Other new and exciting things are my Thumbtack.com page and a special deal for flute lessons on an upcoming Groupon competitor site (coming soon!).

If you are in New York City on Tuesday  June 21st, be sure to stop by in front of Début Boutique 298 Mulberry Street around 6PM for a performance by members of the Nouveau Classical Project (fashion meets classical music) and myself representing Syzygy New Music Ensemble.  I will be performing Lipstick by JacobTV with Domenica Fossati.  This is normally a solo piece for flute and alto flute, but we decided that it would be a nice transition in the program to have each of us play a section of the piece.  The concert is part of the Make Music New York Festival, a really terrific annual event that gets all of New York City hearing or creating music.  Stop by if you can!

While I encourage all to continue donating money, I think it is even more important to stay connected, send prayers, and offer emotional support to Japanese expats in the U.S. who may need it.  We can’t let the media control what we remember and what we quickly forget as topics of interest change.  As you carry on throughout the day, remember to keep Japan close to your heart.

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute marimba solo or marimba and flute works composed specifically for “15-Minutes-of-Fame: Laura Jordan and Sarah Carrier” for the Composer’s Voice concert series. 15 one-minute pieces for marimba solo or marimba with flute will be selected to be played continuously for a debut performance in New York City on June 5, 2011 by Laura Jordan, marimba and Sarah Carrier, flute for the Composer’s Voice concert series.

Submission guidelines:
-Submission Deadline April 1, 2011
-Works must be submitted as a PDF file with a picture of the composer, 50-word biography, and 50-word program note about the piece.
-Works must be one minute in length. No works over a minute will be reviewed.
-Works need to be submitted via email to: composersvoicesubmit@gmail.com
-The subject line should read – Fifteen Minutes of Fame – Laura Jordan & Sarah Carrier – Composer Name – Composition Title
-The 50-word biography and 50 word program notes must be pasted as text in the body of the email.
-The composer’s a picture must be attached as a jpg file.
-The score must be attached as a pdf. (performance notes should be included with the score.)
-Include the dedication to the performers on the score (either: “for Laura Jordan” or “Laura Jordan & Sarah Carrier”)
- Works should be composed specifically for this project and performer. All pieces must be premieres and not previously written or performed.

Marimba:
C2 (lowest note of the cello, 2 octaves below middle C)- c3 (5 octaves). 2 or 4 mallets only (no 6 mallet pieces). Standard technique, edge of bar, dead strokes, etc. OK, no playing on resonators.
Some small percussion (ie triangle, shakers, etc., small drum, chimes OK).
Please consider and allow time for mallet switch if marimba part calls for 4 mallets, in order to play triangle, etc. Woodblocks, small drum, etc., do not necessarily require a mallet change.

Flute:
Flute in C; alto; and piccolo Extended techniques are welcome as long as the composers use the Robert Dick book to back up their multiphonic/quarter tone/timbral trill, etc choices. Also, write the fingerings from Robert’s book into the part (at least for the first time any given multiphonic/quarter tone of choice is used in the piece).
The results will be announced by April 15th, 2011 on the Vox Novus website, and composers of 15 accepted works will be notified by email.

Laura Jordan:
New York based percussionist Laura Jordan has performed in Europe, Canada, Mexico and throughout the United States, in venues including Avery Fisher Hall, Merkin Hall, the Massachusetts MoCa, the Skirball Center of Los Angeles, the National Geographic in Washington, and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Local venues include the Player’s Theater, Galapagos Arts Space, the Triad, WMP Gallery, Tribeca Arts Center, Lehman College, Public Assembly, People’s Lounge, 40C lounge and others.
Laura has been featured as a marimba/percussion soloist internationally, and is an in-demand freelance chamber musician, orchestral player, drum set and world percussion specialist in the New York tri-state area. A new music activist and programmer, Laura has co-commissioned works by Martin Bresnick, Lukas Ligeti and others as well as curated projects and concerts at venues such as the Merkin Concert Hall, Mass MoCa, the Player’s Theater, among others.
In 2010, she was selected as a fellow by the Bang on a Can organization, which was founded by composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon.
She has participated in several festivals including the Paris Marimba Competition and Perkumania festival in 2006, for which she received a Peabody Career Grant, and the first Zeltsman “Princeton” Marimba festival in 2001, for which she received a Semans Art Fund Grant. In the 2009-10 season, Laura served as the Artistic Director of the Takemitsu Project, which was funded by a substantial Collaborative Performing Arts Grant from New York
University for which she wrote and was awarded. The grant also established a composition competition for New York University students. Through the project, she was able to present the New York Premiere of Takemitsu’s relatively forgotten Seasons (1970) for percussion quartet and magnetic tape.

Sarah Carrier:
“Ms. Carrier combined thoughtful musicality with virtuosity in her alternately energetic and delicate account of a flute line laden with light multiphonics and unusual timbres.”-Allan Kozinn, New YorkTimes. Sarah Carrier is a New York City based flutist dedicated to the performance of contemporary music.
As a founding member of Syzygy New Music Collective, (hailed as “one of 2009′s most promising groups” by Sequenza21) she has premiered numerous works, and has made appearances on television and radio. While a graduate student at New York University, she commissioned electronic composer Izzi Ramkissoon to create the work Kill Switch for flute, cello, percussion, and laptop, which she premiered at her Masters Recital and has since been performed in venues throughout New York City. Also during her studies at NYU, she performed David Taddie’s Luminosity for C Flute, Alto Flute, and Electronics as a Featured Soloist of the NYU New Music Soloists Concert, resulting in an invitation to perform at the “Cross Currents” Electro-Acoustic Music Festival at Penn State University, as well as the NYU Music Technology Open House. She has performed in venues as varied as Walt Disney Hall, Sydney Opera House, Merkin Hall, the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, the Tank, Galapagos Art Space, and Issue Project Room and has participated in the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance at Mannes and the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition.
Sarah is a winner of numerous competitions such as the National Flute Association Masterclass Competition, Bob Cole Conservatory Scholarship Competition, La Primavera Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and is a recipient of the CSULB Dean’s List Award, University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellowship, and New York University Graduate Scholarship. She completed her M.M. in Flute Performance at New York University under the tutelage of Robert Dick and earned her B.M. in Flute Performance at the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach studying with John Barcellona. Sarah has also performed for Jill Felber, William Bennett, Denis Bouriakov, Louise di Tullio, Rena Urso, Paula Robison, Ransom Wilson, Keith Underwood, and Bart Feller. As a passionate music educator, Sarah has taught throughout Southern California, Oregon, and New York City, and has presented masterclasses to flute students in rural areas of Hokkaido, Japan.

presents PLUGGED IN
featuring The Loud Objects
Jakub Ciupinski and Joshue Ott
Doors 7:00PM | Show 7:30PM
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Price $12

Greetings to all! We’re thrilled to announce that our next major event, PLUGGED IN, will take place on February 27th at 7:30pm at Galapagos Art Space. We’ve trawled the depths of NYC’s weird and wonderful new-music circuit to bring you an exciting, not to mention affordable, triple bill that we are truly proud to put our name to.

An evening length exploration of contemporary electroacoustic composition, PLUGGED IN presents an eclectic cross section of approaches and aesthetics. Featuring sets by The Loud Objects, Jakub Ciupinski (Gesture Controlled Music) and the SYZYGY Ensemble, with selected works accompanied by live video art by Joshue Ott, the evening is developing into nothing short of a spectacle – so much so that we’ve been jokingly referring to it as the “SYZYGY Electroacoustic Circus.” You’ll be getting three acts for the price of one, and we hope that you can all make it out to see what is by far our most exciting and ambitious project yet!

We’ll be posting more information on all of the artists featured on the program over the coming days, so keep checking back. In the meantime, however, we’ll leave you with a rundown of our ensemble program and, more importantly, the link to our Galapagos event page where you can purchase tickets.

Program

The Loud Objects

—Intermission—

The SYZYGY NEW MUSIC Ensemble

Mehr Licht, Danielle Schwob -  World Premiere (Live Electronics Version)
Rapture, Anna Clyne (with live video by Joshue Ott via superDraw)
Observations, Tristan Perich
Honest Music, Nico Muhly
Red River, Mason Bates

—Intermission—

Inkubator, Jakub Ciupinski – World Premiere
Gesture Controlled Music performed by the composer

with live video by Joshue Ott via superDraw

Thank you to the following individuals:

Carolyn Bremer

Kevin Flatt

Richard Flatt

Melissa Beth Blanton

Brian Mark

Kevin Potts

I will keep you all posted as we get closer to the deadline!

Monday 24 – Spectral Awakenings & Jam, 9PM-1AM, Rhythm Splash, 673 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn

Tuesday 25 – Slavic Soul Party, 9PM, Barbès, Park Slope

$10 at the door

Wednesday 26-Saturday 29 – Kneebody (with different guest artists each night: Wayne Krantz, Busdriver, Mark Guiliana, Daedelus), door time – 8PM, show time – 8:30PM Wednesday and Thursday, 9PM Friday and Saturday, Southpaw, Brooklyn

$15 day of show. $12 advance. Link for a 4 day pass for $40: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3394475

Sunday 30 – Ecstatic Music Festival: Alarm Will Sound & Face the Music, 2PM, Merkin Hall, Manhattan

$25 single tickets, $15 students with ID. http://tickets.kaufman-center.org/single/SelectSeatingSYOS.aspx?p=1044&z=5&pt=1

1.) Donate using my Paypal donation button on the right hand side of this webpage.

OR

2.) Donate your frequent flier miles or hotel points.  Contact me through email in this case: scarrier83@gmail.com

Prior to the competition I would like to recognize everyone who helped me achieve my goals and donated with a special gift.

• For gifts $1,000 and above (or enough frequent flier miles for a round trip from New York-Amsterdam) you will get a free performance at your next event, two tickets to all of my solo performances in 2011, and recognition in my solo recital programs and here on my website.
• Gifts $500+ will get you two tickets to all of my solo performances in 2011, and recognition in my solo recital programs and here on my website.
• Gifts $250+ will get you two tickets to one of my solo performances in 2011, and recognition in my solo recital programs and here on my website.
• Gifts $1+ will get you recognition in my solo recital programs and here on my website.

If you cannot receive a gift for any reason, say–you cannot receive a solo performance because you don’t have an upcoming event, or you live in Zimbabwe–alternate arrangements can be discussed.

Cheers everyone!

$10 at the door. For presale visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/9726
or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800-838-3006

Wednesday 19 – Ecstatic Music Festival: The Chiara String Quartet, Nico Muhly, and Valgeir Sigurðsson, 7:29PM, Merkin Hall, Manhattan

$25/ regular $15/students with I.D. http://tickets.kaufman-center.org/single/SelectSeatingSYOS.aspx?p=1032&z=5&pt=1

Thursday 20 – Ecstatic Music Festival: So Percussion & Dan Deacon, 7:29PM, Merkin Hall, Manhattan

$25/regular $15/students with I.D. http://tickets.kaufman-center.org/single/SelectSeatingSYOS.aspx?p=1036&z=5&pt=1

Thursday 20 – Samurai Sword Soul Presents: Gekiryu~When the Torrent Takes Their Lives, 7:30PM, DNA Dance New Amsterdam, Manhattan

$18/advance purchase $23 at the door https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=5265

Friday 21 – DETOUR New Music Ensemble: Seth Bedford, Ben Brody, Noam Faingold, Jeremy Howard Beck, Brian Mark, Tom Swafford, T. L. Hine, Jeffrey Parola, 8PM, Galapagos Art Space, Dumbo

$10 at the door

Saturday 22 – Ecstatic Music Festival: Craig Wedren, Jefferson Friedman, & ACME, 7:30PM, Merkin Hall, Manhattan

$25/regular $15/students with I.D. http://tickets.kaufman-center.org/single/SelectSeatingSYOS.aspx?p=1040&z=5&pt=1