Barry Seroff

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Barry Seroff was born in Flushing, Queens on July 4th 1978. He earned his Bachelors at the Aaron Copland School of Music where he studied with some of the great minds of the twentieth century: theory with Joe Strauss, composition with Paul Alan Levi, Jeff Nichols, and Bruce Saylor, and musicology with Henry Burnett. At the same time outside of school, he studied classical flute with Michael Laderman and Petina Cole, modern and traditional jazz guitar with Joe Giglio and Bern Nix, and shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Improvised music developed into one of his deepest musical passions through regular performances with musicians including Anthony Braxton, Marc Ribot, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Merry Fortune, and Ken Schalk, among others. It was in this setting that his musical voice matured, leading to the release of the critically acclaimed <i>27 New York Antisonnets’</i> with Little Ricky’s House of Chankletas and <i>A Path Toward Solace </i>with pianist Stefan Paolini, both on OKS Recordings of North America. Between June 2008 and 2010 he ran an improvised music podcast featuring top notch musicians from the New York/New Haven area.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>At the same time his compositional voice grew. He became associated with cutting edge New Music groups such as Anti-Social Music, ThingNY, and New Haven Improvisers Collective. Notable pieces include <i>Banji Variations </i>for shakuhachi and electronics (commissioned by Issue Project Room), <i>A Forum For Abandoned Euro Leaders </i>for two flutes (released on Navona Records on the compilation disc <i>Sculpting the Air</i>) His largest piece, <i>Democracy</i>, was awarded the CAP Composers Assistance Grant in 2009 and was premiered at Issue Project Room in 2010. The work is currently being recorded for release on Parma recordings in 2012. &nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>He received his Masters in composition at Queens College and continues to perform improvised music in and around NY. Further information can be found at his website, www.barryseroff.net.</span></p><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><br></span></div>

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