JOHN FERRARI
Enjoying an extremely varied career, John Ferrari is a versatile drummer, classical and hand percussionist, conductor, educator and composer/arranger in the New York City area music scene. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning New Millennium Ensemble and long standing member of Meridian Arts Ensemble Brass & Percussion. Frequent recipients of the ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming, both groups have collectively released nine critically acclaimed recordings.
He is a frequent guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has performed and/or recorded with many notable organizations around New York and elsewhere, including: Bang on a Can All-stars, Da Capo Chamber Players, Group for Contemporary Music, Chamber Music Northwest, Spectrum Concerts Berlin, Orion String Quartet, New Music Consort, and the New Jersey, Talujon and Pulse Percussion Ensembles.
Active in pop, jazz, world, chamber, orchestral, theater, dance and film music, John Ferrari has toured extensively world wide, both concertizing and as artist in residence/clinician.
Mr. Ferrari holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY Stony Brook and a BM from William Paterson University in New Jersey.
Marija Ilic
is an active performer of the traditional repertoire and new music in New York
City and has been praised as a "clear and decisive musician...compelling...poetic"
by The New York Times.
Her performances include recitals at the Weill
Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, Musica
Viva in Belgrade, Clark Studios at Lincoln Center, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival
in England, Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival, Bolzano Festival, Trinity Church
concert series and the Schumann Festival.
She has worked with composers
such as Martin Bresnick, George Crumb, Oliver Knussen, Joan Tower,
Vykintas
Baltakas, and collaborated with choreographers Christopher Caines, Ariane Anthony,
Rajika Puri and with the National Theater of the United States of America on their
production "What's That on My Head?"
Marija Ilic is native
of Belgrade, Serbia, and holds degrees from the Belgrade Music Academy, Mannes
College of Music, and a doctorate from Rutgers University. She has been a member
of the Patrick Grant Group since 1997.
KATHLEEN SUPOVÉ
Kathleen Supové is one of the most acclaimed contemporary music pianists of our time, occupying a unique position through her continuous search for what is new and provocative. Kathy has spent the last decade producing a series of solo concerts entitled The Exploding Piano, in which she has performed and premiered countless works by emerging and established composers. The series has received rave reviews and thrilled audiences everywhere. In the last two seasons, Kathy developed The Exploding Piano
into a multimedia experience by using theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, electronics, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines and director/writer Valeria Vasilevski. (She also posed nude for Marie Claire magazine.)
Kathy is a featured performer in the Summer 2000 issue of Yale Theater Journal, which is devoted to Concert Theater. Last year, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust commissioned composer Randall Woolf and Ms Vasilevski to create four concert theater works, comprising an evening-length show, for her. This project recently received production funding from The Greenwall Foundation.
Besides being a soloist, Kathy is half of the duo twisted tutu with composer/performer Eve Beglarian; the keyboard player and vocal ranteuse for Nick Didkovsky’s band, Dr. Nerve and the resident ensemble of The Kitchen, Kitchen House Blend. She is also a member and founder of the consortium, Exploding Music. She has appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Music at the Anthology, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Patrick Grant Group, Essential Music, and The Crosstown Ensemble.
Figure 88, Kathy’s solo CD on CRI’s Emergency Music label, was named one of the Ten Best Classical Releases of 1993 by New York Newsday critic Tim Page. Other recordings can be found on the CRI, New World, Neuma, Bridge, Centaur, OO, and XI labels. Kathy has also been a top prize winner in the Gaudeamus International Competition for Interpretation of Contemporary Music, has received several commissioning grants from Meet the Composer, and has also won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Composers’ Forum, and the Aaron Copland Fund For Music.
Additional upcoming projects include a concert theater presentation with Composers’ Collaborative, Inc. entitled This is Virgil Thomson’s Shoe; recordings of works for piano with electronics and the complete keyboard works of Randall Woolf; and collaboration on new works by many emerging composers.
"What Ms. Supové is really exploding is the piano recital as we have known it, a mission more radical and arguably more needed." -Anthony Tommasini, NY Times
"This was classical music played like the best rock'n'roll. It was passionate, earnest, loud and more complex than the gatekeepers of high culture would like to think. Brava." -Ben Sisario, NY Press