MATT SULLIVAN  -  Oboe,  English Horn

  Director of Double Reed Studies at NYU Steinhardt
Department of Music and Preforming Arts Professionals
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"...gorgeously lyrical playing"  -  THE NEW YORK TIMES  (1994)

"...the cutting edge"  -  THE NEW YORKER (1999)

"MULTIPLE ONENESS", an intriguing performance-art piece by the oboist Matt Sullivan
and the painter Ken Cro-Ken." -  THE NEW YORK TIMES   (2011)

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.

MATT SULLIVAN
PERFORMER, TEACHER, COMPOSER, IMPROVISER,
&
CREATOR OF ARTS-IN-EDUCATION PROJECTS

From classical music to the avant-garde

Acoustic & Electronic: oboe,
english horn
& oboe d'amore

  Director of Double Reed at NYU Steinhardt
Department of Music and Preforming Arts Professionals

PLAYING NOW:
  Matt's signature piece-
"OH BOY!"

(From the FirstAVenue album- "SHREDS OF EVIDENCE")





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MULTIPLE ONENESS
MATT SULLIVAN & KEN CRO-KEN



NEW YORK TIMES - Music Review   

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
(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 see this performance please click on this link below:

http://www.youtube.com/mattsullivanmusic

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

TO MAKING DEPENDABLE OBOE REEDS
TOTAL TIME 56 MIN.
22 CHAPTERS

MATT LEADS YOU STEP BY STEP.
WITH EASY CHAPTER MARKERS


* FOR MORE INFO. PLS CLICK ON THIS LINK:
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.


Created in 1994, the Green Line series of instruments has taken advantage of the excess wood remaining from the clarinet manufacturing process. This process of combining grenadilla powder with carbon fibers produces an oboe that is greatly resistant to environmental change and helps to relieve stress on the African grenadilla wood population. 

For more info. please click on the link below:
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CONTACT MATT DIRECTLY BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK:
MattSullivanNYC@aol.com



UP COMING EVENTS


MULTIPLE ONENESS

with oboist, Matt Sullivan

and earthwork painter, Ken Cro-Ken



 

January 5th, 2012

Longboat Key, Art Center

Sarasota, Fla.


February 4th, 2012

Symphony Space

New York, N.Y.

&

February 5th, 2012

Mahaiwe Theatre,

Great Barrington, Mass.


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

.

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/


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The Chamber Music Conference
and Composers' Forum of the East
Greenwall Auditorium,
Bennington College, Vt.

Saturday, August 6, 2011
.


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, violaMaureen 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

QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS



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


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MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY PRESENTS:



THE NYU WOODWIND CHAMBER MUSIC
STUDENT CONCERT


RECENT EVENTS:

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

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MANNAHATTA PROJECT
A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY

(MANNAHATTA- ISLAND OF MANY HILLS)


MUSIC, ART AND VIDEO COMMISSIONED BY


April - June 2010
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.