10/21/2024
Early / Modern - The Current Sounds of Gate Hill Cooperative
Saturday, November 23 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $25/ seniors & students $20
Christa Patton, historical harpist and early wind specialist, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Japan with many of today’s premier early music ensembles including the Boston Camerata, Folger Consort and Newberry Consort. She is also the director of the Baroque Opera Workshop at Queens College, focusing on period-specific performance practice of 17th century musical drama.
Taiwanese harpsichordist Hsuan-Wen Chen moved to the Land with her family in 2014. She loves being both a performer and an educator, currently serving on the faculty at Montclair State University where she leads Collegium Musicum and teaches harpsichord and chamber music. Every summer, she takes on the role of co-director for Baroque Academy at Amherst Early Music Festival where she loves connecting with musicians from around the globe.
As a performer Dr. Jason Priset regularly travels around the United States and abroad, and has performed with a variety of different organizations and venues. This includes the Scottish Rite Temple in Miami, Florida, the Museu de la Música in Barcelona, Spain, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. And as a Director, Priset has organized and executed the Lute Society of America Festival, served on faculty and staff for Amherst Early Music, and has been the musical director for various concerts including the Collegium Musicum at Montclair State University.
Working at the juncture of multiple disciplines, Eleonor Sandresky is a composer, artist, inventor of the Wonder Suit, a wearable wireless sensor system that triggers electronic events, producer of film with live orchestra concerts, co-founder of the MATA Festival, and performing member of the Philip Glass Ensemble family since 1991. Eleonor’s music has been featured in film and on radio, and is available on Koch International, Sony, Orange Mountain Music, ERM Media, and Albany Record labels.
Jesse Lee is a songwriter, producer and musician originally from Fresno, California. Primarily a drummer, he started playing in bands at age 11, and came up in the local Central California music scene, comprised of genres as diverse as Ska, Jazz and Punk Rock. Since moving to New York in 2001, he has collaborated and shared the stage with the likes of Rusty Santos, White Magic, Gang Gang Dance, The Chapin Sisters, Cass McCombs and Model Child among many others.
This concert in is conjunction with the exhibit The Land: Early Artists @ Gate Hill Co-op on view @ RoCA October 19-November 23, 2024.
