Spindrift Music Calendar
Upcoming 2013 Concerts
Lexington Symphony Chamber Players
Sunday May 5, 2013 3pm
St Matthews United Methodist Church
435 Central St Acton, MA 01720, USA (978) 263-2822 Tickets $15/$12.50
Sunday May 19, 2013 3pm
First Parish Unitarian
23 N Main St Cohasset, MA 02025, USA (781) 383-1100 Tickets $15/$12
Through the Mist, performed by Danielle Boudrot, flute; Liz Whitfield, violin; Barbara Poeschl-Edrich, harp
Listen Hear the trio playing Through the Mist at the Spindrift Bandcamp store
International Horn Society 45th Annual Symposium
Thursday, August 1, 2013 7:30pm
Rose Theatre, University of Memphis campus, Memphis, TN, USA
Premiere of Walden at Evening, three-movement piece for horn, percussion and chorus, commissioned by Symposium host Dan Phillips.
Featured artist, Jonathan Boen, will be the horn soloist. Dr. Lawrence Edwards conducts the Memphis Symphony Chorus.
Previous 2013 Concerts
Vortex Series
Friday March 22, 2013 8pm
All Saints Church, 1773 Beacon St, Brookline, MA, USA
Admission: $15.00 general, $10.00 for students and senior
Premiere of Focal Point for clarinet, viola, piano, dedicated to Todd Brunel and his trio; plus exciting guest artists and in-the-moment improvisation
Vortex blog has the concert details: http://improvortex.blogspot.com/
Listen Focal Point preview at ReverbNation
SoBe Arts
Friday March 15, 2013
Mystery Park Arts Band, at the 22nd Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival
SoBe Institute of the Arts, Carl Fisher Clubhouse / Little Stage Theater Complex
2100 Washington Avenue. Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Premiere of Dance of the Hoodoos for oboe, violin, cello, piano
SoBe Arts web site: http://www.mysteryparkarts.com/
Listen Dance of the Hoodoos preview at ReverbNation
Advent Library Concert Series
Friday January 18, 2013 8pm
Advent Church, 30 Brimmer St. Boston, MA, USA
Suggested donation: $10.
Parking a few short blocks away in the Boston Common garage
Whisper Solos, performed 3 times, by each of the dedicatees: Todd Brunel, clarinet; Rebecca Wellons, saxophone; Matt Samolis, flute.
Premiere of Examinate Variations by Ashley Addington, flute and Rachel Barringer, cello. A project of Spindrift Commissioning Guild 2012: Chamber Music with Flute.
Listen to a preview
Advent Library Concerts blog: http://shoebei.wordpress.com/
Composer's Voice: Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame
Sunday January 13, 2013 1pm
Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York City, NY, USA
Suggested donation: canned goods
Harpist Jasmin Cowin will be premiering a set of 15 one-minute pieces, including "Cloud", my new harp piece written for this occasion.
www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/
2012 Concerts
Women of Note
December 7 & 9, 2012 Long Beach, CA, USA
Carla Strandberg and Women of Note premiere new SSAA arrangements of The Bee Song and Grand grand mother is returning
Childrensong
December, 2012 Haddonfield, NJ, USA
Polly Murrray leads her wonderful children's chorus in a new reduced orchestration of Traditional Christmas
Play Book Release Party
Sunday June 17, 2012 Early evening, at Carroll Ann Bottino's Pacem music studio, Lexington, MA
and ONLINE!
Play Book is an album of children's piano pieces, from beginner to advanced, with CD performed by the composer.
Play Book downloads available at the Spindrift Bandcamp store
Connect online:
Add your comments to the Release Party post at my Elusive Music blog.
On Twitter, follow@SpindriftMusic; for Play Book info, use hashtag #playbookmusic
Esprit de Cor horn ensemble
Friday June 15, 2012 12 noon
First Parish Unitarian,
7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA, 02421
Music for horn ensembles including traditional hunting horn music by Weber, arrangements of music by Bach and Gabrielli, the premiere of Labyrinth by Lexington composer Pamela Marshall, and a new arrangement by conductor David Archibald from Wagner's The Flying Dutchman
Saxophone Night at the Outpost
Saturday April 7, 2012 7pm,
186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge, MA
Rebecca Wellons premieres my Whisper Solos
Info on Facebook: Saxophone Night
Composer's Voice
March 11, 2012 1pm, Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York City
Michelle Michelle McQuade Dewhirst, horn, performs 15 one-minute works, including Altered by Pamela Marshall, which features microtones and other extended horn techniques.
Lexington Music Club Music Scholarship Benefit
January 29, 2012 4:30pm
First Parish Unitarian, Harrington Road, Lexington, MA
“2″ - Peter H. Bloom, flute & Mary Jane Rupert, harp perform Zoa by Pamela Marshall
2011 Concerts
The Mastersingers of Lexington
Sunday, December 11, 2011
4pm
First Parish Unitarian, Harrington Road, Lexington, MA
Masssachusetts premiere of Shepherds and Angels, American Christmas songs for chorus, violin, harp, tamborine, directed by Adam Grossman
Info: http://www.themastersingers.org/
Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music
Friday December 9, 8:00pm at the Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA
$10 suggested donation
Featuring
Part 1 Classical - Paul Carlson, piano, plays Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Trio of Paul Carlson, violist Eve Boltax, clarinetist Todd Brunel plays Paul Walter Furst and Bertold Hummel.
Todd Brunel plays solo clarinet and bass clarinet works, including Turbulient by Pamela Marshall and Claudio Gabriele.
Part 2 - Improv - percussionist Gary Fieldman, saxophonist Rick Stone, pianist Peter Cassino
Read more about Vortex at http://improvortex.blogspot.com
Geneva College
December 2 & 3, 2011
Pennsylvania premiere of Shepherds and Angels by the Genevans of Geneva College, directed by Dr. Robert Copeland, at First Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls, PA
Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music
Friday November 18, 8:00pm at the Nave Gallery
Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA
$10 suggested donation, wheel chair accessible
Featuring
Garrison Fewell, guitar and electronics;
Forbes Graham, trumpet and electronics
Manyone Flying - Pam's improv design interpreting poetry of May Swenson
Jodi Hitzhusen, classical soprano
Melissa Kassell, jazz vocalist
Todd Brunel, clarinets
Pamela Marshall, French horn
Forbes Graham, trumpet and electronics
David Brown, digiridoo
John McLellan, drums
Sonic Sandbox -
Forrest Larson, analog electronics;
David Brown, digiridoo;
Todd Brunel, clarinets
with Tom Casale, double bass
Read more about Vortex at http://improvortex.blogspot.com
South Beach Chamber Ensemble
November 3, 2011 7:30PM Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
November 15, 2011 7:30 PM Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL
Program includes Truth Becoming for string quartet by Pamela Marshall, plus Heitor Villa-Lobos and Gilbert Kong. More information at http://sobechamberensemble.org
Autumn Music Harvest
Sunday October 16, 2011 2pm
Memorial Hall Library, 2 N. Main Street, Andover, MA 01810
Contact: Reference Desk 978-623-8401 x31 rdesk@mhl.org
Pianist Joe Reid, mezzo soprano Sara Bielanski, and clarinetist Todd Brunel take you on a musical journey through some of the most beautiful places in the classical and jazz repertoire.
Todd will play Summer Into Winter for clarinet solo by Pamela Marshall
The three musicians will boldly cross the threshhold from classical music with a program featuring the works of Ives and Copland and into the world of Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington.
Sponsored by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library.
Composer's Voice, NYC
September 25, 2011 1pm
Soprano Beth Griffith performed 15 one-minute works at the Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, NYC, including Double by Pamela Marshall, which features whistling, singing, clicking and tapping.
Advent Library Concert Series
September 23, 2011 8pm
“2″ - Peter H. Bloom, flute & Mary Jane Rupert, harp
Premiere of Zoa by Pamela Marshall
Advent Church, Boston, MA
Concert info
Swallowing the Sun
Monday August 8, 2011 at sunset (7:55p), Church of the Advent, Beacon Hill, Boston. The performance will commemorate the estimated 150,000- 250,000 lives of those killed in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which happened on August 6 & 9, 1945 respectively. I will be part of the large number of musicians performing.
Improv Workshop
June 21 7:30-9:30pm in Lincoln. Call 781-862-0884 to register and get directions. Cost $15.
Composers' Concert at the Nave
Thursday, May 26th, 2011 8pm, $10 suggested donation
Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville, MA Directions
Rachel Arnold performed Soliloquy for cello solo by Pamela Marshall
Program also included music by Elizabeth Vercoe, Matt Samolis, Livia Lin, Michael Colquhoun. Performers: Ashley Addington, flute Rachel Arnold, cello Peter H. Bloom, flute Mary Jane Rupert, harp Noel Dorsey, voice Lindsay Albert, piano
Vortex Concert Series for New Experimental and Improvisational Music
First Fridays at the Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA, January-April 8pm
Also at Zumix in East Boston on
February 25, March 18, April 15, May 20, June 17
June 26 VORTEX LIVE CD release party at the Somerville Armory
improvortex.blogspot.com
Concerts in past years
