Bach Marathon Hour Two: 8pm to 9pm
Your host is Kamyron Williams
This hour’s lineup, with performer bios and program notes:
Ashley Frith (Providence, RI, USA)
“yes, and”
The Open Road: No. 5, Whoever You Are Come Forth, composed by Kate Moore
No Place is Safe, composed by Ashley Frith
Sarabande from Bach Suite No. 5
Ashley studied viola with Lila Brown at The Boston Conservatory. Her work consists of performing, teaching, and developing anti-racism curricula. Ashley is the director of Racial Equity and Belonging at Community MusicWorks. Focusing on care partnerships, her anti-racism work particularly addresses how racism affects our individual and collective interiority with an emphasis on how we can enter this work through the practice of care. Ashley was the music director, composer, and lyricist for the Trinity Repertory Company’s 2018-19 season production of Jose Rivera’s Marisol, directed by Brian Mertes. She is currently composing music for a production with Off The Page Education in NYC, on allyship. Ashley also explores the use of sound as a healing modality, in combination with mindfulness practices, and the effect these tools can have on mental health.
Seijiro Murayama (Paris, France)
non-idiomatic improvisations by a drum kit, #1, composed by Seijiro Murayama
Seijiro Murayama is a Japanese improviser and composer based in France. He was the original drummer of Fushitsusha with Keiji Haino. He took a big influence from Tom Cora in 1982 in New York. Seijiro is a co-author of the text “idioms and idiots”.
Minna Choi (Providence, RI, USA)
Passacaglia in g minor, composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
A graduate of Brown University, Minna has been a resident musician since the Community MusicWorks’s opening season and was a founding member of the Providence String Quartet. She earned her Master of Music in Violin Performance from the Hartt School of Music, where she was a winner of the Miami String Quartet competition. Minna has performed with the Boston Philharmonic and Rhode Island Philharmonic, and with the Borromeo, Turtle Island, and St. Lawrence String Quartets and violist Kim Kashkashian. Influential teachers include Eric Rosenblith, Katie Lansdale, and Lois Finkel. Minna’s interest in education began in her undergraduate years while studying the works of John Dewey, and she is passionate about music education as a vehicle for youth development. Minna is the director of Fellowship Program at CMW. She lives in Providence with her husband, two girls and a beloved orange tabby cat, and also enjoys spending time cooking, practicing yoga and being in nature.
Keith Fullerton Whitman (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Bach Redactions #1, composed by Keith Fullerton Whitman
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer & performer based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. keithfullertonwhitman.com
Frederick Jodry (Providence, RI, USA)
Selected works for Harpsichord
Director of Choral Activities at Brown University since the Fall of 1991. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance and a Master’s in Early Music Performance from New England Conservatory, Boston. The founder and Director of the Schola Cantorum of Boston, Mr. Jodry has led this 14 voice Renaissance choir in performances throughout New England. He is Director of Music at the First Unitarian Church, Providence, and can be heard as a harpsichordist, organ recitalist and singer.
Johnny Gandeslman (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Solo Violin Sonata No.2 in C Major
Johnny is a Grammy award winning violinist and producer. As a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny has closely worked with such luminaries as Bela Fleck, Martin Hayes, Kayhan Kalhor, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Anne Sofie Van Otter, Alim Qasimov & Fargana Qasimova, Joshua Redman, Suzanne Vega, Abigail Washburn and Damian Woetzel. He has appeared with Bono, David Byrne, Renee Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, I’m With Her, Christian McBride, and many others. johnnygandelsman.com