Thanks for coming out last weekend! We had a blast performing our 5th Annual Bach Concert and finally getting to share our new CD Modern Dances with you. Check out the write up on the Left Bank Art Blog.
Up next is our big performance of the year: Stockhausen’s “Tierkreis” on June 21. Visit our event page for details.
This Sunday, Con Vivo presents our 5th Annual Bach Concert! We’ve got a great program lined up, plus we will be officially releasing our Kickstarter funded album “Modern Dances”. We hope to see you there!
FREE – 5th Annual Bach Concert
Sunday, June 8 @ 7:30pm
Barrow Mansion – 83 Wayne St, Jersey City, NJ
Program:
JS Bach: Ergieße dich reichlich, du göttliche Quelle, from the cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5
JS Bach: Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008
JS Bach: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998
JS Bach: Sonata No. 2 in D major, BWV 1028
JS Bach: Trio Sonata in C major, BWV 1037
Performed by:
Amelia Hollander Ames – viola
Jing Li – cello
Dan Lippel – guitar
Zach Herchen – saxophone
Con Vivo is kicking off our 2014 Season in June!
Come enjoy FREE local chamber music events performed by world-class musicians:
June 8 – 5th Annual Bach Concert – solo/chamber works with guitar, cello, viola, and saxophone
June 21 – Stockhausen’s Tierkreis – an outdoor summer solstice event based on zodiac signs
June 29 – Solo, Duo, Trio – Con Vivo founder Amelia Hollander Ames and friends
July 23 – Groove on Grove – outdoors at the Grove PATH plaza!
Sept 20 – All About Downtown Street Fair – your favorite Newark Ave street fair
Sept 28 – New Thread Quartet – NYC’s premiere saxophone quartet
Oct 17 – Song Cycles – an evening of art song with bass-baritone with Joe Damon Chappel
Plus stay tuned for the release of our first CD in June!
We’ve got some great concerts in the works for 2014! While we finalize the details, here’s a few highlights:
June 21 – Stockhausen’s “Tierkreis” – based on the 12 zodiac signs and performed on the summer solstice
July 23 – Groove on Grove – we’ll be playing a solid 3 hour set at the Grove PATH plaza
Sept 20 – All About Downtown – we return to our favorite JC street fair
plus performances by New Thread Sax Quartet, POV trio, and more
Also, stay tuned for the release of our Kickstarter funded CD!
Over Labor Day weekend Con Vivo was hard at work laying down tracks for our CD project. Amelia Hollander Ames (viola), Mazz Swift (violin), Andrew Roitstein (bass), Nicholas Gallas (clarinet), Christa Robinson (oboe), Adrian Morejon (bassoon), Dan Lippel (guitar), and Martin Moretto (guitar) put in hours of hard work at L&I Studios. The album features all first recordings of music by John Altieri, Mazz Swift, Lembit Beecher, Dan Lippel, Martin Moretto, and Judd Greenstein.
We’ve got everything recorded now and are on to editing! Thanks to our Kickstarter donors for making this possible!
This week we finished our 2013 Mercado Park Series with a concert by vocalist Leala Cyr and guitarist Ricardo Vogt. Many thanks goes out to all of our performers this summer, HDSID for their continued support, and everyone to came to enjoy the music!
Stay tuned as we prepare to announce our 2013-2014 concert season.
We have a slightly different program for the Mercado Park show tonight, due to unexpected circumstances: Lealy Cyr (voice) will be joined by Ricardo Vogt (guitar). See you tonight!
Next Tuesday we finish our 2013 Mercado Park summer series with Jody Redhage (cello) and Leala Cyr (voice)! Jody and Leala perform together in a larger group called Rose and the Nightingale and are sure to bring some amazing music. We hope to see you there!
Jody Redhage (cello) and Leala Cyr (voice)
Tuesday Sept 3, 6-8pm
Mercado Park (intersection of Newark Ave and Jersey Ave)
Jersey City, NJ
FREE!
Thank you to Jersey City’s Historic Downtown Special Improvement District for their support.
I’m truly excited to be joining Con Vivo as the new artistic director! A bit about myself: I am a saxophonist specializing in new chamber music. I’ve lived in the NYC area for several years and perform with a variety of ensembles including New Thread Quartet, First Construction, Rhymes With Opera, Quiet City, and Emerging Voices Project. It’s a pleasure to join Con Vivo in it’s mission to provide free chamber music events!
Our previous director, Amelia Ames, is moving to the Boston area after years of hard work building Con Vivo. She will continue as a performing member while also providing advise and help with activities in other ways. Amelia has contributed a huge amount of work to make Con Vivo what it is today and we thank her for all that she has done!
Currently we are preparing our 2013-2014 program, which is shaping up to be great. We’ve also successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to record our first CD featuring all new music. Stayed tuned!
See you at our next concert,
Zach Herchen
A huge “Thank you!” goes out to our 135 backers who successfully funded the Con Vivo CD project on Kickstarter! We managed to pass our goal by almost $500, which is really going to help the project. Thanks for your support and we can’t wait to start working on this CD!