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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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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

Loft 393 in Tribecca

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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     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

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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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