CREATIVE DIFFERENCES presents
RICHARD TEITELBAUM - PIANO,KEYBOARD & ELECTRONICS
SATURDAY 11 APRIL @ 8PM
@ AN DIE MUSIK LIVE
409 N.Charles St Baltimore MD
Tel 410 385 2638
www.andiemusiklive.com
TICKETS ARE $20
Richard Teitelbaum has been active as a composer and performer for more than forty years, both in this country and abroad. In the mid-sixties he brought the first Moog synthesizer to Europe and helped to found the early live electronic music group Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) in Rome with Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curran and others. A four CD set covering forty years of MEV performances was recently released on New World Records.
In 1970 Teitelbaum returned to the United States to found the World Band, one of the first intercultural improvisation groups, with traditional musicians in the World Music Program at Wesleyan University. Continuing this interest, in 1976-77 he spent a year studying traditional Japanese music in Tokyo, composing Blends for the shakuhachi, synthesizers and percussion for his teacher, the master player Katsuya Yokoyama. The CD of this piece on New Albion Records was named one of the ten best classical recordings of 2002 by The Wire Magazine of London.
Among his many works are two operas dealing with Jewish mystical expressions of redemptive hopes: Golem: An Interactive Opera (1989), and his ongoing project Z’vi (2002-), based on the true story of the 17th Century “Jewish-Moslem” Messiah Sabbatai Z’vi, which has been performed at Bard College’s Fisher Center, the Venice Biennale and the Center for Jewish History in New York.
He has received numerous grants and awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica from the Austrian Radio and Television, two Fulbrights and a Guggenheim, and composed commissioned works for pianists Aki Takahaski, Ursula Oppens and others. He has also maintained long-standing collaborations with leading jazz musicians such as Anthony Braxton and George Lewis, Andrew Cyrille and the late Steve LacyTeitelbaum has performed his music at the Berlin Jazz Festival in Philharmonic Hall, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Tanglewood Music CenterBuenos Aires, the VI International Festival of Electroacoustic Music in Havana, Super Deluxe in Tokyo and in many others venues throughout the world.
In 2008 his performances included collaborations with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Dia Beacon Museum in New York, a duo performance with Anthony Braxton at the All Frontiers Festival in Italy and appearances at the New Albion Records Festival at Bard College and the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival. Currently he is working on a new work commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation, for instruments and computer to be premiered by the Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Hall in New York City on June 1st. Plans for the fall include performances in New York with John Zorn, George Lewis, Susie Ibarra, Min Xiao Fen, Milford Graves, Fred Frith and others.
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Teitelbaum is a professor of music at Bard College, where he has been teaching for more than twenty years.
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