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Saturday, August 12, 2017
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Italian Soda @ if ART Gallery, June 14th, 8:30-10:00 pm
Wed., June 14, 2017,
8:30 pm
Admission: $10
To see/hear a clip of Italian Soda, go to:
https://www.youtube.com/
Italian Soda is a Los Angeles-based experimental pop band inspired by Brazilian samba, surf rock and bubbles. An unlikely combination of acoustic instruments and synth sounds, the group
plays music with a rhythmic, airy yet unrestrained approach. Influences include the experimentalism of Björk, the joy and groove of Hermeto Pascoal and the electronic psychedelia of Stereolab. The band features bassoonist Cody Putman, vocalist Molly Pease,
bassist Miller Wrenn and drummer Jacob Richards. Having played shows at venues in Los Angeles such as Rec Center, Que Sera and Roy O. Disney Hall, Italian Soda is on their very first tour throughout the United States. Their EP “Bubbles” was released in February of 2017 and is available online at italiansoda.bandcamp.com.
Concert: The Few @ if ART Gallery, June 21st, 8:30-11:00 pm
June 21st, 8:30-11:00 pm
Admission: $10
THE FEW
Marcie Stewart – violin & voice
Charlie Kirchen – bass
Steve Marquette – guitar
THE FEW brings together three of the most dynamic string players from the latest generation of Chicago’s storied improvised music community: Macie Stewart of Homme and Marrow; Charlie Kirchen of Room; and Steve Marquette of Instigation Orchestra. The three musicians form an improvising, acoustic trio that seamlessly blends their wide ranging influences into a singular whole.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Ken Vadermark / Nate Wooley Duo, May 11, 2017
if ART
Gallery Concert Series presents:
Ken Vandermark / Nate Wooley
Duo
THURSDAY, May
11, 2017
8:30 pm
(doors open @ 8:00 pm)
Admission:
$10.00
if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St.
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 238-2351
wroefs@sc.rr.com
Columbia’s if ART Gallery
presents on Thursday, May 11, 2017, 8:30 p.m., a concert by saxophone and
clarinet player Ken Vandermark and trumpet player Nate Wooley. The concert is
part of the duo’s current United States tour. Admission is $10; concert, at
8:30; doors open at 8:00.
A winner of a 1999
McArthur Genius Grant at the age of 35, Vandermark has been among the world’s
most celebrated free- and improv jazz composers, saxophonists and clarinet
players for decades. He and his Vandermark 5 ensemble are among the most
prominent representatives of the Chicago jazz scene. Vandermark has played in
Columbia several times, including a memorable 2009 concert at 701 Center for
Contemporary Art with the Dutch Ab Baars Trio.
Wooley
was called by Downbeat magazine “one of the most interesting and unusual
trumpet players living today, and that is without hyperbole.” He’s one of the
most sough-after trumpet players of the Brooklyn, NY, jazz and new music scene
and has played with legends such as John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Eliane Radique
and Fred Frith.
Vandermark
and Wooley have been operating in each other's orbits for several years, having
worked together with Paul Lytton, Joe Morris, Agusti Fernandez and Terrie Ex
before putting together their duo project. In 2013 they toured the
United
States for the first time. With this unique ensemble, they deal directly with
each other's iconoclastic compositional and improvisational vocabularies and have created a book of original material that takes inspirational
cues from the under-appreciated work of John Carter and Bobby Bradford; two of those
musicians’ compositions are part of the group's repertoire. Vandermark and
Wooley have worked together to create an
organic
combination of the jazz tradition, free improvisation and modern composition
and have then placed it into the raw and intimate context of this duo. In 2014,
Vandermark and Wooley released their record East By Northwest.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Dave Rempis' Latice, April 25, 8 pm
if ART
Gallery Concert Series presents:
Dave Rempis’ Latice
TUESDAY,
APRIL 25, 2017
8:30 pm
(doors open @ 8:00 pm)
Admission:
$10.00
if ART Gallery
1223 Lincoln St.
Columbia, SC 29201
(803) 238-2351
wroefs@sc.rr.com
Columbia’s
if ART Gallery presents on Wednesday, April 25, 2017, 8:30 p.m., a solo concert
by veteran Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis. The concert is part of Rempis’ sprawling
solo journey around the United States this spring. During the tour, Rempis
develops repertoire for his first solo release scheduled on Aerophonic Records
this fall.
Admission is $10; concert,
at 8:30; doors open at 8:00.
Rempis has performed in Columbia on many
occasions with a variety of improv jazz ensembles, most recently at if ART in
October 2016 with his trio Gunwale. The saxophonist, improviser and composer has been an integral
part of the thriving Chicago jazz and improvised music scene since 1997. With
a background in ethnomusicology and African studies at Northwestern University,
including a year spent at the University of Ghana, Rempis burst onto the
creative music scene at the age of 22 when he joined the well-known Chicago
jazz outfit The Vandermark Five. This opportunity catapulted him to notoriety
as he began to tour regularly throughout the US and Europe, an active schedule
that he still maintains to the present day.
At the same time, Rempis began to develop the many Chicago-based
groups for which he’s currently known, including The Rempis Percussion Quartet,
The Engines, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, Wheelhouse, Triage, The Rempis/Rosaly
Duo, and The Rempis/Daisy Duo. Other collaborations have included
work with Paul Lytton, Axel Dörner, Fred Anderson, Peter Brötzmann, C. Spencer
Yeh, Hamid Drake, Steve Swell, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell, Kevin Drumm, Paal
Nilssen-Love, Nels Cline, and Joe McPhee. Rempis has been named regularly
since 2006 in the annual Downbeat Critics’s Poll as a “rising star” on alto
saxophone and as a “rising star” and “established talent” on baritone
saxophone. In 2013, he started his own record label, Aerophonic Records, to document this ongoing
work.
Rempis' musical expression
draws on a number of touchstones. While heavily improvisational in nature,
his work is informed by his Greek ethnicity, studies in jazz and
ethnomusicology, appreciation for the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary
composition and his love for unforgivingly strident yelps, screeches and
squeals that can encompass the ever-evolving state of human depravity.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
VISTA ENSEMBLE Concert: MUSIC FROM CLASSICAL VIENNA
 Featuring Patrick Hawkins, Erika Cutler, Jeana Melilli, Brittnee Siemon and Gail Ann Schroeder For More Information, CLICK HERE. |
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Michael Cassidy: As They Are and Diane Kilgore Condon: Film Of The Mind, December 3-24, 2016
Diane Kilgore Condon GALLERY TALK: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1 pm
followed by OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2-4 pm
Michael Cassidy GALLERY TALK: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2 pm
For a preview of Diane Kilgore Condon: Film Of The Mind CLICK HERE
For a preview of Michael Cassidy: As They Are CLICK HERE
Saturday, October 15, 2016
Friday, October 14, 2016
JOHN DIKEMAN/ONN GOVAERT jazz concert, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, 8:30 pm
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| John Dikeman & Onno Govaert |
Jazz Concert:
JOHN DIKEMAN/ONNO GOVAERT
Fri., Oct. 21. 2016, 8:30 pm
Admission: $10
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, American saxophone
player John Dikeman and Dutch drummer Onno Govaert are touring the United
States as a duo rather than with their trio, Cactus Truck, which also includes
bass player/guitarist Jasper Stadhouders. The Dikeman/Govaert part of the
fire-breathing, improvisational Cactus Truck ensemble will be joined on this
tour by numerous guest musicians.
Dikeman/Govaert play a take-no-prisoners, high-energy brand of free jazz strongly influenced by the likes of Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann at their most intense. They also point out that their music includes elements of Delta blues, Japanese noise, and no wave.
Dikeman/Govaert play a take-no-prisoners, high-energy brand of free jazz strongly influenced by the likes of Albert Ayler and Peter Brötzmann at their most intense. They also point out that their music includes elements of Delta blues, Japanese noise, and no wave.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
NEW CONCERT SERIES: Vista Ensemble plays Beloved Bohemians, with Patrick Hawkins, Jeana Melilli & Erika Cutler.
if ART
Gallery Concert Series presents:
PROGRAM
THE VISTA ENSEMBLE
Beloved Bohemians
SUNDAY,
OCTOBER 16, 2016
7:00 pm
Admission: $20.00;
$10 students & seniors
FOR TICKETS, CALL (803) 238-2351 or send email to wroefs@sc.rr.com
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Columbia’s
if ART Gallery presents on Sunday, October 16, 2016, 7:00 p.m., the inaugural concert of Columbia’s new early
music ensemble, The Vista Ensemble. The ensemble’s program for the evening,
Beloved Bohemians, will present work
by Czech composers Jan Ladislav Dussek, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Carl Stamitz and
Jan Zach, who lived in the 18th and early-19th century.
The
Vista Ensemble was co-founded by Columbia musician and music teacher Patrick
Hawkins, who plays square piano; Erika Cutler, on baroque violin; and Jeana
Melilli,on traverso flute. Cutler and Melilli, too, live in Columbia.
PROGRAM
Sonata in G major
for flute and pianoforte, Op. 4/1 Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812)
Allegro moderato
Andante
Rondo – Allegretto Grazioso
Variations in G major for flute and violin Johann
Baptist Wanhal (1739-1813)
Musical
Characteristics, Op. 19 Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Prelude I in the style of Wanhal
Sonata for violin and piano (TBD) Johann
Baptist Wanhal
Two Duettos from
flute and violin, Op. 27 Carl
Stamitz (1745-1801)
Duetto in A major, Op. 27/2
Andante
Menuetto & Trio
Allegro
Duetto in D major,
Op. 27/1
Allegro
Romance
Un poco Presto
Trio Sonata in G
Major Jan
Zach (1713-1773)
III. Alla Siliciliano
IV. Minuet and Trio
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| Erika Cutler |
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| Jeana Melilli |
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| Patrick Hawkins |
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