Contact: JohnStulz 614/560-9756 jackstulz@gmail.com forimmediaterelease: DAIFUJIKURA:WORKSFORVIOLA(S) AnneLanzilotti+JohnStulz, violas SundayOctober6, 2013 7pm FirehouseSpace 246FrostStreetBrooklyn, NY11211 Exceptionallystrikingpieces, combiningmasteryoftextureandformwithamarvellous senseofcompositionalpacingandgesture. -BBCMusicMagazine Highoctaneinstrumentalwriting -TheGuardian DAIFUJIKURA:WORKSFORVIOLA(S) AnneLanzilotti+JohnStulz, violas FLUXforsoloviola PRISMSPECTRAforviolaandelectronics DOLPHINSfortwoviolas SAMARASAforsoloviola FLUIDCALLIGRAPHYforviolaandvideoprojectionsbyTomoyaYamaguchi Ticket$10 http://thefirehousespace.org/ Brooklyn, NY- DATE- OnOctober6th, violistsannelanzilottiandjohnstulzperformthe
completeworksforviola(s) byhighlyacclaimedbritish/japanesecomposerdaifujikuraat TheFirehouseSpaceinBrooklyn. Featuringworksforoneandtwoviolas, violaand electronics, aswellasacollaborationforviolaandvideowiththejapaneseartisttomoya Yamaguchi, thisuniqueeventwillpresentacomprehensiveportraitofoneoftheleading youngcomposerscurrentlyworkingineurope. DAIFUJIKURA: WORKSFORVIOLA(S) willshowfujikura shighlyskilledandwildlyuniquesonic languagewithintheintimateyetvariegatedmediumoftheviola. Thecomposer sslowly morphingharmoniesandearopeningacousticeffectsareinfullforcewithfluxandsamarasa forsoloviola, thelatterofwhichwillbegivenitsworldpremierehereintheviola version. DOLPHINS, aduetwrittenforviolistsnobukoimaiandkimkashkashian, takesthis languageintodream-likeworldswithmemoriesofmessaienandtakemitsu. ThehighlightoftheeveningwillbeFujikura scollaborationswithircam(institutede RechercheetCoordinationAcoustic/Musique, Paris) andthejapanesevideo-artisttomoya Yamaguchi. FLUIDCALLIGRAPHYpairsmusicalandvisuallinesinspiredbyJapanese calligraphy, withstunningvideoimagesfrommr. Yamaguchi. PRISMSPECTRA, oneoffujikura s mostacclaimedworks, expandsthesonicexpectationsoftheviolathroughextensivelive electronicprocessingandeffectsdesignedspecificallyforthepiecebyengineersatircam. DAIFUJIKURA: WORKSFORVIOLA(S) takesavitalstepinexpandingawarenessoffujikura s importantworkamongaudiencesintheunitedstatesandpromisestobeanexciting early-seasoneventforanyoneinterestedinrecentdevelopmentsincontemporarymusic. ABOUTDAIFUJIKURA Although Dai Fujikura was born in Osaka, he has now spent more than 20 years in the UK where he studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh, Daryl Runswick and George Benjamin. During the last decade he has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Huddersfield Festival Young Composers Award and a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in UK, Internationaler Wiener Composition Prize, the Paul Hindemith Prize in Austria and Germany respectively and both the OTAKA and Akutagawaawardsin2009. A quick glance at his list of commissions and performances reveals he is fast becoming a truly international composer. His music is not only performed in the country of his birth or his adopted home, but is now performed in venues as geographically diverse as Caracas and Oslo, VeniceandSchleswig-Holstein, LucerneandParis. In his native Japan he has been accorded the special honour of a portrait concert in Suntory Hall in October 2012. In London where he chooses to live with his wife and family, he has now received two BBC Proms commissions, his Double Bass Concerto was recently premiered by
the London Sinfonietta and in 2013 the BBC Symphony Orchestra will give the UK premiere of Atom aspartofthetotalimmersion: SoundsfromJapan. Conductors with whom he has worked include Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Jonathan Nott, Gustavo Dudamel, the newly-appointed conductor of the Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada and Alexander Liebreich. His compositions are increasingly the product of international co-commissions. In 2012/13 the Seattle and Bamberg Symphony will each give continental premieres of Mina for wind a percussion soloists and orchestra and the Asian premiere is currently being negotiated. In 2011/12 the Arditti Quartet performed flare in collaborating venues in London, Edinburgh and Tokyo. His opera, which is based on Stanislaw Lem snovel, Solaris, willbeco-producedinbothfranceandswitzerland. In 2012 NMC released the first disc devoted exclusively to his music, secret forest, and in summer 2013, another album of his works is planned to be released on the KAIROS label, performedbyi.c.e. MUSICIANS A fierce advocate of contemporary music, ANNE LANZILOTTI has premiered solo and chamber music works across Europe and the United States. In the summer of 2011, she gave the UK premiere of Dai Fujikura s prism spectra for viola and electronics at Village Underground in London. Lanzilotti has performed with new music ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, ensemble interface, and Soloistenensemble Kaleidoskop, as well as with computer music engineers from IRCAM Paris on works involving liveelectronics. A Brooklyn-based performer, she collaborates frequently with members of Sleeping Giant. Lanzilotti has worked with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, and Michael Tilson Thomas as an orchestral musician. During her Fellowship at the New World Symphony, she was co-principal. Lanzilotti performed with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for two years as a Fellowship Violist. She is the AssociatePrincipalViolistoftheWintergreenPerformingArtsFestivalOrchestra. As a Teaching Artist, Lanzilotti has given master classes at Oberlin Conservatory and Bowling Green University. Abroad, Lanzilotti has given master classes and taught at the Campamento Juvenil of the Asociacion National de Conciertos, and as a member of the Camerata of the Americas in Panama City and El Valle, Panama. She was a guest Teaching Artist at Al Kamanjati Music School in Ramallah, West Bank. Lanzilotti is a Chamber Music Coach and Viola
Faculty at Wintergreen Performing Arts Academy in Virginia. She has a small private studio innewyorkcity. Lanzilotti began her string studies with Hiroko Primrose in Hawai i. She studied with Peter Slowik at Oberlin Conservatory (BM 05), and with Jesse Levine at the Yale School of Music (MM 08) and was awarded an Alumni Prize in her final year. While living in Berlin, she worked with Wilfried Strehle (SoloViola, Berlin Philharmonic). She is currently pursuing doctorateatmanhattanschoolofmusicunderkarenritscher. BornandraisedinColumbus, Ohio, violistjohn STULZhasgoneontoliveandstudyinLos Angeles, BostonandNewYorkCity. Hisartistic mentorsincludedonaldmcinnes, KimKashkashian, GarthKnox, andmidori. John smajorperformancesincludeberio s dauntingcheminsiiwiththebostonmodern OrchestraProject, praisedbythebostonglobe forhis tautcontrolandpoeticintensity ; West CoastpremieresofworksbyDonaldCrockett, ElliottCarter, andkrzysztofmeyer; aswellas chambermusicperformanceswitharnoldsteinhardt, JosephSilverstein, MiriamFried, and StevenMackey. Asamusicalentrepreneur, JohnpartneredwithconductorVimbayiKaziboniin2008tofound thelosangeles basedwhat snext? Ensemble. Thegrouphassincebroughttogethermorethan 100youngmusicianstoperformthemusicofover50localcomposersundertheauspicesof theirannuallosangelescomposersproject, nowinitsfifthyear. Whennotplayingtheworkofothers, Johnisactivecreatingoriginalprojectsthatseekto expandthetraditionalmusicalpractice. Amongtheseprojectsareaseriesofalgorithmic recompositionsofapiecebygyörgyligeti, anongoingcollectionofmusical"diaries", a projectwithelementaryschoolchildrentocreatevisualartinspiredbyavant-garde composers, andacurrentprojecttoover-composefieldrecordingsofthe186blocksfrom John'sapartmenttothesoutherntipofManhattan. InMarchJohnself-releasedhisfirst albumofcompositions, DecemberSteps. Formoreinformationonhiscompositionprojects visitwww.johnstulz.com. JohniscurrentlyamemberoftheAcademy, aprogramofcarnegiehall, TheJuilliardSchool, andtheweillmusicinstituteinpartnershipwiththenewyorkcitydepartmentofeducation. AspartofhisAcademyprogram, JohnteachesinQueensatPS877The51AvenueAcademyand performsaroundnewyorkasamemberofensembleacjw.
TOMOYAYAMAGUCHIwasbornin1958. HestudiedandtaughtinJapan beforemovingtolondonintheearly1990 s. HehasexhibitedwidelybothintheUKandJapan, includingthelisson Gallery, LondonandEastInternational, Norwich. Hisworkwaspartof the2001japanfestivalinlondon. Mostrecentlyhehasmovedintovideoart, incollaborationwith composerdaifujikura, staginganextremelysuccesfulshow, including paintings, sculptureandvideo, aspartoftheinternational ContemporaryMusicFestivalinHuddersfield2003. Hehadonemanshow highlysuccesfulinhowardgardensgalleryincardiff2005. ***