Percussionist/composer, Brian Shankar Adler brings music from his critically acclaimed album, Fourth Dimension, back to life. With arrestingly beautifully compositions rooted in Adler's own upbringing in an ashram, the music invokes an inner world and musical language where surreal landscapes are created using textless mantras, disintegrating drones, mind-bending polyrhythms, and encrypted messages. Made up of some of New York's top improvisers, the group weaves through peaceful and radioactive terrain with ease and style.
Featuring:
Jonathan Goldberger, guitar
Santiago Leibson, piano
Rob Jost, bass
Brian Shankar Adler, drums and compositions
Award presented by Henry Threadgill
Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.