Malcolm Peyton Composer Residency Concert

Artist(s)

Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone
Ikue Mori, laptop

Sara Serpa, voice
Lilit Hartunian, violin
Philip Rawlinson, viola
Stephen Marotto, cello
Kris Davis, Yukiko Takagi, piano

Guest composers: Ingrid Laubrock and Ikue Mori

Ingrid Laubrock is an experimental saxophonist and composer, interested in exploring the borders between musical realms and creating multi-layered, dense and often evocative sound worlds. A prolific composer, Laubrock was named a “true visionary” by pianist and The Kennedy Center's artistic director Jason Moran, and a “fully committed saxophonist and visionary" by the New Yorker. Her composition Vogelfrei was nominated 'one of the best 25 Classical tracks of 2018' by The New York Times.
     She worked with: Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richards Abrams, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran, Tim Berne, William Parker, Tom Rainey, Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn, Andy Milne, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain, The Continuum Ensemble, Wet Ink and many others.
     Her awards include the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation in 2004, a Fellowship in Jazz Composition by the Arts Foundation in 2006, the 2009 SWR German Radio Jazz Prize, the 2014 German Record Critics Quarterly Award, Downbeat Annual Critics Poll Rising Star Soprano Saxophone (2015) , Rising Star Tenor Saxophone (2018) and Herb Alpert/Ragdale Prize in Composition 2019.
     Ingrid Laubrock has received composing commissions by The Fromm Music Foundation, BBC Glasgow Symphony orchestra, Bang on The Can, Grossman Ensemble, The Shifting Foundation, The Robert D. Bielecki Foundation, The Jerwood Foundation, American Composers Orchestra, Tricentric Foundation, SWR New Jazz Meeting, The Jazz Gallery Commissioning Series, NYSCA, Wet Ink, John Zorn's Stone Commissioning Series and the EOS Orchestra. She is a recipient of the 2019 Herb Alpert Ragdale Prize in Music Composition and the 2021 Berklee Institute of Gender Justice Women Composers Collection Grant.
     Ingrid Laubrock is part time faculty at The New School and Columbia University. Other teaching experiences include improvisation workshops at Towson University, CalArts, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Baruch College, University of Michigan, University of Newcastle and many others. Laubrock was Improviser in Residence 2012 in the German city Moers. The post is created to introduce creative music into the city throughout the year. As part of this she led a regular improvisation ensemble and taught sound workshops in elementary schools.


from Ikue Mori:
I was born in 1953, raised in Tokyo and moved to New York in 1977. Soon after, I started playing drums and formed the experimental no wave band called DNA with Arto Lindsay. In the mid 80s John Zorn introduced me to the NY downtown-improvising scene, and I began performing using drum-machines, a very unlikely choice in the context of improvised music, forging my own unique approach. Since then I have collaborated with numerous musicians in diverse genres and styles throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, while continuing to produce and record my own compositions.
     I received the award for Prix Ars Electronics Digital Music in 1999. Shortly after I started using a laptop computer to expand my vocabulary, not only playing sounds but creating and controlling images. I received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2006, and Tate Modern commissioned me to create a live sound track for screenings of Maya Deren's silent films in 2007. Recent commissioners include the Montalvo Arts Center and SWR German radio program where I produced and recorded the all female ensemble “Phantom Orchard Orchestra” with co-writer Zeena Parkins and was commissioned for a remaking of traditional Tarab music at Shajah Art foundation in UAE. I continue to perform live concerts and release albums and recently collaborated to compose and perform music for “Moving off land” by Joan Jonas. I received the Instant Award in improvised music for 2019 and a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 2022.  Workshops/lectures in various schools include University of Gothenburg, Dartmouth College, New England Conservatory, Mills College, Stanford University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago