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Featured Artist – Carl Testa

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Carl Testa bass, composition

Carl Testa: I am a composer and instrumentalist based in New Haven, CT and New York City. I am originally from Chicago, Illinois. While in Chicago, I studied music with Donn DeSanto, at the U of C Lab School, as well as at the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) School of Music. There I studied and performed with Mwata Bowden, Ann Ward, Avreeyal Ra, Steve Berry, Ernest Dawkins, Aaron Getsug, Isaiah Spencer, Stephen Ptacek, Will Faber, Noah Meites, Kevin Nabors, Justin Dillard, and many others.…

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Featured Artist – Vincent Chancey

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Vincent Chancey French horn

Vincent Chancey was born in 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. In junior high school, Chancey played the cornet, trumpet and flugelhorn. However, after hearing the French horn during rehearsals, he switched to the French horn. While performing with his high school band, Chancey was active with local musical groups like the Giles Yellow Jackets, the St. Andrews Hornets and the Des Plaines Vanguard competitive drum and bugle corps. He went on to attend and receive his B.A.…

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Featured Artist – Nate Wooley

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Nate Wooley trumpet

He was born in 1974 in Clatskanie, Oregon. He began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of 13. His time in Oregon instilled in Nate a musical aesthetic that has informed all of his music making for the past 20 years.
Nate moved to New York in 2001, and has since become one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz, improv, noise, and new music scenes.…

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Featured Artist – Ingrid Laubrock

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Ingrid Laubrock saxophone

Originally from Germany, Ingrid Laubrock resides in Brooklyn, NY. Between 1989 and 2009 she was active as a saxophonist and composer in London/UK. She performed and/or recorded with: Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Kenny Wheeler, Jason Moran,Tim Berne, William Parker, Mark Helias,Tom Rainey,Mary Halvorson, Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Evan Parker, Luc Ex, Django Bates’ Human Chain,The Continuum Ensemble and many others. Ingrid’s current projects as a leader are Anti-House, Sleepthief, Ingrid Laubrock Orchestra and Ubatuba. Collaborations include LARK, Haste, Paradoxical Frog and Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey Duo.…

DOEK FESTIVAL # 13

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Antony BraxtonTri-Centric Foundation and Doek
The music and legacy of Anthony Braxton
June 2-7, 2015
Bimhuis and other Amsterdam venues

The Doek festival has developed over the years into a significant event for improvised music. For the next edition, we’re collaborating with the Tri-Centric Foundation to present the music of one of the greatest living composers and improvisers, Anthony Braxton.

Musicians from Tri-Centric who will be joining include Taylor Ho Bynum, Vincent Chancey, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock, Mary Halverson, James Fey, Brendon Seabrook, Tomeka Reid, and Anthony Braxton himself.…