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NOISE A contemporary chamber music concert featuring Lisa Cella (flute), Colin McAllister (guitar), Geoffrey Gartner (cello), Christopher Adler (piano), and Morris Palter (percussion). NOISE is the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music. Lisa Cella, flutist and Artistic Director of San Diego New Music, received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. Upon graduation, she received the Civic Morning Musicals award for excellence in performance. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland where she studied with Robert Willoughby. While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, she was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She is the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. With Sounding, she has performed at universities such as Bowling Green, Cornell, SUNY Buffalo, Oberlin, and Syracuse. Ms. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. Currently, she is a Lecturer in music at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a founding member of the faculty contemporary music ensemble: RUCKUS. Born in Canada, percussionist Morris Palter has performed as a soloist in the Amsterdam Percussion Festival, participated in the Holland Festival, performed as a guest artist at the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, and has held xylophone master classes in Amsterdam and at The Rotterdam Conservatory respectively. He has also participated in the Musik III Festival in San Diego, the Green Umbrella concert series in Los Angeles, the Ragtime Xylophone Institute in Delaware, as well as performances at the Lincoln Center, and more recently Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall under famed conductor/composer Pierre Boulez. As well, in the summer of 2001 Mr. Palter was the Assistant Composer and percussionist with The Globe Theater's production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in San Diego. Having also performed with the SONOR Ensemble, and as a soloist with the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Palter co-founded NOISE in 2000 (The San Diego New Music resident ensemble), and is a member of the percussion group Redfish Bluefish. Winter 2002 finds Morris performing solo recitals and Masterclasses at the University of Maryland - Baltimore County and Stanford University. Morris has worked and performed with such artists as Bob Becker, Steve Schick, Pierre Boulez, David Lang, Ming Tsao, Chris Tonkin, Derek Keller, Mathew Burtner, and Chris Adler. Mr. Palter has received degrees in music from the University of Toronto, the Koninklijk Conservatorium The Hague, and the University of California San Diego where he is also currently working towards his Doctorate of Musical Arts. Guitarist Colin McAllister is active both as a soloist and an ensemble player. His versatility spans many styles of music and includes performances on classical, steel-string acoustic, and electric guitars. Colin has premiered numerous works, including pieces by Helmut Lachenmann, Stuart Saunders Smith, and Erik Ulman. Recent appearances include the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, California Institute of the Arts, University of Maryland, University of Virginia, Christian Heritage College Artist Series, Bethlehem (PA) Musikfest, and the Colorado College, where he was a visiting artist-in-residence. As a conductor, Mr. McAllister has appeared with SONOR, the new music ensemble of UC - San Diego. He is a founding member of NOISE and Executive Director of San Diego New Music. Colin is also a member of the flute and guitar duo, Synergy, which holds a concert series in San Diego. Mr. McAllister holds a Master of Arts from the University of California, San Diego (where he is currently working on his DMA) and a BA from the University of Colorado. He studies guitar with Celin Romero and Stuart Fox, and interpretation with Bertram Turetzky. He is a faculty member at Palomar College and Christian Heritage College. Geoffrey Gartner was born in Australia and received his Bachelor of Music with Honors from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he studied cello with Georg Pedersen. A committed advocate of contemporary music, Geoffrey has premiered countless works and has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Australia, Asia, Europe, North America and the South Pacific. Geoffrey recently appeared at the Roaring Hoofs Festival of Actual Music in Mongolia performing in Ulan Bator and the Gobi Desert, and in September will tour Europe, giving performances in London, Amsterdam and at the Warsaw Festival. He is a core member of contemporary music groups Ensemble Offspring (Sydney), Libra Ensemble (Melbourne), and Sonor (University of California, San Diego). Next year he will return to Australia to perform the solo part in the world premier of Rosalind Page's cello concerto. Geoffrey recently relocated from Sydney to San Diego where he is completing Graduate Studies at the University of California. He is majoring in contemporary music performance. Pianist Christopher Adler is a composer, improviser, performer and an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of San Diego. He has performed his works with the Seattle Creative Orchestra, members of the Hazardous Materials string quartet, members of the Ciompi Quartet, and cellists Jonathan Kramer and Hugh Livingston. He performs free-improvised music in the Christopher Adler Trio, which performs weekly at the Galoka Jazz Scene in San Diego and has performed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz. His improvised work may be heard on Transcontinental, by the Christopher Adler Trio released on 9 Winds Records, which is a re-release of Live in Los Angeles (Black Phone Records), and on Pleistocene, by the Alan Lechusza/Christopher Adler Duo. He performs twentieth-century concert repertoire on the piano, pipe organ and harpsichord, and can frequently be heard performing traditional Thai and Lao music in San Diego. strictly Ballroom | CCRMA home | Christopher Burns home | Christopher Jones home Copyright © 2003 Christopher Burns & Christopher Jones. All rights reserved. |