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Gene Pritsker             Composer

“Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent.” Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker.” 

- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine

 
'The shape-shifting Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight compartments that industry marketers revel in."
- Raul d'Gama Rose, All About Jazz

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“Mischief-maker and cultural blender-in-chief, Pritsker is a serious artist, yet much of his work is witty and irreverent.” Anyone can draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but few musicians draw it as artistically and creatively as Gene Pritsker.” 

- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine

 

"...audacious...multitalented."

-  The New York Times


'The shape-shifting Gene Pritsker is one of the only composers who continues to break down the barriers that still exist in the sometimes water-tight compartments that industry marketers revel in."
- Raul d'Gama Rose, All About Jazz

'Intending to make music

dangerous again.”
- Sequenza21

Gene Pritsker             Composer

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Recent & Upcoming

Performances:

2025

Aug

8/1 

Video to Lockdown Lullabies #1 premiered at William Schimmels Accordion Seminars

8/7

Premiere of 'Nothingness of Big Lies' with the Outreach Orchestra in Schwaz, Austria. 

8/14

The Ukrainian Cultural - ZERNO Project with Petro & Noizepunk at the Outreach Festival at Mathoi Garden

8/18
Baritone Andrew White performs'Let Mother Breathe' and 'I Don't Do What I'm Told’ at the Ellington Room as part of Concordance presents 'Baritone Andrew White' 

8/23

Sound Liberation performs at Joe's Pub for a set of Gene's compositions.

Premieres include 'Betwixt' and 'Who U R?'.

8/24
Petro Krysa performs The Ukrainian Cultural - ZERNO Project 'З України крізь вогонь / From Ukraine through The Fire'  at the
Patyk Museum in Livv, Ukraine 

8/24

2nd movement of the trio 'Everything Profound' performed at ACM's Thirsty Ears Festival, by Seth Boustead/David Keller/Traci Huff

8/30

Violinist Machiko Ozawa and pianist Jai Jeffryes premiere 'Prism Sonata' as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Prism Duo' at Steel Wig Music 

8/31

Low-Key Chamber Concert #38
featuring violist Eddy Malave. Composition performed: 'Folk Like Melodies', 'The Sky Is Too Crowded With Light', 'Sky Vault Theme Song' and 'Closing Bell'

Sept.

9/6

Soprano Ljiljana Winkler premieres ‘Poems of Imelda O'Rellly’ as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Art Of The Art Song' at  Westbeth

9/12

Gene Performs a solo guitar set as part of Composers Concordance presents '21st Century Solo Electric Guitar'. His compositions include 'Three Ballades for Electric Guitar'. At Silvana in Harlem

9/27
Violinist Ekaterina Gubanova performs 'She’s So Chaconne’ at  Myaskovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory 

 

9/28

'The Food Hymnal' for SATB chorus is performed as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Ciabatta Cantata' at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
 

Oct.

​10/3

Premiere of 'Stir' for alto sax and piano and a performance of ’The Dark that Stand Aorund You’  as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Evan Francis and Steve Sandberg Duo' at The Ellington Room

10/11

Premiere of 'Knows' by the CompCord Ensemble, inspired by a painting of Ford Krull as part of Composers Concordance presents' Interpretations of Art @ Hardware Gallery featuring The CompCord Ensemble'

10/19

Premiere of ‘Euphony’ and ‘Paradigm’ and a performance of 'Variations on My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama' as part of Composers Concordance presents Timbre Tantrum: Guitars with the My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama Guitar Trio

10/26

Premiere of ‘Tohubohu’and a performance of ’TMI Strut’ and 'Waltz Up'  as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Alex & Gene with Friends' @ Silvana, Harlem.

10/28
Performance of
Kostabi & Friends Quartet at ShapeShifter Lab opening for Alexander's Swing-Time Orchestra, performance of Pandemic Dance #11 and the premiere of Oscillate

Presented by Composers Concordance

10/31

Five string compositions premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Composers Tournament' at Loft393

Nov.​

11/5

Premiering In 'Another Light' to the silent film by 'In Another Light, Cinema of Memory Program' at The Kite Club as part of Home Movie Programs.

​11/8

Premiere of 'Cold Gin Variations' and 'There's A Bluebird In My Heart Tango'  

at as part of Composers Concordance presents Eclectic Virtuosi: Oren Fader at Hardware Gallery

11/15

Composition performed by Lesi Mei, andChris Cortez at as part of Composers Concordance event at St, Johns Church In The village

11/16
Prelude and Fugue from Suite #1 performed at the  Moscow Conservatory’s Myaskovsky Hall by violinist Ekaterina Gubanova and pianist Maria Romanenko.

11/ 14 & 15

Premiere of 'Nonchalance Existence' for hichiriki and bass flute by Thomas Piercy  and Lish Lindsey as part of Vox Novus Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame at Martha Graham Studios

11/19
Premier of 'Migration Song III' at
The Berlin Academy of American Music by saxophonist Christoph Enzel at Salon Christophori, in Berlin. Germany 

11/21

Performing many compsotions as part of Composers Concordance and Without a Manifesto present 'Art of The Trio' with saxophonist Gottfried Stoger

 

11/22

'When Creatures Stir' at as part of Composers Concordance Todd Rewoldt and Jai Jeffryes Duo Album Release Concert at Steel Wig Music 

​11/25

'Middle East Side Story' performed  as part of Composers Concordance Pete & Gene with Friends.

11/29

Premiere of 'The Tohubohu Of Happiness' as part of Composers Concordance LittleBig Band at Loft 393

About

     Composer Gene Pritsker has written over one thousand compositions, including chamber operas, orchestral and chamber works, electro-acoustic music and songs for hip-hop and rock ensembles. His compositions employ an eclectic spectrum of styles, that are influenced by his studies of various musical cultures.
     He is the founder and leader of Sound Liberation, an eclectic hip hop-chamber-jazz-rock-etc. ensemble. He also Co-Directs Composers Concordance and is a co-founder and composer-in-residence of the Grammy nominated Absolute Ensemble. Gene's music is performed all over the world at internationally recognized festivals and by highly respected ensembles and performers.
    "My music is extremely eclectic, for me music has no bounds - I view the world of music as one big genre. My motto for my art is 'ending the segregation of sound vibration.'"
Gene is also a guitarist/rapper/Di.J./ and producer and incorporates each of these  musical attributes to create music that is  “not designed for easy listening or to melt into the background. It is insistent. It demands attention and curiosity."
- New York Newsday.  

  Gene worked closely with jazz fusion legend Joe Zawinul and has orchestrated major Hollywood movies, including 'Cloud Atlas', for which he wrote his ''Cloud Atlas Symphony’ and the 2021 film The Matrix Resurrections

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