March 12, 2003 Contact: Li-Ling Wang

Featuring The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard,
In its Debut Performance,
With Juilliard Composers, Performers,
Dancers, and Guest Artists

Juilliard’s Music Technology Center presents Beyond the Machine 2.0, a three concert series of electronic and interactive music, featuring the debut performance of The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard with Juilliard performers and guest artists, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 3rd, 4th, and 5th at 8 PM in the Clark Theater at Lincoln Center. The program includes new works that incorporate electric instruments, computers, and live performers, as well as arrangements of traditional works that feature new technology. All three performances are FREE and no tickets are required. For more information please visit our website at www.musictech.juilliard.edu or contact the Juilliard Box Office. The Box Office, located at 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, is open Monday - Friday, 11 AM - 6 PM, (212) 769-7406.

Highlights of Beyond the Machine 2.0 include Nest of Vipers, a quartet for electric strings composed by Juilliard Alumnus Mark Wood, also an electric instrument maker. This quartet is performed with instruments built exclusively for it by Mr. Wood. Also featured is an arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Chaconne from Partita in D Minor for Violin Solo, in collaboration with choreography by Elisabeth Motley, one of the founding members of The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard. All works on the program are performed by The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard, consisting of students from the Music and Dance divisions, with guest artists, including Frances M. Uitti, cello; Mari Kimura, composer and interactive performance artist; Mark Gould, trumpet; and Mark Wood, composer and electric instrument maker program.

Founding director of the Music Technology Center and The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard, Edward Bilous is a composer who has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1986, where he also serves as the chairman of the Literature and Materials of Music Department. Among his recent compositions are, Portraits of Grief, a tribute to the victims of the September 11 tragedy, commissioned by New York Times Television, Chaconne for String Orchestra recorded by the Prague Film Orchestrafor the Academy Award nominated documentary Scottsboro, Three Ravens, Songs of the Black Madonna, and Frame of Reference written for frame drum master Glen Velez. As an educator, Mr. Bilous has conducted master classes and seminars at the Lincoln Center and Tanglewood Institutes, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Teachers College-Columbia University, the Leonard Bernstein Center for Arts and Education, and Chamber Music America. At Juilliard, Bilous developed the Arts and Education program that provides training for young musicians interested in pursuing careers in arts education.

Mr. Bilous received his bachelor of music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Elias Tannenbaum and Charles Wuorinen, and master of music and doctor of musical arts degrees from Juilliard, where his primary teachers were Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He also studied composition with Krzystof Penderecki.

The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard was created to provide Juilliard students with an opportunity to use new technology in the creation and performance of electronic, interactive, and multimedia work. Members of The Electric Ensemble @ Juilliard include composers: Kinan Azmeh, Nico Muhly, Malina Rauschenfels, Ryan Redden, Samuel Solomon, and Dalit Warshaw; musicians: Kinan Azmeh (clarinet), Matthew Brewer (electric bass), Andrea Fisher (flute), Marion Felder (midi drum), Brandon Lee (trumpet controller), Drew Pierson (keyboard synthesizer), Malina Rauschenfels (cello), Ryan Redden (saxophone), Michelle Satris (violin), Nadia Sirota (viola), and Samuel Solomon (percussion); choreographers and dancers: Christina Bodie, Yin-Ling Lin, Teresa Marcaida, Dario Mejia, Andrea Miller, Elisabeth Motley, Zulema Quintans, Amina Royster, and Luke Wiley.