Erika Dohi performs Brilliant Spinding Sonic Velocities from Piano Pieces by Wadada Leo Smith, world premiered at BLUEPRINTS Piano Series 'Cosmology' concert on May 27, 2017. Throughout the 20th century but even as far back as the French Baroque period, certain composers have expressed an extreme interest in cosmology (the stars, the planets, our place within the vast cosmos, and how music might connect us to other-worldly realms). From the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau to the mystic theosophist Alexander Scriabin, avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, jazz visionary Sun Ra and living improviser-composers Wadada Leo Smith and Jonathan Ragonese, this program explored sounds and forms that deliver us far from our Earth. BLUEPRINTS is a series that unites pianists from different musical genres for eclectic concerts that present traditional classical music alongside contemporary works (including premieres), jazz and free improvisation. These unusually varied programs are each inspired by an aesthetic theme, or blueprint. The blueprints tie seemingly unrelated works together; we hope our series does the same for pianists, allowing a diverse group of musicians, who might otherwise never meet, to share its expressive identities. Our goal is to establish a community of pianists, and show how works of very different musical contexts may be fundamentally related. wadadaleosmith.com erikadohi.com blueprintspianoseries.com

Erika Dohi performs at BLUEPRINTS Piano Series 'Ships of Theseus' concert on May 20th, 2018 at The Jazz Gallery This concert explores the idea of a transcription, and works or improvisations that are based on pre-existing themes, styles, and aesthetics: what’s added, what’s lost, and what remains of the original? The program ranges from a transcription of Franz Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade by Franz Liszt to original transcriptions of Ysayë by Jeremy Jordan, of Shostakovich by Fabian Almazan, and of Chopin and Mozart by John Stetch. This program also includes an improvisation by Kris Davis, and a newly commissioned work (world premiere) by Davis based on the late Cecil Taylor’s tune Abyss. BLUEPRINTS is a series that unites pianists from different musical genres for eclectic concerts that present traditional classical music alongside contemporary works (including premieres), jazz and free improvisation. These unusually varied programs are each inspired by an aesthetic theme, or blueprint. The blueprints tie seemingly unrelated works together; we hope our series does the same for pianists, allowing a diverse group of musicians, who might otherwise never meet, to share its expressive identities. Our goal is to establish a community of pianists, and show how works of very different musical contexts may be fundamentally related. erikadohi.com krisdavis.net www.blueprintspianoseries.com audio/video by Joseph Branciforte

Erika Dohi: Piano Quintet by Michael Patterson feat. Mivos Quartet Recorded live at Barocksaal in Kyoto, Japan October 2013 Erika Dohi - Piano Olivia de Prato - Violin Josh Modney - Violin Victor Lowrie Tafoya- Viola Mariel Roberts- Cello

free improvisation by Erika Dohi at Tenri Cultural Institute in Oct, 2016. erikadohi.com Audio by Joe Patrych www.patrych.com Video by Simon Yu www.simonyuproduction.com

Brad Linde opening the show The core of BIG OL' plays Jonathan Taylor's "Elation Celebration".

Erika Dohi performs 'Per' from Robert Honstein's 'Grand Tour' at Tenri Cultural Institute in New York in October 2016. Robert Honstein www.roberthonstein.com Erika Dohi www.erikadohi.com Audio by Joe Patrych www.patrych.com Video by Simon Yu www.simonyuproduction.com Celebrated for his “roiling, insistent orchestral figuration” (New York Times) and “glittery, percussive pieces” (Toronto Globe and Mail), composer Robert Honstein (b. 1980) is a composer of orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. Robert’s music has been performed by leading orchestras, ensembles around the country including the American Composers Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, eighth blackbird, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble ACJW, the Mivos Quartet, the Del Sol Quartet, the Deviant Septet, Present Music, New Morse Code, TIGUE, Concert Black, and the Sebastians among others. He has received awards, grants and recognition from Carnegie Hall, Copland House, the New York Youth Symphony, ASCAP, the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, New Music USA, and the League of American Orchestras. His work has been featured at numerous festivals including the The Tanglewood Music Center, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Bang on a Can Summer Institute, and the Bowling Green New Music Festival. He has also received residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Copland House, and I-Park. Robert is a founding member of the New York based composer collective Sleeping Giant, a group of “five talented guys” (The New Yorker) that are “rapidly gaining notice for their daring innovations, stylistic range and acute attention to instrumental nuance” (WQXR). Recent seasons have seen collaborations with Ensemble ACJW and the Deviant Septet. For the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons Sleeping Giant are composers in residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra as part of New Music USA’s Music Alive program. Robert co-founded Fast Forward Austin, an annual marathon new music festival in Austin, TX. Described as “the first ever classical music event in Austin to make its own beer koozies” (Austin American Statesmen), Fast Forward Austin features local and national, cutting-edge artists in a “welcomingly relaxed venue… [that] tapped into what is so great about the Austin vibe: a community of people who are artistically curious, non- doctrinaire, and unpretentious” (NewMusicBox). Upcoming projects include commissions from the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Third Angle, and Hub New Music. His debut album RE: You was released by New Focus Recordings in 2014 and his second album, Night Scenes from the Ospedale, a collaboration with the Sebastians, was released on Soundspells Productions in 2015. In April 2016, Hand Eye, Sleeping Giant’s evening length collaboration with eighth blackbird, will be released on Cedille Records.

For more information, RighteousGIRLS.com RighteousGIRLS Gina Izzo - flute Erika Dohi - piano featuring Andy Akiho - steelpan composed by Andy Akiho "KARakurENAI" score copyright and published by Aki Rhythm Press video by Simon C.F. Yu mixed and master by Joseph Brranciforte filmed at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater

NO one To kNOW one, by Andy Akiho Fay Wang | soprano Gina Izzo | flute Isabel Kim | clarinet Jeffrey Zeigler | cello Erika Dohi | piano Candy Chiu | vibraphone Ian David Rosenbaum | percussion Andy Akiho | steel pan For more on this piece and album, visit: http://www.andyakiho.com iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/no-one-to-know-one/id428078621 --- VF Gear Used: #vfVKB2 - VicKick Beaters™ (Wood) http://www.vicfirth.com/product/buynow/product.php?button=VKB2 #vfM146 - Aluminum Orchestral Series http://www.vicfirth.com/product/buynow/product.php?button=M146 #vfSD1 - American Custom® SD1 General http://www.vicfirth.com/product/buynow/product.php?button=SD1 #vfTG08 - Tom Gauger -- Staccato http://www.vicfirth.com/product/buynow/product.php?button=TG08 --- ABOUT THE PIECE: NO one To kNOW one was commissioned by The Newman Center for the Performing Arts for the Mile High Voltage Festival. It was premiered by the Playground, directed by Conrad Kehn, on February 18, 2010 in Denver, CO. This recording was engineered by Greg DiCrosta at Firehouse 12 in June, 2010. It features Fay Wang, Soprano; Nicole Camacho, Flute; Inhyung Hwang, Clarinets; Mariel Roberts, Cello; Tiffany Kuo, Piano; Ian Rosenbaum, Percussion; Candy Chiu, Vibraphone; and Andy Akiho, Steel Pan. ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Andy Akiho was born in 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina and now resides in New York. His musical interests run from steel pan to traditional classical music. Akiho's debut CD No One To Know One, on Innova Records, features brilliantly crafted compositions that pose intricate rhythms and exotic timbres around his primary instrument, the steel pan. Recent engagements include commissioned premieres by the New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT! series and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, a performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and three concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His rhythmic compositions have been recognized with awards including the 2014-15 Luciano Berio Rome Prize, the 2014 American Composers Orchestra Underwood Emerging Composers Commission, a 2014 Chamber Music Grant with the Friction Quartet and Jenny Q. Chai, a 2012 Chamber Music America Grant with Sybarite5, the 2011 Finale & ensemble eighth blackbird National Composition Competition Grand Prize, the 2012 Carlsbad Composer Competition Commission for the Calder Quartet, the 2011 Woods Chandler Memorial Prize (Yale School of Music), a 2011 Music Alumni Award (YSM), the 2010 Horatio Parker Award (YSM), three ASCAP Plus Awards, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and a 2008 Brian M. Israel Prize. Akiho is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (BM, performance), the Manhattan School of Music (MM, contemporary performance), and the Yale School of Music (MM, composition). He is pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Princeton University, and is currently Composer-in-Residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. His compositions have been featured on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and by organizations such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and The Society for New Music. To read more about Andy and listen to his music, please visit andyakiho.com -- FOLLOW US! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicfirth.company Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicfirth Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicfirth