MSRI PUBLIC EVENTS: MARCH / APRIL 2019

Harmonic Series Concerts: Jeff Denson Three

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 from 5:15-6:45 PM

Simons Auditorium, MSRI - 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Free and open to the public
Event information: www.msri.org/general_events/24054

Featuring Jeff Denson (double bass), Ryan Pate (guitar), and Hamir Atwal (drums)

Jeff Denson has balanced a full career as both an acclaimed performing musician and a highly respected educator. Currently leading or co-leading four distinct ensembles, Jeff has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe with both his own groups, worked with some of jazz’s finest artists such as Brian Blade, Jane Ira Bloom, Dave Douglas, Charles McPherson, Cuong Vu, Joe Lovano, Ralph Alessi, Walter Smith III, Dayna Stephens, Vadim Neselovskyi, Florian Weber, Dan Weiss, Paul Hanson and had an ongoing relationship with the legendary Lee Konitz since 2007.

FEATURED PROGRAM

Jeff has been investigating the guitar trio in recent months and has put together a special trio featuring some of the finest jazz musicians in the Bay, Hamir Atwal on the drums and Ryan Pate on guitar. The compositions presented this evening will feature newly arranged pieces from Jeff’s previous twelve albums and brand new works that will be released later this year and will traverse a wide musical terrain from swinging, high-energy jazz to chamber music to electronic music.
 

Harmonic Series concerts are free of charge and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required. For more information, contact Jennifer Murawski at jmurawski@msri.org or (510) 642-0771. (See bottom of email for parking information.)

Art at MSRI: Works by Virginia Davis and Claude Ibrahimoff

Public Reception: Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 6:00 PM

Exhibition on view March 19 - June 28 (Monday-Friday, 8:30-5:00 PM)

2nd floor, MSRI - 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Free and open to the public

Virginia Davis
After studying art in London and at the Art Students League in New York, Virginia Davis has had her work in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries, nationally and internationally. She uses ikat, a technique of applying color to threads before they are woven into a textile, not only for the dimension it gives her work, but also for its historical and ethnographic aspects. She teaches, lectures and writes on this and other subjects. Her awards include an Indo-American Fellowship to India, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, two individual Visual Artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, NEA sponsored residences at the Cité International des Artes in Paris and in Mexico City, and most recently, a grant from the Ruth Chenven Foundation. In addition to private collections, her work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of North Dakota, and Hewlett-Packard.

Claude Ibrahimoff
Claude Ibrahimoff was born and raised near Paris, where she studied at the design school Met de Penninghen et Jacques d'Andon and worked as an apprentice in the atelier of the Italian sculptor Louis Molinari. She also pursued research studying Soviet cinema and art and spent some months on a scholarship in Russia, completing her Masters degree in Russian. Soon after, she left Paris for the Bay Area, finally settling in Marin County. In addition to her own artwork, she edited documentary and independently produced films such as Portrait of Imogen and Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Meg Partridge and worked on films by Iara Lee.

Claude’s sculptural and abstract totems and paintings are in part inspired by Russian artists, like Malevich and Kandinsky, as well as Americans artists, like Jasper Johns and Rothko. She currently works on geometric series of totems in small and big formats, as well as on series of mostly abstract paintings on canvas. She has participated in several exhibits in France and local venues in Marin County.