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On the evening of Friday, December 6th, we proudly presented new media artist/electronic musician Dave Seidel (NH), improviser/sound artist Dorothy Chan (DC), Sam Harmon’s solo project glacial23 (OH), and Billy Wolfe and Tony Zilincik’s (CMH) free jazz duo Odd and End.
Supporters of our 2024-2025 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Columbus Foundation.
About the artists:
Dorothy Chan is a New York and DC-based (toy) pianist, improviser, sound artist, and educator. A new-music advocate, she enjoys exploring experimental repertoire and new sounds on the piano, prepared piano and toy piano. She is the founding member of toy piano electronic duo Chromic Duo (CAG artists), and chamber collective ensemble mise-en, and has premiered, performed and recorded hundreds of new works. Past appearances include performances at Carnegie Hall (New York, USA), Lincoln Center (New York, USA), Celebrity Series (Boston, USA), Bösendorfer Saal (Vienna, Austria), BEXCO (Busan, Korea), Kapellet Produktion (Stockholm, Sweden), and at music festivals such as Moving Sounds Festival (New York, USA), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), and the Arena Festival (Riga, Latvia).
Dave Seidel was born in Hudson, NY in 1958. B.A. (Music Theory & Composition) from Simon’s Rock College, 1978, studying with Larry Wallach and Thom Lipiczky. Studied classical guitar with Edward Flower. As a guitarist, was part of the Downtown NYC new music scene in the 1980s. Performed and recorded in ensembles led by composers Lois V Vierk, Scott Johnson, Guy Klucevsek, and Bill Obrecht. Co-led the band People Falling. Premiered the electric guitar version of Lois V Vierk’s 五 Guitars (Go Guitars) for five microtonally-tuned guitars, live and on Simoom (Experimental Intermedia CD, 1990), and recorded Vierk’s Red Shift on River Beneath the River (Tzadik CD, 2000). Appeared on Klucevsek’s Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse (Experimental Intermedia CD, 1991). Performed in a wide variety of venues, ranging from night clubs (CBGB, Mudd Club) to downtown performance spaces (The Kitchen, Dia Art Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop) to concert halls (New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Minneapolis’ Walker Arts Center) and at several new music festivals (New Music America in Los Angeles, Bang On A Can in New York, and Styrian Autumn in Graz, Austria). Since 2004, focused on the composition and performance of electronic music, usually with a microtonal and/or drone basis. Festival participation includes Electronic Music Midwest, SEAMUS, North Country Electronic Music Festival, XFest, and PVDLoopFest. Please see the Releases and Performances pages for more details. Now living in Peterborough, NH.
Producing electronic music since sometime in the 90s, Sam Harmon (glacial23) has been known to make anything from droning soundscapes to heavy acid house tracks. Since 2008, he’s been concentrating heavily on building much of his own gear, including a modular synthesizer.
Born and raised north of Chicago in Mundelein, Illinois, Billy Wolfe began playing piano at the age of 5 and saxophone at the age of 10. Billy earned a bachelor of music degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where he began his professional career playing with bands such as Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra, the Dayton Jazz Orchestra, and the Brian Michael Smith-John Vermeulen Octet. After spending roughly a decade in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Billy recently returned to Columbus where he can be found freelancing with a wide array of Ohio musicians. He currently leads Billy Wolfe Octet and The Tristano School Project as well as co-leading the nine piece MW9 ensemble with Baltimore based trumpeter Leo Maxey and the New Orleans trad/funk inspired District Brass alongside David Agee. Billy is also is a member of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra, The Rick Brunetto Big Band, The Brad Linde Expanded Ensemble, Joe Duran’s Projections, Will Strickler’s Parallel Structures, and the avant-garde quartet/quintet, “Team Players”.
Tony Zilincik is currently an associate professor of music at Capital University where he teaches tuba, composition and theory, and directs the brass choir and Capital Thunder, the University’s tuba/euphonium ensemble. He is the principal tubist for the Central Ohio Symphony Orchestra, the Newark Granville Symphony Orchestra, and maintains a large private low brass studio.
He is the tubist in the Capital Brass brass quintet, the faculty quintet at Capital University, the Cathedral Brass brass quintet at St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, and is the director and coordinator of Merry TUBACHRISTMAS Columbus. He is the E-flat tuba soloist with the Brass Band of Columbus and has performed with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He is the former music director of the Central Ohio Brass Band and has performed with many Broadway touring shows including Annie,The Lion King, and Mary Poppins.
He is active as a freelance soloist, having appeared with the Brass Band of Columbus at the prestigious Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, with the Central Michigan University Brass Band, the Capital University Trombone Choir and with many area high schools. He was the Wind Ensemble conductor at Otterbein College for three years. Also a prolific composer, his works have received performances in the United States and Europe and many are published by Cimarron Music. Mr. Zilincik is in demand as a tuba and band clinician throughout Ohio and Michigan. His most recent composition, “Tower Thunder” was recently premiered in Geyserville California at the Oliver Ranch through a generous grant from the Oliver Ranch Foundation.