Patrick GRANT (composer and keyboard) "... a modern electronic master...(he) is a totally wired contemporary musician who combines live performance with cutting edge technology", writes The New Music Connoisseur about this emerging American composer. According to the Village Voice, Grant's distinct sound has "...a driving and rather harsh energy redolent of rock, as well as a clean sense of melodicism ... the music's momentum and intricate cross-rhythms rarely let up, making the occasional infectious tunes that emerge all the more beautiful for surprise."
He has created music for the Cornell University Gamelan Ensemble, the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris for the Louvre Museum, theatrical visionary Robert Wilson for his Water Mill Center, the Storm King Music Festival 2003, the Living Theatre, and the Prix de Lausanne International Concours for Dance. His works have been performed by such organizations as the Bang on a Can Annual Marathon, Music at the Anthology (MATA), Celebrate Brooklyn!, Gamelan Son of Lion, Music Under Construction, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Project 4 New Music.
Kathleen SUPOVÉ (keyboard) is one of the most acclaimed contemporary music pianists of our time, occupying a unique position through her continuous search for what is new and provocative. Kathy has spent the last decade producing a series of solo concerts entitled The Exploding Piano, in which she has performed and premiered countless works by emerging and established composers. The series has received rave reviews and thrilled audiences everywhere. In the last two seasons, Kathy developed The Exploding Piano into a multimedia experience by using theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, electronics, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines and director/writer Valeria Vasilevski.Kathy is a featured performer in the Summer 2000 issue of Yale Theater Journal, which is devoted to Concert Theater. Last year, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust commissioned composer Randall Woolf and Ms Vasilevski to create four concert theater works, comprising an evening-length show, for her. This project recently received production funding from The Greenwall Foundation.
Besides being a soloist, Kathy is half of the duo twisted tutu with composer/performer Eve Beglarian; the keyboard player and vocal ranteuse for Nick Didkovsky’s band, Dr. Nerve and the resident ensemble of The Kitchen, Kitchen House Blend. She is also a member and founder of the consortium, Exploding Music. She has appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Music at the Anthology, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Patrick Grant Group, Essential Music, and The Crosstown Ensemble.
If you're into music, you've probably encountered Jed DISTLER (keyboard). He's all around you. You may remember Jed's scores to such airline boarding videos as Spring Flowers in Appalachia, music for holiday bargain CDs like Baby's First Christmas, or mini-operas like The Three Minute Saga of Rudolfo premiered last year at Lincoln Center. Perhaps you've played his published Bill Evans and Art Tatum transcriptions, or read his record reviews in Gramophone or on Classicstoday.com. Maybe you've heard Jed's recent works like Three Landscapes for Peter Wyer (for toy piano, recorded by Margaret Leng Tan on Point Records), String Quartet No. 1 (Mister Softee Variations, premiered in 1999 by the Flux Quartet), or the Violin Sonata. On recitals and on disc, he has premiered works by Frederic Rzewski, Lois V Vierk, Wendy Mae Chambers, Andrew Thomas, Virgil Thomson, David Maslanka, Douglas Geers, William Schimmel, Kitty Brazelton, Alvin Curran, Eleanor Hovda, Bob Windbeil, and others.You might remember such press clips about Jed as "an altogether extraordinary pianist (Newark Star-Ledger), or "a musician with smoke coming out of his ears (alternative radio station WFMU)." As ComposersCollaborative's co-founder and Artistic Director, Jed has created and programmed such innovative festivals as Solo Flights and Non Sequitur. He's received grants from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, American Composers Forum, and a Macdowell Colony residency in the fall of 2001. Fifteen years after CCi began, Jed continues to beat new music's vibrant, ever changing, boundary blurring drum.
Enjoying an extremely varied career, John FERRARI (percussion) is a versatile drummer, classical and hand percussionist, conductor, educator and composer/arranger in the New York City area music scene. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble and long standing member of Meridian Arts Ensemble Brass & Percussion. Frequent recipients of the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming, both groups have collectively released nine critically acclaimed recordings.
He is a frequent guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has performed and/or recorded with many notable organizations around New York and elsewhere, including: Bang on a Can All-stars, Da Capo Chamber Players, Group for Contemporary Music, Chamber Music Northwest, Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Orion String Quartet, New Music Consort, and the New Jersey, Talujon and Pulse Percussion Ensembles.
Active in pop, jazz, world, chamber, orchestral, theater, dance and film music, John Ferrari has toured extensively world wide, both concertizing and as artist in residence/clinician. Mr. Ferrari holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and a BM from William Paterson University in New Jersey.