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Meridian Arts Ensemble

Timbrando is released in the year of the Meridian Arts Ensemble’s 20th anniversary. The group began as a traditional brass quintet winning four competitions within four years including First Prize in the 1990 Concert Artists Guild New York Competition that launched their career. Eclecticism is a key element of MAE’s performances: mixing classical and contemporary works, jazz and rock compositions, ethnic music and original works by Ensemble members. They are well known for their interpretations of rock composer Frank Zappa’s work (who personally coached them on how to play his music) as well as commissioning, collaborating or premiering works by Milton Babbitt, The Common Sense Composers’ Collective, Stephen Barber, Ira Taxin, Kirk Nurock, John Halle, among several others

Awards

: First Prize Winner, 1990 Concert Artists Guild New York Competition Multiple winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Adventurous Programming Award


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Meridian Arts Ensemble to Play Concert at Manhattan School of Music

Meridian Arts Ensemble to Play Concert at Manhattan School of Music

Source: Teresa Conboy PR

The Meridian Arts Ensemble will celebrate the release of its Timbrando CD with a special concert at the Manhattan School of Music, Friday, September 12th, 7:30 p.m. Timbrando (Portuguese for making a tone or sounding, related to the word timbre) is a cross cultural travelogue of music the group collected while on tour in Latin and South America and the U.S. The concert is a performance of the pieces on Timbrando including: the traditional Caballito Nicollano, (The Cowboy from Nicolla), ...

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Meridian Arts Ensemble Plays the Music of Applebaum, Jacobs & Revueltas at Symphony Space in New York, October 9th

Meridian Arts Ensemble Plays the Music of Applebaum, Jacobs & Revueltas at Symphony Space in New York, October 9th

Source: Teresa Conboy PR

The Meridian Arts Ensemble presents newly commissioned works by Mark Applebaum and Ed Jacobs, and works written by Latin American composers, at Symphony Space, Monday, October 9, 7:00 p.m. The program will feature special guest, Mark Applebaum performing, with the Ensemble, his work, “Magnetic North," on the Mouseketier Electro-acoustic, a “sound-sculpture" with live electronics.

Applebaum explains: “The Mouseketier is an electro-acoustic percussion contraption, a musical Frankenstein built out of assorted junk and found objects: threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched ...

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Matthew Shipp, Meridian Arts Ensemble and Pamela Z at The Cutting Room May 1st

Matthew Shipp, Meridian Arts Ensemble and Pamela Z at The Cutting Room May 1st

Source: All About Jazz

A CONCERT TO BENEFIT THE AMERICAN MUSIC CENTER

featuring performances by

Matthew Shipp, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Pamela Z

Monday, May 1st 7:30 p.m. The Cutting Room 19 West 24th Street New York, NY 10010 http://www.thecuttingroomnyc.com/

Tickets: $35 in advance / $40 at the door www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=AMC0

With his unique and recognizable style, pianist MATTHEW SHIPP first became known in the early '90s as the pianist ...

"more exciting all the time" -Billboard Magazine "Brass Wizards" -CD Review "Made up of only virtuosos" -Trouw of Amsterdam "Extraordinary command" -The Washington Post "Near symphonic richness" -Los Angeles Times "... go and see 'em" -Frank Zappa "Superb virtuosos" -Fanfare

Timbrando: “Timbrando (Channel Classics), brilliantly covers contemporary and 20th century south-of-the-border sounds from leading jazz and postclassical composers such as Silvestre Revueltas, Astor Piazzolla, Caetano Veloso, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Tania Leon and more. Their [Meridian Arts Ensemble] phenomenal power and exquisite dynamic control, musicality and precision always astonish

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Timbrando

Channel Classics
2008

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Smart Went Crazy

Accidie Records
1993

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