AJ, UŽ JE RÁNO!
Jiří Kadeřábek, Jesse A. Greenberg and SYBARITE5
May 26, 2010 , 7 pm, Free
A collaboration between Czech composer & performer Jiří Kadeřábek, New York-based string ensemble SYBARITE5 and visual artist Jesse Greenberg. Based on the extraordinarily rich Moravian folk music and poetry, this original multimedia performance is a manifesto of a human purity and a close relationship to nature.
Full of music, blending folk, jazz, classical and contemporary, as well as imaginative visual elements.
Jiri Kaderabek received prizes in the Zenith Composers Competition (2009), International Cimbalom Festival Composition (2008), Czech Radio Composition Competition (2006), Generace Composition Competition (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), he also won the Dean of the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Award (2006), became a finalist of the Musica Nova International Composition Competition (2008) and was nominated for the Gideon Klein Award (2006).
His works have been commissioned and performed throughout Europe and USA. He collaborated with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hradec Králové Symphony Orchestra, North Czech Philharmony Teplice, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmony Zlín, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, National Theater in Prague and ensembles such as Fourbythree, Fama Quartet, Rainbow Quartet, Ensemble Martinů, Ensemble Calliopée, Ensemble MoEns and the Intrasonus Ensemble.
In his current work various compositional approaches are confronted, often principles or fragments of historical music as well as pop, rock and jazz are incorporated. He also works with recorded nonmusical sounds, integrated in the musical structure, and often uses various theatrical elements. He himself considers his pieces „as polygons with internal side mirrors that make it possible to look at each side again and again but always from a different perspective.“ Recently he even integrates himself in performances of his works, whether as a singer or pianist.
"SYBARITE5 is a New York–based group of gifted young string musicians who have gained a reputation for juxtaposing the likes of Stravinsky with Radiohead, or Dvorák with Led Zeppelin. But that doesn't even begin to describe the range of their eclecticism or the depth of their repertoire." - Greg Cahill, Strings Magazine
SYBARITE5 has recently appeared on the CBS Early show, for his Holiness the Dali Lama, and numerous times at the Aspen Music Festival. In Manhattan they have performed at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Center, the Museum of Sex, Tishman Auditorium, the Core Club, the Cell Theatre, and the Cutting Room.
