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Frank Carlberg
(Composer, Mother Goose and Notebooks) Frank Carlberg is a native of Finland and divides his creative time between New York, Boston, Helsinki and Bombay. Carlberg’s awards include First Prize in the Jazz Composers Alliance Composition Contest, the Julius Hemphill Award (1997) the Thelonious Monk Competition, BMI Award (1994), the Cognac Hennessey Jazz Search and the Boston Jazz Society Award. Carlberg has received performance and recording grants from the Finnish Government and a grant from the Cultural Foundation of Finland. Carlberg received a grant from Meet the Composer to support the commission of his first work for Battery Dance, Zero… Two… Blue… Heaven… Seven. Subsequent commissions by Battery Dance Company included Mother Goose and Time Signatures, a co-commission with the Academy of Indian Performing Arts. ). Carlberg has performed throughout the U.S., Finland, Poland and India with Battery Dance Company Carlberg from 1999 – 2003. He has performed his own work and collaborations with jazz notables, Steve Lacy and Rufus Reid. His discography is extensive and includes Frederico (GM Records), Ugly Beauty (Northeastern Records), Carlberg was nominated for Outstanding Jazz Album (India), the Boston Music Awards (1994.) |
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Christine Correa
(Vocalist) Christine grew up in Bombay where she was influenced by her father's career as a band leader, arranger and composer of jazz and popular dance music. She studied classical piano in Bombay and before emigrating to the U.S., sang in Bollywood Films. In the U.S., she trained in jazz voice at New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ran Blake, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, and Gerry Martin. She now lives in New York City and runs the Maine Jazz Camp. Her professional career has involved collaborations with Steve Lacy, John LaPorta, her former teacher Ran Blake, and her husband, Frank Carlberg. Correa has toured and performed with Battery Dance in New York, Finland and Poland. Other recent performances have included The Knitting Factory, New York City, National Opera House, Helsinki, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC and The National Center for the Performing Arts, Bombay.
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Yousif Sheronick
(Percussionist, Used Car Salesman and others) Yousif Sheronick is a world music specialist who appears internationally as soloist, chamber musician and collaborative artist with world-renowned groups and artists such as Philip Glass, Glen Velez and Handance, Foday Musa Suso, Simon Shaheen and Qantara, Ethos Percussion Group, The Flow, New York City Ballet, Battery Dance Company and Music from China. He has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Royal Festival Hall (London), Wigmore Hall (London) and New York's Town Hall. Encompassing a wide range of styles including ethnic, jazz, rock, and chamber music, Mr. Sheronick specializes in percussion instruments from around the globe. Distinguished collaborators have included Yo-Yo Ma, Branford Marsalis, Pandit Samir Chatterjee, Marcel Khalife, Sonny Fortune, Pacifica String Quartet, David Krakauer, and Steve Gorn. Festival appearances include the JVC and Newport Jazz Festivals, Spoleto Festival USA, Lincoln Center "Out Of Doors", Jazztel (Madrid), Salisbury Festival (England), Territorios Urbanos (Seville, Spain), Renaissance Festival (Rethymno, Greece) and Early Music Festival (Regensburg, Germany). Mr. Sheronick has performed live on NPR's "Performance Today" and John Shaffer's "New Sounds." He is given master classes and facilitating drum circles around the country. Mr. Sheronick has premiered works by leading composers, including Michael Daugherty and Zhou Long. He has recorded for film and commercials as well as for Ellipsis Arts, Koch International, PGM, Newport Classics and Interworld Music record labels. He holds degrees from Yale University and University of Iowa and serves on the faculty of Concordia Conservatory. |
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Ricky Ian Gordon
(Composer, the anyones ballet) Ricky Ian Gordon has been referred to in The New York Times as "one of the leading younger composers of songs." He writes for the concert hall, opera, dance, theater and film and has composed on commission for the Houston, Chicago, Seattle and Minnesota Operas. He has written for many internationally acclaimed singers including Renee Fleming, Carol Vaness, Audra McDonald, Lorraine Hunt, Teresa Stratas, Lorraine Hunt, Kurt Ollmann and Lauren Flanagan.
As the resident composer with Battery Dance Company, Mr. Gordon has created 4 ballets. the anyones ballet was performed in the U.S. and South Asia from 1988-92, re-entered Battery's repertoire in October 2000 for the Company's 25th Anniversary, and will be performed on its Baltic Tour in June, 2002. Mr. Gordon's compositions have been performed at the Festival Aix-en-Provence, The National Center For The Performing Arts in Bombay, and Wigmore Hall and The Donmar Warehouse in London. His work Only Heaven represented the U.S. at The 5th International Music Theater Workshop in Munich. Awards include the 1989 National Institute For Music Theater Award, the 1991 Stephen Sondheim Award, 1993 and 1994 Special Recognition Awards from The Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Music Theater Foundation, the 1999 Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, The 2000 Constance Klinsky Award, and multiple awards from ASCAP, Meet The Composer, The American Music Center, and The National Endowment For The Arts. Dream True won a Richard Rodgers Production Award given by The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999.
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Eero Hämeenniemi
(Composer, Layapriya)Eero Hämeenniemi is one of the leading composers of Finland with symphonies, ballets, violin concerti, chamber music, music for jazz ensembles and choral music. He was winner of the 1994 UNESCO Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Performances of his works have been given by the Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Opus 20 String Ensemble of London, The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and The Scottish National Orchestra. His Layapriya for South-Indian percussion and symphony orchestra was given its premiere performance by Karaikudi Mani and his musicians and the Helsinki Philharmonic under Jurjen Hempel at the Helsinki Biennale, 1997; and has been performed with Battery Dance Company's production of the same name throughout India, Finland, Poland, Hungary and the U.S.
Hameenniemi is the Artistic Director of NADA, a jazz ensemble, which has performed with Battery Dance in New York and Bulgaria; and at the Cervantino Festival in Mexico and the Knitting Factory in New York. His discography includes Symphonies I & II and Violin Concerto on the Ondine label, and the ballet Loviisa, Finnish National Opera Orchestra, on the Finlandia label. He is Composer-in-Residence of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. |
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