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"Live Concert with Sehnaoui/Sehnaoui"
Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Sehnaoui, Gene Coleman
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Event Date: Thursday, October 13, 2005
Location: Slought Foundation
Sound Field @ Slought Series
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Gene Coleman
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Please join us on Thursday, October 13, 2005 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for the Sound Field @ Slought series, featuring a live concert with Lebanese musicians Sharif Sehnaoui (e-guitar) and Christine Sehnaoui (alto sax), in trio with Gene Coleman (bass clarinet).
Sharif Sehnaoui was born in Beirut in 1976 and began studying classical piano at age 6, before focusing on drums and guitar. In 1996, he moved to Paris to study jazz improvisation. He is a founding member of Ivraie, an improvisation orchestra in residence at Instants Chavirés, as well as Topophonie, an association for public space performance. He has worked with Stéphane Rives, Mazen Kerbaj, Thierry Madiot, Franz Hautzinger and Le Quan Ninh. In 2000, he created the association ADMILL to promote and develop free improvisation and new music in Lebanon through IRTIJAL, a yearly international festival.
Christine Sehnaoui was born in Paris in 1978 with Lebanese ethnicity. She trained as a clarinettist, and after turning to free improvisation in 1997, now plays alto saxophone as well. She has performed with the ensemble “Motorchestra,” with “Ivraie” in residence at Instants Chavirés, as well as in various free improvisation groups in the Paris region. She has worked with the musicians Stéphane Rives, Quentin Dubost, Agnès Palier, Thomas Charmettant, Olivier Brisson, Sophie Agnel, Lê Quan Ninh, and Yannick Dauby, as well as Buto dancers Maki Watanabe and Gyohei Zaitsu. Since 2001, she has also contributed to the development of new music in Lebanon through IRTIJAL, a yearly international festival. She is also the curator of Rue24, a Beirut club for experimental music and artistic interaction.
Gene Coleman is a composer, musician and artistic director. He has created over 40 works for various instrumentation, often-using complex notations and improvisation in the same score. Coleman studied painting, music and filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1979 to 1984. His principle teachers included Robert Snyder (music) and Stan Brakhage (filmmaking). He also studied music composition privately with Ross Feller. He has been composer in residence at Spritzen Haus (Hamburg, November 1995), ASAP (Maine, August 2000 and 2001), The House of World Cultures (Berlin, 2003/2004) and the University of Lubeck (Germany, Feb. 2005). In the area of composition, he has four times received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, as well as grants from the NEA, Arts Midwest, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The American Composers Forum, The Asian Cultural Council and others. He has received commissions from Winifred Huan Dance Company, Trio Accanto, Klangforum Wien, The Renaissance Society, The International House of Japan, Trio AYA, Chicago Cultural Center, The Takefu Festival, HKW Berlin, Konzerthaus Wien, the Lucerne Festival and the Ernst Von Siemens Foundation.
In the area of improvised music, he has played in concert with many important musicians, including Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Roscoe Mitchell, William Parker, Taku Sugimoto, Kevin Drumm, Yuji Takahashi, Theo Bleckmann and many others. He has recorded with Jim O'Rourke and Mats Gustaffson for the Okka Disc label (1995), music by Anthony Braxton and Gulliermo Gregorio for the Hat Art label (1998) and three CDs for Leo Records with John Wolf Brennan (1999, 2000 and 2005). Coleman has also recorded and performed with the experimental rock group Gastr del Sol (1995/96), as well as several projects with Jim O'Rourke and the minimalist composer Tony Conrad. In 2004 the CD "Storobo Imp." was released -- a collection of improvisations with guitarist Uchihashi Kazuhisa on the False Walls label. He is currently working on CDs of his compositions for the German label GROB, which also released “Concert in St. Louis” (with Coleman, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M. and Franz Hautzinger) in October 2004. Gene Coleman is also known for his work as an artistic director of new music programs and festivals. He founded the new and experimental music festival "Sound Field" in Chicago in 2000 and is the artistic director. He was artistic director and guest composer for “Transonic”, an innovative festival about globalization and new music at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin in 2003 and 2004. In 1997 he organized a festival in Chicago of music by the German composer Helmut Lachenmann in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. Gene Coleman is the artistic director of "Ensemble Noamnesia", a new music group he founded in 1987. Under his direction, the group has worked with many well known composers, including Salvatore Sciarrino, George Crumb, Chao-Ming Tung, Luc Ferrari, Helmut Lachenmann, Roscoe Mitchell, Vinko Globokar, Yuji Takahashi, Otomo Yoshihide, Malcolm Goldstein, Burkhard Stangl, Karlheinz Essl, Gulliermo Gregorio, Gerhard Staebler, Kunsu Shim, Mathias Spahlinger and many others.
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Sharif Sehnaoui, et al. "Live Concert with Sehnaoui/Sehnaoui." Slought Foundation Online Content.
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