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Composer and percussionist Susie Ibarra releases a portrait album featuring solos, duets and trios with her new trio. Talking Gong with Claire Chase and Alex Peh will release in digital and limited edition vinyl formats on New Focus Recordings. Ibarra's work melds influences from her Filipina heritage with her uniquely virtuosic approach to the drum set and sound collage.
Saturday, February 6 at 5pm - Dream Festival opening and viewing/listening party celebrating the release of Susie Ibarra's Talking Gong (New Focus Recordings)
February 7-14 - Listening and dreaming Talking Gong full video viewing and listening with overnight dreaming. Contribute your dreams to The Big Dream dream sack. Url will be ministryofmaat.org/talking-gong
Susie Ibarra
Ione's 26th Annual Dream Festival
February 5 - March 31, 2021
THE BIG DREAM
Worldwide dream action theater including performances, virtual music and literary launchings, art exhibitions, round table discussions, citywide and international ephemeral and long-lasting dream events.
Announcing 2021 Visionary Awards Recipient
2021 First Commission
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Paloma Alonso
"2020"
Darian Donovan Thomas, violin
Shayna Dunkelman, percussion
Angélica Negrón, mentor
Paloma Alonso is a New York City native. She is 13 years old and attends the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School. Her parents, both classical concert pianists, were her first piano teachers. Alonso cites her Cuban father and Albanian mother as major inspirations for introducing her to music of all styles and genres. She began studying cello six years ago with Juilliard-trained teacher Yves Dharamraj and also pursues her passion for dance at the school of New York Theatre Ballet where she has trained rigorously since the age of four. Alonso joined the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Program in 2017. She commented that "This wonderful program opened a whole new world of expression to me. Composing is another tool that allows me to be expressive in a beautiful and artistic way". In December 2019, on a Young People's Concert, the Philharmonic performed Alonso's Sweating Bullets under the baton of its Music Director Jaap van Zweeden. The orchestral work was scheduled to be performed by the Philharmonic again in April of 2020 but, was unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.