The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is celebrating National Chamber Music Month and will present Fireworks Ensemble as part of a nationwide initiative to raise public awareness of the many styles of small ensemble music performed today, including early, classical, jazz, and world music.
Fireworks Ensemble is an amplified chamber band that presents a contemporary American vision of chamber music. Their repertoire encompasses a range of styles, including Frank Zappa’s instrumental rock, traditional Americana, classic cartoon music, ambient techno, and 20th-century orchestral scores. This concert, supported in part by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, features David Ozab’s A Fork in the Road, Scott Johnson’s Pact, John Mayrose’s Monophony, and David Kechley’s Mixed Messages: Variations on a Fragment. The Ensemble consists of Brian Coughlin on bass, Oren Fader on guitar, Elizabeth Janzen on flute, James Johnston on piano, Esther Noh on violin, Erin Rogers on saxophone, Jared Soldiviero on percussion, and Leigh Stuart on cello.
