Friday 1 December 2017, 7.30pm
Celebrating two decades of performing as a duo, Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and US violinist Mark Feldman have been an item, musically and personally, for more than 19 years. Their music attests to that in a sense of familiarity without habit, pleasure in private languages that still make sense to outsiders, and the confidence to resolve conflict or leave it simmering.
Pianist/composer/improviser Sylvie Courvoisier, originally from Switzerland, has lived in Brooklyn for 20 years.
She has led several groups over the years, recorded 10 albums as a band leader, and appeared in about 50 albums (25 Cds co-leader and 25 cds as a side person) for different labels, notably ECM, Tzadik and Intakt Records. .
She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. She has toured widely across the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Courvoisier has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Joey Baron, Ellery Eskelin, Nate Wooley, Fred Frith, Yusef Lateef, Tim Berne, Joëlle Léandre, Erik Friedlander, Butch Morris, Tony Oxley, Herb Robertson, and Tomazs Stanko, among others.
In 2002 Mark Feldman premiered the Violin Concerto of Guus Janssen as soloist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the Contemporary Music Festival Nederland Muziek Dagen.
Also that year he performed a work composed for him by Bill Dobins the Concerto for Violin and Jazz Orchestra with the WDR Jazz Orchestra in concert at the Vienna Concert House.
In 2006 he premiered the Second Violin Concerto of Jay Weigal with Members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at the New Orleans Cultural Arts Center.
In Years Past he has also been a soloist with the WDR Radio Orchestra and the Basil Symphonetta.
He has performed and Recorded the Complete String Quartets of John Zorn (Tzadik Records) and his own works for String Quartet Book of Tells (Enja Records)...[more]
