New Hampshire Bass Festival, 2015
Dr. Ryan Ford
Double Bassist and Music Educator
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New Hampshire Bass Festival
Composer Anthony Cornicello conducts his jazz-inspired chamber work for voice, small ensemble, and electronics. Composed in 2008, the piece uses six poems from A Coney Island of the Mind by American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Cornicello is Professor of Music at Eastern Connecticut State University. Presented in conjunction with Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland.
Coney Island of the Mind, performed at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT on May 17, 2015. Performers:
Spencer Hamlin, Tenor
Stacy Dzuik, Clarinet, Tenor Sax
Peter Jarvis, Percussion, Drums
Dan Hartington, Electric Guitar
Michael Shiano, Accordion, Kalimba
Ryan Ford, Double Bass
Anthony Cornicello, Conductor, Electronics
Texts by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Composer’s Circle recently did a write up on Composer Ryan Jesperson and featured Ryan Ford’s performance of BA(da)SS.
BA(da)SS, composed by Ryan Jesperson and played by Ryan Ford, was played on July 29, 2014 on WRUV, a radio station based out of Burlington VT.
Hints and Hauntings (Pixilerations) from Kirsten Volness on Vimeo.
performed by Ryan Ford
Pixilerations/FirstWorks Festival, September 23, 2011, Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI
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Performed at PIXILERATIONS [v.8] new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). PIXILERATIONS investigates the state of new media arts through installations, performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival (first-works.org), a multidimensional performing arts festival in Providence each fall. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism. Now in its eighth year, Pixilerations is one of the foremost venues for new media artwork in New England.
Percussion Park is a full length musical landscape composed by Hartt faculty member and recipient of the 2011 Hartt Alumni Award, David Macbride. The audience is invited to roam the building to enjoy the music, and to participate in a meditative finale (percussion instruments provided).
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