Unique Experiences
Accordion Lesson with Kamala Sankaram
- Item Number
- 126
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 180 USD to jge0aa327
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
HARP Artist Kamala Sankaram wants to teach you to play the accordion! The winner of this lot will receive one private accordion lesson with the acclaimed composer and performer.
As a performer, Kamala Sankaram has collaborated with and premiered pieces by the Philip Glass Ensemble , the Wooster Group, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, eighth blackbird, Phil Kline, David T. Little, Corey Dargel, Taylor Ho Bynum, Tristan Perich, Fred Ho, the Dogs of Desire, and Anti-Social Music, among others. She has recorded with Anthony Braxton (TRILLIUM E: Braxton House), Phil Kline (Around the World in a Daze: Starkland Records), End (The Sick Generation: Hymen Records), Death Comet Crew (Dominatrix), the Albany Symphony Orchestra and Anti-Social Music.
As a composer, Kamala Sankaram’s music has been praised as “strikingly original” (Allan Kozinn, NY Times), and performed as part of American Opera Projects “Opera Grows in Brooklyn” series, at HERE Arts Center, the Stone, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival, among others. She had the featured commission on the 2009 21C Liederabend, selected as one of Time Out’s 10 Best Classical Concerts. Her music for SOUNDING (directed by Kristin Marting) was praised as “gorgeous pop-rock interludes” (Time Out NY). She was the 2011 Con Edison/Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-Residence at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy and the 2012 Composer-in-Residence at the Eugene O’Neil Theater. She has received grants from the MAP Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Meet the Composer, and the Asian Women’s Giving Circle, as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Hermitage. As a resident artist at HERE Arts Center, Kamala created MIRANDA, a steampunk murder mystery opera called “enjoyable, utterly original opera” (NY Post) and “among the very best theater achievements of 2012” (NYTheater.com).
She is currently collaborating with acclaimed playwright Susan Yankowitz on “Thumbprint,” a new chamber opera blending Western and Hindustani classical music. In addition to her musical pursuits, she has created voice characters for the Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, and Studio Mouse.
Item Special Note
To be arranged for mutually convenient date. Lesson will take place at Kamala Sankaram's studio in Brooklyn, NY. Must be redeemed by May 2015.
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