PERFORMANCE: Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
Schedule
Thu, 15 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
120 College Street, Asheville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28801 | Asheville, NC
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Arthur Brooks Ensemble VThursday, May 15th, 2025 at 7PM
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}
TICKETS – $15 General Admission / $10 BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center presents the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V with Arthur Brooks, Michael Chorney, Bill Heminway, Jeremy Harlos, Anthony Santor, and Matt Weston.
Arthur Brooks was a member of the Bennington College faculty for 23 years as both teaching assistant and professor. There he founded Ensemble V. He has been a student and collaborator with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, dancer Penny Campbell, dancer Patricia Bardi, Frank Wright, William Parker and many others. He was one of the founding members of the Boston Art Ensemble with the great Stan Strickland, Syd Smart, and the late Hayes Burnett. Brooks was also a member of Brute Force, a group founded by the late Richard Daniels where he met Stan and Sydney, and the trumpeter, Ted Daniel. He remains indebted to all of these artists, and inspired by the integrity of their spiritual and artistic pursuit.
Michael Chorney is a musician from Lincoln Vermont. He has worked as a composer, bandleader, librarian, orchestrator, assembly line worker, Tony award winner, arranger, janitor, dance accompanist, carpenter, engineer, house painter, teacher and sideman. His work spans genres, from avant-garde prepared guitar pieces to arrangements of Paul Bowles, Kurt Weill and Sun Ra. His newest project is a six-piece psychedelic jazz-rock collective called Freeway Clyde.
Bill Heminway has been active in the music scene in Vermont since the early nineties: The So-Called Jazz Sextet, New Nile Orchestra, Ensemble V, Pantet. He is eternally grateful to Penny Campbell, Michael Chorney, Arthur Brooks and Bill Dixon for introducing him to the world of improvised music, art, and life within all of us. In addition to music Bill worked as a paraprofessional and teacher for 25 years in local elementary schools. Bill’s teaching now happens on his farm where he works mainly with primary aged students and non-neuro typical adults in a quest to explore and share in the creative life forces which form our habitat.
Jeremy Harlos studied with Arthur Brooks and Bill Dixon at Bennington College 1986-1992. B.A. in Black Music and Mathematics from Bennington College in 1990. Performed and recorded with Arthur Brooks, Jack Wright, Justin Perdue, Matt Weston, Michael Chorney, Anthony Santor, Bill Heminway, Alec Julien, Patricia Julien, Daniel Carter, Ehran Elisha, and Haim Elisha.
Anthony Santor is a musician residing in Vermont. He has been playing bass since he was a teenager. His professional career has taken him through the east coast of the United States and abroad. He has been performing with Ensemble V for the last 20 years. Santor is also a body worker for the last 35 years. In the last 5 years he combined body work and sound with the use of Tibetan Singing Bowls. Santor’s focus with performing with Ensemble V is now totally using Tibetan Bowls and other Vibration instruments.
Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics, and has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. A student of Arthur Brooks, Bill Dixon, and Milford Graves, Weston has also collaborated with Bill Callahan, Kevin Drumm, Mary Halvorson, Jeff Parker, and many others. His recordings have been hailed by Vital Weekly as “some of the best modern music,” and his double LP Embrace This Twilight was chosen for Bandcamp’s 2023 Best Experimental Music list. He is the grandson of Black Mountain College co-founders Nan and Norman Weston.
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Where is it happening?
120 College Street, Asheville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28801Event Location & Nearby Stays:
