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Perpetual Chant: Gilbert Galindo Concert Fund

Help finance the first ever full concert of the music of Gilbert Galindo!

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Perpetual Chant: Gilbert Galindo Concert Fund

Perpetual Chant: Gilbert Galindo Concert Fund

Perpetual Chant: Gilbert Galindo Concert Fund

Perpetual Chant: Gilbert Galindo Concert Fund

Perpetual Chant: Gilbert Galindo Concert Fund

Help finance the first ever full concert of the music of Gilbert Galindo!

Help finance the first ever full concert of the music of Gilbert Galindo!

Help finance the first ever full concert of the music of Gilbert Galindo!

Help finance the first ever full concert of the music of Gilbert Galindo!

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New York, United States
$580 USD 9 backers
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Overview
After writing music in New York for the past 10 years, I thought it was time to produce a full concert of my chamber music to showcase some of my best works. In order to do this, I secured a venue, dedicated musicians, and made announcements so that there is an audience. Ticket sales alone don't cover all expenses, it is for this reason I reach out to my friends, family, and colleagues for any contribution amount to help make this concert come alive. [http://www.gilbertgalindo.com]

For the past 10 years since moving to New York as an individual composer, I have been writing various chamber pieces for groups and individual musicians in and outside of the city. And now I feel it is time that I produce a full concert of my chamber music featuring some of my best works from this period to make my musical statement. The six pieces programed are works I believe in and feel strongly about and wanted to bring them to life once again by sharing it with you and the world. [You can listen to some of my music here so you can get an idea of what I do: www.soundcloud.com/gilbertgalindo.]

To bring this music alive, I secured a venue, dedicated performers, and from announcements, hopefully what will be a sizable audience. It is such a joy to make music with and share music with others. However, of course producing concerts incurs expenses that ticket sales alone will not be able to cover: the venue rental, rehearsal space, and compensation for the performers. This is why I reach out to you, my friends, family, colleagues, or people I have never met who might want to support my music.

Since ticket sales alone do not cover all the costs associated with producing concerts in classical music, it has been the tradition that we rely upon enthusiastic classical music fans who find such value in this music and whose demand for this music is so great that collectively they generously provide finances that help cover the costs of producing concerts. These people are paramount and instrumental in helping this music come alive and to continue thriving from generation to generation. They, along with private and government institutions and organizations, are our lifeline.


And now I ask: 

Do you want to be one of these special people who help give life to some part of this art form, in particular, this concert of my music performed by expert musicians?

Are you one of my friends, family members, or colleagues who cannot attend the concert (whether it be that you live outside of New York or simply cannot make it) but want to show support in some way?

And do you find value in this classical music project of mine?


If you answered yes to any of these, then consider making a contribution for this concert and by doing so, become an individual supporter of classical music.

If you do become a donor of a certain amount for this concert, to show my gratitude, I will produce a unique ring tone just for you or send you a framed copy of a page from the handwritten score of one of the works on the program.

I would be so grateful and touched for any contribution amount to help make this concert a success.

Thank you.

All peace and good,


Gilbert Galindo


ABOUT THE EVENT


Perpetual Chant: The Chamber Music of Gilbert Galindo

Friday, June 24, 2016, 8:00 PM
The DiMenna Center, New York City

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NEW YORK – For the past 10 years in New York City, Queens composer and concert producer Gilbert Galindo has been busy writing chamber works for various groups and soloists in and outside of the city. Here with the concertPerpetual Chant: the Chamber Music of Gilbert Galindo, 2008-2016,” he presents some of his best works from the last decade and this decade. Six works for winds, strings, piano, and percussion will be heard ranging from a duo to a sextet, and they are:“Echoes of the Divine”for piano quartet (2014), written for the RAM Players; “Entangled Chant” for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion (2008), written for Ensemble Dal Niente;“Living Oblivion” for violin & violoncello (2009), written for Joshua Modney & Isabel Castellvi;“Perpetual Drive” for pierrot ensemble (2013), written for Lost Dog New Music Ensemble; “Praise by Your Being” for string quartet (2016), written for the RAM Players; and “Secret Nights” for clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano (2011), written for the Gotham Ensemble. The concert takes place on Friday, June 24, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center (450 W. 37th Street; New York, New York 10018; A,C,E to 34th St./Penn Station or A,C,E,N,Q,R,S,1,2,3,7 to 42nd Street/Times Square). Doors open at 7:30 PM with complimentary wine and edibles. Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased at the door or online: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2560800. For more on Gilbert Galindo, visit: www.gilbertgalindo.com.

Bringing the music to life on this concert are some of the city’s finest new music performers: the riveting flutist ROBERTA MICHEL of the Cadillac Moon Ensemble and DuoRoMi; the passionate oboist IAN SHAFER; the brilliant clarinetist THOMAS PIERCY of the Tokyo to New York Concert Series; the spirited pianist MARKUS KAITILA having appeared as soloist throughout Europe; the exciting percussionist CHRIS GRAHAM of Iktus Percussion; the exceptional violinistJESSICA PARK of Ensemble LPR; the violinist SASHA PETRIN of Symphony in C; the dynamite violist LIUH-WEN TING of Ensemble Meme; the enthusiastic cellist ERIC ALLEN; the spectacular cellist KATE DILLINGHAM of Random Access Music; and Gilbert Galindo conducting.

ABOUT THE CONCERT

The title of the concert, “Perpetual Chant” combines two titles of pieces on the program and speaks to the truth that music sings, chants, and expresses human spirit and energy continually, developing as it wills, in perpetuity with or without the intention of the composer. Gilbert Galindo’s music is no different. The character and style of the works from the late ‘00s to now developed from short hyper nuanced melodic gestures amidst a bright but sometimes aggressive harmonic soundscape to exploring the concept of romanticism in the 21st century with underlying modal and blues harmonic colors sprinkled with enticing dissonance. But all the pieces on this concert reflect varying energies and human expressions, from rugged, aggressive, playful, to ethereal, serene, and lyrical.

Here is what Gilbert says about his music: “My music is about energy, varying intensity, fragmented tunes, melody, drama, color, and expression. Melody and lyricism come most natural to me and from that come the passionate, free, sensitive, virtuosic, or rhapsodic spirit, which aims to communicate and speak to the listener. Energy is the fuel that drives my music, either it be calm, relentless, gentle, unhurried, or ready to explode. Fragmented abstract tunes bring out the scatting jazz man inside of me, and my use of harmony sets the overall colored tone for my music, utilizing modal elements, blues and jazz notes and chords, spiced with modernist dissonances, or from time to time you may hear harmonic stasis with nuance, which is my love to enjoy the moment—a respite from the chaos of life. I use these ideas, take them, alter them, or let them be, and form them into a human sonic expression.”

Always feeling the desire to produce concerts, Gilbert’s curatorial and production inclination has led him to co-found a multi-media music and arts series, NYsoundCircuit and become the artistic director of Random Access Music, a composer and performer collective. And now Gilbert produces a concert of his own music, presenting the works that express his musical statement.

ABOUT GILBERT GALINDO

Gilbert’s compositions offer the listener a kaleidoscope of textures, sounds, challenging harmonies, and crisp and vibrant melodies, providing a rewarding journey from the first notes to the last beat. Many are written for multi-combinations of instruments, solos, duets, trios, small ensembles to full-blown symphonic orchestral music, to the most personally poignant songs for voice and piano.

A native of west Texas, Gilbert Galindo’s music has been heard nationwide, at
diverse venues from The Green Mill in Chicago, the University of Wyoming Art Museum, to Symphony Space, Cornelia Street Café, and the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York City. His music has also been featured on festival programs at the American Composers Alliance Festival of American Music, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, the Etchings Festival of Contemporary Music, the New Frontiers Festival, Make Music New York, the Sonic Fusion Festival, and the Queens New Music Festival. He has also established
his presence across Europe in France, Germany, Italy, Scotland, and Switzerland. Additionally, his commissions include those from the Chicago Fine Arts Society, the

New Thread Quartet, the Lone Star Brass, and Project Infinity with further premieres and performances from the Bard Institute Orchestra, DuoSolo, the East Coast Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, ensemble mise-en, the Gotham Ensemble, Iktus Percussion, the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, the Midland Odessa Symphony, newEar, Parthenia, the Southwest Trio, Yung-Li Dance as well as pianists Amir Khosrowpour and Mabel Kwan, clarinetist Thomas Piercy, cellist Kate Dillingham, and tenor Ulises Solano, among others. His music has also been heard on WWFM Midday Classics and WQXR in New York.

Recently in February 2015, Gilbert Galindo’s cello and piano piece, “Almost within reach…” was released on a new album entitled, “Crossings: New Music for Cello” with cellist Kate Dillingham and pianist Amir Khosrowpour available on New Focus Recordings. Other recent activity has included “Ampelmännchen Stroll” for ensemble mise-en, “Not the light, but the fire that burns” for Iktus Percussion, “Perpetual Drive” for the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, and various works for Random Access Music. In previous years his chamber and club music were featured on the 21st Century Schizoid Music Series in New York, and his orchestral work, “Awakening—Inevitable” was featured in a documentary film entitled “Barbarossa and the Towers of Italy,” directed by Tony Schweikle. His awards and recognitions include: Composers Assistance Program grants from the the American Music Center and NewMusicUSA, a Van Lier Fellowship from Meet The Composer, two BMI Student Composer Awards, First Place in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Young Composers Contest, winner of Northwestern University’s first orchestral competition, the Cacavas Award, two awards from the Chicago Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Music Competition Contest, and Northwestern University’s William T. Faricy Award for Creative Music.

While at Northwestern University (BM) – where he studied with William Karlins, Augusta Read Thomas, Amnon Wolman, and Jay Alan Yim – he co-founded “EXPOSURE: musicians for new music.” Afterwards he received a degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music (MM) – studying with Margaret Brouwer and Zhou Long – where he served as the conductor and graduate assistant of the CIM New Music Ensemble. Additional studies include the Bard Conductors Institute as a conducting fellow and composer participant with Harold Farberman, and the Brevard Music Festival, studying with Donald Freund. In Germany, as a result of a full scholarship awarded to him by DAAD, he studied with Samuel Adler at the Freie Universität International Summer University Composition Course in Berlin, and privately with Jason Eckardt. Residing in New York, Gilbert is a Co- founder and Co-curator of NYsoundCircuit – an evening-length multimedia salon series of new music and visual arts showcasing the work of composers, ensembles, and artists (currently on hiatus) – as well as Artistic Director of Random Access Music, a composer and performer collective. His music is available from Cuicatl Publications (BMI).






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Original Ringtone

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For this donation amount, up to $99, you will receive an originally composed ringtone produced by Gilbert Galindo.
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Framed Handwritten Manuscript

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