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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

July

7/9

Performances of various compositions as part of EMX presents a concert at Panda Platforma in Berlin, Germany

 

7/13
C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective will be using the choral piece 'Blissful Surrender', with words by Robert C. Ford as one of 3 pieces conductors will use to practice their craft with the C4 chorus as part of their Summer workshop

 

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 Vienna, Austria. 

7/27

Blaskapelle Karwenka premieres 'Inn Suite' a new 20 minute piece for brass band as part of Outreach Festivals Sparkasse Concert.
Also the Outreach SPARK Orchestra  will premiere 'Prelude & Waltz' at the
'Music Power in The Park' event in Schwaz, Austria.

7/30

William Schimmel premieres 'In the Shadow' as part of his 2023 Accordion Seminar

Aug

8/1-513

Gene is Back at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz Austria with many concerts, workshops and classes.

On Aug 4th the Outreach Orchestra premieres 'Tribute Suite' in three movements and Gene's arrangement pf 'Willow Weep For Me'

 

8/11

Violist Eddy Malave and pianist Laura Ahumada perform 'Drama' for viola and piano as part of CICLO CONTEMPORÁNEO 2023 at the Beethoven Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

8/19

Premiere of 'More Paradoxes' and a performance of a movement from 'Tango in V'as part of Composers Concordance 40th Season Announcement Concert with Machiko Ozawa - violin and Jai Jeffryes - piano @ Steel Wig Music

 

Sept.

9/1
Release of the album 'Time Lingers’, Todd Rewoldt - sax and, Lesi Mei - piano, featuring Gene’s ‘Hello Infinity’ as the closing track of the release on Composers Concordance Records 

 

 

9/11-13

A full orchestral version of music form Babylon Berlin in a new orchestration by Gene performed in Stage Theater des Westens, Berlin, Germany by the Baltic Sea Philharmonic with Kristjan Jarvi conducting 

9/19
Premiere of ’Simic’s Colors' for soprano, mandolin and classical guitar performed by Vox n Plux based on poems of Charles Simic, at the Salmagundi Club as part of the
Village Trip Festival

 

9/21
'Low Key’ Chamber Concert #26 with Seth Boustead - piano at the Sky Vault. various duos for electric guitar and piano performed. presented by Composers Concordance

 

9/24

Composers Concordance presents its first event of its 40th season 'Electric Circus' - 8 electric guitars at St. marks Church as part of the Village Trip Festival, co produced with Marsyas Production

Gene Will have a premiere of 'Coughing, Love Exits Your Lungs Like Air ' for 7 e. guitars and e. bass and 'Electric Circus Canon' for 8 e. guitars.

9/28
The Mediterranean Trio performs ‘Leitourgia’  for violin, bari. sax and piano at The Cyprus High Commission in London, UK., as part of the ‘Echo of Silence’ event. 

9/28

'Goldberg Blues Variations’ performed at the Fratopia Festival of Dicoveries by Kai Schumacher, piano and the SIGNUM saxophone quartet at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt the Mozart Hall in Frankfurt, Germany

9/30

Sound Liberation performs a concert in celebration of their 'Better Now' album at The Delancey - presented by Composers Concordance

Oct.

10/6
Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation Trio performs at Silvnaa in Harlem with Adam Holzman, Dave Cossin

10/8

Gene Pritsker & Bruce Arnold Featuring

Judi Silvano - Double Album Release

concert for  ‘ImproVisitations’ and Sonic Twist®. At Silvana NYC. 

10/14

Premiere of T'he Visitant' for soprano and guitar on a poem by John Pietaro inspired by a painting of Mark Kostabi's. As part of Composers Concordance presents 'Shocking Red' at Kostabi World.

10/15

Warren Nicholson and Sean Satin premiere ’Shrine’ for 2 classical guitars at  A Different Drummer Books in Burlington Ontario. Also on the program is the solo guitar piece ‘Dead Souls’

10/17 

Warren Nicholson performs the solo guitar piece 'Dead Souls' at St Andrew’s church 'Music as Sanctuary' Series

 in Ottawa, Ontario.

10/21
Warren Nicholson and Sean Satin premiere ’Shrine’ for 2 classical guitars at St. John’s Church in NYc. also on the program is the solo guitar piece ‘Dead Souls’  

10/27

Release fo the album 'Ljiljana Winkler and the Solenne Band perform the music of Gene Pritsker' featuring the song 'Path' and the song cycle 'Blues From An Airport Bar - Chamber Version'

10/31

Sound Liberation performs as part of Composers Concordance 'Eclectic Bands' at Pangea NYC. Premiering a new suite of Gene's. 

Nov.

11/4

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

11/11 

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

11/11 

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

11/118

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.

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

Gene has many compositions performed as part of Composers Concordance presents  'Gene & The Brass' with

Peter Oswald - trumpet, Franz Hackl - trumpet, Dave Taylor - bass trombone

John Clark - Horn, others TBA

12/10

Gene has a composition performed as part of Composers Concordance presents  Adam Holzman & Friends 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

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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