Forecast Music
Presents:
NOSFERATU
Eric Schwartz’s music for the silent film Classic
Nosferatu
is a juxtaposition of a variety of elements: the spooky
sounds of a horror film score, the edgy, sophisticated
unpredictability of contemporary chamber music, and the
post-modern wackiness of experimental theater. In an ode to
the long-standing tradition of silent film, the score,
played by five musicians with additional electronics,
is performed as live accompaniment alongside screenings of
the film. However, this score acts not simply as audio
wallpaper, but as living, breathing, and occasionally
screaming commentary on the action on screen, the silent
film tradition, and the entire horror genre. Schwartz’s
Nosferatu
is as much a multi-media event as it is a film screening,
and provides an entirely new perspective on a wonderful old
film. This
Nosferatu
truly is
A Symphony of Horrors.
“ ...very,
very effective. The luxury of having some of our state's
finest musicians playing in the "pit" for this show made it
special enough to linger in the memory. – John Lambert,
Classical Voice NC 10/31/2010
Pictured
Artists include: Eric Schwartz, composer; Michael Burns,
bassoon; Carla Copeland-Burns, flute; John R. Beck,
percussion
Also: James Douglass, keyboard; Suzanne Rousso,
viola
Please click here for a downloadable PDF flier for
Forecast
Music presents Nosferatu. Includes fees and technical
requirements.
YouTube
Sampler Movie with live and
electro-acoustic music and still shots from
Nosferatu
Contact:
Eric Schwartz, Forecast Music schwartzmuzak@yahoo.com (212)
380-8494 Forecast Music led by composer Eric Schwartz is
a 501c3 nonprofit organization supporting cooperative
efforts between composers and performers dedicated to
creating new music in non-traditional spaces.
Artist Bios:
JOHN R. BECK, percussion, has been a member of the
faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the
Arts since 1998, and is a performer with the Winston-Salem
and Greensboro Symphony orchestras, Brass Band of Battle
Creek, and the Philidor Percussion Group. He is a former
member of the United States Marine Band and for 10 years
performed regularly with the National and Baltimore
Symphonies, Washington and Baltimore Operas, and the
Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Beck has
toured the United States as a xylophone soloist with the
Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band, Brass Band of Battle
Creek, and the New Sousa Band. He has served on the PAS
Education Committee, Board of Directors, NC Chapter
President, and has presented clinics at state Days of
Percussion, PASIC, Midwest, and MENC events. As an educator
Beck has also served on the faculties of the Universities
of Utah, Colorado, Nevada - Las Vegas, North Carolina -
Greensboro, and Florida State. His CD “Shared Spaces” is on
the Equilibrium label, and in 2000 his educational video
“Ensemble Techniques and Musicianship for Percussionists”
was distributed free to all high schools in North Carolina
through a state Arts Council Grant. http://faculty.uncsa.edu/music/beck/
MICHAEL BURNS, bassoon, is the bassoon professor
at the University of NC at Greensboro and a Yamaha
Performing Artist. His first solo CD Primavera: Music for
Bassoon and Piano by Bassoonists was released on the Mark
Masters label in 2009 to critical acclaim. He holds the BM
degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand, the MM from the New England Conservatory, and the
DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music. He has performed in numerous professional
orchestras including the Cincinnati and the New Zealand
Symphonies and played Principal in the Midland/Odessa,
Richmond and Abilene Symphonies and the Cincinnati Chamber
Orchestra. Currently Burns plays principal with the
Asheville Symphony, North Carolina Ballet and North
Carolina Opera as well as performing frequently with the
North Carolina and Greensboro Symphony Orchestras. Prior to
UNCG he taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory,
Indiana State University, and Midland College. He remains
active as a solo and chamber performer with numerous
recitals and master classes throughout North America,
Germany, China and the South Pacific, he is bassoonist in
the EastWind Ensemble, the Blue Mountain Ensemble, and the
Cascade Quintet. Burns has recorded for the Centaur, CAP,
Telarc, EMI, Klavier, and Mark labels. He is also an active
composer with many of his pieces being published by TrevCo
Music and frequently performed. He is archivist for the
International Double Reed Society and was co-host for the
IDRS 2003 Conference in Greensboro, NC. For more
information please visit: www.michaelburnsbassoon.com
CARLA COPELAND-BURNS, flute, currently enjoys an
active freelancing career with several ensembles including
the North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina Opera, and the
Carolina Ballet among others. She has performed over
300 concerts with the North Carolina Symphony, including
numerous appearances as Principal flute. Since 1995
Burns has served as Piccoloist for the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra, Principal Flute in the Salisbury Symphony, and
in the ongoing chamber ensembles Blue Mountain
(flute/bassoon) and the Cascade Wind Quintet, a North
Carolina Arts Council Touring Roster Ensemble. Burns
currently teaches flute at Radford University in Virginia
and coaches chamber music at the Chapel Hill Chamber Music
Workshop held at the University of North Carolina. She
previously served as Principal flute in the Midland-Odessa
Symphony and on the faculties of Indiana State University,
Mars Hill College, and the Cincinnati-College Conservatory
Preparatory Division. Burns holds the Bachelor of Music
with Honors from Florida State University, the Master of
Music in Flute Performance from the New England
Conservatory, and was a Doctoral Candidate in Flute
Performance from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) when she joined the
Midland-Odessa Symphony as Principal Flute. Burns has
recorded with ensembles on the Albany, Centaur, and Klavier
labels and has been heard on several editions of NPR’s
Performance Today. Her mentors include Nadine Asin, Jack
Wellbaum, Carol Wincenc, Lois Schaefer, Charles DeLaney and
Stephen Preston. www.carlacopelandburns.com
JAMES DOUGLASS, keyboard, is assistant professor
of collaborative piano and auditions coordinator for the
Accompanying and Chamber Music degree program at
UNC-Greensboro. He has been involved in diverse genres
including chamber music, vocal arts, opera, choral arts,
symphonic repertoire, jazz, cabaret, and musical theater.
He received the BM and MM in piano performance from the
University of Alabama and the DMA in collaborative piano
from the University of Southern California where he was a
student of Dr. Alan L. Smith; additional studies were with
collaborative pianists Anne Epperson and Martin Katz. While
at USC he received a Koldofsky Fellowship and the
Outstanding Keyboard Collaborative Arts award. Douglass has
served on the faculties of Mississippi College, Occidental
College LA, USC, and Middle Tennessee State University
where he was coordinator of the collaborative piano degree
program. In 2003 he began teaching in the summer study
program AIMS (American Institute of Musical Studies) in
Graz, Austria as the instructor of collaborative piano and
a coach in the lieder program with Harold Heiberg.
Performances as a collaborative pianist have included
recitals and television/radio broadcasts across the United
States and in Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Hungary);
in master classes given by artists Dawn Upshaw, Carol
Vaness, Vladimir Chernov, Norman Luboff, Paul Salamunovich,
Natalie Hinderas, Leon Bates. Douglass is an active
clinician and a recording with soprano Hope Koehler of John
Jacob Niles songs was released on the Albany label in 2008.
SUZANNE ROUSSO, viola, was trained at the
Curtis Institute of Music, The Eastman School and New
England Conservatory earning a Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees in viola performance. Some of her teachers included
Eugene Becker, Max Aronoff, Heidi Castleman and Walter
Trampler. From 1989-2001 Ms. Rousso was principal violist
of the Greensboro Symphony and performed regularly with the
North Carolina Symphony. Additionally she was a faculty
member and performer at Eastern Music Festival where she
also served as personnel manager. Ms Rousso was appointed
Director of Education for the North Carolina Symphony in
May 1999. In late 2006, she was appointed Director of
Operations and Education of the Portland (Maine) Symphony
and also performed as a member of the Vermont Symphony,
PortOpera, Opera Boston and the Portland Chamber Orchestra.
She returned from Maine to North Carolina in the summer of
2008 to become the Artistic Director of the Mallarmé
Chamber Players. She is also an active free-lance player in
the Triangle area, performing with groups like the Carolina
Ballet, Opera Company of NC, Choral Society of Durham and
the NC Symphony. She has recently become Vice President of
the Board for the American Federation of Musicians, Local
500. http://www.mallarmemusic.org/
ERIC SCHWARTZ, composer. Eric Schwartz studied
composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, New York
University, and both the Interlochen and Aspen Summer Music
Festivals. Past teachers have included Margaret Brouwer,
Donald Erb, George Tsontakis, and Randy Woolf. Primarily
interested in a synthesis of musical archetypes, Schwartz
is always at work on a variety of genre bending projects.
Formative influences include an amalgamation of the glam
metal of the late 80′s, and the baroque intellectualism of
Arnold Schoenberg. His music has been performed on five
continents, at venues ranging from Merkin Concert Hall in
NYC and the BMW Edge Theatre in Melbourne, Australia to
universities, coffee shops, gas stations, and bars of all
shapes and sizes. He has received awards and grants from
Meet the Composer, ASCAP, The Society for New Music, The
Puffin Foundation, The Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and The
Ohio Federation of College Music Clubs. Schwartz has served
on the faculties of New York University, Hunter College,
the Lucy Moses Music School, and most recently the
University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and is the
artistic director of the Winston-Salem, NC based
experimental music group Forecast Music. He was formerly a
Resident Composer for the Los Angeles based Tonoi
contemporary music ensemble, the Minnesota based Renegade
Ensemble, and NYC’s Vox Novus. His debut CD 24 Ways of
Looking at a Piano, named one of the top classical CDs of
2005 by All Music Guide, is available from Centaur Records.
His second solo album, OYOU will be available from CD Baby
in 2011. His music is also available on Signum Classics,
Capstone Records, Trace Label, and a host of others, and is
published by Staunch Music (UK) and Lovebird Music (US).
Following a wonderful, rewarding decade in NYC, Schwartz
has recently taken a position at the University of North
Carolina School for the Arts. He and his wife, graphic
designer Erin Raines, are now living in lovely
Winston-Salem, NC. www.ericschwartzcomposer.com