NWEAMO 2022

The NWEAMO festival is proud to announce the 2022 lineup will include two concerts. The first, at SDSU Smith Recital Hall, will feature the prize winning New York based Ensemble Composer’s Concordance. Led by virtuoso composer/electric guitarist Gene Pritsker, The Ensemble also features esteemed Vancouver-based violinist Petro Krysa and San Diego virtuoso alto sax player Todd Rewoldt.
The Friday, April 29 concert will feature works from the just released CD featuring works by Gene Pritsker and performed in collaboration with Todd Rewoldt.

Gene Pritsker & Todd Rewoldt "Duets For The End Of The World"

Also on the program will be works by Debra Kaye & Da Cooper as well as Southern California composers Texu Kim, Madelyn Byrne, Aaron Alter

The Sunday, May 1 program at Leonard Patton‘s hip new venue, The Jazz Lounge  will feature eclectic works by three Southern California based composers: Maile Pacumio, Jordan Kuspa & Nakul Tiruviluamala, as well as songs from NWEAMO’s Artistic Director Joseph Martin Waters border breaking fantasy-opera “The Magic Hummingbird - El Colibrí Mágico”. The concert is a warm-up for the full production of the fantasy-opera in New York City this summer at the prestigious midtown night club The Cutting Room.

The Magic Hummingbird at The Cutting Room, NYC

Bringing Waters’ songs to life, at Nweamo and New York City, are an eclectic group of singers including the amazing, versatile Leonard Patton, whose three octave range, from Baritone through Countertenor, is put to full use in Waters’ score. Breakout soprano Karen Garcia, who has been working with Waters over the last six years in the germination and development of the work. Ms. Garcia has a luminous upper range that blooms above the staff. She performs the role of Apollonia, a mystical creature, half human and half plant in the opera. At the Nweamo concert she will be performing “We“ based on the sacred poetry of Mexican curandera Maria Sabina.
Joining in duets with Patton will be Cat Rojo, performing the role of Clara, based on St. Clara from the Saint Francis mythology upon which the opera is loosely based. Patton plays Franklin, tortured and talented friend and sometimes frenemy of Saint Francis. The opera is about breaking borders, set equally in Tijuana and San Diego, and between a group of refugees and a white separatist cult, led by an insane, Trump-like sociopath The Preacher.

NWEAMO 2022 – Concert number one

Benefit for the victims of Ukraine

Friday, April 29, 2022

7:00 PM Smith Recital Hall
San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182

CompCord Ensemble
Gene Pritsker – guitar/Di.J.
Todd Rewoldt – alto Sax
Petro Krysa – violin 

Program 
1. Duets for the End Of The World  Movement 1 – Gene Pritsker 

2. Anguish—Compassion — Requiem – Joseph Waters

3. Images – movements  1&2 – Texu Kim 

4. The Will  – Gene Pritsker

5. Lament Prayer and Renewal  – Aaron Alter

6. Pand Q. – Gene Pritsker

7. TBA – Dan Cooper

8. Duets for the End Of The World  Movement 2 – Gene Pritsker 

 9. COFFEE!!!  –  Madelyn Byrne

10. Figar-Oh – Gene Pritsker

11  Bagatelle No. 1. – Debra Kaye

Music begins at 40:00

For Waters’ 2016 NWEAMO festival, he brought Pritsker’s four-member CompCord ensemble to the San Diego Festival, but this year only Pritsker came to serve as electric guitar soloist and program emcee. Fortunately, he was assisted Friday by two stellar musicians, saxophone virtuoso and Waters’ fellow SDSU music faculty member Todd Rewoldt and Seattle-based violin maestro Petro Krysa.

 

Pritsker offered two movements from his “Duets for the End of the World,” a title that salutes Olivier Messaien’s iconic 20th-century “Quartet for the End of Time.” Pritsker’s opening movement of the Duet grounded Rewoldt’s languid but haunting alto saxophone themes in his own edgy guitar ostinato. If the Duet’s second movement began with a similar guitar ostinato, it quickly evolved into violent licks that engaged both guitar and saxophone in highly charged dueling motifs that eventually resolved in exalted parallel declamations….

NWEAMO 2022 – Concert number Two

Benefit for the victims of Ukraine

Sunday, May 1, 2022
7:00 pm

Venue: The Jazz Lounge
6818 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA, 92115
Music@TheJazz lounge.Live
Admission: benefit for Ukraine. $20 suggested. Payments will go directly via QR code to UNICEF

Works by:
Maile Pacumio
Nakul Tiruviluamala
Jordan Kuspa
plus selections fromThe Magic Hummingbird
(El Colibrí Mágico)

The Sunday, May 1 program at Leonard Patton‘s hip new venue The Jazz Lounge, The Jazz Lounge
will feature eclectic works by three Southern California based composers: Maile Pacumio, Jordan Kuspa & Nakul Tiruviluamala, as well as songs from NWEAMO’s Artistic Director Joseph Martin Waters border breaking fantasy-opera “The Magic Hummingbird – El Colibrí Mágico”. The concert is a warm-up for the full production of the fantasy-opera in New York City this summer at the prestigious midtown night club The Cutting Room.

The Magic Hummingbird at The Cutting Room, NYC

Bringing Waters’ songs to life, at Nweamo and New York City, are an eclectic group of singers including the amazing, versatile Leonard Patton, whose three octave range, from Baritone through Countertenor, is put to full use in Waters’ score. Breakout soprano Karen Garcia, who has been working with Waters over the last six years in the germination and development of the work.

Ms. Garcia has a luminous upper range that blooms above the staff. She performs the role of Apollonia, a mystical creature, half human and half plant in the opera. At the Nweamo concert she will be performing “We“ based on the sacred poetry of Mexican curandera Maria Sabina.

Joining in duets with Patton will be Cat Rojo, performing the role of Clara, based on St. Clara from the Saint Francis mythology upon which the opera is loosely based. Patton plays Franklin, tortured and talented friend and sometimes frenemy of Saint Francis. The opera is about breaking borders, set equally in Tijuana and San Diego, and between a group of refugees and a white separatist cult, led by an insane, Trump-like sociopath The Preacher.

The full fantasy opera is available as a Podcast in 6 episodes: Podcast: “The Magic Hummingbird”
Performers for these pieces are:
  • Shouldn’t
  • Cat Rojo vocal
  • Antonina Styczeń Alto flute
  • Todd Rewoldt Tenor sax
  • Tina Chong Piano
  • Andrew Michel e. bass
  • We
  • Karen Garcia vocal
  • Antonina Styczeń Alto flute
  • Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
  • Tina Chong Piano
  • Andrew Michel e. bass
  • The Border
  • Cat Rojo vocal
  • Leonard Patton vocal/cajon
  • Antonina Styczeń flute
  • Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
  • Tina Chong Piano/keyboard
  • Michael Jones guitar
  • Andrew Michel bass
  • David Sullivan Drums
  • Underground 
  • Cat Rojo vocal
  • Leonard Patton vocal/cajon
  • Antonina Styczeń flute
  • Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
  • Tina Chong Piano/keyboard
  • Michael Jones guitar
  • Andrew Michel bass
  • David Sullivan Drums
  • Circle of pain 
  • Cat Rojo vocal
  • Leonard Patton vocal/Cajon
  • David Sullivan Drums
  • Philip Gomez vocal
  • Antonina Styczeń Alto flute
  • Todd Rewoldt tenor sax
  • Tina Chong Piano
  • Sonya Schumann: Combo organ: Vox continental
  • Michael Jones guitar
  • Andrew Michel bass
  • Saint children
  • Karen Garcia vocal
  • Rudy Giron vocal
  • Cat Rojo vocal
  • Leonard Patton vocal/Cajon
  • Philip Gomez vocal
  • Antonina Styczeń flute/bass flute/nose flute
  • Todd Rewoldt Alto sax
  • Tina Chong Piano
  • Michael Jones guitar
  • Andrew Michel bass
  • David Sullivan Udu

Musicians:

Cat Rojo

Karen Garcia

Leonard Patton

Philip Gomez

Michael Jones

Todd Rewoldt

Antonina Styczeń

Tina Chong

David Smith-sound reinforcement

Several of the NWEAMO May 1 selections are available as videos and singles:

Sincerely,  Jozefius Vaatierz Rattus (Joseph M. Waters):
Founder & Artistic Director

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