Ross Feller
JANUARY 2018
NEW RELEASE WITH SNOW TRIO! Nick Didkovsky, Ross Feller, & Michael Lytle.
https://elewhalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/didkovsky-feller-lytle-the-snow-trio
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OCTOBER 2013
http://roulette.org/events/double-edge-dance/
Double-Edge Dance concert at Roulette in Brooklyn.
*Featuring Choreography by Kora Radella
Feller Compositions: *Retracing, *She's Not Coming Back Anymore, *Unhinged, *Still Adrift, Chump Change, Frantically Refreshed, Eclipse, Dark Places, and more!
Performed by:
Adam Tendler, piano
Dorothy Martirano, violin
Ross Feller, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones
Matthew Silberman, woodwinds
Johnny Butler, woodwinds
Stephanie Richards, trumpet
Aryeh Kobrinsky, double bass
Jason Nazary, drums
May 2013
Live sax with dancer Kora Radella at E3 Series of Improvisation Performance, Saturday, May 11, 8pm, Foam City: 407 N. Third St., Lafayette, Indiana
Cellist Craig Hultgren premiered "Portrait Miniature #1" for solo cello at: Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Craig Hultgren, cello, 1:00PM, Sunday, May 19, 2013 at the Jan Hus Church, 351 East 74th Street, New York City.
APRIL 2013
Ross premiered a new piece for solo saxophone and presented a paper entitled: "Totally Graphic: What Two Scores by Herbert Brün and Cornelius Cardew Tell Us About the Politics of Performance" at: Time Stands Still: Notation in Musical Performance, April 5-6, Wesleyan University.
She's Not Coming Back was performed with choreography by Kora Radella at the Cleveland Public Theatre in DanceWorks '13.
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE
DANCEWORKS 2013
Retracing performed at 2013 OhioDance Moving Works Showcase
Featuring violinist Dorothy Martirano and dancer Julie Brodie
Saturday, April 27 at 7:00 PM
BalletMet Performance Space
322 Mount Vernon Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43215
March 2013
Pianist Adam Tendler performed the premiere of "Still Adrift" for piano and electroacoustic sound on Sunday, March 17 at 5pm, at Roulette in Brooklyn, New York.
February 2013
Retracing performed with dancer Julie Brodie and violinist Dorothy Martirano at the annual SCI conference, Columbus, Ohio, February, 2013.
Ross received a Faculty Development Grant for an upcoming (2013) cd project that will feature his recent solo and chamber works. Stay tuned!
Performance of Quixotica for symphonic wind ensemble at Kenyon College, Spring 2012.
Performance of "Sound Mirrors" with vocalist Rebecca Cross at the Cleveland Public Theatre's Pandemonium Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011.
Performance with Double-Edge Dance at Ingenuity 11: Cleveland's Festival of the Arts, Music, and Technology at space #25 on the Veterans Memorial (Detroit Superior) Bridge. See Ingenuity website for performance times, September 16 -18, 2011
An Open Performance of a new piece inspired by the work of saxophonist Albert Ayler, with Double-Edge Dance co-director Kora Radella at Movement Research, October 5, 2011 at 8 pm, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York.
CLICK HERE to view InnerArbor, a new collaborative video work with Claudia Esslinger
CLICK HERE to see "Compiled for Randy" a poem in C
CONCERT AT THE DOUGLASS STREET MUSIC COLLECTIVE, BROOKLYN, NY
Saturday, October 9th @ 8pm
Ross Feller & The RR Big Band
Featuring bassist Aryeh Kobrinsky, saxophonists Johnny Butler, Matt Silberman, and Adam Schneit, trumpeter Stephanie Richards, trombonist Ryan Snow, euphoniumist Adam Dotson, guitarist Ryan Ferreira, and drummers/percussionists Jason Nazary and Patrick Barter performing original tunes in addition to works by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Charles Mingus, and Eric Dolphy, some free and conducted improvisations, and klezmer tunes.
CD RELEASE
Nomadology has been released by New Dynamic Records, on "Breath Beneath" by the Prism Saxophone Quartet. For more information click HERE.
Sfumato for violin, double bass, and electroacoustic accompaniment performed at the annual ectroacoustic concert of the Cleveland Composers Guild.
Ross was awarded the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Composition. Stay tuned for more information about an upcoming cd release of his chamber music.
ROSS INTERVIEWED ON TELEVISION
Interview about Double-Edge Dance's feature presentation at Ingenuity 09: Cleveland's Festival of the Arts, Technology, and Music, on Cleveland's WKYC.
Sfumato was performed in April by the Nova Ensemble, directed by Elizabeth McNutt, at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Double-Edge Dance at Pandemonium 2010, Cleveland Public Theatre, September.
Premiere performance of Side Effects for double bass and piano, at the 50th Anniversary benefit for the Cleveland Composers Guild, April 2010, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland. Performed by Scott Haigh, First Assistant Principal Double Bassist for the Cleveland Orchestra.
Residency at the Ragdale Foundation, February 2010.
Performances at the Elastic Arts Foundation, and DePaul University, Chicago.
Guest Composer lecture/presentation at DePaul University, February 12, 2010.
Performance of Glossolalia by Franklin Cox at the Ball State New Music Festival, Sursa Hall, Muncie, Indiana, February 13, 2010.
Double-Edge Dance was featured at Ingenuity 09 in Cleveland. Performances of Shimmer were at The Idea Center, and reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in The Plain Dealer. Click HERE to read it.
Double-Edge Dance performed a new piece for six dancers and electroacoustic accompaniment at the Kenyon College Fall Dance Concert in Gambier, Ohio in December 2008.
On November 3, 2008 scholar/composer Michael Edgerton presented a guest lecture at the Music Institute in Alajarvi, Finland, that included a discussion about Micromegas.
Kora Radella premiered Laden on September 27th, with an electroacoustic score by Feller for the Inaugural Benefit "Asemblage" at the Collinwood Arts Center in Cleveland.
Click Laden to hear it.
Double-Edge Dance performed Some Nerve at the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square on September 12th. Danced by Kimberly Karpanty and Kora Radella. Electroacoustic score by Ross Feller.
Kora Radella and Ross Feller performed an improvised duet, with costumes by textile artist Rebecca Cross, at Pandemonium 08 at the Cleveland Public Theatre, on September 13th.
A recent pose with Clown-Dr. extraordinaire Patch Adams.