Lorne Watson Master Class August 15th Bellvue Community College Bellvue, WA ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Residence August 21-27 Spencer Matress Factory Brooklyn, NY ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Residence October 4-7th, 2006 Master Classes Music Works Northwest Studio 14360 SE Eastgate Way Bellvue, WA ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Concert October 6th, 2006 7 p.m. Music Works Northwest Studio 14360 SE Eastgate Way Bellvue, WA ------ Loop 2.4.3 Radio October 7th, 2006 To be aired later. Sonarchy Radio 90.3 KEXP Seattle, WA ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Concert October 8th, 2006 3 p.m. Warner Pacific College Portland, OR ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Concert October 10th "Tuesdays in Old Town: Chamber Music" 7 p.m. Slavonian Hall 2306 N. 30th Street Tacoma, WA 98403 ----- Loop 2.4.3 January 18- 23 50th Annual Members Conference: Presenting America: Perspectives & Dialogue New York, NY ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Concert Febuary 10th, 2007 "New Directions in Percussion" Cornell University, NY ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Residence Febuary 11th- 14th "New Directions in Percussion" New York State Location to be announced ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Residence March 14-15 Holly, MI Public School's ----- Loop 2.4.3 in Concert March 16- 17th 2007 Artist in Residence Caledonia, MI w/ Strike Percussion ------- Loop 2.4.3 In Concert March 18th 2007 University Wisconsin White Water Istvan Peter B'Racz Istvan B'Racz is Loop 2.4.3's resident piano/keyboard/electronics wiz. A gifted and versatile pianist, Istvan is equally agile in music composition. He has collaborated on many original works and often programs sounds and sequences for the group's electro-acoustic performances. Outside of Loop 2.4.3 Istvan has served as composer/music director for Projects for a New Millennium, Elm City Shakespeare, and Bagelfish Productions. He is also the Artistic Director and founder of SOUNDunderGROUND (formerly New Haven Worx), a concert series devoted to new music, composers, performers, poets, and other artists. His compositional work ranges from solo instrumental to large orchestral writing, and he enjoys creating music in the "acoustic" chamber-music traditions of classical music, creating purely electronic music, electronica, as well as music in the pop traditions. Istvan studied composition, electronic music, and conducting at the Hartt School of Music, piano at the Yale School of Music, Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary (where he was awarded a Fulbright Grant), composition and piano at the Oberlin Conservatory, Neighborhood Music School (NMS), and the Educational Center for the Arts (ECA). He has taught piano and composition as well as music technology at Central Connecticut State University, as well as at ECA. Currently, he teaches piano, composition and theory at NMS, as well as Electronic Music at Southern Connecticut State University. B'Racz on the Web: www.lulu.com/bracz www.myspace.com/istvanpeterbracz www.soundunderground.org http://homepage.mac.com/istvan_bracz Joseph Drew Joseph Drew has been modernizing the idea of a Renaissance man with his contributions to contemporary music as a performer, composer, critic, writer and conceptual artist. He has toured extensively, including a recent engagement with the Indie Rock band, Cursive, but Drew is most comfortable in New York City where he performs frequently with Loop 2.4.3, Sputnik, numun, and Tee Templeton. Drew is also one of the founding members and artistic director of the bold new arts collective, ANALOG. His work as a trumpeter spans from period instruments to the extended technique of the modern repertoire. Drew studied with Karlheinz and Markus Stockhausen in Kuerten and emphasizes their canon in his programs. As a composer, Drew is as comfortable in popular styles as he is in the classical and the avant garde. He has gained wide recognition for his unique appropriation of pre-existing music. Drew has lectured extensively at places like the Experience Music Project Popular Music Conference. His criticism can be read most frequently at ANABlog, which he founded in 2004 as part of the outreach mission of ANALOG.Lorne Watson Lorne Watson is an accomplished performer, composer, author, and teacher. He has played in every kind of musical situation from orchestral to hard rock, with salsa, jazz, and chamber music in between. His compositions have been performed by Loop 2.4.3, The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble, The Stone Crazy Blues Band, and featured on MTV's "The Real World". He is regularly in the studio with independent artists and has appeared on the DMP, Albany, and Gold Fish In Your Bowl record labels. An avid teacher since 1991, he has given master classes/clinics at Alma College, Strike Percussion Weekend (Grand Rapids, MI), EMP Museum (Seattle), Seattle Drum School, Music Works Northwest and The Percussive Arts Society International Conference, and was formerly a regular instructor at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Lorne continues to teach privately and has written a method book for beginners and intermediate players, "Three Dimensions: Hands, Reading, Drumset." Growing up in Lansing, MI, Lorne's passion for drums began at age 3 when he received his first drum as a gift. He also studied piano and trumpet as a child, but percussion became his focus from age 12. Growing up as a working class Midwesterner, the blues became a regular fixation in his life and opened the door to other musical styles, such as jazz, rock, and Afro-Cuban music. After surviving J.W. Sexton High School, he went on to receive his Bachelor Degree in Music Education and Percussion Performance from Central Michigan University. Lorne studied with Robert Hohner, Alex Acuna, and Jim Chapin and has shared the stage and studio with percussion greats, Joe Morello, and David Freidman. Please visit www.lornewatson.com for more information on his schedule and book. Loop 2.4.3 is an original music group that consists of a percussion duo at its core, augmented by a tight knit line-up of virtuosic collaborators. Piano, cello, flute, trumpet, spoken word/poetry, and electronics experts are all on the group's expanded roster. Fluent in a wide range of musical and performance environments, Loop 2.4.3 often expands into the realm of musical theatricality, and transforms the capabilities of a percussion ensemble by performing their own works alongside everything from Bach and Faure to Crumb, Tan-Dun, Stockhausen, and Radiohead. They perform internationally at concert halls, clubs, festivals, lofts, squats, green spaces, and arts/educational facilities. Previous venues include: Klein Auditorium (Bridgeport), Galapagos Art Space (NY), the LAB (Seattle), the University of North Carolina, Bowling Green University, Montreux/Detroit Jazz Festival, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (Chicago), the University of Connecticut, and Seattle University. Loop 2.4.3 has been presented in concert by such organizations as the Composers' Concordance (NYC), The Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, Confratute, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Strike Percussion, SOUNDunderGROUND , and the Shoreline Arts Alliance (CT). They were the first group in residence for Seton-Bridge Concerts in Downtown Manhattan, which included a Tiananmen Square Memorial performance of Tan Dun's Elegy: Snow in June. The group has performed for radio, film, and television, including live footage for The Learning Channel and scoring/performing original music for the film, Red Darkness Before Dawn. Loop 2.4.3 has also collaborated on recordings and multi-media projects with Clogs, Bagelfish Productions, B'Racz Sound, Puppet Sweat Theater, and Studio Harlequino.Tom Burnett Tom Burnett has been making music, directing theatre, and performing in an eclectic mix of genres and venues. Founder of 8th Avenue Sessions, His music has been heard on WPKN, WBAI, WKCR and WFMU as well as in many theatre and dance performances. He was a member of the performance orchestra, Coocoohandler, appearing at many New York venues including The Kitchen, Webster Hall, Knitting Factory, Fez, P.S.122, P.S.1 in Queens, and South Street Sea Port. He is currently co-creator and keyboardist in the popular downtown show, Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement as seen at Joe's Pub, Bowery Ballroom, Toyota Comedy Festival, P.S.122 and the Bowery Poetry Club. Tom has presented solo work as a performer/writer at the Manhattan Class Company, Nurorican Poets Café, St. Marks Poetry Project, P.S.122, as well as venues in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. The Chicago Tribune dubbed his performance as "Walter Winchell on Speed" and the New York Times has said that "Mr. Burnett is surely one performer who can literally and figuratively, talk up a storm." He was a featured performer in the National Cultural Alliance's campaign to promote arts in America along with Saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders. As a Director he has often collaborated with brother Jamie on multi-media performance events for Projects For A New Millennium in New Haven, at sites as varied as the Stony Creek Rock quarry in Conn. and small intimate spaces. Co-Director of Danny Mydlacks Mr. Big company, the plays of Whinchester Chimes with the Formica Cornice Theatre Company, and original works at The Kitchen are among his many credits. Tom is happy to be a member of Loop 2.4.3 and plans to take up the bongos on the Saturn Return in 2012.Thomas Kozumplik Thomas Kozumplik is a founding member of three groups that have contributed substantially to the contemporary music scene through live performances, recordings, and creation/commission of new works. Loop 2.4.3, Clogs, and the Yale Percussion Group are all internationally recognized ensembles performing at the top of their fields. Thomas has performed throughout North America, Europe, Scandinavia, and S. Korea and his work has received awards and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Connecticut Council on the Arts, Chamber Music America, the UK Arts Council, Yale University, and the International Association of Jazz Educators. He performs as a freelance percussionist, composer, and arranger, works for film and theatre, and performs as the Count with the wonderfully outrageous rock project, Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement. Growing up in the juxtaposition of wide-open spaces, agriculture, and post-industrial depression that is mid-Michigan, Thomas was baptized in popular music as a child and went on to study classical, jazz, and world musics with percussion guru Robert Hohner in Mt. Pleasant, MI. He was a major performer alongside Lorne Watson in Hohner's world-renowned percussion ensemble from 1992 until Mr. Hohner's untimely passing in 2000. He went on to study with marimba virtuoso Robert van Sice at the Yale School of Music and then moved to New York City where Loop 2.4.3 built a project studio in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Thomas holds degrees from Yale University (M.M), and Central Michigan University (B.M.E) and performed in master classes with Steve Reich, Amadinda, George Crumb, Cloyd Duff, Gordon Gottlieb, and Tom Freer. See also: www.clogsmusic.com Discography The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble Lift Off DMP The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble The Gamut DMP The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble The Percussion Music of David Maslanka Albany The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble The Percussion Music of David Gillingham Independent The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble World Music Tour DMP The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble Third Wind DMP The Robert Hohner Percussion Ensemble Far More Drums DMP Clogs Thom's Night Out Brassland Clogs Lullaby for Sue Brassland Red Darkness Before Dawn Soundtrack Independent Uncle Jimmy's Dirty Basement Bootleg EP#1 Independent Clogs Lantern Brassland Loop 2.4.3 Live at UConn* Independent *DVD