MP3 Flexible Music - FM

Debut album by critically acclaimed, New York City based high-energy new music quartet of saxophone, guitar, piano, and percussion.

6 MP3 Songs in this album (59:20) !
Related styles: CLASSICAL: Contemporary, AVANT GARDE: Classical Avant-Garde

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Details:
Flexible Music is:
Haruka Fujii: percussion
Dan Lippel: guitars
Tim Ruedeman: saxophones
Eric Huebner: piano

ââ¦Flexible Music, a NYC-based ensemble that gleefully bounces among classical, jazz and rock sensibilities.
Philadelphia City Paper, November 2008

âThis was my first encounter with Flexible Music, but it certainly won't be my last. Each player was estimable in his or her own right; together, they provided a broad canvas upon which tonight's composers could unfurl their imaginations.â
Steve Smith, Night after Night Blog (Music Reviewer for NY Times and Time Out NY)

âOrianna Webb's Sustenance Variations for Flexible Music, a quartet of percussion, piano, saxophones, and guitar, is exciting, even in the still passages, and entirely convincing.â American Record Guide, March/April 2008

"When a group of talented and passionate young musicians commit to 21st century composers, itâs always a cause for rejoicing, and such a group is Flexible Music. Even Flexible Musicâs unique configuration of piano, sax, guitar, and percussion says ânowâ with its instrumentation referencing rock, jazz, and the avant-garde among other things. The composers were very well served by Flexible Music, whose individual mastery of their instruments was matched by the strength of their communication. With intelligence and energy in equal measure, they worked wonders as a group, whether creating glowing resonant combinations, interlocking rhythmic lines, or just thrashing away together."
David Hanlon, CultureBot.org


The six year old Flexible Music ensemble is committed to expanding the repertoire for their instrumentation of saxophone, guitar, piano, and percussion. The versatility of this combination has already captured the attention of many composers; Flexible Music premiered works written for them by thirty emerging and established composers. Flexible Music has been featured in performance and in masterclasses at various universities including Syracuse University, Bowdoin College in Maine, Bowling Green State Universityâs Mid American Center for New Music Festival, the Peabody Insitute, Manhattan School of Music, Brigham Young University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Utah, the Julliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. The group has also enthusiastically performed on independently run series, such as Chamber Music Now (Philadelphia), Friends and Enemies of New Music (NY), Evolution Music Series (Baltimore), Wet Ink Musics (NY) and at The Stone (NYC), The members of Flexible Music are four of New Yorkâs most active young performers; they have all been heard as soloists and chamber musicians nationally and internationally. The ensemble is heard on two recent releases from New Focus Recordings, FM, their debut full length recording, and Sustenance, playing two of the works written for them, as well as on a Capstone Records release of the music of Allen Brings. Several foundations have awarded money to support activities involving Flexible Music, including the American Music Centerâs Aaron Copland Fund for Performing Ensembles, Meet the Composerâs JP Morgan Regrant Program, American Composers Forum Encore Grant, Barlow Foundation (to commission Ethan Wickman), the Mikhashoff Trust for New Music (to fund a recording), and Meet the Composer (to defray travel costs for Adam B. Silverman).

Flexible Music is:
Haruka Fujii: percussion
Dan Lippel: guitars
Tim Ruedeman: saxophones
Eric Huebner: piano