Brunch @ Caffeine Underground
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Edith Lettner and Diana Wayburn present newly composed music based in African, classical music and jazz traditions for brunch @ Caffeine Underground in Bushwick.
The program includes "Procession" and "Takosabar" both composed by Diana Wayburn at the beginning of 2020 and both based on West African traditional rhythms.
Edith Lettner will be presenting an original composition, "Serenity" a haunting ballad with a syncopated rhythm moving from minor to major colors.
Both composers are using improvisation to develop their pieces in the tradition of jazz music.
Edith Lettner will be performing on alto saxophone and the dudek and Diana Wayburn will be performing on cello and percussion.
Announcing 2020 Visionary Awards Recipient
2020 First Commission
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Ilaria Loisa Hawley
Quando L'acqua riflette (When the Water Reflects)
Performed by Face The Music
Isabella Caurucci, flute
Yusei Hata, melodica
Oriana Hawley, viola
John Waller, triangle
Vasudevan Panicker, coach
Born in 2009, Ilaria Loisa Hawley is the recipient of a 2019 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the inaugural recipient of Claire Chase's Pnea Foundation Young Flutist Award. Ilaria's music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic and Face the Music, and she is a composition student of Mathew Fuerst and a flute student of Zara Lawler. She attends PS 314 Muscota New School and enjoys drawing, drama, reading, rock climbing, and making earrings.