National Sawdust
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (EST)
National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, United States
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$91.80
Sharon Isbin, guitar
Forrest Eimold, piano
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Javier Diaz, percussion
Mariana Rodriguez, percussion
Rolando Morales, percussion
Victor Pablo García-Gaetán, percussion
Elizabeth Askren, conductor
Karen LeFrak — Miami Guitar Concerto (world premiere)
Karen LeFrak — Selected works
Celebrate composer Karen LeFrak with a program featuring works for solo piano, chamber ensemble, and the New York premiere of the Miami Guitar Concerto.
Karen LeFrak is a New York-based composer known for her lyricism and dynamic compositions. Her works have been performed by renowned ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. LeFrak's compositions span solo piano, large orchestras, ballets, and children's programs, with over 38 million streams across major platforms. She holds degrees in musicology and upcoming projects include a commission for the National Symphony Orchestra celebrating America's semiquincentennial in 2026. A true Renaissance woman, Karen is also a published author of children's books and serves on the boards of the New York Philharmonic and the Kennedy Center.
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm.
About National Sawdust
About Sharon Isbin, guitar
Acclaimed as "the pre-eminent guitarist of our time," multiple Grammy winner Sharon Isbin was named Musical America's Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist in their 59-year award history. Sharon has been soloist with over 200 orchestras and has performed in the world's finest halls. Winner of the Munich ARD, Madrid and Toronto Competitions, Germany's Echo Klassik, and Guitar Player’s Best Classical Guitarist awards, she performed in Scorsese's Oscar-winning The Departed, the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical artist in the 2010 Grammy Awards.
The documentary Sharon Isbin: Troubadour, seen by millions on PBS and abroad, won the ASCAP Television Broadcast Award. Latest in her discography of over 35 recordings are her 2020 releases, Affinity and Strings for Peace with Amjad Ali Khan. Her Grammy-winning Journey to the New World with guest Joan Baez spent 63 weeks on top Billboard charts, and her Latin Grammy-nominated disc with the New York Philharmonic is their only recording with guitar.
Recent highlights include collaborations with Sting and sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. She has premiered over 80 works written for her by some of the world’s finest composers, and is the founding director of guitar departments at The Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival.
About Forrest Eimold, piano
About Jeffrey Zeigler, cello
Jeffrey Zeigler has released dozens of albums on Nonesuch Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Cantaloupe, and Smithsonian Folkways and has appeared with Norah Jones on her album Not Too Late on Blue Note Records. Zeigler's multifaceted career has led to collaborations with a wide array of artists from Yo-Yo Ma and Tanya Tagaq to Philip Glass and John Zorn and from Laurie Anderson to Siddhartha Mukherjee.
While serving as the cellist of the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet for eight seasons, Zeigler was the recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, the Polar Music Prize, the President's Merit Award from the Grammys, and The Asia Society's Cultural Achievement Award. Jeffrey Zeigler was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Chamber Music and Innovation at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
About Javier Diaz, percussion
Javier Diaz is a percussionist, educator, and composer active in New York City. Javier plays regularly with the American Symphony Orchestra, chamber music groups, and Latin Jazz/Afro-Cuban folkloric groups in the New York area. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, New York Pops, New York Perspectives Ensemble, John Adams’ Zankel Hall New Music Band, and the Hilliard Ensemble. He has been the principal percussionist in the Broadway productions of Guys and Dolls, Phil Collins’ Tarzan, The Wiz, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Rocky, Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, Gloria Estefan’s On Your Feet!, and Once on This Island. Javier’s studio credits include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights, ECM's Tituli (with the Hilliard Ensemble) by Stephen Hartke, two albums with David Sanborn, including Time and the River (produced by Marcus Miller), award-winning films such as Tango Flush and Jesus Camp, and many TV and radio commercials.
About Mariana Rodriguez, percussion
Mariana Ramirez is a NYC based percussionist and drummer. She broke historic ground in 2018 becoming the first female Mexican percussionist to ever perform on a Broadway show while subbing on Once on This Island. It led to hold the percussion chair at the National Broadway Tour of Once on this Island in 2019. Mariana has subbed on two more Broadway shows: Head Over Heels (Drumset book) and Ain't Too Proud, The Life and Times of the Temptations. Off-Broadway shows include subbing Merrily We Roll Along (drumset book) and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish. Mariana currently holds the percussion chair of the hit Broadway Show SIX.
About Rolando Morales, percussion
Multi-faceted percussionist, Rolando Morales-Matos is a well sought after Latin, jazz, and classical musician. He has toured worldwide performing at the major jazz festivals and venues as a percussionist of Ron Carter Foursight Quartet, as well as appearing with artists such as Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Samuels, Dave Valentine, Willie Colon, among others. Rolando has recorded with Ron Carter, Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Birdland Big Band, as well as numerous film soundtracks and classical works. In 2006, Rolando was the recipient of Drum Magazine's World Beat Percussionist of the Year Award. Since 1997, he has been the Percussionist and Assistant Conductor of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Lion King. Rolando has released his solo album From The Earth featuring the Hang Drum, and his Latin Jazz group's album Forward among other releases. Rolando Morales-Matos is a faculty member at Curtis Institute of Music, Temple University, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, New Jersey City University, and gives clinics and master classes at various universities and conservatories.
About Victor Pablo García-Gaetán, percussion
Victor Pablo Garcia Gaetan comes from a musical family from San Juan, Puerto Rico. At an early age, his father Victor Garcia - a pianist/composer - taught him his first rhythms: Puerto Rican plena on panderos, martillo on bongo, marcha on conga, cascara and campaneo on timbales, and songo on drumset.
In New York City Victor Pablo performs in Broadway pits, chamber concerts, jazz jams, salsa gigs, singer-songwriter shows, bombazos, plenazos, and is a member of contemporary percussion quartet Mobius Percussion, bomba/jazz group Fernando García Band, the TM Street Band, and is co-music director/composer/drummer for People of Earth.
About Elizabeth Askren, conductor
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