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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

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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

Gene Pritsker             Composer

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Recent & Upcoming

Performances:

2024

Oct.

10/2

1st movement from the the guitar quartet 'Two Dances From Satans Great Ball' performed as part of Música em Ação at the Centro Cultural da UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Performers are the graduate students of the Postgraduate Program in Music at UFRGS

10/4
The albumin
‘Spontaneous’ is released on Composers Concordance Records, featuring Gene’s quartet ‘Spontaneous Salon’ and his arrangement of Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley and Nat Adderley’s 'Spontaneous Combustion’ 

10/6

Ethel premieres the new string quartet 'Emerging' as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Ethel' at Church Street School

10/6

'Dazed Variations’ for solo guitar performed by Warren Nicholson at Cathedral Arts in, Burlington VT

 

 

10/8

'Dazed Variations’ for solo guitar performed by Warren Nicholson at King’s Chapel Boston, MA. As pert of Tuesday Recitals Series

 

10/12 

Guitarist 8 Warren Nicholson premieres

'Dazed Variations' for solo guitar and ''Bluebird Tango' for piccolo and classical guitar with flutist Snježana Pavićević as part of Composers Concordance Presents Warren Nicholson - Guitar event at St. Johns-in-the-Village. 

 

10/13
'Ukrainian Lullabies Variations’ for violin and string orchestra premiered by 
Petro Krysa - violin and the
Lviv Virtuosos Academic Chamber Orchestra in Philharmonia Hall, Lviv, Ukraine 

10/18

The Bowers/Fader duo perform 'Coconut Cornmeal Cake’ at the Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza NYC.

10/20

'Mugshot' premiered as part of Composers Concordance Composers Concordance Presents 'Interpretations of Art @ Ki Smith Gallery'  Feat. The CompCord Ensemble. 

10/25

'Change The Nature Of The One Who Prays II' premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Strings Attached' concert at Steel Wig NYC.

10/31

New compositions premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Charles Vs. Gene' concert at Kostabi World. Premieres include 'VS.', 'Vanishing', 'Nighthawks' as well as a new arrangement of a Mark Kostabi piece.

Nov.

11/1
Performances with dance of ‘Under the Wolf’s Cloak’ at James Madison University’s Forbes Performance Centers
Forbes Mainstage Theater featuring JMU’s Virginia Repertory Dance Company.

11/1

ImproVisitaions’, Bruce Arnold and Gene Pritsker guitar duo, album released on Muse Eek Publishing Inc Records

11/2 
Two performances with dance of ‘Under the Wolf’s Cloak’ at James Madison University’s Forbes Performance Centers
Forbes Mainstage Theater featuring JMU’s Virginia Repertory Dance Company with Gene on guitar

 

 

11/2

Machiko Ozawa performs ’Tango In V’ as part of her Traveling Violin Recital at Kirara Hall, Kamakura, Japan

 

11/3 Machiko Ozawa performs ’Tango In V’ as part of her Traveling Violin Recital at the German Culture Center, OAG Hall, Aoyama Tokyo, Japan

11/9

'I Knew A Women' for baritone and Samplestra performed as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Baritone Andrew White'

at The Delancey

11/14
Miolina performs ‘Empty Bottles’ as part of their event  
Constructivism / Deconstructivism at Greenwich House Music School

11/16

'Mama, I Can't Breathe Chorale #1 & #3' performed as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama Guitar Quartet' concert at Silvana

11/22

'Game Over' premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Art of The Art Song' concert with soprano Ljiljana Winkler, trumpeter Peter Oswlad and the CompCord String Quartet  at St. John's in the Village. Also a performance of new arrangements of Puccini and Mendelssohnsongs. 

11/17

'Opposite Extreme of Compassion' for solo violin performed by Ekaterina Gubanova at the Nosov Mansion in Moscow, Russia 

11/29

'Jocose Flows' for 4 trumpets and rhythm section premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Trumpetation' concert at NUBLU also on the event   'Canon - Speak Your Mind III' is performed​

Dec. 

12/2

Premier of ‘In Memory of Thomas E. Youngs’ for 2 trumpets as part of 'Thomas E. Youngs A Celebration Of Life' presented by Composers Concordance. Also a performance of 'Plastic Plants And Balloon Dogs’ on a poem of Robert C. Ford at this event.

12/6

Premiered of 'Awakening Your Inner Schizo' as part of Composers Concordance Presents 

'Adam Holzman 'SCHIZO' Piano & Electronics' concert at Kostabi World

12/8

Machiko Ozawa performs 'Tango in V" as part of her 'Récital de violon' in Studio L'Accord Parfait, Paris France.

12/14

‘Fashion Runway I’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Expedition Continued I’ and ‘Ostinatos/Solos #2 - Reethigowla'  performed as part of Composers Concordance Presents ''Chamber vs. The 1s & 2s' concert at Red Eye

12/21

'Under The Wolfs Cloak' and 'I Like The Memories' premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Music & Film @ Westbethconcert at Westbeth

2025

Jan

1/4

Jeffryes Brothers piano and drum set duo perform 'Essence' and 'Time Here Becomes Space III' as part of Composers Concordance presents Jeffryes Brothers at Kosatbi world

1/24

duoJalal viola and percussion duo perform 'True' and an arrangement of Mark Kostabi's 'Mr. It' as part of Composers Concordance presents duoJalal at Kosatbi world

1/31

Tasman & Noizepunk (Tasos Papastamou - violin and Gene Pritsker - Di.J. / Guitar) perform a set and Sound Liberation performs a set both  as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Double Feature' at Silvanas in Harlem

Gene premieres the 3 movement ' Pets Suite' with Sound Liberation

​Feb

2/8

Todd Rewoldt  and the CompCord String Quartet perform a new composition as part of Composers Concordance presents Pizza Pizzicato at St. John's in the Village

2/15

New composition performed as part of   Composers Concordance presents Octogenarians at Gallery MC

with John Clark - horn,  David Taylor - bass trombone and a rhythm section.

2/20

Premiere of the 40min composition 'The Painters' by the CompCord Modified String Quartet as part of Composers Concordance presents 'The Painters' at Westbeth.

2/23

New composition performed as part of   Composers Concordance presents PRISM at Steel Wig Music with Machiko Ozawa - violin & Jai Jeffryes -piano

2/28

The Bowers/Fader duo perform 'Coconut Cornmeal Cake’ at the Tenri Cultural Institute

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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