Meridian Music's Composers in Performance Presents:
Trails and Space with Aram Shelton,
Cory Wright, Kristina Dutton, Teddy Rankin-Parker.
December 9, 2015 8PM
$10-15 sliding scale
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
Aram Shelton:
Aram Shelton is an improviser and composer. He performs on saxophone, clarinets, and live electronics. Based in Oakland, California, the projects Tonal Masher, Broken Trap Ensemble, Gold Age, and Ton Trio II represent his music. He is connected to Chicago through his Quartet, the cooperative sextet Fast Citizens (Delmark), and Jason Adasiewicz’ Rolldown (Cuneiform). His writing and playing has been documented through more than two dozen albums since 2003 and is grounded in and influenced by the rich history of avant-jazz and free improvisation in America and Europe since the 1950s.
http://www.aramshelton.com/
Cory Wright:
Reeds player
Cory Wright, educated at Oberlin College
and the University of Southern California, has been involved
in both the jazz and creative music worlds for the past 20 years, including time spent in New York, Los Angeles and his
current home in the San Francisco bay area.
His recent projects reflect his interest in blurring the
distinction between composed and improvised material
and in combining the harmonious with the atonal, and groove
with the arrhythmic.
http://www.corywrightmusic.com/
Kristina Dutton:
Violinist Kristina Dutton works in a wide range of musical settings, specializing in improvisation, new music, and rock idioms. Conservatory trained, she has performed on more than 20 albums of various genres, appeared with numerous orchestras, and a handful of internationally acclaimed rock groups. In recent years her primary musical projects focus on non-idiomatic free improvisation, extended techniques and preparations. Recently relocated to the Bay Area, her current work focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration, and seeks to redefine the role of the artist through applied collaboration with researchers and psychologists.
http://www.kdutton.com/
Teddy Rankin-Parker:
Teddy Rankin-Parker is an American cello player based in Oakland CA, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. He performs extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, and works in a wide variety of areas including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro acoustic music and composition. Teddy is the touring cellist for bands Primus and Iron & Wine, and has performed, toured, and/or recorded with dozens of artists, including Glen Hansard, Third Eye Blind, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Eighth Blackbird, Ensemble N_JP, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Folks Operetta, Opera Cabal, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Magik Magik Orchestra, and Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble. His most recent undertaking consists of commissioning new works for the solo cello by Jim O’Rourke, Glenn Kotche, Richard Reed Parry, and Gene Coleman.
http://www.teddyrp.com/
Cost: 10 / 15