Director of Double Reed Studies at NYU Steinhardt
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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)
Up Coming Events
MATT SULLIVAN, electro.acoustic oboe LIVE
MULTIPLE ONENESS - Track 1
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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.
Music Marathon 4 - 11pm
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
composers of now
The Music of N0W
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* Hosted by celebrated WQXR host Terrance McKnight. *
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Approximately 8 pm
Matt Sullivan & Ken Cro-Ken
Approximately 10 pm
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
(Schedule details below.)
APPROXIMATE TIMES:
4:20 - 4:40 pm NICK GALLAS and CHESTER HOWARD
4:45 - 5:10 pm PEGGY CAMPMEIER with LAURIE SMUKLER and ALAN KAY
7:00 - 7:15 pm THEO BLECKMANN
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
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MULTIPLE ONENESS
T I M E R E L E A S E D P E R F O R M A N C ES
NEW YORK TIMES - MUSIC REVIEW (BELOW)
(Published: February 22, 2011)
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER"Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences"
Ari Mintz for The New York Times
TO SEE THIS TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE FILMED LIVE
please click on this link below:
http://www.youtube.com/mattsullivanmusic
&
*PREMIERE OF A NEW COMPOSTION
By, LAURA KAMINSKY
January 5th, 2012 Longboat Key,
Center for the Arts
Sarasota, Fla.
The Music of Now MUSIC MARATHON: February 4th & 5th, 2012
February 4th, 2012 Symphony Space
New York, N.Y.
&
February 5th, 2012 Mahaiwe Theatre,
Great Barrington, Mass.
NEW YORK TIMES - MUSIC REVIEW
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 THE TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE 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 PERFORMANCE
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 STILL GOING ON!
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 TRIBUNE-
January 8, 2012
* please click on this link below to see
multiple oneness
live @ symphony space 02.21.11
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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,
A TIME RELEASED PERFORMANCE
MATT SULLIVAN / KEN CRO-KEN
Longboat Key
Center for the Arts
SARASOTA, FLA
Friday, January 6th, 2012 8 pm
* World Premiere of composer, Laura Kaminsky's "HORIZON LINES"
performed by Matt Sullivan on oboe with bassoon and piano.
* Open Forum with Matt Sullivan, Laura Kaminsky, Rebecca Allan & Ken Cro-Ken
* 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/
The Chamber Music Conference
and Composers' Forum of the East
Greenwall Auditorium, Bennington College, Vt.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011 8 pm
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 & Bassist, Lou Pear)
http://www.youtube.com/user/mattsullivanmusic#p/a/u/1/fCms1C9fWHo
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C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival Summer 2011
July 11 - July 29, 2011
Susan Deaver, Festival Director
Dale Stuckenbruck, Assistant Director
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
Hillwood Recital Hall
Special Guest Artist: Matt Sullivan, oboe
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts | 720 Northern Boulevard, Greenvale, NY 11548-1300
FOR MORE INFO. & TICKETS:
http://www.tillescenter.org/event.cfm?id=681
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TEA TIME CONCERTS
.Eddie Adams Farm
The Tea Time Concert with the WORLD PREMIERE
of Andrew Waggoner's ,commissioned by WCM,
Andy will hold court with a pre-concert talk at 4pm, and
is sure to talk about his colorful work and more on the program.
Chamber music fans will not want to miss Ravel’s virtuosic Piano Trio - "...widely regarded as a technical masterpiece" - as performed by the extraordinary pianist Tannis Gibson, violinist Sunghae Anna Lim and cellist Caroline Stinson. Harpsichordist/pianist Kenneth Hamrick, flutist Judith Pearce and oboist Matt Sullivan round out the roster,
FOR MORE INFO. & TICKETS:
http://www.wcmconcerts.org/pages/concerts.html
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RECENT EVENTS:
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Queens Botanical Garden
Sunday,
June 26, 2011
43-50 Main Street,Flushing, NY
Special Guest Artist
Thiago de Mello, organic percussion
FOR MORE INFO. PLEASE GO TO THEIR WEBSITE:
http://www.quintet.org/concerts.html
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RECENT EVENTS
The Music of Now MUSIC MARATHON
@ symphonyspaceA T I M E R E L E A S E D P E R F O R M A N C E
NEW YORK TIMES - MUSIC REVIEW
(Published: February 22, 2011)
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER"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."
FOR MORE INFO. PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK:
MATT SULLIVAN, oboe
KEN CRO-KEN earthwork painter, videographer
Music and activated paints, set in motion
Monday, Feb. 21st, 2011
Approximate time slots:
9:00 pm
The second annual MUSIC OF NOW MARATHON features a special 85th birthday tribute to Gunther Schuller performed by Ensemble Pi, the US debut of Ireland's Fidelio Trio performing works by Charles Wuorinen and Evan Ziporyn, new songs from Errollyn Wallen, visual musical collaboration as performances by Matt Sullivan on oboe with live electronics are accompanied by live painting from artist Ken Cro-Ken, also jazz pianist Gustavo Casenave accompanied by Vicky Barrangue. Also featured is the Cassatt Quartet joined by Ursula Oppens, and appearances by composers Joan Tower, Huang Ruo, Tania Leon, David Del Tredici, and Amir El Saffar, among others. Lively conversation punctuates the day.
symphony space
(Broadway at 95th Street)
http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6470-the-music-of-now
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Distinguished Woodwind Faculty Concert
Esther Lamneck, Clarinet and Matt Sullivan, Oboe
Acoustic Instruments in Electronic Music
Thursday, February 17, 2011 8 pm
NYU, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC AND MUSIC ARTS PROFESSIONAL
Frederick Loewe Theatre - 35 West 4th Street, NEW YORK, N.Y.
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Quintet of the Americas
For their 2011 schedule,
please click on the tab BELOW
PARK-ART Performance Space and Studio
(Fall 2010 Dates - T.B.A.)
SOME EVENTS, INCLUDING EVENTS AT PARK-ART
(on Park Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets)
WHERE STUDENTS PLAY FOR HEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY:
PARK-ART GALLERY, STUDIO & PERFORMANCE SPACE
PROUDLY PRESENTS:
Classical, Avant Garde, Contemporary Music
and Lectures on the Creative/Visual Arts.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE BUT SEATING IS LIMITED.
Email Matt Sullivan for up coming dates.
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND GALLERY
15 East 27th Street, New York, N Y
(just west of Madison Ave.)
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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WEEKEND OF CHAMBER MUSIC SUMMER 2010
Artistic Director, Judith Pearce
http://www.wcmconcerts.org/index.html
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The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra Matt Sullivan, Solo performance of Mozart's Oboe Concerto October 25, 2009 The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce its 2009-2010 season under the baton of Artistic Director Nicholas Armstrong. The orchestra
will join together to perform free concerts of classical, romantic, and
20th-century works at St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn Heights, in addition
to concerts of smaller ensembles throughout the borough. |
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THE MANAHATTA PROJECT
HUDSON VALLEY QUINTET
A presentation combining Live Performance, Sound Design,
Film and Speech.
MUSIC BY CHRISTOPHER KAUFMAN, VIDEO BY KEN CRO-KEN
Commissioned by: QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
In this season of music, for which HUDSON VALLEY QUINTET serves as 'flagship', the Quintet of the Americas is Celebrating their 30th Anniversary. The concept of seasons, i.e. environmental issues, is conceived in concert with the Wildlife Conservations Society's 'Mannahatta Project'
June 21 -27, 2009
PERFORMANCE by QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Friday, June 26 at 7:30pm to 8:45 pm
Where: Loewe Auditorium, NYU
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - FREE
July 19 to August 16, 2009
PARK-ART GALLERY, STUDIO & PERFORMANCE SPACE
Future performances T.B.A.
Co-Curated by:
Matt Sullivan, oboist, Ken Cro-Ken, environmental painter;
for NYU woodwind students, colleagues and others.
