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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

Aug

8/1

Sound Liberation performs a set of Gene's music as part of Outreach Festival 2024. 

Premieres include the song 'Dealing With it' and 'More Iguanas'.

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8/2

'Critical Mass Of Positivity' performed by the Outreach Orchestra as part of Outreach Festival 2024. 

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8/2

Machiko Ozawa performs ‘Tango In V’ at Clang Atelier @ Bern, Switzerland

8/2

The album 'Gene & The Strings' released on  Composers Concordance records, dist. by Naxos

8/16

Low Key Chamber Concert  #35 with Stephanie Susberich 

8/27

Suite #1 and 'Ladies First Tango II' performed as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Tango Prism' with Machiko Ozawa and Jai Jeffryes

8/30

CompCord Ensemble in Vermont Composers Concordance presents 'Moonlight & Maple Syrup' at Capital City Grange  Gene's premieres inlude 'Maple Syrup (A Baseball Poem)', 'Moonlight', 'Follow Your Inner Moonlight; Don't Hide The Madness' and an arrangement of Captain Beefhearts 'Moonlight On Vermont'. 

Sept.

9/5

Sound Liberation performs an event at Birdland, presented by Composers Concordance. A CD release concert for 'Gene & The Strings' and Genes Birthday celebration. Premiers include 'Must Be The Shosti', 'World’s End', and teh NYC premieres of 'Dealing With It', 'More Iguanas', 'Tony V Does The Tango'.

9/7

'Detektive Thumb and The Infinity House' performed as part of Mini Sound of Silent Film Festival at the 9th annual Thirsty Ears Festival in Chicago, IL

9/8
'Goldberg Blues Variations’ ‘performed by  Kai Schumacher and the SIGNUMs Sax Quartet at Demmin, St. Bartholomaei Church as part of  
Festspiele is Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Germany

9/15 

Composers Concordance presents 'In Memory of Sean Satin' at Greenwich House As part of the Village Trip Festival. Gene will have performances of 'Fugue For Sean' for 4 electric guitars, and the premiere of 'Songs Sean Liked' fro solo violin and Samplestra, pre recorded by Petro Krysa

 

9/22

 'Intersection of Nature and Humanity' and 'Deflating Earth' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Interpretations of Chuck Connelly's Paintings' at his home in Pennsylvania 

 

9/22

'She’s SoChaconne’ performed by violinist Ekaterina Gubanova in Myaskovsky Hall at the Moscow Conservatory as part of the series 'Musical Bridges'.

9/23

'Dazed Variations’ for solo guitar premiered by Warren Nicholson at Jean McNulty Recital Hall, Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario part of the Lumina Concert  Series

 

9/28

Premiere of ‘Hunger Proverbs’ for mezzo soprano, clarinet and fretless guitar as part of Composers Concordance Presents
'World Central Kitchen Fundraiser' at St. John's church in the Village
As part of the Village Trip Festival

9/28
‘Under the Wolf’s Cloak’ premiered as a 360° Virtual Reality Dance Piece at John C Wells Planetarium in Harrisonburg, VA 
Video by Joe Foley 

 

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

‘ImporVisitaions’, 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

11/16

'Mama, I Can't Breathe Chorale #1' and ‘My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama Variations’  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. 

11/29

New compositions premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Trumpetation' concert at NUBLU

Dec. 

12/6

A new composition premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Adam Holzman - Piano' concert at Kostabi World

12/13

New compositions premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents ''Chamber vs. The 1s & 2s' concert at Red Eye

12/21

'Under The Wolfs Cloak' premiered as part of Composers Concordance Presents 'Music & Film @ Westbeth'

concert at Westbeth

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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