KITTY BRAZELTON - USA
BORN 05 OCTOBER
Kitty Brazelton (born 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American vocalist, composer, flutist, lead singer, and bandleader. Her bands include progressive rock/folk rock/contemporary classical Musica Orbis, metal V, power pop Hide the Babies, the art rock/alternative rock/avant-garde jazz band Dadadah, punk rock/computer music trio What Is It Like To Be A Bat? and Hildegurls (with Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bielawa and Elaine Kaplinsky) who appeared at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Festival '98 in celebration of abbess composer Hildegard von Bingen's 900th birthday. Brazelton is the daughter of pediatrician and author T. Berry Brazelton.
Brazelton attended Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in music from Columbia University in 1994. She was formerly married to jazz critic and president of the Jazz Journalists Association Howard Mandel and currently teaches composition at Bennington College in Vermont.
At Bennington, Brazelton lent her talents to the singing voice of the character 'Angel' in the student film Camp Blood: The Musical.
Other former Dadadah members include saxophonist Danny Weiss, Tom Varner, Tracy Turner, trombonist Chris Washburne, Elizabeth Panzer, Mary Wooten, Hui Cox on guitar, Chris Tso, Ed Broms, Eunice Holland, bassist Roland S. Wilson and Jim Pugliese.
Source: Wikipedia & Kitty Brazelton Official Website
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Bird of my heart by Kitty Brazelton
ELEANOR SANDRESKY - USA
BORN 05 OCTOBER
BORN 05 OCTOBER
Eleanor Sandresky is a composer, and pianist. Her compositions include solo instrumental virtuoso works, including works for choreographic piano, cabaret songs, concert chamber works, orchestral works, and evening length collaborations. She has performed her own music at the Knitting Factory, the Cutting Room, the Kitchen, P.S. 122, and Dia Arts Center in New York.
Her music has been played on local and national public radio and been presented by the Sequitur, Composers Collaborative and Big Music for a Small Room series in New York, as well as at festivals and on concerts in Europe, Australia and Canada. Since 1991, she has performed extensively with the Philip Glass Ensemble. Eleanor has recorded for Nonesuch, BMG and Mode Records. She is a founding member of Exploding Music, a collective of performers that presents a broad range of new music and concert experiences.
Working at the forefront of avant-garde concert-as-theater, Eleonor reinvented herself as the Choreographic Pianist with her groundbreaking composition, A Sleeper’s Notebook (1999-2003). In these works, she explores her deep interest in how motion translates to emotion through sound. She is also the inventor of The Wonder Suit, a remote set of wireless-sensors worn and used to trigger sonic events during live performance. These events range from discreet processes to surface manipulations of the pitchs and build on the concepts and ideas in her choreographed works, of which this new work was born. She has created large-scale works for the Suit, most recently, A Space Odyssey (2016), and performs live improvisations with it, available for purchase on Bandcamp. As music director, she works in a variety of theatrical settings, from theater/dance performances with Susan Marshall to conducting live-to-film with the Philip Glass Ensemble, member since 1991. Eleonor is also the associate producer of concert film and orchestra projects for The Leonard Bernstein Office since 2009. Her music is available on Sony Classics, Koch International, ERM Media, and Albany Records.
Source: Composers Collab and Eleanor Sandresky Official Website
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Dream Elegy by Eleanor Sandresky
Dream Elegy by Eleanor Sandresky
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