Performances 2014

Asian Music Festival 2014

Imperial Palace, Tokyo “In movement space, fragmentary spaces are connected like links in a chain or beads on a string” (Mitsuo Inoue)
Imperial Palace East Garden, Tokyo: “In movement space, fragmentary spaces are connected like links in a chain or beads on a string,” (Mitsuo Inoue)
Imperial Place Tokyo—jutting rock versus human wooden structures; Daniel Portelli, Andrián Pertout, Howard Dillon, Bruce Crossman—Shibuya Cultural Center Owada; Colleen Crossman —Tokyo compass
Imperial Palace Tokyo—jutting rock versus human wooden structures; Daniel Portelli, Andrián Pertout, Howard Dillon, Bruce Crossman—Shibuya Cultural Center Owada; Colleen Crossman—Tokyo muse

Bruce Crossman, Spirit-Presence (2 shakuhachi) (Japan premiere); 1st November 2014, AMF Opening Concert ‘Asia, Asia, Asia’, Yokohama Minato-Mirai Hall (Small Hall), The 32nd ACL Conference and Festival in Japan: Asian Music Festival 2014, Yokohama, Japan

Tomotsune Bizan and Kikuchi Kouzan in Spirit-Presence at Asian Music Festival 2014
Bruce Crossman, Spirit Presence (2 shakuhachi), bars 20-24
Bruce Crossman, Spirit Presence (2 shakuhachi), bars 20-24

Shakuhachi shihan (master) Tomotsune Bizan intercut the earthy, long breath tones of shihan Kikuchi Kouzan’s unlacquered instrument with strong refined tones of the lacquered equivalent in Spirit-Presence at Asian Music Festival 2014

Relaxing in Yokohama: Adel (NZ) and Daniel (AUS); Colleen and Katia; Ermit, Andrián, Colleen and Katia
Relaxing in Yokohama: Adel (NZ) and Daniel (AUS); Colleen and Katia; Ermit, Andrián, Colleen and Katia
Andrián and Katia Pertout—Romance in Akasaka gardens, Tokyo; Colleen Crossman and Eve Duncan—relax in Yokohama; Bruce Crossman—important t-shirt purchase in progress, Ueno, Tokyo
Andrián and Katia Pertout—Romance in Akasaka gardens, Tokyo; Colleen Crossman and Eve Duncan—relax in Yokohama; Bruce Crossman—important t-shirt purchase in progress, Ueno, Tokyo

 

ABC Classic FM radio Broadcast, Gentleness-Suddenness Project

ABC Classic FM radio Broadcast: a feature program on Bruce Crossman’s Chinese-opera influenced Gentleness-Suddenness (mez, vln, perc, pn) as well as other works, and some exciting Korean kayageum and Cantonese Opera as a context to the musical thought.

Saturday 5 July
 10.30pm NEW MUSIC UP LATE: Gentleness-Suddenness – the world premiere of composer Bruce Crossman’s vocal chamber work, plus more Crossman tracks and talk with the composer about the music and the ideas that influence him.

Gentleness-Suddenness (image: Vincent Tay, Filigree films)
Gentleness-Suddenness (image: Vincent Tay, Filigree Films)

Stephen Adams writes:  “But the program still finds space for several premieres with the broadcast of Bruce Crossman’s ambitious vocal chamber work Gentleness-Suddenness.” Australian Music Centre, Resonate

 

European Shakuhachi Society Summer School 2014

Bruce Crossman, Spirit-Presence (2 shakuhachi), with James Franklin (shihan) and Nina Haarer (world premiere); 21st June 2014, Allensbach Church (Gnadenkirche)
 European Shakuhachi Society Summer School, Radolfzell, Germany

Jim Franlklin and Nina Haarer (2 shakuhachi) Gnadenkirche, Allensbach, Germany