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2023

Jan

1/7

Genes chamber opera 'The Meeting' performed (an extended version) as part of Composers Concordance presents 'The Most Expensive Noise' at the Church St. School of Music and Art.

1/19

'Goldberg Blues Variations’  performed at the Valletta Baroque Festival by Kai Schumacher, piano and the SIGNUM saxophone quartet at the Archaeology Museum in Valletta, Malta

1/20

Various compositions performed by bassist Paul Nowinski & guitarist Gene Pritsker as part of 'Low Key' Chamber Concert #20
@ The Sky Vault

1/23

Release of the single & video for the song 'Better Now' 

1/29

'TMI Strut' for piano trio as part  of Composers Concordance presents The Michel Wolff Trio at Kostabi World as part of Composers Concordance presents the Kostabi World Piano Series

Feb

2/3

Release of the album 'Dave & Gene Duo' on Composers Concordance Records 

2/3

Dave & Gene Duo Album release show at The Delancey. Music By Gene & Dave Taylor 

2/4

'Turn Back?' performed by The Bowers Fader Duo Scholes Studio as part of their concert 

2/5-2/12
Gene will be at The University of Costa Rica as part of the 'Visiting Academics Program”. He will present lectures, workshops and concerts. Inducing the Berlin Inspired Project

2/10 

The program Berlin Inspired performed at Teatro de las Artes in the University of Costa'Rica by Gene and the students from the university. Music includes 'Berlin Suite', 'Berlin Symphonies Remix', 'Midsummers Night Scream', 'Drop Of Blood' and arrangements of music from the TV show Babylon Berlin

2/18

'Tango In V' performed by Machiko Ozawa as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Tango' at Steel Wig Music

2/19

In4Mation performs at the Bitter End

Gene will premiere unCharted Deconstructed  #2

2/24

Various compositions performed by  Rob Schwimmer  - theremin & Gene Pritsker - guitar as part of 'Low Key' Chamber Concert #21
@ The Sky Vault

including the premier of 

2/27

Premiere of 'Inhibitive Control II'  for 7 electric guitars and electric bass as part of Composers Concordance presents 'My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama MEETS Bodies Electric' at LOFT393

March

3/3

Premiere  of  '1-900 DuetUGet' for clarinet & trumpet as part of The Spark Duo ' Low Key' Chamber Concert #22 @ The Sky Vault

3/8

Gene will have a premiere of 'Shadow'  for flute, violin, cello  and piano as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Generations XII' at Greenwich House. 

3/16

Composers Concordance presents 'Ludwig’s Night Out' with Sound Liberation. Gene will have numerous premieres on this event including 'Ludwig’s Night Out', 'Ludwiglied' and 'So Very Expressive' at Birdland jazz Club

3/16

Joshua Thomas performs 'Mysterious Restlessness' as part of MUSE OUT at Gather East in New Haven, CT

3/19

William Anderson performs ‘Love Through Chants A Thousand-Mouths Wide’ at Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen i Passau, Germany

3/22

New singal Outside released 

3/26

Gene will premiere 2 movements form  'Pete's Pots' for flower pots and percussion with Peter Jarvis and Talujon Percussion as well as 'Motion Fanfare' written for the CompCord Ensemble & Taljun Percussion as part of Composers Concordance & Talujon present 'Ensemble Motion' at St. Marks Church.

 

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

 

6/30
SIGNUM saxophone quartet & Kai Schumacher perform' Goldberg Blues Variations' at
Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin a Germany 

        

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.

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 

9/19
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

 

9/24

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/

9/30

Sound Liberation performs as part of Gene's BD Concert at the Delancey 

Oct.

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.

Nov.

11/11 

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

 

Recent & Upcoming

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

 

6/30
SIGNUM saxophone quartet & Kai Schumacher perform' Goldberg Blues Variations' at
Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin a Germany 

        

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.

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 

9/19
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

 

9/24

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/

9/30

Sound Liberation performs as part of Gene's BD Concert at the Delancey 

Oct.

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.

Nov.

11/11 

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

 

About

     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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