7:30pm
DunkelpeK
Nava Dunkelman - percussion
Jakob Pek - guitar, miscellany, piano
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8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Amber Lamprecht - oboe, flute
Brett Carson - piano
Bill Noertker - contrabass
Jordan Glenn - drums
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DunkelpeK is
Nava Dunkelman (percussion) and
Jakob Pek (guitar, miscellany, piano). Together, they create a truly unique, powerful, bizarre, and beautiful improvisational duo. Inspired and informed by many musics of the world, from Javanese Gamelan, to Bebop, form Japanese folk to rock 'n roll, from the contemporary to the primordial, DunkelpeK interweaves many worlds of sound and silence into a musical universe unlike any other.
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Nava Dunkelman is a Bay Area based percussionist and improviser. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother, Nava’s musical interests span the globe from Japanese taiko to Indonesian gamelan to American marching band, and from classical to contemporary to the avant-garde. Nava studied percussion under Eugene Novotney at Humboldt State University before attending Mills College, where she studied with William Winant, Fred Frith, Maggi Payne, Zeena Parkins, and David Bernstein. Since graduating with a degree in music performance in 2013, Nava has performed and collaborated with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Chris Brown, Dominique Leone and many others. Nava has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, inkBoat, among others, as well as formed the improvisational trio Dapplegray with Jeanie-Aprille Tang and Tara Sreekrishnan, which debuted in 2012 at The Stone in New York City. Through improvisation, Nava enjoys discovering her own musical language by exploring experimental approaches to communication, progression, and space.
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Jakob Pek’s deepest musical influences come from diverse realms of the musical world. On the one hand, the great finger-style guitarists of the last century have deeply inspired and guided his musical direction (Lenny Breau, Ted Green). On the other, musical artists who have pushed to the frontiers of musical exploration—the outer limits of musical perception—have also had a profound impact on Jakob’s musical life (Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen).
Jakob attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA where he studied with Phil Lawson, John Stowell, Terry Setter, and Andrew Buchman, as well as played on occasion with the late Bert Wilson. He continued his studies at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where he received both a Master of Fine Arts in Improvised Musical Performance and a Master of Arts in Composition. It was here that Jakob studied with Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, and Maggi Payne.
Jakob’s principle musical mentor during the last few years has been composer, theorist and author W.A. Mathieu, former disciple of Classical Indian Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath.
Jakob performs and teaches regularly. He has played alongside David Behrman, Rent Romus, Arrington De Dionyso, Alvin Curran, Jennifer Wilsey, William Winant, Andrew Weathers, and many others. Some current musical projects include DunkelpeK, a duo with percussionist
Nava Dunkelman, Ell III, a trio unlike any other, with Joshua Marshall and Andrew Jamieson, the composer collective Medium Sized Band, made up of Jon Myers, Brett Carson, and Joshua Marshall, and his ever evolving solo-work.
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Bassist/composer
Bill Noertker has been active in the Bay Area jazz and avant-garde scene since the late 1980s. Since 2001, he has lead his own ensemble, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his compositions inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Noertker has composed over 150 pieces of music for this group and has released eight CDs, including three CDs of his extended suite Sketches of Catalonia, and two volumes of his extended Blue Rider Suite.
He has also composed music for three films that showcase the intimately-scaled sculptures of David Beck, and composed the score for a Nikos Koumoundouros film, The Commandments or the Nostril of Ektor Kaknavatos, that was selected for the Short Film Corner at the prestigious Festival de Cannes 2010.
He is now at work scoring the upcoming Olympia Stone film “Curious Worlds: the Art and Imagination of David Beck.”
http://www.noertker.com
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Annelise Zamula started on flute at age 11 and picked up sax at 14 after falling in love with jazz. She studied classical flute with the late Wallace Mann of the National Symphony while in her teens. After moving to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, she studied flute with Matt Marvuglio.
Annelise has performed with numerous groups in the Bay Area, including the Riffrats, Moodswing Orchestra, Montclair Women’s Big Band, Connie Champagne and Her Tiny Bubbles, Carwash, The Strayhorns, Golden Gate Park Band, and more.
In 1996 she joined the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ) and toured the U.S. and Europe with the group, as well as recording a CD, Sunshine Bundtcake, which was released in March 2000. She has played live radio shows with BTMSQ and the After the End of the World Coretet, both in Europe and at the Bay Area’s own KPFA, KUSF, KALX, and KPOO. With BTMSQ, Ms. Zamula performed with the Indigo Girls on their West Coast tour of 1997, including a performance at the Lilith Fair in Vancouver; at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and with the Pat Graney Dance Company.
She co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet and composed some of the songs released on the group’s two CDs, Quaternity and 13. Annelise currently performs with Big Lou's Dance Party, Noertker's Moxie, and the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet.
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Amber Lamprecht is from San Luis Obispo, CA but now lives in San Francisco, CA. As a teenager she competed and won several solo concerto competitions in California on the oboe. She was given a full scholarship to The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Music where she completed a Bachelors Degree of Music Performance on the oboe. Amber has expanded her knowledge of music into other musical genres. She has performed and recorded with almost every type of music by performing as a session player and improvisatory instrumentalist in the San Francisco area on both oboe and flute.
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As a composer,
Brett Carson seeks to imbue with power an alternate psychic reality, revolving around the (recent) discovery of the ancient order of the Quattuor Elephantis (Four Elephants). The excavation of myth and pursuit of a synaesthetic ideal drive the fractured groove of his soundworlds. The unending search for surprise and the need for self-amusement serve as the cornerstones of the transformational (perhaps cinematic) nature of his metaphysical musical excursions.
As a pianist, he is active in the Bay Area improvisation and new music scenes. He is originally from Georgia and spent some time working in the Atlanta experimental music scene before moving to Oakland, California. He holds an MA in Composition from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe Mitchell, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Les Stuck, Joan Jeanrenaud, and Robert Schwartz.
http://brettcarson.weebly.com
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Jordan Glenn spent his formative years in Oregon drawing cartoons, taking dance classes from his aunt, and putting on plays with his sisters. As he got older he began making movies with his friends and studying lots of jazz, classical, and rock music. In 2003 Glenn received a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon. In 2006 he relocated to the Bay Area and since has worked closely with Fred Frith, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Ben Goldberg, Todd Sickafoose, John Schott, Dominique Leone, Aaron Novik, Darren Johnston, Aram Shelton, Cory Wright, Lisa Mezzacappa, Karl Evangelista, Michael Coleman and the bands Jack O' The Clock, Arts & Sciences, 20 Minute Loop, Beep!, tUnE-yArDs, and the Oakland Active Orchestra. He also leads and conducts the project Mindless Thing, a collaboration with poet/free-jazzer/sage Jim Ryan, as well as the long standing trio Wiener Kids and the ten piece expansion, The Wiener Kids Family Band.
Cost: $10/$8