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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

"...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

Genepritsker@gmail.com

Genepritsker@gmail.com

- Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare Magazine

"...audacious...multitalented."

- The New York Times

'Intending to make music

dangerous again.”
- Sequenza21

Gene Pritsker Composer

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Performances:

2025

Feb

2/2

Tasman & Noizepunk (Tasos Papastamou - violin and Gene Pritsker - Di.J. / Guitar) perform a set featuring Gene's 'America Electronique' and Sound Liberation performs a set both as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Double Feature' at Silvanas in Harlem

Gene premieres the 3 movement ' Pets Suite' with Sound Liberation

2/3

Warren Nicholson performs 'Dazed Variation’ in Hamilton, Ontario as part of The Sunday Afternoon Concert series

2/7
‘Can't Breath’ premiered by guitarist William Anderson and pianist Joan Forsyth as part of a Benefit concert for Doctors Without Borders presented by YXIE

2/8

Todd Rewoldt and the CompCord String Quartet premiere 'Sillage' as part of Composers Concordance presents Pizza Pizzicato at St. John's in the Village

Also a new arrangement by Gene of the song 'That's Amoure'

2/9

The Process Session #3 a live recording session with Tasman & Noizepunk

@ Cossin Studios

2/12

Petro Krysa premieres 'Ukrainian Lullabies ReMix', 'Krompli' and other music for violin and Samplestra at Solo Bar in Seattle, WA as part of his events celebrating Ukrainian culture

2/15

'Resigned' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents Octogenarians at Gallery MC

with John Clark - horn, David Taylor - bass trombone and a rhythm section.

2/20

Premiere of the 40min composition 'The Painters' by the CompCord Modified String Quartet as part of Composers Concordance presents 'The Painters' at Westbeth.

2/23

Petro Krysa premieres 'Ukrainian Lullabies ReMix', 'Krompli' and other music for violin and Samplestra in Bruges, Belgium as part of his events celebrating Ukrainian culture at YOT

2/23

Low Key Chamber Concert #37 with Machiko Ozawa - violin, and Makia Matsumura - piano

Compositions performed include

'Kinda Off', 'Salon' and 'Mantra #2'

2/24

Petro Krysa performs 'Ukrainian Lullabies ReMix', 'Krompli' and other music for violin and Samplestra at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium as part of his events celebrating Ukrainian culture

2/26

Petro Krysa premieres 'Ukrainian Lullabies ReMix', 'Krompli' and other music for violin and Samplestra in Brussels, Belgium as part of his events celebrating Ukrainian culture at La Planque

2/28

The Bowers/Fader duo perform 'Coconut Cornmeal Cake’ at the Tenri Cultural Institute

March

3/3

'Tête-à-tête' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents TromBonafide at NUBLU with Trombonist

Dave Taylor, Dick Griffin, Julie Dombroski-Jones and Steve Swell with a rhythm section

3/8

Multiple Composition performed and premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Seth & Gene’s Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure'

at Westbeth Including 'Awakening Your Inner Schizo', 'I Like The Memories', 'Like The Dream' and 'Digital Debussy'

3/9

Petro Krysa performs 'Ukrainian Lullabies ReMix', 'Krompli' and other music for violin and Samplestra in Lviv, Ukraine at Lviv Art Place, as part of his events celebrating Ukrainian culture at Lviv Art Palace

3/13

'Waltz Up' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents The Waltz Project at The Austrian Cultural Forum with The CompCord Ensemble

3/14

The Waltz Project is repeated at the Bohemian National Hall as part of an Austrian Cultural Forum event. 'Waltz Up (Chart)' is premiered as well as other compositions of Gene.

3/16

The song cycle 'Protest Songs' on poems of John Pietaro premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents Protest Songs at The Stonewall Inn with The Bowers-Fader Duo and other musicians

3/20

Multiple Composition performed as part of University of Costa Rica presents 'Seth & Gene’s Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure'

In San Jose, Costa Rica

3/22

Multiple Composition performed as part of CATIE University in Turrialba presents 'Seth & Gene’s Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure' In Turrialba, Costa Rica

3/22

The string quartet 'Further Excerpted Uncomfortable Superstitions' is performed by the Leadlights Ensemble at Cabrini Shrine

3/27

Multiple Composition performed as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Seth & Gene’s Excellent

Electroacoustic Adventure'

In Mexico City, Mexico

3/28

Multiple Composition performed as part of Centro Mexicano para La Musica y las Artes Sonoras presents

'Seth & Gene’s Excellent Electroacoustic Adventure'

In Morelia, Mexico

April

4/2
Premiere of the chamber piece 'Hand' to a silent film as part of the 2025 Sound of Silent Film Festival presented by Access Contemporary Music at Music Box Theater in Chicago, IL

4/4
‘Sorrow, Like Pleasure, Creates Its Own Atmosphere’ performed by Lisa Bost-Sandberg
as part of 23rd Annual Electronic Music Midwest Festival at Kansas City Kansas Community College in Kansas City, MO

4/4

Release of the album 'The Process Sessions #1&2' on Composers Concordance Records. Gene's compositions include 'My Unscheduled Fate' with Jay Rodriguez on sax and Gene on guitar and 'Pandemic Dance #2' with Kathleen Supové on piano and Gene on guitar.

4/6

'Echoed Ecstasy' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents 'CompCord Ensemble Meets Erik Hawkins Dance' at St. Mark's Church in-the Bowery

4/8

‘Can't Breath’ performed by guitarist William Anderson and pianist Joan Forsyth at Sarah Lawrence College where Gene is The distinguished visiting composer.

4/11

Release of the album 'Footprints Of Steel Poetry by Robert C. Ford' on Composers Concordance Records. Gene's compositions include

''Puzzle Complete (The You of Me)', 'The Difference Unhappiness, '9-Months Earlier',

'Why Didn’t You Tag Me?', 'Blissful Surrender', 'Footprints of Steel', 'The Color of the Number 3', 'The Day Saturn Lost Its Rings', 'May the Great Ark Save the Drones'

4/13

Sound Liberation performs at Mahogany Hall in Bern, Switzerland with featuring Ljiljana Winkler as part of Philipp Moll Sunday Jazz. Many compostions of Gene's are performed including the premiere of the song 'Ecstasy'

4/16

Concert at t the Wittelsbacher Castle in Freidberg. Germany with Sound Liberation featuring Ljiljana Winkler and Ensemble Der Gymnasium Big Band

Many compostions of Gene's are performed including the premieres of 'Toxic Bond', 'Silent Treatment', 'What Matters III',

4/17

Sound Liberation Di.J. Quartet featuring Ljiljana Winkler performs at Café Museum In Passau, Germany

4/22

'Imminent' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents Franz Hackl and Leo Genovese Duo at Kostabi World

4/27

'Witness' premiered as part of Composers Concordance presents The Fiddlers at Nublu

4/28

'Naked Beauty Displayed ' premiered by the Emerald Trio as part of Composers Concordance presents Generations XIV at Kostabi World

May

5/3

Premiere of 'So I Flee The Death In Me' for viola and piano as part of Composers Concordance presents 'Michael Hall and Kathleen Supové' at Kostabi World

5/10

'From All Angles' for triangle and string quartet as part of Composers Concordance presents 'String Quartet +' at Cossin Theater in China Town

5/16

Various compositions performed as part of Composers Concordance and Harlem Jazz Series present 'In4Mation' at Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church

5/18

The Bowers/Fader duo perform 'Coconut Cornmeal Cake’ at Scholes Street Studio

Four Premieres as part of 13th Annual CompCord Festival
– Motion –

May 18th

Premiere of 'Duo Motion'

as part of Duo Motion

@ St. Marks Church in The Bowery

II.

May 23rd

Premiere of 'Lindy Hip-hop'

as part of CompCord LittleBig Band

Swing and Lindy Hop

@ Loft393

III.

Sunday May 25th 6pm

Premiere of the trio 'Hand Motion'

as part of the 15th Annual

Comp-Play-Comp Marathon

@ DROM NYC

IV.

May 30th

Premiere of 'Paint Brush Motion'

as part of Motion Électronique

@ Silvana Harlem

5/23

Release of the album 'Motion Électronique' on Composers Concordance Records

on which Gene's track 'Paintbrush Motion' is featured

June

6/6

Premiere of a new composition for clarinet and electric guitar as part of Composers Concordance presents Charlie And The Composers with clarinetist Charles Neidich at The Ellington Room at Manhattan Plaza

6/8

Premiere of 'Inspirations on Roger Aplon's Improvisations- After Gene Pritsker’s Potemkin' for B3+ and CompCord Ensemble as part of Composers Concordance presents CompCord at Howland at Howland Cultural Center in Beacon NYC

6/13

Baritone Andrew White premieres 'So I Flee The Death In Me’ at St. Mary's Church in Port Washington WI.

6/13

Release of the Sound Liberation album 'Elegy' on Composers Concordance Records

6/21

Premiere of 'For Sean' as part of Composers Concordance presents Guitars & Poems at Jim Kempner Fine Arts

6/26
Petro Krysa and Volodymyr Duda premiere the double violin concerto ‘Against All hope’ with the Lviv Virtuosos, in Lviv Ukraine

July

7/5
Performances of various compositions as part of EMX presents a concert at Panda Platforma in Berlin, Germany, featuring

Winkler Ljiljana - soprano,

Machiko Ozawa - violin

Mando Beatbox and

the Clair-obscur Sax Quartet

About

Composer Gene Pritsker has written over nine hundred 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

Gene & The Strings

This album demonstrates some of Composer Gene Pritsker's compsotions that explore the various sounds of string instruments. From solo violin compositions performed by Lara St. John and Machiko Ozawa to string quartets performed by the CompCord String Quartet and Kahlo String Quartet to music for multiple strings including compositions for 3 violin, 5 violins and 2 electric guitars.

Under The Wolf’s Cloak

‘Under The Wolf’s Cloak’ music by Gene Pritsker poem by Imelda O'Reilly, for narrator, chorus and two Marimbas Performed by Imelda O'Reilly - narrator David Cossin - marimba Macrófona Choir

Sound Liberation Di.J. Quartet

Sound Liberation Di.J. Quartet Gene Pritsker - Di.J. / guitar Peter Oswald - trumpet Clemens Rofner - bass Simon Springer - Drums

Ljiljana Winkler and the Solenne Band perform the music of Gene Pritsker

'Blues from an Airport Bar' by Gene Pritsker is a song cycle based on 4 poems of Jacob Miller. The music is inspired by the blues, but with very extended harmony and melody.. The song ‘Path’ is originally written as an r&b track, here it is transformed into a jazzy/operatic chamber piece that features the brilliant voice of Ljiljana and the groovy ensemble playing of the Solenne Band

Better Now - Sound Liberation

On ‘Better Now’ Gene Pritsker’s compositions explore soul, hip-hop, modern jazz, cross over classical, blues, r&b, jazz fusion and more. Recorded over a period of two years in various locations and studios, some tracks recorded remotely some in a studio station. The album takes you on a no holds bar genre defying journey that is the defining style of Sound Liberation.

Dave & Gene Duo

Composer/bass trombonist Dave Taylor and composer/guitarist Gene Pritsker present a full album of duets for this unique instrumental combination. The album was mostly recorded remotely during the pandemic, some of the music was newly written for the project and many of the pieces Dave and Gene performed together before. The whole album was inspired after the duo recorded Gene’s ‘Pandemic Dance #22’, which was part of his Pandemic Dances project.

Only A Game

‘Only A Game’ was a commission by Robert Shannon Fields, to write music for his ballet libretto that he wrote decades ago in the former east Germany. I wrote this string trio inspired by the actions and words of Robert's ballet scenario. The music flowed to the imaginary dancers in my mind that were swaying, jumping acting out Robert's story; the 3rd act starts with a scene called 'A Special Game’. Here the solo cello delves into Shostakovich like chromaticism and lyricism, playing a game with

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Let's Save The World Suite

‘Let’s Save the World Suite’ is a seven movement composition based on three poems of Erik T. Johnson. It is scored for a quintet of trumpet, sax, electric guitar, electric bass and drum set, with a narrator reciting the poem in three of the movements.

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CLOUD ATLAS SYMPHONY

Duets For The End Of The World’

Duets For The End Of The World' is a collaboration between alto saxophonist Todd Rewoldt and composer/guitarist Gene Pritsker, recorded remotely during the pandemic. The album emphasizes duets Pritsker wrote for Rewoldt and himself, but also features Gene’s music for solo alto sax and electronics, larger chamber ensembles, and a composition by composer Seth Boustead.

'Stray-in-Place Song Cycle' Gene Pritsker & Erik T. Johnson

'Stray-in-Place Song Cycle' is an album of six eclectic songs by Gene Pritsker, based on the poetry of Erik T. Johnson and inspired by the lockdown of 2021. Three of the songs are rock-influenced and the others have jazzier roots. All are performed by world-class musicians. A variety of singers add their unique styles to six pieces, giving the recording an extra-eclectic flavor. They are: Stefanie Egger (Austria); Sophie Dunér (Sweden); Berzan Önen (Turkey); Yelena Dudochkin (USA); and Stefani