Director of Double Reed Studies at NYU Steinhardt
"MULTIPLE ONENESS", art and music layered and blended together in intriguing ways." - SARASOTA TRIBUTE (2012)
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"MULTIPLE
ONENESS", an intriguing performance art piece by the oboist Matt
Sullivan and painter Ken Cro-Ken." - THE NEW YORK TIMES (2011)
" ...the cutting edge." - THE NEW YORKER (1999)
"gorgeously lyrical playing." - THE NEW YORK TIMES (1994)
Matt is a performing Artist for Buffet Crampon and as
such,
plays exclusively on a Buffet Greenline oboe;
...an instrument that is in harmony with the environment.
* Further details about the Greenline on the homepage.
& CREATOR OF ARTS-IN-EDUCATION PROJECTS
From classical music to the avant-garde
english horn & oboe d'amore
Director of Double Reed at NYU Steinhardt
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MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN
NEW YORK TIMES - Music Review
(Published: February 22, 2011)
"Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences"
Ari Mintz for The New York Times
The painter Ken Cro-Ken, rear,
and the oboist Matt Sullivan presented their performance-art piece “Multiple Oneness.”
"The most unusual work I encountered was “Multiple Oneness,”
an intriguing performance-art piece by the oboist Matt Sullivan and the painter Ken Cro-Ken. While Mr. Sullivan played a melancholy lament over recorded sounds, Mr. Cro-Ken poured liquids onto a canvas projected onto a video screen. The colorful liquids flowed through the painting’s raised surfaces like yellow lava, swirling in strange tandem with the oboe’s melancholy tunes."
TO READ THE NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW CLICK HERE:
www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/arts/music/23now.html
* To hear more music from
Matt's up coming album:
"MULTIPLE ONENESS"
pls click below:
http://www.myspace.com/mattsullivanoboist
To hear some music from the historic
electro-acoustic trio- FirstAVEnue,
click on this link:
http://mattsullivan.org/FirstAVEnue-_Electro_Acoust.html
AVAILABLE NOW
A NEW REED MAKING DVD
MATT SULLIVAN - REED TALK
TOTAL TIME 56 MIN.
22 CHAPTERS
MATT LEADS YOU STEP BY STEP.
WITH EASY CHAPTER MARKERS
http://mattsullivan.org/Reed_Making.html
"The Cutting Edge" - THE NEW YORKER
Matt is a Performing Artist for Buffet Crampon and as such, plays exclusively on a Buffet Green Line oboe;
...an instrument that is in harmony
with the environment.
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM
- Celebrate Father's Day!
Queens Botanical Garden
"Making Music NY" - June 21st, 2012 6 pm
at Bleeker Playground (Bleeker & W. 11th St.)
12:30 pm Books of Wonder
3:00 pm Carl Schurz park
5:00 pm Bleecker Playground
6:00 pm Matt Sullivan
FOR MORE INFO.
PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK:
http://mattsullivan.org/Up_Coming_Events.html
RECENT EVENTS
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a time-released performance Matt Sullivan & Ken Cro-Ken Setting music and paint in motion. . Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 5:00PM |
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Random Access Music's
Queens New Music Festival Little Secret Theatre (Studio 104) 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens, NY. |
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Cosmos - Nature and Spirit Nature, outer-space, the sky, the human spirit and human interaction |
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RECENT T I M E R E L E A S E D PERFORMANCES
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INTRICATE SIMPLICITY
T I M E R E L E A S E D P E R F O R M A N C ES
Matt Sullivan & Ken Cro-Ken
Symphony Space, New York, N.Y.
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
composers of now
The Music of N0W
* Hosted by celebrated WQXR host
Terrance McKnight. *
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
followed by,
Matt Sullivan & Ken Cro-Ken
An exhilarating 8-hour marathon curated by Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky,
"a composer with an ear for
the new and interesting" - The New York Times
8:10 - 8:30 pm QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
8:50 - 9:20 pm QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
* 10:30 – 10:50 pm MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN
on Facebook and Twitter
AT SYMPHONY SPACE
PLEASE CLICK ON THE VIDEO LINK BELOW:
www.youtube.com/mattsullivanmusic ..........................................................
RECENT EVENTS
RECENT T I M E R E L E A S E D PERFORMANCES
MULTIPLE ONENESS
Longboat Key Center for the Arts
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Durante Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
PERFORMANCE: Friday, January 6th, 2012
SOLD OUT!
*EXHIBITION OF FOURTEEN PAINTNGS
Jan. 5th - Feb 24th, 2012
Here is the LIVE painting in "mid-launch"
January 6th around 7:15pm
"Cro-Ken, readied with the
projected live image of a preset textured and framed tabletop terrain on
the wall and paint colors in hand, commenced to pour the colors onto
his canvas. The audience watched the paint flow, eddy round the
contours, blend together and repeat. In much the same way, the live and
recorded oboe sequences looped, layered and blended together in intriguing ways."
-TAMPA BAY / SARASOTA TRIBUNE-
January 8, 2012
* please click on this link below to see
multiple oneness
live @ symphony space 02.21.11
> http://www.youtube.com/mattsullivanmusic <
and exhibition:
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Longboat Key Center for the Arts
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
SARASOTA, FLA
Friday, January 6th, 2012 8 pm
MULTIPLE ONENESS
with oboist, Matt Sullivan
and earthwork painter, Ken Cro-Ken
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Symphony Space
New York, N.Y.
Future dates to be announced.
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RECENT EVENTS
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* Please have a listen to a half hour radio talk
as Matt and Ken talk with Sedera Ranaivoarinosy
about MULTIPLE ONENESS and other
TIME RELEASED Performances
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On CITYWIDE 89.1 WNYU
New York, N.Y. (February 19, 2011)
http://citywidewnyu.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/matt-sullivan-and-ken-cro-ken/
and Composers' Forum of the East
Greenwall Auditorium,
Bennington College, Vt.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
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Concerto for Piano & Woodwind Quintet,
Op. 53 ... Wallingford Riegger
David Oei, piano Meighan Stoops, clarinet
Sue Ann Kahn, flute Matt on oboe,
Joeseph Anderer, horn
Lauren G. Stubbs, bassoon
Click below for summer schedule:
http://cmceast.org/concertsseminars.htm
To see a performance from last year:
(Matt Sullivan & Loue Pear)
http://www.youtube.com/user/mattsullivanmusic#p/a/u/1/fCms1C9fWHo
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C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival
Summer 2011
Susan Deaver, Festival Director
Dale Stuckenbruck, Assistant Director
The Pierrot Consort celebrate 30th Anniversary Season
The Pierrot Consort
The Faculty Ensemble-in-Residence
at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
Susan Deaver, flute; Dale Stuckenbruck, violin;
Veronica Salas, viola; Maureen Hynes, cello;
Heawon Kim,
piano
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 8 pm
Special Guest Artists: Matt Sullivan, oboe;
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at Eddie Adams Farm
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RECENT EVENTS
Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street,Flushing, NY
Special Guest Artist Gaudencio
& Thiago de Mello, organic percussion
Thiago de Mello
FOR MORE INFO. PLEASE GO TO THEIR WEBSITE:
http://www.quintet.org/concerts.html
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Distinguished Woodwind Faculty Concert
Esther Lamneck, Clarinet & Matt Sullivan, Oboe
Acoustic Instruments in Electronic Music
Thurs., February 17, 2011 8 pm
Frederick Loewe Theatre
NYU, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
AND MUSIC ARTS PROFESSIONAL
NY premiere Michael Matthews
Also, works by: Lars Graugaard,
Robert Rowe, KyongMee Choi
MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY PRESENTS:
THE NYU WOODWIND CHAMBER MUSIC
STUDENT CONCERT
KhromaTone 2
AUGUST 11th - Sept. 5th, 2010
OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE
MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN
LIGHT SHOW BY SCOTT ALGER
Curated by:
Belen Moreno-Bosch
&
Bart Sanchez
MANNAHATTA PROJECT
A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY
(MANNAHATTA- ISLAND OF MANY HILLS)
MUSIC, ART AND VIDEO COMMISSIONED BY
Performances by QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Video by composer Christopher Kaufman
Lecture and Power Point Presentation
by Ken Cro-Ken
and Dr. Eric Sanderson, author of "Mannahatta"
CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN was commissioned
to compose something specifically for the Mannahatta series;
and it has all come together wonderfully
with his innovative composition and video -
THE HUDSON VALLEY QUINTET
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QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
NYU SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010
http://oboematt.com/Quintet_of_the_Americas.html
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MULTIPLE ONENESS TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCES
KEN CRO-KEN'S SETS HIS "SPEED ELEMENT PALETTE INTO MOTION WHILE MATT SULLIVAN SAMPLES ACOUSTIC OBOE IN REAL TIME.
STUDIO @ 620
620 South First Avenue, St. Pete, Fla.
MARCH 14th -19th, 2010(Many thanks to Bob Devin Jones)
PREVIOUS EVENTS ALSO CONTAINED THERE.