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NFO album update and sneak peak

Hi friends,

between these last busy months of performing and composing, the NFO have put in a tremendous amount of work on our first full length rock orchestra album.  This has been no small feat for a band whose members are taking auditions with the New York Philharmonic, playing with groups like Alarm Will Sound and Ensemble Signal, playing festivals all over North and South America and constantly traveling between different countries and states on musical errands. Finding time to get everyone in the same city (let alone the same room) this summer has been one of the exciting challenges of running this group. But these are the things that make having a rock orchestra fun, right? Especially when you find those few magic days you’re all in the same city at exactly the same time.

On this album you can expect some old favorites, like a new recording of my “Madam I Have Seen Guns, and You are Not One” (the one that got us attention from the BBC a few years ago) and new songs like “The Place You Go Before You Die,” not to mention a few others we’ve never even performed live yet!

We’re very excited about this album, most of which we’ve recorded in our drummer Jeremy’s Flatbush home studio. This album has been quite a project, You can hear a sneak peak from “Place You Go…” here while we polish it off and finish the last few songs.

I hope you enjoy it, and we can’t wait to play it for you.

Noam

Juventas new music ensemble to perform “Tango for Quintet”

Hello Boston friend, the Boston-based Juventas new music ensemble will perform my “Tango for Quintet,” written for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and piano.

February 12, 2011, 8:00 p.m., The Boston Conservatory, Seully Hall

8 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02115

Also featuring works by Ian Dicke, Keane Southard and Baljinder Sekhon.

For tickets, go here

Upcoming NYC performances.

If you live in or near NYC, I hope you can come to one of the upcoming performances of my some of music. It’s been nice to have my music performed (or to perform myself) at NYC venues like Le Poisson Rouge, Roulette and 25CPW galleries, Sullivan Hall and the Theater for the New City during the Lower East Side Festival. The next two performances include my first at two of NYC’s most important art spaces for new music: Galapagos art space and the Tank.

On January 18th, my rock orchestra the NFO will perform an acoustic set with our folk-pop friends The Relatives at the Tank.

On January 21st members of the DETOUR collective’s chamber orchestra will perform my new quintet for string trio, piano and French horn at Galapagos. This concert was listed on WQXR’s top five upcoming new music concerts in NYC for the new year (read more here).

Other composers on this concert include Seth Bedford, Jeremy Howard Beck, Tom Swafford, Brian Mark, Ben Brody, Theodore Hine and Jeffrey Parola.

We hope you can catch one of these performances. Keep an eye out for more info on performances in the upcoming months by Boston’s Juventas ensemble, London’s Ligeti quartet and my main composer’s collective Circles and Lines in NYC, as well as more performances by my rock orchestra in NYC and the debut of the UK version of the ensemble in the near future.

If you like what you hear make sure you join the facebook fan pages for the Noam Faingold Orchestra and Circles and Lines.

My music featured on WQXR’s Q2 new music podcast

New York City’s classical music radio station WQXR has decided to feature my composer’s collective Circles and Lines on their new music podcast this week. You can hear one of my pieces from our September concert at Le Poisson Rouge, along with those of the other composers from the collective, Angelica Negron, Conrad Winslow, Eric Lemmon and Dylan Glatthorn, and our guest composers from that night Pedro da Silva and Lucia Caruso.

Thanks to Justyna Jara and Susanna Mendlow for a brilliant performance of my duet! My piece is first on the podcast:

http://www.wqxr.org/articles/q2-live-concerts/2010/oct/27/circles-lines/

Circles and Lines at Le Poisson Rouge, May 2nd

If you missed the premiere of my new quintet written for the Transit new music ensemble, you can catch it again at the Circles and Lines May 2nd show. The concert also includes performances by the Iktus Percussion quartet, members of the NFO and others at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge. The concert will also feature works by  the collective’s other composers Angelica Negron, Conrad Winslow, Eric Lemmon and Dylan Glatthorn.

tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance here.

You can hear an excerpt of the quintet on the “listen” page.

Noam Faingold Orchestra at Cafe Orwell in Brooklyn

The rock orchestra will be playing at Cafe Orwell alongside Sxip Shirey (Luniscent Orchestrii) and Louise Eckhardt in a show bound to be full of intimate gypsy-middle-eastern-pop-folk orchestral fury. This show is curate by Valerie Kuehne.

247 Varet St in Bushwick
(between White St & Bogart St)
Brooklyn, NY 11206

OK Mozart Festival – Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey premiere my arrangements and orchestration of Beethoven’s 3rd and 6th Symphonies with Bartlesville Symphony (OK)

Join Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and myself June 12, 2010 in Bartlesville, OK at the OK Mozart Festival for their headlining performance of Beethoven’s 3rd and 6th symphonies, re-arranged and re-orchestrated for the jazz quartet, with orchestral accompaniment. In this version, the quartet gets the main melodic material, while being backed by a Beethoven era-sized orchestra. Tons of research has been going into this project to get at the heart of the music and stay faithful to Beethoven’s intentions, while allowing the quartet to modernize the sound and even work in some improvisation! The arrangements have received input from the quartet, as well as previous JFJO bass player Reed Mathis.

NYC vs. Argentina!

I am currently working on a new piece for the Transit New Music ensemble, based in NYC. The group has an ongoing double bill concert series in which they feature the music of half up-and-coming composers from NYC and the other half from some other part of the world. The concert, “NYC vs. Argentina” will feature young composers with ties to that country, and I also have the honor of curating the Argentinean side of the program. More news on concert specifics as they come in!