malheiros
Composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist,
arranger, producer and educator Celia Malheiros was born
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her performances and works include: recordings
with Hermeto Pascoal on her CD Sempre Crescendo, and João Bosco on her
CD Cenario Brasileiro; performances at jazz festivals; composer of film
scores and video sound tracks; director of the Brazilian All Star Big
Band for 13 years; world tours in 2006 and 2007, and a new CD release
in 2009—After the Carnaval—available on Sundance Music. www.celiamalheiros.com
Hector
Moro
Composer, percussionist and electronic
musician Héctor Moro studied classical percussion
and composition in Chile and in Germany, receiving many grants and scholarships
(DAAD, Akademie Schloss Solitude, etc) as well as commissions from the
Ensemble Modern and SWR Vokalensemble, among others. He has also been
working in the fields of Electronic and Improvised Music and has been
teaching Experimental Music at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin,
city in which he also currently lives.
www.moromusik.com
Angelika Niescier
Angelika Niescier is through her lively style one of the most independent
and exciting voices of the german jazz scene and has created a genuine
style of her own uniffying both: unusual, modern compositions and intensive
improvisation.The idiosyncratic nature of her music, her saxophone playing,
based as it is on her outstanding musical technique, is totally convincing.
With her imaginative, energy-laden, highly expressive mode of playing,
which she infuses with musical elements from other cultures, she is able
to awaken in her audience an enthusiasm for the broad many-facetted appearance
of modern jazz.
www.angelika-niescier.de;
www.myspace.com/angelikaniescier
Angelo
Sturiale
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Angelo Sturiale—Participation at International
Summer Courses of Darmstadt (Germany); Master's Degree in Piano at Conservatory
of Music in Catania (Italy); Bachelor's Degree in Humanities at University
of Catania (Italy) with a thesis on Japanese Butoh Dance and its the relationships
to Zen Buddhism. Fellowship in dance notation and visiting composer at
Laban Conservatory of Dance in London (UK); Laureate Artist by “Pépinières
Pour Jeunes Artistes Européennes; Composer in Residence at Conservatorio
Superior de Musica de Zaragoza (Spain); Honorable mention at EMS Text-Sound
International Composition Prize (Sweden). Composer in Residence at EMS
Stockholm Studios (Sweden); International Award UNESCO-Aschberg; Resident
Composer at Conservatorio de Las Rosas in Morelia (México). Third
Prize winner at Zeitklang International Composition Competition, St. Pölten
(Austria). Composer in residence at Tokyo National University of Fine
Arts and Music. Professor of Experimental Music and Sociology of Music
at ITESM – Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education,
Monterrey (Mexico); founder and director of EXPERIMENtec Ensemble, Monterrey
(México). His compositions have been performed in various festivals
of Contemporary Music and Performing Arts in Italy and abroad by Sicily
Simphony Orchestra (Italy), Trachia Philarmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria),
Orchestra of Zaragoza Conservatory (Spain), Tonkünstler Orchestra
(Austria), London Chamber Group (UK), Salzburg String Quartet (Austria),
Decigramma Ensemble (Italy), Ensemble de Las Rosas (Mexico), Nure Ensemble
(Mexico), VERSUS8 Percussion Quartet (México), etc.
http://angelosturiale.webs.com
Wilfrido
Terrazas
Mexican
flutist Wilfrido Terrazas is mainly interested in collaborating
with composers and improvisers, in premiering new works, and in the interpretation
of recent (and daring) flute repertoire. He is a member of the Mexican
improvisation project Generación Espontánea.
www.myspace.com/torrehomerica
Jeffrey Lependorf
Jeffrey Lependorf, himself an alumnus of Music Omi, creates operas, chamber music, and sound installations, and is also a 'certified master' of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese bamboo flute (he received the venerable name Koku-"empty nothingness"-from Kinko Master Yoshinobu Taniguchi in 1984). He has performed and had work performed around the globe; literally, in fact: a recording of his "Night Pond" for solo shakuhachi was launched into space when the shuttle Atlantis took off on May 15, 1997 and remained for a year aboard the Russian space station Mir. Most recently, his music composition concentrates on opera projects that utilize transcriptions of real speech combined with appropriated musical materials to explore multifaceted layerings of opera, language and history.
http://www.jeffreylependorf.com
http://www.myspace.com/jeffreylependorf
The Program
Each August, approximately a dozen musicians--composers and performers from around the globe--gather for two and a half weeks to share in a unique collaborative music making residency program. Music Omi encourages its residents to participate as members of an international musical community; sharing ideas, performing each others works and writing music for one another while exploring their own musical vision. Music Omi invites applicants from all musical disciplines who wish to broaden their artistic horizons and engage actively with a diversity of other musicians. Unlike most artists residency programs, where artists come to work in isolation, Music Omi actively encourages the exchange of ideas and the sharing of cultures through active collaboration. A singular feature of the Music Omi experience is the presentation of two public concerts at the conclusion of the program (one on the Art Omi campus itself near the conclusion of the residency, and the other at a New York City venue the day following the conclusion of the residency).
Applicants may be primarily composers, improvisers or performers, but have some proficiency in each of these areas. Music Omi welcomes academically trained musicians, musicians "of the street," players of traditional instruments, concert instruments, vocalists, and sound artists of all kinds. "Pop," "jazz," "classical," "folk," "experimental," and other such labels have no bearing on the selection process, only musical excellence and a wish to collaborate. It is recommended that applicants come not with specific projects in mind, but rather with a willingness to share their skills and sensibilities, and an openness to working together with others on jointly conceived musical projects.
All awarded fellows commit to remaining for the entire residency and to participating in the concluding concerts. Everyone accepted to Music Omi receives full room and board during his or her stay (note that Art Omi is unable to provide travel funds).
Advisory Committee
David Amran
Robert H. Browning
Alain Kirili
Butch Morris
Isaiah Sheffer
Board of Directors
Laura Andel
Baikida Carroll
John Cross
Linda Cross
Francis Greenburger, President
Andy Humphrey
Ingrid Jensen
Joan Kaghan
Arthur Kell
David Kra
Jeffrey Lependorf, Director
Lee Repko
C. Bryan Rulon
Ursel Schlicht
Ross Willows
Sponsors - Thank You
Music Omi expresses its gratitude to the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Irish Arts Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Republic of China), the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, Friends of Music Omi, and Francis Greenburger.
