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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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“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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Gene Pritsker             Composer

Recent & Upcoming

Performances:

2023

Nov.

11/4

Premiere  of 'unCHARTed Deconstructed #3' as part of Composers Concordance presents Charts & Graphics at The Delancey

11/11 

Premiere of 'Poets Songs' as part of Composers Concordance presents Cycles & Solos at Tenri Cultural Institute

11/12

Violinist Machiko Ozawa performs 'Tango in V' at Rockwood Music Hall

11/16 

Composers Concordance presents

Sounds Liberation 'Setting Fee The Funk'. Gene's compostions include 'Setting Fee The Funk', 'Come Sunday Funk' and the premiere of 'K'nuf Funk' 

11/16

St. Cloud State University New Music Ensemble performs three of Gene's Compostions at SCSU in St. Cloud, MN.

 'Fur Elise Charleston', 'Where Is That River Now' and 'What We Got Here Now'

11/18

Premiere of 'Bach and the Nanny-Goat Bassoonist II' for  alto sax, e. guitar and piano as part of Composers Concordance presents  'Todd Rewoldt & Friends' at Steel Wig.

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'Low Key' Chamber Concert series #28 with  Ljiljana Winkler  - soprano, 

Peter Oswald - trumpet, Gene Pritsker - electric guitar, Robert C. Ford - poet, Special Guest: Desiree Langovits - Mezzo Soprano

Gene's compostions include 'Weeping, 'Sky Vault Theme Song;, 'Closing Bell' and arrangements of Mark Kosatbi songs.

 

 11/26
‘Folk-Like Melodies’ for solo viola performed by Eddy Malave as part of Missing Link Ensemble
‘Improving The Silence’  event at The National Opera Center Marc A Scorca Hall 

11/29

Soprano Ljiljana Winkler and the CompCord Ensemble perform Gene's 'Path' and 'Scatalism - Chamber Version' as part of Composers Concordance presents  Art Of The Art Songs at DROM NYC

Dec.

12/1

Premiere of 'World AIDS Day Haikus' for soprano and brass quartet and 'But How Will You Die When Your Time Comes' for brass quartet as part of Composers Concordance presents  'Gene & The Brass' with:

Peter Oswald, Franz Hackl - trumpets, 

John Clark - Horn, Steve Swell - trombone
Ljiljana Winkler  - soprano 

At the Delancey 

Release of the Album 'Sound Liberation Di.J. Quartet'. On Composers Concordance Records

12/10

Premiere of 'Dronecantation' for melody and drone as part of Composers Concordance presents  Adam Holzman Drones & Pulses at Kostabi World

12/16

Premiere of 'Coconut Cornmeal Cake' for mezzo soprano and classical guitar performed as part of Composers Concordance presents  'Generations XIII'

The Bowers-Fader Duo 

at Kostabi World

12/20

Various compositions performed as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Guitars & Poems'. including: 'The Lion Tamer', ''He Did It Steinway II', 'Riverhead Twins', 'Slippery Slope' at Greenwich House Music.

12/22

Premiere of ''Portrait In My Locket' a new song based on Felix Mendelssohn piano trio #2 with poetry by Erik T. Johnson as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Centuries Trio' at Kostabi World

12/28

Accordionist Tadas Motiečius and The Čiurlionis Quartet perform ‘Revisited Residue’ at Lithuanian National Philharmonic in Vilnius, Lithuania

12/30
Accordionist Tadus Motiečius and The Čiurlionis Quartet perform ‘Revisited Residue’ at the 

Kupiškis cultural center in Kupiškis, Lithuania

2024

Jan

1/6

 Album Release concert for Sound Liberation Di.J. Quartet as part of Composers Concordance presents Eclectic Bands

1/11

Low Key Chamber Concert #30 with 

Jason Kao Hwang and Dave Soldier - violins. Premiere of 'The Reflection Method' 

1/13

Premiere of 'Confucius Three Methods Of Wisdom' as part of Composers Concordance presents  Steps Trio at Gallery MC

 

1/14

Performance of 'Confucius Three Methods Of Wisdom' as part of Composers Concordance present Composers With Drinks Listening to Music LIVE at Westbeth

1/20

Premiere of ''Inspiration On A Very Famous Glissando' as part of Composers Concordance presents Rhapsody in Blue Centennial at Greenwich House

1/27

Gene has many compositions performed as part of Composers Concordance presents CompCord Ensemble @ The NWEAMO Festival. At San Diego State

University, in San Diego CA.

Inckuding the premiere of 'Desert Lullaby' and 'Isolated'

Feb

2/3

Gene has compositions performed as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Violins & Poems' at The Delancey

2/9

Low Key Chamber Concert #31 with 

Tasos Papastamou - violin. 

2/17

Gene has a composition premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Memory Palace Ensemble' at Gallery MC 

2/18

Anne Akiko Meyers premieres 'Animals Carnaval' a the 22nd Annual Laguna Beach Festival in Laguna Beach, CA.  

2/25

Sound Liberation Trio performs a set of Gene's compositions as part of Composers Concordance event at NUBLU

2/29

Low Key Chamber Concert #31 with 

Dennis Brandner - saxophone. 

March

3/2

Gene has a silent film composition premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents Silent Films @ Westbeth

3/9

 'Vivaldi's Hot House'  Sound Liberation feat. violinist Lara St. John perform a concert of Gene’s compositions at Joes Pub  Presented by Composers Concordance

3/17

Premiere of the ballet 'Only A Game' as part of Composers Concordance 'New Ballets' event at St. Marks Church.

3/23

Caballito Negro Duo premiere a piece for flute and percussion as part of Composers Concordance event at The Delancey

3/29

Low Key Chamber Concert #31 with 

Michael Visceglia - bass and Oliver Marec- sax

April

3/5

A new compostions for a silent film premiered in Chicago as part of the 'Sound Of Silence' Featival. 

3/11

Concert in Ingolstadt, Germany with 'Ljiljana Winkler, Peter Oswald and the Solenne Band. Many of Gene's compositions are performed.

3/13

Concert at the Wittelsbacher Schloss in Friedberg, Germany with 'Ljiljana Winkler, Peter Oswald and the Solenne Band.  Many of Gene's compositions are performed.

 

3/15

Sound Liberation feat. soprano Ljiljana Winkler perform a concert at ZWE in Vienna, austria. 

3/23

Premiere of a new composition at the 14th AnnualComp-Play-Comp Marathon 
'40 Ounce'  as part of 

Composers Concordance 12th Annual CompCord Festival –CompCord @ 40–

3/27

Premiere of a new composition at '1984'
Feat: CompCord Ensemble as part of 

Composers Concordance 12th Annual CompCord Festival –CompCord @ 40–

About

     Composer Gene Pritsker has written over nine 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

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