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Claire Zakiewicz

Music and painting improvisation in Claire Zakiewicz studio with Abe Mamet, Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Rachel Musson and Peter Nagle

Sara Lane Studios

<a href="http://www.emilysuzanneshapiro.com/Emily/Welcome.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Emily Suzanne Shapiro</a> is a Canadian bass clarinetist and clarinetist dedicated to exploring and creating new music. Emily has a special love for the sound and scope of bass instruments and constantly pushes the limits of what she can do on bass clarinet.Alongside performing contemporary music on bass clarinet, Emily is involved in many other musical endeavours. Composing and improvising are central to her work, and she has been an active performer of Balinese gamelan for 10 years and has also explored jazz, klezmer, rock and electroacoustics. She is always seeking out new artistic experiences to enrich and motivate her work.<a href="http://www.peternagle.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Peter Nagle</a> is a composer, musician and sound artist based in London. His practice encompases improvisation, alternative tunings, drone and loop textures and movement, often in cross- and trans-disciplinary contexts. Some current and recent collaborators include Angharad Davies, Irene Fiordilino, Steve Gisby, Jonny Martin, Carla Rees, Emily Suzanne Shapiro and Claire Zakiewicz.Peter’s album Invisible Cities was released in August 2022 and an album by his improvising duo Rising of the Lights is forthcoming on Dog Tunnel Records.Peter is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban, researching ambiguities of identity in transdisciplinary collaboration.<a href="https://www.rachelmusson.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rachel Musson</a> is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward, Alex Hawkins amongst others. She features on several releases, including a nonet featuring her composition 'I Went This Way' (577 Records), two with Shifa, feat. Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, (577 Records), one with Mark Sanders and John Edwards (Two Rivers Records), trio with Liam Noble and Mark Sanders (Babel), and Corey Mwamba (Takuroku).French hornist <a href="https://www.abrammamet.com/abemamet" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Abe Mamet</a>, who lives in Mount Rainier, MD, has been lauded as D.C.’s “major jazz French horn player” by the Washington Post, and named one of 2023's "artists to watch" by DCist. His work explores community and belonging, and always pushes for the sonic and technical possibilities of the French horn.<a href="https://www.clairezakiewicz.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Claire Zakiewicz</a> is a multi-media artist working in London and New York. Named in the New York's top ten artists list in Art511 magazine, 2018, her practice examines the physical and metaphorical relationships between sound and painting. She explores how this research can be applied within the context of performance, painting, drawing, music, photography and installation.Abe and Emily are celebrating two recently-released projects, <a href="https://emilysuzanneshapiro.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmic-hand" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Cosmic Hand </a>and <a href="https://abemamet.bandcamp.com/album/the-thing-we-fought-for" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Thing We Fought For</a>. Both new works are made up of the same large acoustic ensemble, and capture the tail end of a month of the musicians playing, living, and exploring together in rural Italy while on a residency there in March 2023.

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