BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9@grandpianoseries.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20200804T110000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20200804T110000 DTSTAMP:20230821T232749Z URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/songwriting-101/ SUMMARY:SONGWRITING 101 DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n\n\n\nDo you always have a song in your head ? How did it get there? Do you want to write songs? In this workshop we'll briefly analyze what all great songs have in common\, and try to write a few of our own -- all in the space of an hour. No experience / no instrume nts required / all ages welcome.\n\nLJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) [ˈˈljɒvə (lɛ v ʒʊərˈbiːn]) was born in 1978 in Moscow\, Russia\, and moved to New York with his parents\, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzbu rg\, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage\ , contemporary dance &\; film\, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND\, as well as a busy career as a freelance violist\, violinist &\; musical arranger. Among recent projects are commissions from the Ci ty of London Sinfonia\, The Louisville Orchestra\, a new work for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble\, a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider\, a clar inet quintet for Art of Élan\, and works for The Knights\, Sybarite5 and A Far Cry\, as well arrangements for the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, San Fr ancisco Symphony\, Detroit Symphony Orchestra\, tenor Javier Camarena\, co nductors Gustavo Dudamel and Alondra de la Parra\, the Mexican songwriter Natalia Lafourcade\, Argentine composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla. Ljo va frequently collaborates with choreographers Aszure Barton\, Damian Woet zel\, Christopher Wheeldon\, Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with Parsons Dance). In 2018\, he was a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University’s Atelier p rogram\, co-teaching a course on collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist. \n\nLjova is the author of more than 120 compositions for classical\, ja zz\, and folk ensembles\, as well as scores to numerous feature\, document ary\, and short subject films. He has released ten albums on his label\, K apustnik Records\, and his compositions have been recorded on Deutsche Gra mmophon\, Sony Classical\, Bridge Records\, Naxos and In A Circle labels.   He is an alum of the Sundance Institute’s Film Composers Lab. His mus ic has been licensed by HBO\, PBS\, BBC\, CNBC\, and NHK networks\, among many other independent projects.\n\nLjova has taught as visiting guest fac ulty at The Banff Centre in Canada focusing equally on composition\, arran ging\, and viola performance. He has also guest-lectured on film music at New York University\, performance and composition at the Berklee College o f Music\, Mark O’Connor Method Camp\, and has taught viola and chamber m usic at the Special Music School in New York City.  He has appeared as vi olist on Saturday Night Live (with Sia)\, The Late Show with David Letterm an and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Ljova is the curator of “Out of Leftovers”\, a family-friendly performance series at New York’s Sym phony Space.\n\nHis album MELTING RIVER\, focuses on music Ljova created for “Project XII”\, on commission from Canadian choreographer (and Bar yshnikov’s protege)\, Aszure Barton.  LOST IN KINO\, his third album\, focuses on recent film music\, and features cues from films by Francis For d Coppola\, James Marsh\, Basia Winograd\, Lev Polyakov\, Roman Khrushch\, as well as performances by the Gypsy band Romashka\, the Tall Tall Trees and the pipa virtuoso Wu Man.\n\nWith his main performing ensemble\, LJOV A AND THE KONTRABAND\, Ljova has appeared at New York’s Lincoln Center\, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC\, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (as p art of the Sundance Film Festival)\, New York’s Museum of Modern Art\, J oe’s Pub and other venues. The Ensemble has toured to the United Kingdom \, Canada\, and around the United States.  The Kontraband released its se cond album\, “NO REFUND ON FLOWERS“\, raising over $21\,000 in a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter.  Their acclaimed debut CD\, “MNEMOSYNE ” and is the featured ensemble on “Cupcake”\, a short film which deb uted at Tribeca Film Festival and was performed live at Lincoln Center.\n\ nLjova released his acclaimed solo debut recording\, VJOLA: WORLD ON FOUR STRINGS\, on Kapustnik Records\, in 2006. Previously\, he has recorded wi th Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble on the bestselling Sony Classical C D “Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon”\, and with The Andalucian D ogs on the Deutsche Grammophon CD “Ayre”\, featuring the music of Luci ano Berio and Osvaldo Golijov. (Both CDs were nominated for several Grammy awards.) He has performed on tour with Savion Glover\, and recorded with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto\, producer Guy Sigsworth\, Nina Nastasia\, Amy C orreia\, and the Electric Light Orchestra.\n\nAs an arranger\, Ljova has c ompleted dozens of musical arrangements for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ens emble\, the Kronos Quartet\, Bond\, Matmos\, and others. He has also colla borated with composers Osvaldo Golijov and Gustavo Santaolalla\, as well a s the conductor Alondra de la Parra. Resulting from these collaborations a re arrangements of musics from Argentina\, Azerbaijan\, China\, India\, Ir an\, Japan\, Mexico\, Russia\, Tanzania\, Uruguay\, as well as gypsy music from Romania and France.\n\nLjova grew up in a household filled with musi c\, books and an unquenchable hunger for culture. His father\, Alexander Z hurbin\, is Russia’s foremost composer for film and musical theatre\; hi s mother\, Irena Ginzburg\, is a distinguished poet\, writer and journalis t. He began violin lessons at age four with Galina Turchaninova\, a celebr ated pedagogue who also taught violinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin. When not practicing\, the pre-teen Ljova regularly overran his record play er and played street hockey.\n\nLjova is a graduate of The Juilliard Schoo l\, where he was a pupil of Samuel Rhodes (violist of the Juilliard String Quartet). He has won numerous prizes as a composer\, and appeared several times as soloist with orchestras\, including as a winner of the Menschenk inderpreis from RTL TV (Germany). He performs on a viola made by Alexand er Tulchinsky\, and a six-string “fadolín” made by Eric Aceto.\n\nLj ova lives on the Upper West Side of New York City with his wife\, vocalist and attorney Inna Barmash\, and their sons\, Benjamin and Yosif.\n\nFor the latest news\, downloadable mp3s and CD releases\, please visit Ljova ’s website at Ljova.com\n\nLjova loves student films!\n\nWHAT DOES “L JOVA” MEAN?\n\n“dunno if that’s a first name or a surname but it’s all we’ve got to go on” (from a CD review in Paris Transatlantic)\n\ nQuite simply\, Ljova (pronounced L’yova) is the Russian “informal ” version of the name Lev\, similar to what Danny is to Daniel.In its o wn turn\, Lev has many meanings: in Russian it means “Lion”\; in Heb rew it means “heart”\; in Bulgaria it is the national currency (i.e. T he Lev)\; and in Slovenia it’s a Hotel. It is also the name of my grandf ather\, Lev Ginzburg. Furthermore\, my other grandfather\, grandmother\, f ather — and yours truly — were all born in the “Lion” part of Augu st.\n\nHowever Ljova has no apparent wide-ranging meaning as far as I kn ow.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/grandpianoseries.org/wp-conten t/uploads/2023/01/71bee8_4ba92189502e4a389b9f14d151b760b7_mv2.webp?fit=979 %2C552&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Easter X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Easter BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20200404T210000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:-06 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR