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A
unique quintet of clarinet, cello, percussion, and violin performing
post-classical and mixed-media works of Robin Cox and other contemporary
composers.
Robin Cox Ensemble Demo Video: Quicktime Windows
Media
YouTube
Upcoming
Concerts:
7/13/09 at 8pm with pianist Andrew Russo
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA directions
$16/$12 students at the door: online tickets sales
Grammy-nominated and genre-defying pianist Andrew Russo performs with RCE on pop/rock tunes arranged or deconstructed by some of today's leading American composers. Works will include music by Cox, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Carl Vine, Radiohead, Velvet Underground, the B52's and more. |
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8/16/09 with violinist Todd Reynolds
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, CA directions
$16/$12 students at the door: online tickets sales
Todd Reynolds is violinist for the Steve Reich Ensemble, Meredith Monk, The Books, Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, a founder of the Ethel String Quartet and endorsed by Ableton Live. He will perform works for processed violin/interactive electronics/video and a newly commissioned work by Cox with the full Robin Cox Ensemble. |
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Latest News
5/15/09
The ensemble will be in the recording studio over the summer preparing for new releases in fall 09. New tracks will Include Everywhere, For Tomorrow, Drive, Faster Than That (w/ pianist Andrew Russo), and RPM (w/ violin solist Todd Reynolds), and Levitation Games (w/ marimba soloist Scott Deal)
9/10/08
Groove
Note Records has released
an hi-def extended version of our piece "Square Feet" on audiophile quality vinyl. It is available at Elusive Disc
5/22/08
If you've had trouble viewing our web videos
in the past, good news -we are now also up on YouTube. The new links
are on the RCE video
page.
5/20/08
Three new quicktime movies are
up on the video page -music by Dan
Becker, live performance with Amy X Neuburg,
and a new Square Feet video. Also, we've posted
a live performance mp3 from last year of Levitation Games
on the music page.
12/2/07
Our
next few months will unveil many exciting projects.
First,
we'll be in Hollywood recording for Groove Note Records an expanded version of "Square Feet". This will be for
a high-end audiofile LP release of works featuring percussion. We'll
be sure and post the news of a release date when we get it.
Second, February brings the premiere of a project with the amazing
San Francisco vocalist/electronic sound artist Amy
X Neuburg. Amy will perform with us on arrangements
of her works, and we'll premiere a piece she's written just for
RCE. After February performances in Santa Barbara, we'll bring this
show to Santa Monica in April.
Third, April has us performing works by composer Bill
Ryan , including
a new commission for RCE. Ryan had been getting a lot of attention
lately for his direction of a critically acclaimed CD release and
a live performance on the Bang on a Can Marathon with the students
of Michigan's Grand Valley State University of Steve Reich's Music
for 18 Musicians -he's also a heck of a composer too!
Fourth,
we'll complete the spring with "One Minute Wonders" performing
in a row on May 5th thirty one-minute works created for RCE by the
composition students of Cal State University -Long Beach .
4/16/07
We've
revamped our music page. Now you can purchase RCE mp3s straight
from our website, including previously unreleased live tracks!
LINK
3/22/07
Listen
to Robin along with Pamela Z, Belinda Reynolds, and Ryan Brown
on NPR station KQED in San Francisco (also on Sirius
Satellite) discussing this weekend's concerts. LINK
3/19/07
RCE
is now on MySpace at: www.myspace.com/robincoxensemble
6/30/06
RCE
is looking for works for live performance with video projection.
Click here
for more info.
6/6/06
RCE
is happy to announce that cellist Maggie Parkins is joining the
ensemble! See our bio page for more info about Maggie.
5/30/06
Big collaboration to announce: We are
embarking on a major performance project for
spring 2007 with the
Common Sense
Composer's Collective, who will be creating new works for the
ensemble. The impressive roster of the
collective includes Dan Becker, John Halle, Ed Harsh, Mellisa Hui,
Marc Mellits, Belinda Reynolds, Randall Woolf, and Carolyn Yarnell.
Stay tuned for performance dates and locations......
3/14/06
RCE is happy to announce that Heather
Carney is joining the team as our production assistant. Heather
brings
many skills and experiences to the job, including an
extensive background in dance and concert production.
10/31/05
RCE will be a resident ensemble for
the 2006 Iridian
Arts presenting series in Santa Barbara -with performances this
coming winter, spring, and summer. For more info: CLICK
HERE
7/9/05
RCE is happy to announce that clarinetist
Marty Walker is joining the ensemble! See our bio page for more
info about Marty.
7/5/05
The Los Angeles Chapter of the American Composers
Forum has awarded the ensemble a Subito Grant towards our October
2005 collaboration with Santa Barbara's Speaking of Stories
7/1/05
Changing of the Guard: Clarinetist Elana
Weber has decided to shift gears and is leaving RCE. We're sorry
to lose a terrific player to life pursuits outside of music, but
are happy for Elana in her excitement heading towards a new career.
6/12/05
We are happy to announce that the ensemble is now a part of Iridian
Arts, Inc., a Santa Barbara based 501(c) (3) non-profit supporting
the creation and presentation of adventurous music and multi-media
performing arts. We hope you will consider partnering with RCE in
the production of intriguing and provocative concerts with a tax
deductible contribution to Iridian Arts.
12/10/04
Meet
the Composer has awarded Robin Cox a Creative Connections
Grant to support his residency with the ensemble at the University
of Alaska -Fairbanks during the first week of February 2005.
7/28/04
RCE, along with John Adams, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Kronos
Quartet, and many more you will be glad to discover may be heard
online 24/7 at Iridian Radio
6/2/04
The ensemble's music is now available for purchase from Apple's
itunes. Use this itunes button to go to our page and listen to and/or
purchase individual tracks (or a whole CD) via downloading straight
to your computer or mp3 player. 
3/10/04
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The ensemble has won the 2003 Lester Horton Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Music for Dance for collaboration with Loretta
Livingston and Dancers. This is the third year in a row
that the ensemble and music composed by Robin Cox has been nominated,
and the second win in a row. LINK
11/14/03
RCE has received commitments from an exciting group of artistic
collaborators for spring 2004. In February 04, RCE will perform
at UC -Irvine with the choreography of Loretta Livingston. In April/May
04, RCE will tour California with new collaborations involving filmmaker
Kwame Braun, performance artist Judy Bauerlein, choreographer Stephanie
Nugent, and composer/animator Carolyn Bremer.
8/24/03
RCE T-shirts and other items are now available. To view or
purchase, click
here
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