“…Mr. Dufallo demonstrated the rich sound he produces on an unmodified fiddle. But his playing is no less alluring on the electric violin…he showed how much amplification can expand the instrument’s palette. Far from robbing the violin of its beauty, electronics add textural elements and gradations of timbre that the acoustic instrument cannot approximate.” – Allan Kozinn, NY Times
Heralded by The New York Times as one of the “new faces of new music” in 1999, Cornelius Dufallo has since established himself as a constant innovator at the forefront of the American contemporary music scene. Currently he is director of the creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks, and a member of the world-renowned amplified string quartet known as ETHEL. His ongoing commitment to cutting edge musical ingenuity has produced fascinating collaborations with many of today’s most compelling performers and composers.
This season Dufallo has crafted a new trajectory with the release of Dream Streets, a solo CD of his own music for electric violin on the Innova label. Time Out New York hails Dream Streets as “a beautiful, evocative disc of electroacoustic soundscapes…all [of which] serve as apt reminders of this vital artist’s considerable gifts.” Upcoming projects featuring music from Dream Streets include: solo appearances in New York, Buffalo, and San Francisco; a collaboration with choreographer Stacy Spence at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and Journaling, a new series of concerts in which Dufallo documents his own work with extraordinary living composers while tracking various paths in twenty-first century music. Journaling (part one), taking place at The Stone in New York, also presents world premieres by Anna Clyne and Corey Dargel, as well as recent works by Alexandra Gardner, Annie Gosfield, and Huang Ruo. Dufallo’s upcoming recordings include discs of new music by John King and Neil Rolnick.
For this concert, Dufallo will be performing music from Dream Streets.
Cornelius Dufallo is dedicating this performance to our late founder Suzanne Fiol. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund to support her visionary legacy at ISSUE Project Room.