March is Chamber Music Month at ISSUE Project Room
ISSUE Project Room explores the continuing evolution of chamber music with a preeminent lineup of fresh, progressive performances. Carrier Records opens the program with the Wet Ink Ensemble, the Dan Peck Trio and GBL, who will be mixing compositions by Matt Hough and Peter Ablinger. Alex Waterman, Zeena Parkins and Kenta Nagai will be part of The Long and the Short of It: A Festival of Strings, during which Jon Rose will, among other things, play a 6 ft. tall wire fence, specially built for ISSUE. The World Premiere of Barry Seroff’s Quaker Cantata with Anti Social Music and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival round out the month.
NEW - ( (( PHONATION )) ) by Bora Yoon with live visuals by R. Luke DuBois during February's UNSOUND Festival 2010 at ISSUE Project Room.
BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT AWARDS OVER $1 MILLION TO ISSUE
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has generously granted $1,133,000 to support capital renovations (design and construction) of 110 Livingston. Read the feature in the NY Times.
"I am especially proud to help create a home in Downtown Brooklyn, along our growing cultural corridor, for the cutting-edge performance organization ISSUE Project Room. It was the 'dream project' of founder and artistic trailblazer Suzanne Fiol to create what she called a Carnegie Hall for the Avant-Garde."
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