We are excited to present Ensemble Eight and their performance of works arranged for a 7-piece string ensemble and piano. Co-hosted by Concetta Abbate and Stephen Long, the concert will examine the history of the American avant-garde.
7:30pm - Doors open
8:00pm - Concert
Program
John Cage
Concetta Abbate
Steven Long
Anthony Coleman
Concetta Abbate is a classically trained violinist turned improviser and composer. Grammy.com describes her original performances as a mix of “Violin and delicate vocals that float between the worlds of Modern Classical, Neo-Folk, and poignant and poetic verse.” As a synesthetic artist, her original work often crosses disciplines of poetry, visual art, body movement and tactile art.
Steve Long, a lifelong New Yorker from Canarsie, Brooklyn, is an artist and organizer working with sound, language, and space. For him, creative work, as a composer or curator, is an act of facilitation. To this end, he constructs situations that allow collaborators to push out into corners and luxuriate in both physical and metaphysical space. His work organizes collective imagined futures unencumbered by incessant categorization.