Ellen Fullman has recently returned to the bay area after a busy season of touring. In August, Ellen and Monique performed with percussionist Sean Meehan in the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival. In Tokyo in September, a two day festival at Super Deluxe was organized around Ellen's instrument of collaborations with Japanese improvisors (Keiji Haino, Sachiko M, Ko Ishikawa and Brett Larner). In Switzerland in October, a video documentary was produced of Ellen's collaboration with Joerg Hiller, to be released as a DVD on cloudmirror. In November Ellen performed and recorded at Open Space in Victoria BC with flutist Tina Pearson, and performed with kotoists Brett Larner and Kanoko Nishi at Western Front in Vancouver. Ellen is planning a house concert series of duet collaborations to include Krys Bobrowski, Gino Robair, Luciano Chessa, Sean Meehan, Kanoko Nishi, Joe Colley, Ruth Eckland, Pamela Z and others.
Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles in addition to her own compositions. Ms. Buzzarté's recordings include Zanana's Holding Patterns (Deep Listening 30), John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode 75: John CAGE: Vol. 19 - The Number Pieces 2), and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20); forthcoming from Townhall Records is Sorrel Hays' Wake Up and Dream. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire. An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the brass music of women composers and received residencies in 2003 at Create@iEAR Studios and in 2002 at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts for the development of an interactive performance system for the trombone. Her advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices of Deep Listening.
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