About this project
"yMusic - a scruffy-ish band of young musicians of illustrious artistry but little individual celebrity. Their contributions are well-known—these guys and girls have toured and recorded with the likes of the Arcade Fire, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Jonsi and Grizzly Bear. Some graduated from Juilliard, others have played Carnegie Hall. You hear them on your favorite albums and see them at the most anticipated shows, only you don’t know who they are. Maybe you never thought to ask. After all, don’t they just hit a button for violins these days?" -- the L magazine
yMusic is a versatile sextet of Classically-trained musicians who love performing good, new music in whatever genre we can find it.
We've just finished recording an album (our first!) of some amazing new pieces by a bunch of wonderful composers and songwriters, including Ryan Lott (Son Lux), Judd Greenstein, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Gabriel Kahane, Sarah Snider, and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond).
All of the pieces were written for us and extensively workshopped. We are really proud of these performances and super into the music and we can't wait to bring it to you! We're totally done recording this thing, but still need a bit more money to turn it from a jumbled pile of WAV files into a sleek, awesome album that looks and sounds great. We'll release it in September on New Amsterdam Records.
Your money will be used to pay the fab folks who are mixing the record, mastering the record, and making it look bea-U-tiful. Also, physically pressing the thing.
So please send us some cash! You were going to buy the record anyway, it's chamber music (your favorite). Oh, and look for our upcoming release on Asthmatic Kitty with Shara Worden (my Brightest Diamond). More fun video time!
FAQ
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yMusic is Rob Moose, violin and guitars and things; Nadia Sirota, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello; Alex Sopp, flutes; CJ Camerieri, trumpet and horn and keyboards; Hideaki Aomori, clarinets.
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We are a sextet. You love it.
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Harlem, Astoria, & South Brooklyn
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We're here to play good music really, really well.
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All the time! Go to ymusicensemble.com for more info.
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 5, 2011.
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A ticket to the CD release show nearest you featuring yMusic and special guests, as well as a copy of the finished CD and digital download
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A copy of the CD signed by Annie Clark, Shara Worden, Ryan Lott, Judd Greenstein, Gabriel Kahane, and Sarah Snider, as well as yMusic, along with a pair of tickets to the CD release show nearest you featuring yMusic and special guests, as well as a digital download.
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A private house concert for you and your guests (NY area only), a copy of the CD signed by Annie Clark, Shara Worden, Ryan Lott, Judd Greenstein, Gabriel Kahane, and Sarah Snider, as well as yMusic, along with a pair of tickets to the CD release show nearest you featuring yMusic and special guests, as well as a digital download.
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Hailed by the New York Times as a “versatile sextet…of resourceful players,” yMusic is a group of young performers actively engaged and equally comfortable in the overlapping classical and pop music worlds. Its unique instrumentation includes a traditional string trio as well as the distinctive combination of flute, clarinet and trumpet. This exciting composite of sounds has sparked a burgeoning repertoire of commissions from some of today’s most important artists. Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) andRyan Lott (Son Lux), a select group of indie rock luminaries, have crafted instrumental works specifically for the ensemble. yMusic plans to pair these compositions with new works by Judd Greenstein andSarah Kirkland Snider, founders of New Amsterdam Records, for a 2011 release on the label. The pieces will be debuted throughout the 2010-11 season which includes performances at American Songbook and the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York as well as a two-night residency at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis.
In addition to its work as a chamber ensemble, yMusic also serves as a ready-made collaborative unit for artists interested in expanding their sonic palette on recordings and in performance. In April of 2010, the group served as artist-in-residence at the Music Now Festival in Cincinnati. In addition to performing its own set, it joined St. Vincent and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) for collaborative performances in the historic Memorial Hall. In March of 2010, the ensemble served as the instrumental cornerstone for Gabriel Kahane‘s Lincoln Center debut at American Songbook. This critically acclaimed concert will be reprised in the summer of 2011 at various festivals including Chamber Music Northwest and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. yMusic also performed in The Long Count, a multimedia song cycle written by The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner and visual artist, Matthew Ritchie. Co-commissioned by the Krannert Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Long Count featured guests vocalists Kim and Kelley Deal, Shara Worden and Matt Berninger and was performed during the 2009 Next Wave Festival. It will be reprised in the summer of 2011 at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam.
yMusic was created in 2008 and its members have toured and recorded with top artists across genre lines such as Bjork, Peter Gabriel, Antony and the Johnsons, Ryuichi Sakamoto, The National, Rufus Wainwright, Grizzly Bear, Meredith Monk, Yo-Yo Ma, The New York Philharmonic, David Byrne and Sufjan Stevens.
