[H&R] Wayne Horvitz' These Hills of Glory with Eyvind Kang and Peggy Lee

[Beth Fleenor]

For Immediate Release
Kill Date 2-20-06

These Hills of Glory
Composition No. 2 for String Quartet and Improviser
by composer Wayne Horvitz

performed by  the odeonquartet and featured improvisers
Gennady Filimonov, violin     Heather Bentley, viola
Jennifer Caine,  violin     Page Smith, cello


	with soloist Eyvind Kang, viola
Sunday, February 12th, 2006
7:30 PM
Café Paloma : 93 Yesler Way



	with soloist Peggy Lee, cello
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
8 PM
Gallery 1412 : 1412 18th Avenue (at Union)



Tickets: $10 general admission available at the door
Information:  www.waynehorvitz.com and www.odeonquartet.org
Press Contact: Beth Fleenor (206) 568-2068; beth at thefrankagency.org *
*photos and more information available upon request


Composer/Pianist Wayne Horvitz debuts his second composition for string 
quartet and improviser with a series of six concerts featuring six 
different featured improvising soloists.  Performed by the esteemed 
odeonquartet, alongside cutting edge improvisers,  These Hills of Glory 
further blurs the division between written and improvised composition.  
February’s performances of These Hills of Glory feature Eyvind Kang, 
viola and Peggy Lee, cello.

Biographies

Wayne Horvitz is a composer, pianist and electronic musician who has 
performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North 
America.  He is the leader of Zony Mash, Pigpen, The Four plus One 
Ensemble and co-founder of the  New York Composers Orchestra.  He has 
performed and collaborated with Bill  Frisell, Butch Morris, John Zorn, 
Robin Holcomb, Fred Frith, Julian Priester, Philip Wilson,  Michael 
Shrieve and Carla Bley among others.  He has been commissioned by the 
NEA,  Meet The Composer, Kronos String Quartet, Seattle Chamber 
Players, Mary Flagler, BAM, Earshot Jazz and others.  Collaborations 
with choreographers include work with Paul Taylor with the White Oak 
Dance Project, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Crispin Spaeth.    Film 
work includes music and sound design for 3 PBS specials and Gus Van 
Sandts'  Psycho.  He is the year 2001 recipient of the Artist Trust 
Fellowship (Seattle)  and the 2002 recipient of the Rockefeller 
Foundation MAP Grant.

Violist Eyvind Kang was born in Corvallis, Oregon, but lived in several 
different cities, mostly in Canada, throughout his childhood. He began 
studying violin in “Suzuki” method classes in Regina, Saskatchewan, at 
the age of six and learned tuba in the school band at Winnipeg, 
Manitoba. He attended high school in Edmonton, Alberta, and spent two 
years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as a philosophy major 
before relocating to Seattle, where he has based his life for the past 
10 years. He studied music at Seattle’s Cornish College for the Arts 
between 92–94, in addition to studying violin with Michael White.

While still at Cornish College, Kang traveled to New York where he was 
introduced to John Zorn and was able to perform and later tour with 
Zorn's game piece Cobra. Through this connection he met many artists 
who he still works with today including Trey Spruance & Bill Frisell.  
In 1994, Kang received an Artist Support Program grant (by the Jack 
Straw Foundation) and used it to record the first seven of his series 
of musical compositions called "NADEs." This recording, 7 NADEs, was 
released on Zorn's Tzadik label in 1996, followed two years later by 
his Theater of Mineral Nades. In 2000 he released The Story Of Iceland, 
again on Tzadik, which was inspired by his time spent in Iceland as a 
child.  Kang has traveled to the far reaches of this planet: places 
like India, Italy, Iceland & Australia composing and playing his own 
material & with countless other projects. He has played violin with 
John Zorn, Bill Frisell's quartet, the Sun City Girls and Wayne 
Horvitz' 4 + 1 Ensemble. Kang has also recorded & toured with Trey 
Spruance's Secret Chiefs 3 and performed on Mr. Bungle's California.	
		
Since moving to Vancouver in 1989, Toronto born cellist Peggy Lee has 
become a major voice in the creative music community. Current projects 
include her own sextet, the Peggy Lee Band, Ron Samworth’s Talking 
Pictures, The Tony Wilson Sextet,  New Orchestra Workshop, Dave 
Douglas’s Mountain Passages and the new music ensemble Standing Wave. 
Peggy’s work has been documented on 3 cds with the Peggy Lee Band 
(Spool records) and on many other recordings including a duo with 
Carlos Zingaro (hatology), a trio with Michael Moore and Dylan van der 
Schyff (spool), another trio with van der Schyff and pianist John Wolf 
Brennan. (leo) and a quartet with Dave Douglas, Loius Sclavis and Dylan 
van der Schyff (premonition).
			
The Seattle-based odeonquartet is comprised of distinguished artists 
who are dedicated to presenting concerts of the highest artistic 
quality and building new audiences for chamber music through 
performances and educational outreach programs. The odeonquartet has 
been the Lehmann Ensemble-in-Residence at Cornish College of the Arts 
during 2001-2003 season(s), a residency made possible by a generous 
gift from Thelma Lehman, who sponsored the Cornish residency of 
world-renowned Russian pianist Vladimir Feltsman. "Just a few seasons 
old, this young, vibrant group has made a Kronos-like commitment to a 
20th century music all over the artistic map – from serialism, 
evocations of folk and pop music from around the world, American 
classics and European neo-romanticism, " writes music critic Gavin 
Borchert in the Seattle Weekly. The ensemble features works that 
reflect the diversity of American and International musical styles 
including fresh and imaginative performances of standard and lesser 
known masterpieces as well as new works and unusual repertoire, 
performing music that weaves in threads of tango, American prison 
blues, Persian folk music, jazz, Russian orthodox hymns, minimalism, 
European neo-romanticism, and contemporary and folk influences. The 
odeonquartet has been a recipient of the prestigious King County Arts 
Commission grant, and have been regular guests of the Seattle Chamber 
Music Festival's "Under Forte" series. Other appearances include 
Benaroya Hall, KCTS, the Gala opening of Experience the Music Project, 
Seattle Chamber Music Festival with composer/narrator Bruce Adolph, 
Lopez Center for the Arts in San Juans Islands, Sound Currents Chamber 
Music Series, ArtsWest Chamber Music Series, Belle Arte Chamber Music 
Series, PBS, KING FM, KUOW/NPR, as well as performances at PONCHO 
Concert Hall at Cornish College of the Arts. The odeonquartet is 
dedicated to nurturing the human spirit by promoting and perpetuating 
greater understanding through music. In 2002 odeonquartet has signed an 
exclusive artist endorsement agreement with Connolly & Co., Inc on 
behalf of Thomastik-Infeld company (manufacturers of superior strings 
for the violin family). Accomplished professionals and masters prefer 
Dominants/Thomastik-Infeld strings, often citing their superior feel, 
string to string consistency and legendary tonality. The odeonquartet 
joins the roster of accomplished professionals, which include the 
legendary Pinchas Zukerman, Ann-Sophie Mutter, Modern String Quartet, 
Turtle Island String Quartet, Chee Yun, American String Quartet, Hilary 
Hahn among others.


Additional Performances:
March 5th 	with soloist Ron Miles, trumpet, at Café Paloma – 7:30pm
March 19th 	with soloist Tom Swafford, violin, at Café Paloma – 7:30pm
April 16th 	with soloist Gust Burns, piano, at Gallery 1412 – 8pm

Café Paloma : 93 Yesler Way
Gallery 1412 : 1412 18th Avenue (at Union)


This project made possible through generous support from
the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and 4Culture



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