Guest Artist Recital: Eric and Mary Ross Ultimedia Concept Featuring Works for Theremin, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 1, 2011 — The California State University (CSU), Stanislaus College of the Arts Department of Music presents a Guest Artist Recital: Eric and Mary Ross Ultimedia Concept featuring works for Theremin on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
The performance will take place in the Bernell and Flora Snider Music Recital Hall, located at One University Circle in Turlock. Tickets are $11 general admission, and $8 for seniors, military, students and CSU faculty and staff. Tickets are available online at www.csustan.edu/COA. Proceeds benefit Department of Music programs.
Parking is free for this event only in Lot #3. See University website for maps and directions at www.csustan.edu/directories/maps. More information is available by contacting the College of the Arts at (209) 667-3959 or coa@csustan.edu.
All events and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. Tickets are subject to availability.
About the guest artists:
Eric Ross “has excited audiences with his fiery virtuosity and innovative work" - Washington Post. He's presented concerts of his original works at Lincoln Center, NYC; Kennedy Center, Newport, North Sea, Berlin and Montreux Jazz Festivals, Copenhagen, Prague New Music Festivals Guggenheim-Bilbao Museum among others worldwide. He performs on guitar, keyboards and is a Master of the Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments. For over twenty years he's led his ensemble that's featured jazz giants, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell,Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, New Music Virtuosos Youseff Yancy, Lydia Kavina, Robert Dick, and others. The New York Times calls his music "a unique blend of classical, jazz, serial and avant-garde."
Ross began playing the Theremin in 1975, and has performed on radio, film and TV. He's written an Overture for 14 Theremins playing simultaneously, and gave the world premiere of Percy Grainger's Free Music No.1 in New York City in 1997. Since 1976, with his wife, Mary Ross, he's presented multimedia performances with video, music, dance, film and computer art. He's also played with blues legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Last year, he was guest artist on the No.1 Best-Selling CD album in Japan, Aqi Fzono's Cosmology. Eric Ross was a friend of Theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, and electronics pioneer Robert Moog. In 1991, he met and played for the inventor of the instrument, Professor Lev Termen. He's drawn inspiration from them to continue developing the Theremin as a voice in his own compositions.
Mary Ross is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In 1976, she began using video and computers to produce still images on film. As one of the first fine art photographers to do so, her images provide some of the earliest examples of how photography, video and computer technology converged in the 1970's, emerged in the 1980's, and eventually evolved into digital photography.
Since then Her video and computer generated still photographs and video art have been featured in hundreds of multimedia performances she's produced in collaboration with composer/performer Eric Ross, various musicians and dancers. She has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Kunsthaus, Zurich; International Polaroid Collection; Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; King's Library, Copenhagen, Bibliothèque Nationale; Paris and the Lincoln Center Library Dance Collection in New York City.
The CSU Stanislaus College of the Arts is your ticket to excellence in higher arts education. Gifted and talented faculty who comprise the departments of Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts bring their collective backgrounds and international experience to the classroom, studio, and stage. These exceptional artists and dedicated teachers understand the interrelationship of the arts and its relevance to our society. For more information, go to: www.csustan.edu/COA
Nov. 1, 2011 — The California State University (CSU), Stanislaus College of the Arts Department of Music presents a Guest Artist Recital: Eric and Mary Ross Ultimedia Concept featuring works for Theremin on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m.
The performance will take place in the Bernell and Flora Snider Music Recital Hall, located at One University Circle in Turlock. Tickets are $11 general admission, and $8 for seniors, military, students and CSU faculty and staff. Tickets are available online at www.csustan.edu/COA. Proceeds benefit Department of Music programs.
Parking is free for this event only in Lot #3. See University website for maps and directions at www.csustan.edu/directories/maps. More information is available by contacting the College of the Arts at (209) 667-3959 or coa@csustan.edu.
All events and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. Tickets are subject to availability.
About the guest artists:
Eric Ross “has excited audiences with his fiery virtuosity and innovative work" - Washington Post. He's presented concerts of his original works at Lincoln Center, NYC; Kennedy Center, Newport, North Sea, Berlin and Montreux Jazz Festivals, Copenhagen, Prague New Music Festivals Guggenheim-Bilbao Museum among others worldwide. He performs on guitar, keyboards and is a Master of the Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments. For over twenty years he's led his ensemble that's featured jazz giants, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell,Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, New Music Virtuosos Youseff Yancy, Lydia Kavina, Robert Dick, and others. The New York Times calls his music "a unique blend of classical, jazz, serial and avant-garde."
Ross began playing the Theremin in 1975, and has performed on radio, film and TV. He's written an Overture for 14 Theremins playing simultaneously, and gave the world premiere of Percy Grainger's Free Music No.1 in New York City in 1997. Since 1976, with his wife, Mary Ross, he's presented multimedia performances with video, music, dance, film and computer art. He's also played with blues legends Champion Jack Dupree, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Last year, he was guest artist on the No.1 Best-Selling CD album in Japan, Aqi Fzono's Cosmology. Eric Ross was a friend of Theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, and electronics pioneer Robert Moog. In 1991, he met and played for the inventor of the instrument, Professor Lev Termen. He's drawn inspiration from them to continue developing the Theremin as a voice in his own compositions.
Mary Ross is a fine art photographer and visual artist. In 1976, she began using video and computers to produce still images on film. As one of the first fine art photographers to do so, her images provide some of the earliest examples of how photography, video and computer technology converged in the 1970's, emerged in the 1980's, and eventually evolved into digital photography.
Since then Her video and computer generated still photographs and video art have been featured in hundreds of multimedia performances she's produced in collaboration with composer/performer Eric Ross, various musicians and dancers. She has exhibited extensively at galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Kunsthaus, Zurich; International Polaroid Collection; Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; King's Library, Copenhagen, Bibliothèque Nationale; Paris and the Lincoln Center Library Dance Collection in New York City.
The CSU Stanislaus College of the Arts is your ticket to excellence in higher arts education. Gifted and talented faculty who comprise the departments of Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts bring their collective backgrounds and international experience to the classroom, studio, and stage. These exceptional artists and dedicated teachers understand the interrelationship of the arts and its relevance to our society. For more information, go to: www.csustan.edu/COA