"redefining musical boundaries" San Francisco Classical Voice 9/1/09
The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble, a groundbreaking new music ensemble led by
classical and film composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky, combines acoustic instruments,
electronic hardware, composed material and structured improvisation. The Ensemble
treats analog synth as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument. The
Ensemble's contemporary electroacoustic music, abstract, calm, spacious, free form,
and transcendental, is performed and recorded live with no overdubs or sequencing.
The Ensemble has played chamber concert series, new music series, galleries, alternative performance spaces, and has also presented programs of live music to experimental film.
EAST COAST TOUR APRIL 8-13, 2010 ***BOOKING NOW***
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NYC or close by (Rutgers, Princeton, Newark, Trenton, NJ, etc)
NYC or close by (Rutgers, Princeton, Newark, Trenton, NJ, etc)
Member Bios
Keyboardist and bassist Jack Curtis Dubowsky is an active composer, conductor,
writer, educator, and filmmaker. Dubowsky has composed four chamber operas and
scored five feature films including That Man Peter Berlin, Rock Haven, and Redwoods.
The short film NYC Dilemma about this working composer premiered 2006 at BFI in
London. Dubowsky's choral music has been performed internationally by groups
including San Francisco Choral Artists, Desert Voices, Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San
Francisco, and Mount Eden Chorus. His orchestral music has been performed by
Castro Valley Chamber Orchestra. His chamber music has been performed by
Classical Revolution, Snopea Chamber Ensemble, Organic Sound Experiment,
Collaborata, and Paradigm Brass. Dubowsky has received grants from Meet the
Composer, Zellerbach Family Fund, Friends of San Francisco Public Library, and
American Composers Forum. Dubowsky produced recordings by The Winsome Griffles,
Glen Meadmore, and Virgin Whore Complex. Dubowsky's award winning "Mr Jones"
parody is a highlight of the Momus album Stars Forever. Dubowsky attended the Aspen
School, and received his MM in Composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music. Dubowsky studied composition with David Conte, Conrad Susa, Elinor Armer,
and Michael Czajkowski. Dubowsky is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Percussionist Fred Morgan received his BM in percussion performance from the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music under the study of Jack Van Geem and his MM from
the New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Will Hudgins. Fred currently
studies timpani with San Francisco Timpanist David Herbert. Other teachers have
included Andrew Lewis, James Lee Wyatt, and Alan Hall. Fred played William Kraft's
first timpani concerto with the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 2003 as a winner of the
orchestra's Young Artist Competition. Fred was a member of the San Francisco Youth
Symphony from 1997-2002. Fred has performed as a timpanist and percussionist in the
Hong Kong Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Kansas City Symphony.
Fred performs with SF Symphony brass and boys choir at Grace Cathedral in San
Francisco and has subbed with the Midsummer Mozart Festival. Fred participated in
festivals of Spoleto USA, Schleswig-holstein, Music Academy of the West, Jeunnesses
Musicales, National Orchestral Institute, and the Aspen Music Festival. Contemporary
engagements include work with the Sprocket Ensemble and performances and
recordings of the music of Erling Wold. Locally Fred subs with the Oakland East bay
Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony. Fred has received a percussion chair in the
Stockton Symphony.
Trombonist Hall Goff has been a noisemaker all his life, vocalizing sound effects for toy trucks, guns, cars, and planes throughout his childhood in New Jersey. After two years as an alto in the Madison (Wisconsin) Boy Choir, he gravitated to the trombone at age 12 and began listening to dixieland, beebop, pop vocalists of the day (early 60's), and all kinds of recorded sound, later being influenced by early Zappa, Chicago Symphony recordings, and Firesign Theater. Realizing the value of serious practice in his 16th year was a landmark experience. Hall attended Oberlin College (BA), and earned a Master's degree at Yale School of Music, mentored by John Swallow and Otto-Werner Mueller. He has been a member of the S.F. Ballet Orchestra since 1977, and the S.F. Contemporary Music Players since 1979, having had the good fortune to play (to this day) as a freelancer with many bay-area ensembles of all sizes, as well as on various recordings, and behind visiting musical stars of opera, jazz, rock, and pop.
