Improvisational Brass Performance
With Steve Parker, David Byrd-Marrow, and Sam Kulik
Friday, January 10, 7-8:30PM
FREE
Steve Parker’s solo exhibition, Futurist Listening, will be augmented by a series of performances, workshops, and screenings. The first performance, on January 10th, will feature Steve Parker (trombone) with David Byrd-Marrow (horn) and Sam Kulik (sousaphone & trombone), two of NYC's leading brass improvisers, who will activate sculptures in the gallery space and perform on brass instruments that have been prepared and manipulated with objects, fluids, and hoses. Audiences will be able to experience the performance acoustically or by wearing a limited number of acoustic locator headphones that are a part of the exhibition.
Steve Parker is an artist, musician, and curator who creates communal, democratic work to examine history, systems, and behavior. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Harrington Fellowship, and the Tito’s Prize. Parker has exhibited and performed at institutions, public spaces, and festivals internationally. Highlights include Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL; the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Lincoln Center Festival, New York, NY; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Fusebox Festival, Austin, TX; Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; inSIGHT, Los Angeles Philharmonic, CA; SXSW, Austin, TX; The Stone at the New School, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; the Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA; The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX; Bowerbird, Philadelphia, PA; and the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL. As a soloist and as an artist of NYC-based "new music dream team" Ensemble Signal, he has premiered more than 200 new works. Parker has been awarded support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New Music USA, the Copland Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Mid America Arts Alliance. He is the Curator of SoundSpace at the Blanton Museum of Art, Executive Director of Collide Arts, and a full-time faculty member at UT San Antonio. He holds degrees in Math and Music from Oberlin, Rice, and UT Austin.
Atlanta native David Byrd-Marrow is the Solo hornist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), a new music collective that performs internationally and serves as ensemble-in-residence at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Working with a uniquely wide range of performers, he has premiered works by Matthias Pintscher, Arthur Kampela, George Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Du Yun, Marcos Balter, Wang Lu, Kate Soper, Miguel Zenón, and Chick Corea. He frequently performs at festivals including the Ojai Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, and as faculty at the Banff Music Centre. Formerly a member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, he has also made appearances with the New York Philharmonic, The Knights, Decoda, the Atlanta and Tokyo symphony orchestras, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Washington National Opera and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed with artists ranging from Peter Evans to Paul Groves. He has recorded on many labels including Tundra, More Is More, Nonesuch, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, and Naxos. Mr. Byrd-Marrow received his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School and Master of Music from Stony Brook University. David is the Assistant Professor of Horn at the Lamont School of Music of The University of Denver.
Sam Kulik composes and improvises music that emphasizes creativity and idiosyncrasy. He is a member of the microtonal drone ensemble The Western Enisphere and the Americana quartet the Wild Goats. He recently collaborated with formerly homeless artists to write a cycle of new songs that were performed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. Service dogs are welcome. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single stall bathroom in the gallery. The space is not scent-free, but we do request that people attending come low-scent. The closest wheelchair accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square Station. If you have specific access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org or call 212.206.3583.