Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith

February 2024

IMPACT

Stefania de Kenessey

Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 7 pm EST

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IMPACT events are free, stream on the Composers Now YouTube Channel

2024 Composers Now Festival - Composers Interviewing Composers series:

February 11, 2024 - 4 pm

MOSAIC COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE, Presented by In Transit: Changing NY & Miolina

Hannah Selin interviews the Mosaic Composers Collective (Alexa Letourneau, Athos Maelstrom, Aidan Arbona, Naamia Rivera, and Murphy Severtson)

Tenri Cultural Institute

43A W 13th St

New York, NY 10011

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February 17, 2024 - 7 pm

VOX

Tamar Muskal interviews Miro Magloire & Elizabeth Gartman

James and Martha Duffy Performance Space at Mark Morris Dance Center
3 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217

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February 24, 2024 - 7 :30 pm

Robert Dick and Dan Blake

Karen Siegel interviews Daniel Blake & Robert Dick

2b&2C
9 Avenue B, East Village
New York, 10009

Dwight Andrews, Philip Glass & Libby Larsen

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World premiere on 01.31.2024 at the 2024 Composers Now Festival Opening Event

@ National Sawdust, 7:30 pm

Devon Gates is a bassist, vocalist, and composer from Atlanta, Georgia. Through studying anthropology and jazz performance at Harvard University and Berklee College of Music, she has worked with Terri Lyne Carrington, Linda May Han Oh, Vijay Iyer, Danilo Perez, Claire Chase, and esperanza spalding, and has performed with Social Science, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Susie Ibarra, Michael Mayo, Alexa Tarantino, Immanuel Wilkins, Kenny Werner, and Tia Fuller. In 2020, she released her first EP, "Voice/Bass" on Bandcamp, followed by the release of single "skipped that step" in spring 2023. In 2022 her original composition "Don't Wait" was published in Berklee Press' "New Standards" collection of 101 lead sheets by female jazz composers.

composer mentor: Yosvany Terry

Born into a musical family in Camaguey, Cuba. Yosvany went on to classical music training in Havana at the prestigious National School of Arts (ENA) and Amadeo Roldan Conservatory. After graduating, Yosvany worked with major figures in every realm of Cuban music including pianists Chucho Valdes, and Frank Emilio and the celebrated nueva trova singer/guitarist Silvio Rodriguez. From his earliest days in New York, Yosvany has been welcomed by a broad range of artists in the jazz and contemporary music community; playing with, Steve Coleman, Rufus Reid, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Roy Hargrove, Vijay Iyer, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Avishai Cohen, Baptiste Trotignon, Eddie Palmieri, and Gerald Clayton.

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