ERIC ROSS, American composer, is featured artist at John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC, June 8, 2002, in a multimedia concert of his music with video and computer art by his wife, Mary Ross.

ERIC ROSS premiered his Concerto at Lincoln Center. He's performed concerts of his works at Newport Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switz, & Berlin Jazz Festivals, Brussels Palais des Beaux Arts, Copenhagen New Music Festival, and Gilmore International Keyboard Festival among many others worldwide. For over twenty years he's led his ensemble that's featured jazz giants, John Abercrombie, Larry Coryell, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, New Music Virtuosos, Youseff Yancy, Lydia Kavina, Robert Dick and others. He performs on piano, guitar, synthesizers, and is a master of the Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments. This year he's released two new CDs, "Live at Berlin JazzFest" and "Mars2Earth". The New York Times calls his music "a unique blend of classical, jazz, serial and avant-garde."

MARY ROSS - has worked with photography, video and computer art since 1976. She's received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, and others. She's exhibited at major galleries and museums in New York, Paris, London and Tokyo. Her work has been published in "Modern Photography", "Videography","British Annual Journal of Photography, and is in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque National, Paris; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Royal Library, Copenhagen, and the Lincoln Center Library for Dance. She is currently writing her second book on "Pioneering Digital Photography".

http://www.geocities.com/theremin_eross

New CDs

Ty'ava Music ER-105. http://www.geocities.com/theremin_eross

"Mars2Earth" -Red Planet - Eric Ross with Philly jazz master, Byard Lancaster; downtown composer Vito Ricci; and improv percussionist Toshi Makihara. "Music from the heart of outer space to the funkiest downtown"_ Sedgewick Arts, Phila.Pa.

Dreamboxmedia/Buried Man Records DMJ-1053 http://www.dreamboxmedia.com

"Deborah Thurlow-"I Am" - Modern French hornist, Deborah Thurlow ; guitar/synthist-Clive Smith with Eric Ross, composer/soloist - electronics and Theremin live and in the studio. "virtuoso theremin playing from Eric Ross"-Red Ludwig.

Capstone Records CPS-8695. http://www.capstonerecords.org

for a recent review see http://www.redludwig.com/reviews

Berlin Workshop Orchestra - Leiter Eric Ross

Eric Ross Piano, Gitarre, Electronics, theremin
Antonio Palesano Trompete
Jörg Huke Posaune, Electronics
Iven Hausmann Posaune
Christian Weidner Altsaxophon
Thomas Walter Tenor, Sopransaxophon
Daniel Mattar Stimme
Simon Stockhausen Synthesizer
John Schröder Gitarre
Gerold Genßler Bass
Alfred Mehnert Percussion
Wolfram Dix Schlagzeug
Hanno Liechtmann Schlagzeug
Mary Ross-video synthesis

Eric Ross hat mit seiner Multimedia-Performance aus der Kombination akustischer und visueller Mittel eine ebenso außergewöhnliche wie zeitgemäße künstlerische Ausdrucksform entwickelt, bei der Bilder und Musik völlig gleichberechtigt nebeneinander stehen. Der innovationsfreudige Künstler präsentiert mit der Berliner Workshopband, welche vor einigen Jahren mit dem Gastleiter Keith Tippett ihre Arbeit begann, eine Performance bei der elektronische und akustische Musik auf der einen - und Synthese aus bearbeiteten Videobändern, Standbildern und computergestützter Kunst auf der anderen Seite - zu einer Einheit zusammenfließen. Der Multiinstrumentalist und Komponist Eric Ross benutzt Synthesizer, Klavier und Gitarre. Außerdem ist er einer der zeitgenössischen Komponisten, die das Theremin, eines der ältesten und ausdrucksstärksten elektronischen Instrumente einsetzt.

Organisation und Realisation: agentur kreative musik - Iven Hausmann

Tontechnische Realisation: Bühnentechnik - Konzertbeschallung Andreas Görig

Wir danken der WABE, Radio Kultur und der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur für die freundliche Unterstützung.

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