Violinist: Amanda Lo is a multi-genre violinist residing in New York City. She specializes in classical and contemporary music, although she enjoys experimenting with jazz, rock and electronica. Amanda received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from New York University under the direction of Stephanie Chase, having previously studied with Bira and Joseph Rabushka in Westchester County. Amanda has performed in master classes and collaborated with artists across a variety of genres such as: Harry Connick Jr., Claude Frank, Pamela Frank, The Irish Tenors, Gilbert Kalish, Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne-Marie McDermott, MrNorth, Daniel Phillips, Fred Sherry and Bill Whelan. She has performed with several ensembles including: The Knights and The Mimesis Ensemble,
Composer: Guitarist/curator/educator/sculptor/Artistic Director-Composer’s Voice and filmmaker, Douglas DaSilva is on a mission to let his love for music spill over into all other artistic ventures. It is his goal to make this documentary My Dad’s Violin not only as a tribute to the love between brothers, fathers and sons; but a celebration of love through music!
Amor e Dissonância: Originally titled Amor é Dissonância (Love IS Dissonance). After composing this piece I realized that it demonstrated two seemingly disparate elements, once amalgamated created something of great beauty: a unique look at the chemistry that make up a relationship between Father and Son. Amor e Dissonância (Love AND Dissonance).
Violinist: Eva Ingolf comes from a leading musical family in Iceland. She began violin studies at a very young age, gaining early recognition for outstanding musical talent, including the beautiful tone and artistic interpretation of her playing. After studying at the Conservatory of Reykjavík for 6 years, Eva left Iceland to study with some of Europe’s finest violin pedagogues. Her playing has been greatly influenced by the spirit of the Russian and East-European violin schools. Eva has given numerous solo recitals in concert halls in Iceland, Japan, United States, Russia and Europe, including the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Trinity Church in New York City, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. receiving high acclaim from music critics.
Composer: Described by Molly Sheridan as a "flashing beacon" of inspiration, David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided genre. Morneau's eclectic output is best exemplified by 60x365, his "ambitious yearlong musical project" for which he composed a new one-minute composition every day. Morneau's current ambitious project, Love Songs Project, combines Shakespeare's sonnets with contemporary poetry in genre-crossing songs. He is also curating an album of electronic music that counts down to end of the Mayan calendar for Immigrant Breast Nest, an underground electronic music label in New York City, where he is composer-in-residence. Learn more at http://5of4.com
PART-PARTITA: While contemplating what to compose for this project, I recalled that my own father is a fan of Bach's unaccompanied string pieces. From there it was an easy step to find and adapt a small portion of the Sarabande from Bach's Partita no.2 in d minor. PART-PARTITA is a meditation on the Bach, lost in thought and in time.
Violinist: Stanichka Dimitrova’s playing has been described as “wonderfully full in tone and exuberant in performance” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, was a winner of the 2010 Concerto Competition at Stony Brook University, which resulted in a solo performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the SBU orchestra. She has been a First Prize winner in the “Barbara Krakauer Scholarship Award” Competition at the Associated Music Teachers League in New York, “Hopes, Talents, Masters” International Competition in Dobrich, Bulgaria, “Svetoslav Obretenov” National Competition in Provadia, Bulgaria, and was a Top Prize winner of the National Competition for Austrian & German Music in Burgas, Bulgaria. Ms. Dimitrova is a graduate from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Sally Thomas. She recently received her doctoral degree at Stony Brook University.
Composer: Nailah Nombeko, a native of New York, comes from a musical family. She attended the Preparatory Division of Manhattan School Music, LaGuardia High School (Music and Art) and she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Mannes College of Music. Ms. Nombeko is active as a composer. Her works were performed by a variety of ensembles, soloists and choirs such as, the Orfeo Duo (violin/piano), Shannon Roberts, Tiffany DuMouchelle, and Marcia Eckert among others. Ms. Nombeko’s music has been performed at Symphony Space, Columbia University, as well as other venues in New York City. Her music was featured on Classical Discoveries 103.3 FM and What’s Next Radio 91.1 FM.
Richard Palacio
Violinist: Richard Palacio began playing violin at 9, playing for Glassboro Schools' concerts, musicals, All South Jersey Orchestra, and a memorial. He continued with the Boston University Concert Orchestra performing on numerous occasions. He was the violinist for the experimental band, Aman, in Madrid, Spain, and is now teaching stateside.
Convection
Julius Bucsis
Composer: Julius Bucsis is a composer, music technologist, producer, guitarist and educator. He has performed extensively in many styles including jazz, rock, and improvisational music. His compositions cover a broad range of categories. His most recent activity involves performing a set of original compositions for electric guitar and live computer processing.
Convection: The piece is inspired by concepts related to the process of convection. Of particular interest was the idea of turbulent convection in the accretion disks surrounding black holes.
Maya Bennardo
Violinist: Maya Bennardo is pursuing a Master of Music from NYU where she is studying with Gregory Fulkerson, and recently graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied with the same teacher. Maya is passionate about contemporary music and has collaborated with both student and established composers to premiere new works both in Oberlin and NYC. She is a member of young, up-and-coming contemporary ensembles in NYC such as the Mise-en Ensemble and Ensemble Moto Perpetuo. Maya is also an active teacher in the New York City area teaching on the adjunct faculy at NYU and with the Harmony Program. Maya lives in Brooklyn and enjoys baking pies and reading Jane Austen.
ANCHOR
Matt Frey
Composer: Matt Frey is a Brooklyn-based composer of contemporary concert music, both for vocal and instrumental ensembles. In 2012, Frey traveled to Auvillar, France, to work with members of Ensemble L’arsenale and the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble at the Etchings Contemporary Music Festival; just prior to that, he had earned a fellowship to participate in the 2012 John Duffy Composers Institute in Norfolk, Virginia, where scenes from his opera-in-progress The Fox and the Pomegranate were workshopped and performed.
ANCHOR: While small anchors are designed to be lifted vertically, strong currents can cause the anchor to drag or catch. If pulled from the side during such currents, an anchor will resist the pull and may bury itself further. In a worst-case scenario, this could cause the cable to break or the ship to founder.
Denise Stillwell
Violinist: Denise Stillwell, violin/viola, has performed throughout the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and has recorded for Sony, Epic Records, and Yellow Sound Label. Ms. Stillwell performs regularly in Broadway shows and at Radio City Music Hall.
A Verse for Dad
Rodrigo Baggio
Composer: Rodrigo Baggio – Guitarist/Composer (Brazil) has worked as an arranger and producer. His music has been performed in many cities around the world such as São Paulo, Brasilia and Tatuí (Brazil), Paris (France) and Quebec (Canada). He was the guest guitarist of Universitè Laval (Quebec) for their winter semester/2012.
A Verse for Dad: A special tribute to Mr. Joao G. DaSilva and to the father figure present in different aspects of our lives.
Meet Me in Srinigar
Greg Bartholomew
Composer: Frequently performed throughout the United States and in Europe, Canada and Australia, the music of award-winning composer Greg Bartholomew is available on recordings by the Czech Philharmonic, the Kiev Philharmonic, Connecticut Choral Artists (Concora), the Ars Brunensis Chorus, the Langroise Trio and trumpeter James Ackley.
Meet Me in Srinigar was composed in 2012 for Douglas DaSilva's "My Dad's Violin" project.
Lullaby
Idin Samimi Mofakham
Composer: Idin Samimi Mofakham is an award winning Iranian Composer/Musicologist. His music has been performed in USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, Austria, Georgia, Armenia, Etc. His works are mostly composed for chamber ensembles and based on traditional and folk music of his homeland Iran. He currently teaches composition and music theory at Tehran Conservatory in Iran.
Lullaby. on the one hand lullaby is for making children calm or help them to go to sleep and there is many lullabies in Iran about fathers: fathers who are in war, in a long trip, passed away, etc. my father passed away long time ago. I dedicate this piece to your father, and so... finally i found that I made this piece in my mind to calm myself, sing myself a lullaby to make myself calm when i was younger :)
Kate Light
Violinist: Kate Light has been a member of the orchestra of the New York City Opera for over twenty years, and also performs with many other New York chamber ensembles and orchestras. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, she is the author of three volumes of poetry, two opera libretti (one adapted from an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show), and the texts of two works for narrator and musicians, Einstein’s Mozart and The World Beneath the Waves (formerly Oceanophony). With composer Masatora Goya, she has also collaborated on a mini-musical theater piece, Echo & Narcissus.
I Heard Him Singing
Masatora Goya
Composer: Masatora Goya, originally from Japan, is a composer writing extensively in the areas of chamber music and theater. Trained as a vocal performer first, he explores the musical landscape of drama, space, and emotion. Masatora is the recipient of the 2012 Jerome Fund for New Music.
I Heard Him Singing: My dad wanted me to learn piano, even though he never played it himself. Even so, I sometimes heard him humming some kind of tunes, mostly chansons he liked. It was often out of tune, yet oddly musical and moving. This is my imaginary simple song he might have hummed.
Nicole Stacy
Violinist: Nicole Stacy is originally from West Virginia, but received her Master’s in violin performance from the Hartt School, where she studied with Katie Lansdale and served as concertmaster of the orchestra, and lives in Hartford’s West End. She performs regularly with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Nutmeg Symphony, and Connecticut Virtuosi.
Dads, Sons and Daughters
Nolan Stolz
Composer: Nolan Stolz’s music has been performed throughout the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe. He has a unique compositional voice, one that is clearly influenced by his performance background in jazz and prog-rock, yet firmly rooted in the contemporary classical tradition. Hear his music at www.nolanstolz.com and on YouTube.
Dads, Sons and Daughters is dedicated to Doug’s dad, my dad, and dads everywhere. The second half of the piece (“Sons and Daughters”) echoes the first (“Dads”) by reworking similar material. This represents how sons and daughters may exhibit their father’s mannerisms, yet they retain their own character and identity.
Michael Reit
Duke in Deed
Michael Reit
Violinist & Composer: Michael Reit grew up in NYC attending Manhattan School of Music: Precollege, Kinhaven School of Music, and studying with Amelia Gold. His family moved to Westchester, NY in middle school. Michael continued to study and play classical violin through High School, eventually teaching privately. By the time he graduated Michael was in every orchestra and choir the school had, both theater programs, and was conducting a youth orchestra. Michael attended the CAP21 (TISCH, NYU) precollege program but decided to go to college at SUNY Albany. Michael dropped out of college almost immediately to start a rock band in Vermont called Gang of Thieves with cousin Tobin Salas and close friend Nick Wood. Currently, Michael is singing and touring full time with the Gang: www.thegangofthieves.com
Duke in Deed is a one minute violin rendition of a funky piece written by Gang of Thieves called "King in Deed". Michael helped write the original with the Gang for a five piece rock band, and is excited to be playing the version for you here today!
Christa Muller Hendricks
Violinist: Christa Muller Hendricks is a violinist and teacher living in Northampton, MA. She holds degrees from Miami, and The Hartt School. Christa was awarded the Bertha Foster Scholarship and the Romani Prize for Strings. She has performed at the Eastern, Killington, and Bowdoin Music Festivals, and on National Public Radio.
Memento
Jess Hendricks
Composer: Jess Hendricks is an award-winning composer living in Northampton, MA. His work includes electro-acoustic, chamber, and orchestral music. He has had performances at Festival Miami, The Hartt School, and Symphony Space. Hendricks holds degrees from Western Kentucky University, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Miami.
Memento was composed for the project: My Dad's Violin to be performed by the composer's wife, Christa Muller Hendricks on Joao G. DaSilva's 1820s era violin. The title, Memento, refers to something that is sweetly nostalgic, and at the same time, be a silly distraction.
Hana Segerstrom
Nocturne
Eric Segerstrom
Violinist: Originally from Delmar, New York, Hana Segerstrom began playing the violin at age five. She has been a member of the Aspen Festival Orchestra, NYU Symphony Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, and Empire State Youth Orchestra. Hana received a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from New York University where she studied violin with Naoko Tanaka. During her undergraduate studies, she was a part of several short film and music video recording sessions. She has also been a member of various chamber ensembles including string quartet, piano trio, and string sextet. During the summer of 2012, she attended the Aspen Music Festival. Hana also enjoys playing violin with rock band, Vespertina.
Composer: New York-based composer Eric Segerstrom has had his music performed by ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, and the Fourth Wall. He is currently studying composition at the Juilliard School as a second year undergraduate student with Dr. Robert Beaser.
Nocturne: I have tried before to write pieces for my sister, Hana Segerstrom, but our taste in harmony and melody does not often intersect. With this Nocturne for solo violin, I attempted to create a piece that would take cues from the music that she enjoys playing while utilizing her very expressive style of playing.
Katarzyna Bryla
Violinist: Katarzyna Bryla is a brilliant young violinist, born in 1982 in Poznan, Poland. After graduating from the Academy of Music in Poznan, where she studied under Professor Bartosz Bryla and Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska, she entered the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD, on a full scholarship, where she studies with Maestro Herbert Greenberg.
Improvisation
Daniel Mihai
Composer: Romanian violinist Daniel Mihai studied with the Maestro Ladislau Csendes's Master class between 2007-2009 He has attended MBA courses in the Faculty of Performing Art, with the objective of improvement and assimilation of all knowledge related to contemporary music, both orchestral as well as chamber soloists/violinist. Daniel is currently pursuing PhD courses-extramural form of higher education-UNMB.
One Minute for My Dad’s Violin
José Hernán Cibils
Composer: José Hernan Ciblis was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He graduated in A Polical Science (El Salvador University), Composition and Conducting (Catholic University), Buenos Aires. He was a student of Professor Rolf Reuter at Musichochschule, Hansd Eisler, in Berlin. He has numerous compositions, some of them were first performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. José plays piano with the duo Piarango and with Tango Filamonic with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently he is preparing his fourth Japan Tour. . www.jhcibils.com
One Minute for my Dad's Violin is a short piece with some reminiscence of the Latin American (Andean) musical styles.
Luigi Montanari 1904
George Kontogiorgos
Composer: George Kontogiorgos Born in Lamia, Hellas (Greece), he studied music theory and composition with Alexander Aenian. During the 60s and 70s, he had a successful carrier as songwriter, music arranger and orchestra conductor of music ensembles, in studios of the major Hellenic record companies. He recorded more than 70 ballades and popular songs for well-known popular singers. One of his songs is included in a golden album. He also arranged more than 250 songs by many other composers including the Oscar Award winner Manos Hatzidakis
Avner Finberg
Violinist & Composer: Avner Finberg is a composer and violinist.
Classically trained as a violinist from an early age, Mr. Finberg has started composing in recent years. His background as a professional performer influences his compositional style, and his works demand for a high level of musicality and virtuosity in the performer. He has written music for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, such as orchestra, chamber ensemble, brass and percussion, film music, and songs. His works, while rooted in his classical music background,, are influenced by a variety of sources, including jazz, electronic , rock, and ethnic music, as well as street performers, bird singing, and other everyday sounds.
Mr. Finberg feels lucky to have been performed by excellent soloists and ensembles.
A Brief Conversation
Faye-Ellen Silverman
Composer: Faye-Ellen Silverman is currently on the faculties of
Mannes College The New School for Music and Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts. She is published by Seesaw Music, and recorded on Albany, New World Records, Capstone and Crystal Records. She has received awards from UNESCO, the National League of American Pen Women, ASCAP, and the Rockefeller Foundation;. www.fayeellensilverman.com.
A Brief Conversation is the first movement of a planned suite for solo violin. It is my tribute to the Bach solo violin suites, with their dual layers and majestic chords. The work comments on the descending motif and the notes of the opening measures.
Annette Homann
Violinist: Originally from Germany, Annette Homann came to New York in 2005 and graduated with a Masters Degree from Manhattan School of Music in 2006. From 2008-2011 Mrs Homann toured the world with the critically acclaimed violin show Barrage. She currently resides in New York City where she is playing with various ensembles in venues such as Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall or Symphony Space.
Capriccio on a Theme of Tom Jobim ("Aguas de Marco”)
Serban Nichifor
Composer: Serban Nichifor, (Bucharest-Romania), American Composer, Prizes and Awards: Amsterdam, Tours, Evian, Athens, Urbana-Illinois, Birmingham-Alabama, Toledo, Koln, Karlsruhe, Roma, Trento, Newtown-Wales, Bydgoszcz, Jihlava, Zagreb, a.s.o., Officer of the Order of the Crown, conferred by His Majesty Albert the Second, King of Belgium. Over 200 compositions: Symphonic, Vocal-Symphonic, Concertant, Chamber, Vocal, Choral and Computer Music.
Capriccio on a theme of Tom Jobim: is composed for Joao G. DaSilva and is based on the marvelous melodic cell of “Aguas de Marco” by the Brazilian Composer Tom Jobim.
Permamently
Annette Homann
Marching Blues
Jimmy Pigott
Composer: Jimmy Pigott studies viola and piano in New York City. His compositional style is usually classically structured; and although he occasionally experiments in this capacity, his focus is on the exploration of the oft-neglected consonants. Jimmy is Assistant Stage Director for the Composer's Voice concert series.
Marching Blues: is a piece that starts out with some elements that resemble blues, but as the piece develops, the melody begins to emulate that of a marching band. I combined the two themes in this composition to get the title.
Secret Dream
Veronica Anghelescu
Composer: Veronica Anghelescu is a Romanian composer of classical-contemporary music who also works as a journalist. She is currently the chief editor of No14 Plus Minus – Contemporary Music Journal. She writes lyrical and meditative music with an emphasis on the Romanian folklore and byzantine themes.
Secret Dream is a piece for solo violin, dedicated to Douglas DaSilva and to the project entitled My Dad’s Violin”. The composer employs two distinct traditional Romanian themes which have the Phrygian scale in common. Melancholy and vivacity are the two inseparable elements of the Romanian spirituality.
Maria Conti
Violinist: The versatility of violinist Maria Conti has allowed her to expand her musical career both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, having performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, as well as abroad in Venezuela with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra.
O Violino do Seu Pai
Sean O’Boyle
Composer: Australian composer, Sean O’Boyle’s compositions have been performed and/or recroded by all the major Australian orchestras; European Orchestras include-Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique Divertimento, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra and North American Orchestras include the Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Concord Chamber Orchestra and the Cincinnati Pops.
O Violino do Seu Pai is composed for Maria Conti and dedicated to Joao G. DaSilva. The inspiration came from the premise the Violin will be passed from performer to performer and therefore, I explore the instrument and what it is capable of - as if it were touched for the 1st time.
Rabequinha
Sergio Roberto de Oliveira
Composer: Sergio Roberto de Oliveira studied with composer Guerra-Peixe and got his degree at UNIRIO. Musicians have commissioned and performed his pieces worldwide in concerts promoted by Prelúdio 21, Handel and Haydn Society, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, Composer’s Voice, etc. He was Artist-in-residence at Duke University in 2009 and nominee for the 12th Latin Grammy (“Best Classical Contemporary Composition”). In 2012 he will release 4 new CDs and a series celebrating his 15th anniversary as a composer, with 13 concerts in Rio de Janeiro. www.sergiodeoliveira.com
Rabequinha is the diminutive for rabeca – a rudimentary violin, a kind of Brazilian fiddle. It's an homage to what I think could be the feelings of a young man, getting his new violin in the Northeast of Brazil.
Suzy Perelman
Violinist: Suzy Perelman is a native of Philadelphia, PA. A former member of the Utah and San Antonio Symphonies, Suzy is now a freelance violinist in NYC. She currently plays in the Broadway production of Evita. Suzy is a concert coordinator and performer for Concerts in Motion, a non-profit organization that brings live music to the homebound. She is also the proud teacher of 10 young violinists.
Organum
David Wolfson
Composer: David Wolfson is an eclectic, versatile composer of songs, concert music and music for theatre. Please visit his website, www.davidwolfsonmusic.net.
Organum is a study in double stops. It's named after the the medieval church music that evolved out of Gregorian Chant and was the beginning of Western polyphony.
Megan Gould
Violinist: Megan Gould is one of NYC's most versatile performers of Middle Eastern, Greek and popular music. Her comfort within a wide range of styles, her responsiveness to other musicians on stage, and a soulful improvisational style make Megan a sought-after element in many musical projects. Since completing a Master's Degree in Ethnomusicology (with a concentration on the Middle East) from the University of London, she has performed around the world in cities as far-flung as Paris, London, Budapest, Copenhagen and Dubai, and has toured extensively throughout the US, appearing at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and on TV and radio broadcasts for NBC, PBS, MTV and NPR.
Fantasie on Raf Raf
Jamshied Sharifi
Composer: Jamshied Sharifi has composed and conducted the scores for the feature films Harriet The Spy, Down To Earth, Clockstoppers, Muppets From Space, Footsteps in Africa, Tracks, and many other films and television shows. As a producer, arranger, and keyboardist, he has recorded/performed with Paula Cole, Ray Charles, Dream Theater, Laurie Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun, Yungchen Lhamo, and many others. His CD, A Prayer For The Soul Of Layla, was named ‘Best World Album’ by New Age Voice magazine, and ‘Best Album of the Year’ by critic-radio host John Diliberto. His most recent CD, One, was released in 2008.
Fantasie on Raf Raf: When I first heard Anouar Brahem's debut recording Barzakh, I knew within seconds that I was listening to one of the greatest oud players of our time. Brahem has continued to make breathtaking records that expand the range of the oud and of Arabic music. This piece attempts to channel some of Brahem's energy and magic.
Rebecca Cherry
Even Mountains Cry
Rebecca Cherry
Violinist: Rebecca Cherry was born in Vancouver, Canada and studied at Peabody Conservatory with Herbert Greenberg. She has had an outstanding career, performing with orchestras such as the Baltimore Symphony, London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Oslo Chamber Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony. Ms. Cherry performs regularly in the New York area, and internationally
Composer: Rebecca Cherry writes for critically acclaimed TV shows, film, commercials and documentaries, and won a Clio award in 2008 for her work on Daybreak for Monster.com. She has received grants from the New York State Council of the Arts, and Harvestworks in past years, completing large performance projects and installations.
Even Mountains Cry: A piece for solo violin. Nature is slowly ripping away at the earth. Crumbling pieces of rock, stone and debris fall from mountainsides and cliffs. No one, sees or hears most of the finite movement and shifting of these great, magnificent, living structures that are in constant change and flux.
Mari Kimura
Study in E
Andy Cohen
Composer: Andy Cohen did the classical-music-studies thing at Oberlin and Manhattan School of Music, and enjoys revisiting that universe from time-to-time. For the most part, he is keeping busy doing sound design, original music, and musical direction for theater shows. For more information, visit him at www.andycomusic.com
Study in E:The E-sting is the highest and most delicate string on the violin. I composed this piece as a study on the bright color of the E-string, and also as an etude to showcase the violinist¹s legato technique. The delicateness of this composition is meant to be representative of the delicateness of this treasured instrument.
Composer: Mari Kimura won the Guggenheim Fellowship, Fromm Commission, and Residency at IRCAM in Paris in 2010. She received grants including NYFA, Arts International, Japan Foundation, Argosy Foundation, and NYSCA. Mari’s CD, The World Below G and Beyond, features her Subharmonics and interactive compositions using IRCAM’s “Augmented Violin”.
João Goes Digital
Mari Kimura
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