Author: Joanna

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La Jolla, CA— Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and filmmaker/animator Brent Green, while not related, are both known for their singular performances combining cinema, musical accompaniment, and live narration. Their performance at ArtPower—Brent Green and Sam Green: Live Cinema—is a rare collaborative program where the two filmmakers present a selection of their short works along with a band consisting of Brendan Canty of Fugazi on drums and guitar, James Canty of Nation of Ulysses on guitar, Rebecca Foon on cello, Kate Ryan on drums, and live foley. This live art experience combines performance, cinema, and rock and roll. The event is part of ArtPower’s Filmatic Series and takes place at the Qualcomm Institute, with a post-performance After Party on stage with the artists. Tickets are $40 and can be ordered online at boxoffice.ucsd.edu or by phone at 858.534.TIXS (8497). Additional program information can be found at artpower.ucsd.edu.

About Brent Green

Working in the Appalachian hills of rural Pennsylvania, Brent Green is a self-taught visual artist and filmmaker. His films have screened, often with live musical accompaniment, in venues such as MoMA, J. Paul Getty Museum, Walker Art Center, Hammer Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Rotterdam Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and even extending to rooftops, warehouses, and galleries worldwide. His sculptural work and large-scale installation are often displayed alongside his animated films. His work has been supported by Creative Capital, the Sundance Institute, and the MAP fund.  His work is in some fine permanent collections including the Progressive Collection, Hammer Museum, and MoMA.

About Sam Green

Sam Green is a New York­–based documentary filmmaker. He received his master’s degree in journalism from University of California Berkeley, where he studied documentary with acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs. His most recent projects are the live documentaries The Measure of All Things (2014), The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (with Yo La Tengo) (2012), and Utopia in Four Movements (2010). With all of these works, Green narrates the film in person while musicians perform a live soundtrack.

Green is also a prolific maker of short documentaries, including: The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, lot 63, grave c, Pie Fight ’69 (directed with Christian Bruno), N-Judah 5:30, and The Fabulous Stains: Behind the Movie (directed with Sarah Jacobson). He has received grants from the Creative Capital, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Joanna Szu
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La Jolla, CA—Pianist Michael Brown, violinist Elena Urioste, and cellist Nicholas Canellakis have established themselves as three of the most sought-after young virtuosos on the classical music scene today. Together, as Brown-Urioste-Canellakis Trio, they make their ArtPower debut on Friday, November 4 at 8 p.m. with a program that includes Ernest Chausson’s Piano Trio in G Minor, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2, Haydn’s Piano Trio in E-flat Major, and Suk’s Elegie. The evening performance is part of ArtPower’s chamber music series and takes place at the Department of Music’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall at UC San Diego, with a pre-performance ArtTalk at 7 p.m. at The Loft. Tickets are $45–59 and can be ordered online at boxoffice.ucsd.edu or by phone at 858.534.TIXS (8497). Additional program information can be found at artpower.ucsd.edu.

About Brown-Urioste-Canellakis Trio

Pianist Michael Brown, violinist Elena Urioste, and cellist Nicholas Canellakis have established themselves as three of the most sought-after young virtuosos on the music scene today. Individually, they have been winners of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, BBC New Generation Artist Scheme, Sphinx, and Concert Artists Guild competitions. They have performed in prestigious venues across the U.S. and Europe, including Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and London’s Wigmore and Royal Festival Halls. Making their San Diego debut, the trio is sure to captivate the audiences with its superb musicianship and engaging performances.

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Joanna Szu
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La Jolla, CA—The “powerhouse all-star touring band” ¡Cubanismo! makes its first appearance in San Diego on Thursday, October 27, at 8 p.m. The band’s founder Jesús Alemañy came to fame as a brilliant 15-year-old trumpet player for the iconic Cuban group Sierra Maestra—the band that led to the formation of Buena Vista Social Club—and carries on in that fiery Cuban tradition. His all-star orchestra plays sizzling dance tunes full of swaggering horn charts and wild polyrhythms that recall the vintage big-band son sound of the 1940s and 50s, embracing traditional rumba, cha-cha, danzon and pa’ca rhythms arranged in the classic descarga, or “jam session” style. The performance takes place at Price Center West Ballroom at UC San Diego. Tickets are $30 and includes a free Latin dance lesson at 7 p.m. Order tickets online at boxoffice.ucsd.edu or by phone at 858.534.TIXS (8497).

About ¡Cubanismo!

Jesús Alemañy, founder of Latin orchestra ¡Cubanismo!, came to fame as a brilliant 15 year old trumpet player for the iconic Cuban son group Sierra Maestra. The expression cubanismo designates something specifically Cuban, or unique to the island and not common to the general Spanish culture of Latin America. Utterly different from the genre known as Latin jazz, ¡Cubanismo! features danceable music from beginning to end, celebrating the legacy of Cuban music in other dance styles from around the world. The Cuban son, which dates back to the turn of the century, is the root of much of the up-tempo international pop music, from African soukous to New York salsa.

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Joanna Szu
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joanna@ucsd.edu

La Jolla, CA—ArtPower and UC San Diego’s brand new American Routes series kicks off with the “must-see” (Rolling Stone) The Jones Family Singers on Wednesday, October 26, at 8 p.m. After almost three decades of tearing up the church circuit, the nine-member Jones Family Singers are reaching a global audience with their ecstatic gospel-funk. With force-of-nature vocalists and a vintage R&B rhythm section, this family of Texas-based powerhouses have wowed at South by Southwest, Lincoln Center, and beyond with spirit-lifting, hip-shaking “high-energy performances [that] are the living embodiment of the indelible connection between the black church and its rock and soul offspring” (Austin Chronicle). The performance takes place at The Loft at UC San Diego. Tickets are $23–35 and can be ordered online at boxoffice.ucsd.edu or by phone at 858.534.TIXS (8497).

About The Jones Family Singers

A Texas-based gospel group with electric talent, The Jones Family Singers are “modern practitioners of a long musical tradition…infusing joyful and reverent songs with vintage soul, funk and R&B” (Wall Street Journal). Consisting in part of five sisters, two brothers, and their father the Bishop, The Jones Family Singers have been tearing up churches and festivals alike for over two decades. Their high-energy, dynamic, and irresistibly charismatic performances have captivated audiences at the Newport Folk Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, SXSW, and many other prestigious events and venues around the world.

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Joanna Szu
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La Jolla, CA—ArtPower at UC San Diego’s 13th season opens with a performance from rising jazz star Takuya Kuroda. “A transcendent horn player” (Washington Post), Kuroda’s inventive composition includes everything from jazz, funk, hip-hop, and Afro-beat. A fixture on the New York scene for the past decade, he has performed with big league players such as Valery Ponomarev, Junior Mance, Greg Tardy, and Andy Ezrin. On Saturday, October 22, trumpeter Kuroda performs with his quintet from his most recent album, Rising Sun, his Blue Note debut as well as a few new works from his latest album Zigzagger (to be released on October 7, 2016), incorporates influences from post-bop, neo-soul, hip-hop, and electronica. The performance takes place at The Loft at UC San Diego. Tickets are $23–35 and can be ordered online at boxoffice.ucsd.edu or by phone at 858.534.TIXS (8497).

About Takuya Kuroda

Takuya Kuroda, an ascendant trumpeter and composer, is perhaps best known for his inspired presence in vocalist José James’ band. The 33-year-old Japanese-born, Brooklyn-based musician has been leading his own bands and has self-released and self-produced three previous albums. Making his first trip to the U.S. just 13 years ago to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz musician, Kuroda is a forward- thinking artist with a bent towards mixing post- pop and adventurous soul-jazz. With his inventive compositions, which include everything from jazz, funk, hip-hop, and Afro-beat, he is primed to become a major voice on the 21st-century modern soul-jazz scene.

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Joanna Szu
858.822.3199
joanna@ucsd.edu

ArtPower at UC San Diego Announces its
2016–17 Multiarts Season Line-up

Chamber Music • Dance • Global Music • Foovies [Food + Movie] • Jazz
American Routes • Filmatic • Innovations • Special Events
Season Begins October 5 • Tickets On Sale July 18 • Subscriptions On Sale June 13

 

La Jolla, CA—UC San Diego’s ArtPower announces its 2016–17 season, featuring more than 30 internationally renowned artists and ensembles. Now entering its 13th year, the multiarts presenter ArtPower introduces two new series: American Routes—which will focus on the diverse American musical landscape; and Filmatic series, which grew out of the annual festival and will explore the ever-evolving ways of enjoying media and focus on artists who are merging live performances with projected images. The season will continue to offer ArtPower’s traditional series—Chamber Music, which will introduce young, emerging ensembles; Innovations series which this year will focus on European artists making unexpected music from traditional instruments; Global Music, this year will highlight music from Latin America; Jazz series will focus on leading young innovators; Foovies [Food + Movies] will screen films celebrating childhood; and Dance series will feature prominent dance companies from three international scenes.

Season highlights include the West Coast premiere of South Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company, performing two works—Bow and Balanced and Imbalanced; the interdisciplinary performance of Lula Del Ray from Manual Cinema, that combines music, puppetry, projection, and storytelling; the tremendous Jones Family Singers, whose music offers a window into the history of rock, R&B, and soul music; dancing to music performed by one of the best Cuban bands, ¡Cubanismo!; the return of Dover Quartet with Grammy–nominated mandolinist Avi Avital; a special performance by Lea DeLaria, who will perform both comedy and jazz; and crossover musicians like French artist Colleen, who combines viola de gamba with effect pedals and dub music and Manchester­–based GoGo Penguin, who bridges jazz with electronica.

”We worked very hard to create a season which honored ArtPower’s legacy of defined series, yet was porous enough so that audiences who might focus on one genre would be interested in performances in other genres,” says Executive Director Jordan Peimer. “Jazz and global music fans alike will enjoy ¡Cubanismo! and music lovers will be delighted at the creativity and rootsiness of Lula Del Ray. We really tried not only to make something for everyone, but also to ensure that nearly everyone would enjoy almost any performance.”

ArtPower events take place in six venues across the UC San Diego campus. For tickets and more information, visit artpower.ucsd.edu.

Order Information
Single tickets go on sale: July 18, 2016
Purchase Online: www.artpower.ucsd.edu
Purchase by Phone: 858.534.TIXS (8497)
Purchase in Person: UC San Diego Box Office, Price Center Plaza
Box Office Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Closed Saturday and Sunday

About ArtPower
ArtPower at UC San Diego builds creative experiences in music, dance, film, exhibition and food for our collective pleasure and inspiration. We engage diverse audiences through vibrant, challenging, multi-disciplinary performances by emerging and renowned international artists. Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower provides exciting opportunities for research, participation, and creation of new work, igniting powerful dialogue between artists, students, scholars, and the community.