Featuring:

Grex (live debut)
KE-guitar
Rei Scampavia-fl, ts, p, etc.
-Creative music duo. Speaking points: potatoes, corpses, phantasmagorical philanthropists, devolution, small dogs.

Host Family
Andrew Conklin-g
KE-g
Jordan Glenn-dms
Jason Hoopes-b

-Jazz/Rock/Experimental/Garage quartet, performing music inspired by John Coltrane, Tim Berne, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Radu Malfatti. Debuting "Luna" (long-form composition touching upon free jazz/EAI territory).

Bio:
Improviser, composer, and guitarist Karl Alfonso Evangelista was born in Van Nuys, California, USA, on April 28, 1986, the son of two Filipino immigrants. Evangelista performs in an improvising trio with saxophonist Francis Wong and bassist/vocalist/percussionist John-Carlos Perea, the quartet Host Family, and the duo Grex with partner Margaret Rei Scampavia, and has studied under many of the chief figures in modern creative music, including India Cooke, Fred Frith, Myra Melford, Roscoe Mitchell, and Zeena Parkins. Karl has in the past few years debuted new composer arrangements by Melford, Mitchell, Moe! Staiano, and Sarah Wilson. He received his BA in Social Transformation and the Development of 20th Century Artforms at UC Berkeley and is presently pursuing his MFA in Improvised Music at Mills.

7:30pm, Saturday, May 9, 2009

Littlefield Concert Hall
Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613

www.myspace.com/karladevangelista
www.myspace.com/hostfamilyband

Cost: FREE