Jessica Pavone

events

Date Event Name description recording
September 29, 2011 Jessica Pavone - Hope Dawson is Missing (Jerome Foundation Commission) / Magda Mayas & Tony Buck

$15 General Admission
$10 Members/Students/Seniors

Hope Dawson is Missing is the follow-up to violinist/violist/composer Jessica Pavone's 2009 Tzadik release, Songs of Synastry and Solitude. Lyrics meditate on plutonian themes of destruction and rebuilding, migration, falsities, and undeniable truths. Pavone augments the Toomai string quartet's format from...
November 10, 2009 Jessica Pavone: Songs of Synastry and Solitude CD Release Concert This concert celebrates Tzadik\'s release of Songs of Synastry and Solitude; a collection of songs for string quartet influenced by an interest in the simple beauty of folk songs, the ghosts of all things lost and Leonard Cohen\'s encouragement to live outside this world.

As a composer, Pavone has earned...
August 4, 2008 Ches Smith & Devin Hoff (Good for Cows) w/ Mary Halverson, Jessica Pavone Zs Good for Cows began as a duo in 1999 when Devin Hoff (string bass) and Ches Smith (drums) would meet regularly to work on musical ideas from a rhythm section\'s perspective. At first the two focused on creative interpretations of jazz compositions, particularly the music of Thelonious Monk, Ornette...
May 19, 2006 Matana Roberts Saxophonist/composer Matana Roberts presents CoinCoin:Installation 1, the first performance of her in-progress musical narrative, which explores the defining moments of one people’s shared history using the traditions of jazz- and improvisation-inspired music. Through original compositions and various ensemble configurations, Roberts pulls together tales from 7 generations and 4 continents of...
December 6, 2005 Mary Halvorson & Jessica Pavone Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone have been collaborating for over three years to create a unique body of duo music. The pair combines lush melodies with textural improvisation and jagged rhythms to create concise, enigmatic musical episodes. Their collaboration utilizes a variety of timbres, achieved through amplification and electronic effects...
April 21, 2005 James Fei Two Projects with Live Electronics: The collaborative duo with Kato Hideki employs analog devices in various unstable configurations, also coupling them to the room through microphonic feedback and acoustic interference at low frequencies. Proun Space, a work for two violins (Maja Cerar & Jessica Pavone) and live electronics (oscillators and...