BYMP Commissions Concert 2023
Schedule
Sun Jun 04 2023 at 05:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location
Roulette Intermedium | Brooklyn, NY
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Join BYMP for our spring commissions and orchestra concert at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn. Terrance McKnight from WQXR will be hosting.About this Event
We are thrilled to announce that Terrance McKnight from WQXR will be the host for this event. Besides hosting the concert, Mr. McKnight will moderate a talk with the composers and BYMP's music directors. The BYMP Commissions Concert will include performances of commissioned works by composers Pablo Mayor, Angela Morris and Milad Yousufi. Performances to be given by BYMP's Junior and Senior Jazz Ensembles along with our Sinfonia Orchestra.In addition, special performances highlighting the graduating seniors of our Sinfonia Orchestra will include music by Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. There will also be an after concert reception where you will get to meet the composers and Mr. McKnight.The BYMP Commissions Concert will take place on Sunday, June 4th @ 5:00 pm at Roulette Intermedium (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY). You can attend in-person or via live stream. Children aged 12 and under attend for free.BYMP, building character and community through musical excellence!We look forward to seeing all of you on June 4th!
BYMP website
Photo Credit: Julie Yarbrough
Terrance McKnight serves humanity and music by “bringing everyone’s culture to the table, by not putting one above the other, but rather by ensuring a big enough table with a place for all.”
Terrance is the author of the upcoming book “Concert Black,” anticipating a 2023 release by Abrams Press. Also in the 2022-23 season, he hosts diverse offerings in music from the Han and Heung Festival exploring the stories and traditions of Korea at Louisiana State University, to the New York premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s chamber opera “Hometown to the World” at historic Town Hall, to facilitating a conversation around the Black Lives Matter movement and the creation of the first community-based mural in the Brooklyn neighborhood during the summer of 2020 in Bedford-Stuyvesant. His latest creative project, Langston & Beethoven: Black & Proud, is a February 2023 presentation at Lincoln Center’s Sidewalk Studio, and he lends his voice as narrator in Peter & the Wolf for two performances with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony at New York’s DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
McKnight is the weekday evening host for WQXR, New York’s only all-classical music station. In early 2023 in association with the station, his production company, Concert Black LLC, launched a podcast series. The first topic, representations of blackness in opera, is captured in 16 weekly episodes and distilled into 4-one hour radio documentaries. Prior audio documentaries he has authored, voiced and produced for the station feature Langston Hughes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hazel Scott, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Florence Beatrice Price, Leonard Bernstein and Harry Belafonte. Another of his radio shows for WQXR, All Ears with Terrance McKnight, a series about musical discovery, was honored with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award.
Terrance has hosted concerts for Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts, the American Pianists Association Competition, gave the keynote address for the diversity track of the 2022 Music Teachers National Association conference and participated in journalism symposium for the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, also in 2022. His is the voice of recent media campaigns for Carnegie Hall and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In association with the exhibition Charles White: A Retrospective at Museum of Modern Arts, Terrance curated a series of concerts and audio tours in 2019.
McKnight is a member of the Artistic Council, with Claire Chase and conductor Robert Spano, for The Hermitage Artist Retreat in Florida, serves on the board of MacDowell and is the Artistic Advisor for the Harlem Chamber Players. He has participated on panels for Chamber Music America, the Mellon Foundation, American Opera Projects, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, ASCAP and the New York State Council on the Arts. It is Terrance McKnight’s commentary that introduces the liner notes for the recent recording of Three Ife Songs by Phillip Glass, featuring singer Angelique Kidjo, Dennis Russell Davies and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz.
Terrance on WQXR
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Winner of the 2020 Artist Award from ArtsWestchester, Folklore Urbano NYC Artistic Director Pablo Mayor is first and foremost a creator. His compositions and creative concepts forge new territory in the global landscape of contemporary Latin American music as he expresses the nuance of each culture he encounters through both his compositions and his piano.
Pablo’s versatility ranges from his latest Folklore Urbano Orchestra creation: “El Barrio Project-SALSA,” to “Untold Tales,” a multi-disciplinary work inspired by immigrant stories from around the world, supported by the Culpeper Arts and Culture program of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. His compositions are featured in Berklee City Music's Pulse Latino software in rhythms from South America and Mexico, and he has traveled throughout Latin America with Berklee's educational program making connections between music education and the cultural roots of a country.
From Cali, Colombia, Pablo dedicated his first sixteen years in NYC to writing, producing, andpromoting Colombian music including four albums with his band the Folklore Urbano Orchestra and an international tour. Mayor’s music has been featured by Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (his Colombian porro “Mercado en Domingo” recorded on ALJO’s Grammy awardwinning album released 2014 Offense of the Drum), and his arrangements recorded by Totó la Momposina.
He is founder and producer of NYC’s Colombian music festival Encuentro NYC spanning over 16years. Since 2016, he has been in residence at iD Studio Theater in the South Bronx, and continues over 20 years as resident composer for the company (featuring over 100 compositions bridging styles and genres).
In addition to his own Folklore Urbano ensembles, Pablo is pianist and the only non-Puerto Rican member of the folkloric Puerto Rican establishment Los Pleneros de la 21, and was for over 15 years pianist with the legendary Cuban Orquesta Broadway.
Folklore Urbano website
Photo Credit: TJ Huff
If Brooklyn’s music circles draw a venn diagram, Angela Morris thrives in the loop between avant-jazz, new music, and pop. As composer and multi-instrumentalist, (known mostly as saxophonist, she grew up playing violin) she has performed throughout North America and Europe everywhere from basements to arenas.
The Webber|Morris Big Band, her 18-piece jazz big band, performs original compositions by Morris and co-leader Anna Webber. The New York Times praised their “ambitious original compositions” and “jagged-edged band that has begun to turn musicians’ heads.” Their debut recording Both Are True (Greenleaf Music) was released in 2020 and featured on several Best of 2020 lists including The New York Times, Bandcamp, and NPR Jazz Critics Poll.
Morris’ vocal group Rallidae has released two albums: 2016’s Turned, and Was on the NYC-based label Gold Bolus Recordings and 2014’s Paper Birds, which AllAboutJazz called “a genuinely distinctive, and entertaining, combination of sounds and words… An exceptional debut by and exciting and innovative new band.”
As a co-leader, Morris is a member of TMT, a trio with Cat Toren on piano and Anthony Taddeo on drums, who recently released Asleep in the Dust – an art book and double CD collaboration with visual artist Jerry Birchfield. Another collaborative trio, Motel released like you always do, I always did too (Prom Night Records) 2017. And the band Skellettes with Nathaniel Morgan (saxophone), Jason Ajemian (bass) and Booker Stardrum (drums) performs at Winter Jazzfest in 2020.
Since 2016, Morris has organized the monthly, multi-disciplinary, experimental concert series Brackish – music & art in Brooklyn.
Morris has performed with Jessica Pavone String Ensemble (appearing on her records Brick and Mortar and Lost and Found), Myra Melford, Jason Ajemian, and many others. She is a frequent collaborator and touring band member with Helado Negro, appearing on his records Far In, Private Energy (Expanded), This is How You Smile, and Helado Negro and the Smile Band – Live at KCRW.
A 2019 Composer Fellow at Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, Morris has also been artist-in-residence at Willapa Bay AiR, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Banff Centre. She holds an MA in Music Composition from the Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY Queens College in New York and BA in Jazz Studies from Humber College in Toronto. She is an alumna of the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop lead by Jim McNeely and studied composition with Darcy James Argue.
Angela's website
Photo Credit: Dale Yee Dong
Milad Yousufi was born in 1995 during the civil war in Afghanistan. At that time the Taliban were ruling Afghanistan, and music was completely banned. At the age of two he started drawing. He drew the piano keys on paper and pretended to play.
Milad Yousufi is a pianist, composer, conductor, poet, singer, painter and calligrapher. Yousufi’s work is deeply inspired by his country and culture.
When the Taliban rule was lifted after a period of five years, the arts flourished in Afghanistan. Milad took advantage of every opportunity to learn and study music and art. By the age of 12, he was teaching painting and was able to attend the one and only music school in Kabul. After only three years of formal piano training, Milad was one of four students accepted into a music program in Denmark. He was also chosen to represent Afghanistan at various music festivals in The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, and Germany. He placed third in the International Golden Key competition in Frankfurt, Germany.
Upon his return to Afghanistan, Milad concentrated on teaching piano, theory, and a course of music notation program (Sibelius) at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
In 2011, the Afghan Youth Orchestra was formed. Milad was the pianist and then became the first Afghan conductor and arranged music for their performances.
In 2013, the Afghan Youth Orchestra made a U.S. tour playing sold-out concerts in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and New England Conservatory where he performed as a pianist.
Upon moving to the United States, Milad was awarded a full scholarship to attend Mannes School of Music as an undergraduate and studied piano with the world-renowned pianist Simone Dinnerstein. He graduated from Mannes School of Music in spring 2020. Milad received his masters degree in composition under Dr. Dalit Warshaw's mentorship from Brooklyn College in 2022. He had the opportunity to compose for The New York Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, premiered at Lincoln Center; Refugee Orchestra Project; Kronos Quartet, premiered in Carnegie Hall; Music Worcester, Terezin Music Foundation, premiered in Boston Symphony Hall. Refugee Orchestra Project, premiered at the Barbican Center in London, Raleigh Civic Symphony Orchestra, Trio Solisti, Worcester Chamber Music Society and Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. Upcoming commissions includeThe VISION Collective and Musaics of the Bay. Milad is on the board of directors of Musaics of the Bay, the VISION Collective and an ambassador for Arium TV.
In 2022, Hollywood made a movie about Milad Yousufi's life called (Paper Piano), released on Apple TV, "Little America" Season 2 Episode #7 (Paper Piano).
Milad's website
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Where is it happening?
Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
Tickets
USD 20.00
