Paola Prestini talks with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson from Noted Endeavors about balancing her extensive professional demands with her home life, which includes a young child.
Paola Prestini is a composer/producer/entrepreneur/teacher who balances her own artistic endeavors while running several companies – VisionIntoArt and Original Music Workshop in Brooklyn. Her cross disciplinary projects, residencies, and collaborations bring disparate points of view together and redefine boundaries. She says, “I believe strongly in creating artistic communities and fostering new art,” and she is starting a new contemporary music label, VIA Records, which will present collaborations between composers and artists in different fields.
Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull are two remarkable flutists who have created Flutronix. The duo has been described by the Wall Street Journal as “a unique blend of classical music, hip-hop, electronic programming and soulful vocals.” Both are composers, producers and performers and have collaborated with an impressive range of artists. Flutronix music has been broadcast on popular radio stations around the world. They are regularly sought after as clinicians and educators by institutions like The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, and The University of Michigan. They’ve also been featured in TV segments on Telemundo, BK Live, The Daily Buzz and an internationally broadcast ESPN super bowl commercial as well as in a leading Japanese fashion magazine.
Hailed by the New York Times as “an interpretive dynamo,” conductor and cellist Eric Jacobsen has built a reputation for engaging audiences with innovative and collaborative programming projects. As co-founder and Music Director of the adventurous orchestra The Knights and a founding member of the dynamic string quartet Brooklyn Rider, he– along with his co-founder brother Colin Jacobsen– may take credit for helping to ensure “the future of classical music in America” (Los Angeles Times).
Members of eighth blackbird, one of the world’s most acclaimed new music ensembles, talk with Noted Endeavors about the patience and persistence required to get grants.
Flutist Valerie Coleman and bassoonist Monica Ellis of Imani Winds talk to Noted Endeavors about how Imani became the world-famous group it is today. The only full-time touring American wind quintet, they’ve been together for 17 years, and travel the globe giving concerts while also creating workshops, residencies and performing in special collaborations. With two member composers and their Legacy Commissioning program, Imani Winds is expanding wind quintet repertoire while meaningfully mixing traditional European and American music with that of their own African-American and Latin heritages. Dedicated to education and to mentoring talents of all ages, their summer chamber music festival is one of their most important projects.
