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Music by Susie Ibarra at MoMA Summergarden 8/10/08 Print E-mail
Written by Ronaldo Oregano   
Monday, 04 August 2008
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Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra, percussionist and composer will perform her compositions at the MoMA Summergarden on Sunday, August 10th with a quartet featuring Jennifer Choi on violin, Bridget Kibbey on harp, Kathleen Supové on piano, and Susie Ibarra on drums and percussion. The concert begins at 8:00, and the gates will open at 7:00. This free event is   presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, and the Museum of Modern Art.

Susie Ibarra received a music diploma from Mannes College of Music and B.A. from Goddard College. Susie Ibarra studied Kulintang with Danongan Kalanduyan and drum set with Buster Smith, Vernel Fournier and Milford Graves. As a percussionist, she has performed southeast Asian gong music, jazz, avant-garde, improvised and solo concert works. She has performed with many great artists such as John Zorn, Dave Douglas Pauline Oliveros, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Sylvie Courvoisier, William Parker, Dr. L Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti, John Lindberg, Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Dresser, Thurston Moore, Savath and Savalas, Prefuse 73, Yo La Tengo, among others.
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Susie Ibarra


Susie Ibarra has taught across the U.S and attended. Artist Residencies including: The Walker Art Center, Mills College, Bard College, Swarthmore College, Fundacio Joan Miro, University of Michigan, Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, The New School. She was nominated "Best Drummer" in the Village Voice, Downbeat, Jazziz, The Wire.

She currently performs solo works and with Susie Ibarra Trio with Jennifer Choi & Craig Taborn; Mephista, collective electro-acoustic trio with Sylvie Couvoisier & Ikue Mori; Shapechanger with poet Yusef Komunyakaa; Mark Dresser & Susie Ibarra Duo; Mundo Ninos children’s music; and Filipino trance music, with Roberto Rodriguez, Electric Kulintang.

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Jennifer Choi
Violinist Jennifer Choi appears with some of the most innovative groups based in New York City today and has toured the U.S. and Europe extensively alongside the Susie Ibarra Trio, Fireworks New Music Ensemble, the Either/Or Ensemble, and the Sirius String Quartet.  She can be heard on over a dozen albums on TZADIK record label. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, her major teachers were Roland and Almita Vamos, Gregory Fulkerson, Dorothy DeLay, and Naoko Tanaka.  Jennifer performs on a 1770 Lorenzo Storioni which is featured in “The Late Cremonese Makers.”

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Bridget Kibbey
Harpist Bridget Kibbey has received such honors as an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Premier Prix at the International Chamber Music Competition of Arles, France (in collaboration with flutist Julietta Curenton), the Juilliard School Peter Mennin Prize for musical leadership and excellence, an American Harp Society Anne Adams Award, and a Mustard Seed Foundation Harvey Fellowship. She was a winner of Astral Artistic Services 2003 National auditions, and under their auspices, has been presented as soloist and chamber musician in Weill Hall, the Kimmel Center, and Merkin Hall. She appeared as featured soloist with the Haddonfield Symphony, the Juilliard Symphony, the Israel Youth Philharmonic, the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, America's Dream Chamber Artists, and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.

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Kathleen Supové © Robin Holland
Kathleen Supové is a hishly acclaimed and versatile contemporary music pianists. She regularly presents a series of solo concerts entitled The Exploding Piano, in which she has performed and premiered works by the world's leading composers as well as countless emerging ones. The Exploding Piano is a multimedia experience that employs theatrical elements, vocal rants, performance art, staging, electronics, and collaboration with artists from other disciplines. Kathleen has appeared with The Lincoln Center Festival, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Bang On a Can Marathon, Music at the Anthology, The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and other venues, ranging from concert halls to theatrical spaces to clubs. Her most recent CD is INFUSION, released on the International Classics label, which features music for solo piano and electronics. Other recordings can be found on the Tzadik, CRI, Innova, New World, Neuma, Bridge, Centaur, OO, and XI labels. Visit www.supove.com and myspace.com/supove for more information.


August 10, 2008: Music by Susie Ibarra
Garden Opens: 7:00pm
Concert: 8:00pm
Jennifer Choi, violin; Bridget Kibbey, harp; Kathleen Supové, piano and Susie Ibarra, drums and percussion.
Entrance to Summergarden is through the Sculpture Garden gate on West 54th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
(In the event of rain, concerts will be held in The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby, and the Museum's 54th Street entrance will open at 7:30 p.m.)
 
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