The New York Guitar Festival returns to The Greene Space, WNYC’s ground floor performance venue in Soho, for an action-packed two-part series on Monday and Tuesday, June 12 and 13. #NYGF2023
ABOUT JIJI:
Jiyeon Kim, the South Korean guitarist known professionally as Jiji, first gained acclaim as a classical guitarist. But she is also a virtuoso electric guitarist, and has commissioned and premiered works by numerous contemporary composers for both forms of the instrument. She is also a composer herself, and a self-professed fan of “weird sounds on Ableton,” the music software program. The Washington Post called her “one of the 21 composers/performers who sound like tomorrow.”
ABOUT BILL FRISELL:
The truly magical thing about Bill Frisell isn’t the many forms of music he makes (jazz, country, classical, West African, film music, avant-rock), or the way he often blurs the distinction between those different styles. The real magic is that whatever he’s playing, on acoustic or electric guitar, sounds like no one other than Bill Frisell. Over a four decade career, he’s made more than 40 albums as a leader. Add in his collaborations, with John Zorn, Elvis Costello, Gavin Bryars, and dozens of others, and you have one of the most impressive discographies in all of Guitarland.
ABOUT BRANDON ROSS:
Brandon Ross plays acoustic, electric, and soprano guitars - a reflection of the many musical situations he plays in. Adept at using African-American spirituals or electronic sound design, Ross is probably best known for this long-time work with jazz luminaries like Cassandra Wilson, Wadada Leo Smith, and Henry Threadgill. He plays acoustic improvised chamber music with bassist Stomu Takeishi in the duo For Living Lovers, co-leads the “avant power trio” Harriet Tubman, and delves into abstract, mostly acoustic soundscapes with his quartet Blazing Beauty.
ABOUT YASMIN WILLIAMS:
In the space of a few years Yasmin Williams has become a need-to-know figure in guitar circles. She has developed a method of playing where the guitar lies in her lap while she rains the fingers of both hands down from above onto the strings. Far from being a cool visual, or even sonic effect, her technique offers lyrical and melodic possibilities that draw on her love of fingerstyle guitar, classic rock, jazz, West African music, and more. Several of her compositions have been arranged for chamber orchestra and played by her and the New York group Contemporaneous.
16 июн 2023
