“SECOND SUNDAYS” PROGRAM FOR JUNE 2010 MUSIC IN THE GARDEN SERIES KICK-OFF WITH FLORENT GHYS
Sunday, June 13, 2010 (All day)
Department:
Public Programs
This summer, Bang on a Can and The Noguchi Museum co-present Music in the Garden, an innovative performance series held in the Museum’s celebrated sculpture garden. The series opens with French avant-pop composer-bassist Florent Ghys.
Composer and double-bass player Florent Ghys was born in Lyon in 1979 and grew up in Bordeaux, where he wrote his first pieces in 1993, while a member of a rock band. He studied music at Bordeaux University and the Bordeaux Conservatory, earning a masters degree in ethnomusicology with a focus on Arabic music, and studied double bass in Paris with Thiery Barbé. He has also participated in composition master-classes in the United States and Italy.
As a composer, Mr. Ghys works in a style situated between contemporary and pop, creating tonal masses with or without pulsation. His compositions have been compared to American minimalist music.
In January 2010, Cantaloupe Music released Baroque Tardif: Soli, an EP of Mr. Ghys’s home-recorded, multi-tracked music that combines minimalism, modern classical, and indie pop.
With its unparalleled musical sensibility, award-winning recordings, and far-ranging commissioning programs, Bang on a Can is one of the world’s best recognized and most powerful ambassadors for contemporary music.
Founded in 1987, the group commissions, performs, creates, presents, and records, striving to expose new audiences worldwide to exciting and innovative music.
Cantaloupe Music is the celebrated record label created in 2001 by the founders of Bang on a Can, composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, along with the group’s managing director, Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe’s goal is to further the mission of Bang on a Can, and to provide a home for “music that slips between the cracks.”
