Holidays for the Future:
A Series of Experimental Chamber Music
At . . . THE HOME OF . . .
The concert is free and will have complimentary drinks
8pm on Saturday, September 10th
Please contact@thehomeof.org to RSVP and to find out their location.

Featuring Three Acts:
Act 1: Constance Cooper (voice), Matt Goeke (cello), and Beth Griffith (voice).
Act 2: Brian Baumbusch (guitar/percussion/electronics).
Act 3: John Cacciatore (drum set), Constance Cooper (piano), Edward Schneider (saxophone), and Wendy Ultan (violin).

Constance Cooper received first prize in the 2002 Gustav Mahler Competition (Austria). Her reflections about string instruments led to her invention of new hand-positions and notation for Coming From Us, commissioned by the American Composers Forum (Cadence Recordings). Her Divertimento for String Quartet is available on the Princeton CD label. Amoroso for orchestra was recorded by Harold Farberman in 2001. Her improvisatory pieces for organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She has appeared as composer, pianist, and singer at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and with the Princeton University Composers Ensemble, Continuum, and the American Microtonal Festival, and produced her own contemporary vocal recital series for 7 years. She received her PhD in composition from Princeton in 2003.

Matt Goeke, cellist, performs as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in a broad range of musical styles. Classical recordings include North/South Recordings and 4Tay, Inc. He has also recorded for Opus One Records, Polygram, Elektra, Tzadik and Koch International Classics labels. He performs and records with the bands GIANTfingers and Voltaire and with the experimental instrumental group Another Silent Day. He can be heard on Angelique Kidjo’s 2007 Grammy Award-winning album Djin Djin, and with David Bowie on Time Will Crawl. Matt is also a member of the di.vi.sion piano trio and the Glass Farm Ensemble. In addition to maintaining an active teaching studio, Matt is an adjunct lecturer at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, works with the cello sections in Morningside, Turtle Bay and Carnegie Hill Orchestras of the Inter School Orchestras of New York, and coaches chamber music in the New York Youth Symphony’s chamber music program.

Beth Griffith has performed at the Warsaw Autumn, Cologne Triennale, Wien Modern, Numus Festival, RiAC, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Darmstadt Summer Courses, November Musi, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, ISCM and New Music America. She has guested with Musikfabrik, Collegium Vocale Köln, Paris Nouvelle Orchestre Philharmonique, Hamburg Opera, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, London New Music, and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. In New York. Beth has performed at New Company Brooklyn, Medicine Show Theater, DTW, Joyce SoHo, White Wave Festival, Ailey Theater, Roulette, International WOW Company, The Flea Theater and Medicine Show Theater.

Brian Baumbusch began his formal musical training on the classical guitar at the Interlochen Arts Academy at age 15, where he studied flamenco guitar. During his studies, he traveled to Spain to study with a flamenco guitar teacher in Cadiz. Then he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he formed the Opal Quartet, now a leading quartet there. In 2006 he entered Bard College, where he performed in the Gamelan group and studied with the renowned microtonal music scholar Kyle Gann. His recent recording with the Opal Quartet of an arrangement of a Gamelan piece has attracted the attention of Kronos’s violinist, David Harrington; they are discussing the possibility of future arrangements. While at Bard, Brian was awarded an independent study grant to spend a semester in Argentina researching Argentinean folk music. His field recordings and video footage have been produced as a pilot documentary.

Edward Schneider is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in Minneapolis. During this time he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and was an active member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. In 2009 Schneider received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . That same year his new electronic composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Schneider was the subject of a new documentary by the filmmaker Mark Nye.

Wendy Ultan is a violinist who frequently employs electronics to expand 
the palate of her instrument. She has performed with William Parker, Bern Nix, Elliott Sharp, Evelyn Blakey, Dj Carnage, Valerie Naranjo, Alva Rogers, Charles Burnham, Rufus Cappodocia, Jemeel Moondoc, Ahmadou Ngom, and many others. Commissions include those by the Rockefeller Foundation, Minnesota Composers Forum, Intermedia arts, the National Gallery of Art, Canada, the Dia Foundation, and the Mcknight Foundation.

John Cacciatore has a hard time writing about himself, as many musicians do. He would, however, like you to know that he is a native New Yorker; that he attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music; that his first love is percussion, which continues to lead him into many different genres; and that the guitar, along with vocal participation in church choirs throughout Westchester, has also played a major part in his development. He is the singer-songwriter on a CD designed to comfort hospice patients, developing this repertoire while working with Calvary Hospital Hospice and local hospitals.