the awakening orchestra.
Aggressive, explosive, and epic, the Awakening Orchestra is a twenty-piece ensemble featuring young, virtuosic musicians with a flair for the dramatic and a gift for innovation. Heavy handed yet remarkably agile and adaptable, the orchestra's weight lies in its ability to interpret thoughts rather than to recreate them, and is devoted to the ideal that music can and should be used not only as a source of entertainment but also as a catalyst for thought and change.

 

alice.
Arriving mysteriously in New York City in 2005 with nothing but a suitcase full of sepia-toned memories and a short list of semi-lucid musicians in the hip pocket of her homemade skirt, alice. directed her near-psychotic obsession to find something new into the founding of what has come to be known as the elastic.hybrid.chamber.pop. movement. Calling in a lifetime’s worth of favors and rewriting the concept of Machiavellian coercion in the process, she assembled a mighty ensemble of people that were united in musical vision and inherent fear of saying no. Bringing a unique voice to a unique genre, alice. seeks to continually defy the boundaries of form, harmony, group improvisation, genre, and competitive performance art, delighting her multi-generational audiences with distinctive and memorable original compositions mixed with covers ranging from Beethoven to Spinal Tap. Truly, hers is a voice as extraordinary as it is assertive.

 

 

kyle saulnier.
Dramatically Intense, Socially Conscious, and Openly Defiant, Kyle Saulnier emerges as one of New York City's most dynamic new composers and bandleaders. Mixing an orchestral approach with back-breaking grooves and a dark harmonic sense of humor, his widely-varied compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations have been performed by artists ranging from major symphony orchestras to classical chamber groups and local Brooklyn MCs.