Frontier is proud to announce the dates of the 2012 'Frontiers of Music' concert series. This bimonthly event will present programs featuring new, experimental, and often unclassifiable works of innovative music coming from some of the most talented and innovative composers and performers from Maine and throughout New England. The Frontiers of Music series will feature three performances of contemporary chamber music written by local composers, and three performances of experimental improvisation.
Concert number three of the Frontiers of Music series will feature improvised performances by Angus MacDonald, Gregory Hall, and Joshua DeScherer. The concert is at 7 PM in the theater at Frontier. Frontier is located in the Fort Andross Mill Complex on Maine St., Brunswick, Maine. Admission for this concert is 'name your price'.
This is the third event in the 2012 Frontiers of Music series. Future concerts are scheduled for July 26, September 27, and November 29.
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Joshua DeScherer (1977)
Composer and contrabassist Joshua DeScherer is the curator of the Frontiers of Music Series. He has earned degrees from Colby College (BA, 1999), Tufts University (MA, 2001) and The University at Buffalo (Ph.D., 2010). Joshua is active as a performer of many genres of music, and has performed throughout the northeastern US as a soloist, and as a member of ensembles large and small. He currently serves on the faculty of the Portland Conservatory of Music where he teaches private lessons on contrabass and plays a leading role in designing the curriculum for the school's classes in music theory and music history.
Christos Koulendros (1972)
Born in Cyprus, Koulendros emigrated to the US in 1992. He studied composition at Berklee and Tufts University.
In addition to his classical studies he is a self-taught performer of Persian classical and folk music on a variety of microtonal string instruments.
Though he has written enough for traditional orchestras including the Pro Arte Chamber orchestra in Boston, as well as for various small ensembles, Koulendros' latest work is computer and noise based. He is currently experimenting with the concept of the modern composer as a "one man band" or even as a DJ, using techniques borrowed from musical styles commonly frowned upon by academia.
Gregory Hall
Composer/Improviser Gregory Hall has been performing weekly live concerts of compositional improvisation in the online world Second Life since March 2009, as well as a variety of “real-world” venues. He holds degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Curtis Institute of Music. He is an elected member of the American Composers Alliance, and has received commissions from the Music Teacher's National Association, the Arcady Chamber Orchestra, etc., and has had many works performed and reviewed in the U.S. and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Ucross Foundation, and is listed in Marquis' Who'sWho in America. Three commercial CD's including his works are now available on iTunes and Amazon, etc. Parma Recordings will release his full-length CD Compositional Improvisations in 2012.
About his compositional improvisations: "For many years I have striven to develop a style of classical improvisation. The art of stylized improvisation did not fare as well in classical as in popular and jazz musics in the last century. I am interested in helping to revive this lost art, once practiced by the great classical composers as readily as composition itself."
Abriel Ferreira
Abriel Ferreira has played music across the world, from Bangkok, Thailand to Brunswick, Maine. Originally from The Hague, The Netherlands she crossed the Atlantic in 2006 to attend Bowdoin College, where she played first trumpet in the Bowdoin Brass Quintet, Orchestra, and Pep Band. Abriel was also a founding member of the Bowdoin New Music Ensemble.
She has performed at venues such as the Leiden Jazz Festival, Bowdoin College, the College Light Opera Company on Cape Cod, the Portland Conservatory, Portland’s Sacred and Profane Festival, the Frantasia Festival, and Symphony Space in New York City.
Since graduating in 2010, Abriel has kept busy balancing work at an energy consulting company with performing. She actively plays with the Casco Bay Concert Band, Maine's All-Female Big Band the Edith Jones Project, and the Nogar Family Band.
Peter McLaughlin
Peter McLaughlin is a composer and percussionist based in Portland, Maine. He studied at Bowdoin College with Elliott Schwartz, Frank Mauceri, Steve Grover and Vineet Shende, and at the School for Improvisational Music with Tyshawn Sorey, Ralph Elessi, Tim Berne and John Hollenbeck. His compositional output and performance activity reflect the great eclecticism of his musical interests -- Babbitt to Bjork, hip-hop to Hindustani, Schoenberg to Sun Ra. He tours extensively with his band, The Milkman's Union, with whom he played nearly 100 gigs in 2011.
Angus MacDonald
Angus Macdonald is a Senior at Freeport High School. He has been playing music since he was in elementary school. Experimental electronic music is a new outlet for him. He is primarily a jazz and rock guitarist and has released a full length album with his band, The Modest Proposal. He will be attending Wesleyan University next fall.
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