The S.E.M. Ensemble has announced its 2025 Spring Concert. Soprano Kamala Sankaram serves as soprano soloist, along with composer, vocalist, and pianist Amina Claudine Myers. Petr Kotik, conducts the orchestra. Together they will present a program featuring Lejaren Hiller, Judith Berkson, Charles Ames, and Christian Wolff. Also on the program is Myers’ “Knowledge Of The Known And Unknown, “Mother E; {…}
(Photo credit: The Wilma Theater) The Foundation for Contemporary Arts announced the 23 artists and collectives who will receive its $45,000 Grants to Artists awards. Launched in 1993, the Grants to Artists awards are unrestricted, by-nomination grants that provide recipient artists working in Dance, Music/Sound, Performance Art/Theater, Poetry, and Visual Arts. Winners exemplify contemporary, experimental work being made today. The {…}
Throughout his career, Petr Kotik has explored musical boundaries as a performer and composer. He studied flute at the Conservatory and Music Academy in Prague, and composition at the Music Academy in Vienna. In the 1970’s, Kotik performed experimental music and established himself as a musician full of new ideas. And now, in 2018, Kotik has redefined his path to {…}