Saturday January 21 * 7pm * TICKETS
Dubow/Eylam/Abramovski/Eidson
Isaac Dubow is a trumpet player and composer from Brooklyn, New York. He started playing classical violin at the age of 4 and switched to the trumpet in middle school. He has studied with some of the most prominent trumpet players in the world including Adam O’Farrill, John McNeil, and Ingrid Jensen. He is currently studying classical composition with Davide Ianni at the New England Conservatory. He has performed throughout New York and Boston with a wide range of artists including Zack O’Farrill, Joe Morris, Ted Reichman, Stephen Haynes, and many others.
Rotem Eylam is a guitar player, improviser and composer from Israel, who graduated with honors from the New School program in Israel and transferred to New England Conservatory. In the past two years Rotem has played in New York, Connecticut, Boston and Israel in creative music events with different improvisers such as Tony Malaby and other young improvisers and artists.
Mark Abramovski is an Israeli born, Boston based bass player, composer and improviser. Mark is currently pursuing a bachelor degree at New England Conservatory. He has studied with; Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Efstratis Minakakis and Cecil McBee. Mark performed with notable artists like Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, Francisco Mela, Anat Fort, Albert Beger, etc…
Ben Eidson is a saxophonist and laptop musician from Columbia, South Carolina currently pursuing a bachelor's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He has studied with John Mallia, Efstratios Minakakis, Clifford Leaman, and Joe Morris. He is an active performer and regularly plays throughout the North East, recently playing at the Catalytic Sound Festival in New Haven.
Wind Music for Movement - We perform chamber music from a world in which every peasant is an internationalist queen. Drawing from the wellspring of Great Black Music, Judaica, German Romanticism, and Post-Tonality, we seek to rejoin improvised music and dance in a ritual of ruach, to transform our spirit and yours into a better being. The practitioners of this medicine come from the practice rooms of conservatories, the ravaged wildlands of America, and the creative music community of Philadelphia. We converged on a small dance theater to find out what would happen, and have taken a liking to this thing we do. We are unheralded, but don’t worry, we brought our own horns and we ain’t afraid to toot ‘em. Below is the personnel listing for the present performance, subject to wild and out of control expansion....
Aaron Pond (Horn, Voice, Flutes, Percussion) facilitates Wind Music for Movement. He’s self-taught in tuvan throat singing, counter-tenor, and other extended techniques. Collectively-taught in judaica, free-improvisation, and environmental music. He’s a graduate of New College of Florida and presented research on the relationship of spirit possession to consonance/dissonance concepts at UPenn and Temple University. Aaron is presently an Artist in Residence at Mascher Space Cooperative and a writer for the Broad Street Review. Find out more at AaronPond.Com
Emmett Wilson (Movement) - All of Emmett’s work hinges upon harnessing the power of embarrassment and stewarding ecosystems in biological as well as psycho-spiritual ways. They grew up dancing in the Houston Met Dance studio, earned a BFA at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, was a Fellow at the Headlong Performance Institute and is now planted in Philadelphia.
Sonali Singh (Bassoon) Is a bassoonist and aspiring music therapist based in Philadelphia. Presently in school for their Masters in Music Therapy at Temple University, Sonali has previously studied Bassoon performance at the Peabody Institute and at Washington Adventist University. They are afraid of birds.
Jacobs/Jacques: alina jacobs - tenor sax; noa jacques - percussion, electric bass
CMW Players is a revolving evolving convolving collective of DC-area improvisers.