Contact: Genepritsker@gmail.com
Gene Pritsker Composer
“Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent.” Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker.”
- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine
"...audacious...multitalented."
- The New York Times
'The shape-shifting Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight compartments that industry marketers revel in."
- Raul d'Gama Rose, All About Jazz
'Intending to make music
dangerous again.”
- Sequenza21
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Performances:
2023
April
4/1
Sorrow Like pleasure.. performed by Tehya Walters as part of Millersville University Flute Day at Murley Hall
in Millersville, PA.
4/2
Performances of various pieces fro flute and guitar as part of Tessa Brinckman - flute and GP - guitar ' Low Key' Chamber Concert #23 @ The Sky Vault
4/7
Premiere ’The Key To my Nausea’ for guitar and piano as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Gene Pritsker & Jai Jeffryes Electric guitar & Piano Duo’
also a perfjoamcne of ‘For Bob’
at Steel Wig Music
4/13
'Weeping' & 'E-Cause' performed by St. Cloud State University Contemporary Music Ensemble as part of their new music concert produced by Dr. Terry Vermillion, Director in St. Cloud, Minnesota
4/20
The CompCord Jazz Ensemble performs a set at Birdland jazz Club. Gene Will have a premiere of 'Traces' for jazz band
4/22
Release of the single 'Time Does Not Bring Relief' by Sound Liberation
4/23
'God This Body Is Aging' performed as part of o Composers Concordance presents 'B3+ at Gallery MC
4/26
Pianist Sayaka Takahashi performs ‘NYC’ as part of Nikolai Roslavetz and Nahum Gabo Festival for the Arts in the city of Bryansk
4/28
Kathy Supove performs 'Mantra #5’ at Lyman Hall in Pomona College in Claremont, California
4/29
'The Living Unutterable' for trobone quiartet premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Bagels & Brass' at Goddard Riverside.
May
5/5
Performances of various pieces for trumpet and guitar as part of Omar Kabir - trumpet and GP - guitar ' Low Key' Chamber Concert #24 @ The Sky Vault
5/6
'Turn Back?' performed by The Bowers Fader Duo at their Seventh Annual New American Art Song Concert - Second Encore
5/6
Many compostions performed at 'Guitars & Poems' as part of Queens New Music Festival co Presented with Composers Concordance
Performed by the CompCord Ensemble at at the Secret Theatre in Queens, NY.
5/7
Premiere of 'What's In A Name' for tuba, vila da gamba and piano at 'Name Bands & Nicknames' concert as part of Composers Concordance presents the 11th Annual CompCord Festival at Kostabi World.
5/8
Sound Liberation Trio performs as part of Local 802 Jazz Night A set of Gene's compositions.
5/12
Pianist Sayaka Takahashi performs ‘NYC’ t at the Nosov Mansion in Moscow
5/13
Premiere of 'Reeky Ill-Breeding Boar Pig' and a performance of 'Say Their Names' performed as part of 'Whats In a Name (Shakespeare & his Characters)' concert as part of Composers Concordance presents the 11th Annual CompCord Festival At the Delancey NYC
5/18
Premiere of Premiere of 'Holiday Poem for Robert' fo narrator and Di.J. at ''A to Z Electronic' concert as part of Composers Concordance presents the 11th Annual CompCord Festival
At Gallery MC
5/20
‘Early Retirement’ for chamber ensemble written for the short film, performed as part of Access Contemporary Music's Sound of Silent Film Festival
5/21
Premiere of Premiere of 'How Do I Encapsulate Myself in Just One Word (inspired by The Erudite erik t.' for narrator, piano and Samplestra at the 13th AnnualComp-Play-Comp Marathon ‘Name Dropping’ as part of Composers Concordance presents the 11th Annual CompCord Festival at DROM NYC
5/21
'Never Found Again' for solo cello and drone performed at the Simonov Library in Moscow by cellist Ekaterina Semyonova
June
6/2
Performances of 'Divide', 'Pandemic Dance #17' an 'Sky Vault Theme Song' as part of Carli Munoz, David Saperstein - piano, and GP - guitar ' Low Key' Chamber Concert #25
@ The Sky Vault
6/3
Release of the Album 'Better Now' by Sound Liberation on Composers Concordance Records.
6/3
‘‘Goldberg Blues Variations' performed at the Taggenbrunn Festival by pianist Kai Schumacher and the Signum sax Quartet at the Taggenbrunn Castle in Taggenbrunn, Austria
6/11
Premiere of 'Portraits 1&2' for large mixed ensemble as part of Dave Soldier Orchestra performs The Most Unwanted Music, Gene Conducts a full concert of David's music at Rutgers University, NJ
6/12
'Dead Souls' and 'Carlo Gesualdo Madrigals' performed by guitarist Warren Nicholson as part of
Music Mondays Toronto
at the Church of the Holy Trinity, in downtown Toronto!
6/17
Performances of various compositions as part of 'CompCord Comes to the Country' at the Landis Arboretum in Esperance, NY with the CompCord Ensemble
6/18
Performance of 'Portraits 1&2' for large mixed ensemble as part of Dave Soldier Orchestra performs The Most Unwanted Music, Gene Conducts a full concert of David's music. at Le Poisson Rouge
6/24
‘Blues from an Airport Bar (Chamber Jazz Version)’, the song ‘Path’, ‘Purcell Laid Back Groove' and premiere of 'Scoglio Bossa' performed at Die Lange Kunstnacht (The Long Night of Art) in Augsburg, Germany, by Ljiljana Winkler and Formation Solenne.
6/24
The CompCord Ensemble performs at The Howland Cultural Center iin Beacon NY. Premiere of 2 pieces
“I Had A Lover’s Quarrel With The World.” (Robert Frost) from ‘Epitaphs’ for baritone sax and e .guitar and
'On Moving the Immovable' on a poem of Roger Aplon
6/25
Premiere of 'Ain't No String Chickens’ for string quintet and drums as part of Composers Concordance ‘The Jazz Influence with Strings’ concert at Ballet Arts Center for Dance
July
7/9
Performances of various compositions as part of EMX presents a concert at Panda Platforma in Berlin, Germany
7/14
A full orchestral version of music form Babylon Berlin in a new orchestration by Gene will be presented at the Pärnu Music Festival in Pärnu, Estonia by the Baltic Sea Philharmonic with Kristjan Jarvi conducting
7/21
Sound Liberation Quartet plays at ZWE in Venna, Austria.
7/27
Blaskapelle Karwenka premieres a new 20 minute piece for brass band as part of Outreach Festivals Sparkasse Concert.
Also the Outreach SPARK Orchestra will premiere 2 new compositions at this event in Schwaz, Austria.
Aug
Gene is Back at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz Austria with many concerts, workshops and classes. Premieres include a new composition for the Outreach Orchestra.
9/11
Violist Eddy Malave performs 'Drama' for viola and piano at the Beethoven Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sept.
911-13
A full orchestral version of music form Babylon Berlin in a new orchestration by Gene will be presented in Berlin, Germany by the Baltic Sea Philharmonic with Kristjan Jarvi conducting
9.30
Sound Liberation performs as part of Gene's BD Concert at teh Delancey
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About
Composer Gene Pritsker has written over eight hundred compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. His compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles, that are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation, an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble. He also Co-Directs Composers Concordance and is a co-founder and composer-in-residence of the Grammy nominated Absolute Ensemble. Gene's music is performed all over the world at internationally recognized festivals and by highly respected ensembles and performers.
"My music is extremely eclectic, for me music has no bounds - I view the world of music as one big genre. My motto for my art is 'ending the segregation of sound vibration.'"
Gene is also a guitarist/rapper/Di.J./ and producer and incorporates each of these musical attributes to create music that is “not designed for easy listening or to melt into the background. It is insistent. It demands attention and curiosity."
- New York Newsday.
Gene worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony’ and the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections
PROJECTS
Sound Liberation / Recordings / Film/Commercial / Money (hip-hop opera) VRE Suite / solo, duo, trio... / Cello Lounge / William James's... opera
Di.J. Noizepunk / Cloud Atlas Symphony / Samplestra / Reinventions / DAYS Composers Concordance & Comp Cord Records / EMX / Maggots / Concertos
/ RiteOfSpring..Eclectic / Manhattan in Charcoal / Melodies Alone.. / EroicAnization
Albums
Composer/bass trombonist Dave Taylor and composer/guitarist Gene Pritsker present a full album of duets for this unique instrumental combination. The album was mostly recorded remotely during the pandemic, some of the music was newly written for the project and many of the pieces Dave and Gene performed together before. The whole album was inspired after the duo recorded Gene’s ‘Pandemic Dance #22’, which was part of his Pandemic Dances project.
‘Only A Game’ was a commission by Robert Shannon Fields, to write music for his ballet libretto that he wrote decades ago in the former east Germany. I wrote this string trio inspired by the actions and words of Robert's ballet scenario. The music flowed to the imaginary dancers in my mind that were swaying, jumping acting out Robert's story; the 3rd act starts with a scene called 'A Special Game’. Here the solo cello delves into Shostakovich like chromaticism and lyricism, playing a game with
Soubrette auf der Toilette
‘Let’s Save the World Suite’ is a seven movement composition based on three poems of Erik T. Johnson. It is scored for a quintet of trumpet, sax, electric guitar, electric bass and drum set, with a narrator reciting the poem in three of the movements.
CLOUD ATLAS SYMPHONY
Duets For The End Of The World' is a collaboration between alto saxophonist Todd Rewoldt and composer/guitarist Gene Pritsker, recorded remotely during the pandemic. The album emphasizes duets Pritsker wrote for Rewoldt and himself, but also features Gene’s music for solo alto sax and electronics, larger chamber ensembles, and a composition by composer Seth Boustead.
'Stray-in-Place Song Cycle' is an album of six eclectic songs by Gene Pritsker, based on the poetry of Erik T. Johnson and inspired by the lockdown of 2021. Three of the songs are rock-influenced and the others have jazzier roots. All are performed by world-class musicians. A variety of singers add their unique styles to six pieces, giving the recording an extra-eclectic flavor. They are: Stefanie Egger (Austria); Sophie Dunér (Sweden); Berzan Önen (Turkey); Yelena Dudochkin (USA); and Stefani
Protest
GP Trio
EroicAnization
Maggots and other Chamber music of Gene Pritsker
MONEY A Chamber Hip-hop Opera By Gene Pritsker Performed by Sound Liberation:
An All Gene Pritsker compositions album featuring members of EMX (Eclectic Music eXtravaganza)
Rite Through an Eclectic Spectrum performed by Sound Liberation on Composers Concordance Records
Operatic Electric Juecheng Chen - Countertenor and Gene Pritsker - Composer/DI.J./guitarist.
Manhattan in Charcoal a chamber opera
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“Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent.” Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker.”
- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine
"...audacious...multitalented."
- The New York Times
'The shape-shifting Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight compartments that industry marketers revel in."
- Raul d'Gama Rose, All About Jazz
'Intending to make music
dangerous again.”
- Sequenza21
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