Genkin Philharmonic | Live Recording Concert (Session 2)

Saturday, May 31, 7:00 p.m.

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (341 Delaware Ave.)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Photo of a group of musicians, including horn players, guitarist, violinist, and drummer performing outside on a concrete area with trees in the background.

Genkin Philharmonic performing at the 2023 Buffalo Humanities Festival

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center welcomes the return of the singular Genkin Philharmonic, in it's most powerful, refined and unhinged incarnation since it’s inception some 20 years ago. Led by trumpeter & UB music professor Jon Nelson, this truly unique assemblage of some of Buffalo's finest musicians will perform a program of original music for two evenings of live concert recording for a future release. Don’t miss what promises to be a one-of-a-kind concert experience!

6:30 p.m. | Doors open (cash bar)

The Genkin Philharmonic, a Buffalo, NY based ten-piece electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, was founded in 2000 by Jon Nelson at the University at Buffalo Music Department. Originally conceived as a class at UB, its mission was to provide a uniquely challenging opportunity for students to study and perform contemporary music that draws on musical genres spanning rock, jazz, improvised and classical music.

The current Genkin is made up of professional players, drawing from a diverse pool of musicians in the Buffalo area, its core membership comprised of UB Faculty and alumni. Other members come from the Buffalo Philharmonic, Fisher-Price, Buffalo String Works, and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. This hybrid of top-level classical, new music, and improvising performers, creates a band that offers a dizzying array of styles in concert.

The band gave an historic performance at the 2002 International Trumpet Guild Conference, and played for sold out crowds Mexico City at the 2003 Condesa Jazz Festival and the Festival Centro Historico. The Genkin has performed and taught at East Carolina University, Mt. Holyoke College, at Buffalo area venues including Nietzsche\'s, Burchfield-Penney, Mohawk Place, UB, and Hallwalls.

Featuring:
Jon Nelson: director, arranger, trumpet 
Tim Clarke: trumpet, flugelhorn 
Yuki Namata Resnick: violin 
Isabel Ong: violin 
Dalton Sharp: tenor/alto sax 
Steve Baczkowski: baritone sax, winds 
Harry Graser: piano, keyboard 
Zane Merritt: guitar 
Thomas Scully: trombone 
Dan Lamancuso: tuba 
Michael Wagner: bass, vocals 
Matt Felski: drum kit 
Ravi Padmanabha: percussion

Sponsored, in part, by the University at Buffalo Vice President for Research and Economic Development/Humanities Institute Publication Support Program