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Gene Pritsker [Composer] 

As a composer and guitarist, Gene has written over three hundred  compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music, songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles, etc. All his compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles and are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.  He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation; an eclectic hip-hop/chamber/jazz/rock/etc. ensemble currently releasing a new CD for Col Legno records. Other organizations he is associated with include: Composers' Concordance (advisory board since '96, Associate Director since '04), Absolute Ensemble (co-founder/composer-in -residence '93-'96). Some of Gene Pritsker's music is published by: Falls House Press, Gold Branch Music, Periferia Sheet Music & Calabrese Brothers Music.

In the 2006 -'07 season Gene premiered two chamber operas; Money 1 & Money 2, at the Flea Theater and at the Players Theater in New York, He also performed these 2 operas at the Outreach Festival in Schwaz, Austria in the summer of '07 and will be performing them in Catania, Sicily in May of '08. At the '07 Outreach Festival Gene had many performances, including his Bassoon and samplestra piece; Electrically Tragic Premiered by Martin Kuuskmann and various performances with his band Sound Liberation and The International Street Cannibals a group that combines chamber music and boxing.

On September 15, 2007, Three Poems From Flowers of Evil, on poetry of Baudelaire was performed by the The Absolute Ensemble, The Latvian State Choir and himself as Di.J. at the '07 Bremen Music Festival. Also at this concert Gene's orchestrations from the movie Perfume were performed. Gene is very excited to have had the opportunity of working with the legendary Joe Zawinul, he has arranged/orchestrated Zawinuls music for the Absolute Ensemble to be recorded and relasead on Biirdjam records in '09 and to be  toured around the world in upcoming years. In recent years Absolute has been performing arrangements Gene did of Frank Zappas music as well as many of his own compositions, including Lost Illusion, a concerto for bass, orchestra and samplestra (pre recorded electronics) this piece was also performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with Mat Fieldes on various basses and Kristjan Jarvi conducting.

Coming up, Gene has written a new piano concerto: 'Reinventions' for piano and chamber orchestra based on J.S. Bach's piano Inventions to be premiered at the '08 Bremen Musicfest on Sept. 13th with pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Absolute Ensemble with K. Jarvi conducting. His Piece 'Bach Speaks' for trombone and samplestra will be performed by Steve Parker in various venueus and a one and a half hour concerto for jazz piano trio and orchestra, 3 Stages of Truth, is being scheduled to be premiered in 2010 by the Mad Fusion trio, Bremen Kammerphilharmonia and Kristjan Jarvi conductor. He will also perform at the Blaine Jazz Festival in July in a program consisting of his Sound Liberation music and at the Outreach Festival '08 in August in many concerts featuring music. Gene has just orchestrated the new Tom Tykwer motion Picture called The International to be released everywhere in '09. For more information and music samples, go to:

Homepage:  

www.genepritsker.com