Avalanche - past and future Projects
See our future projects below and help us make them possible!
Avalanche was founded to favor intercultural exchanges through music and unleash the traditional Symphony. In practice, we facilitate the traveling of music and musicians and strive to expose our audiences to new artistic tastes, inviting them to challenge their relationship with orchestral music. We develop this plan in two directions as we collaborate with foreign artists and perform outside the US. Likewise, we export Classical music to unconventional venues and invite non-Classical artists to express themselves with a full Romantic symphony orchestra and perform their music in concert halls.
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FUTURE PROJECTS
A Night of American Classics: Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Williams - July 2025 TBA
They are making it possible: Private Donors
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After the success of our Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Centennial Celebration, we are invited to perform at a summer music festival. We are not able to make the details public yet but get in touch with us to support our next performance and we will let you in the confidence!
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PAST PROJECTS
A Kaleidoscope of Sound: Centennial Celebration of Gershwin's RHAPSODY IN BLUE - February 12, 2024
They made it possible: SUNY Optometry, Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union, Klavierhaus Piano Company,
Zipline Media, and Private Donors
History has it that Paul Whiteman decided to prove that the new music called Jazz was not any less refined than classical music. He thought it deserved to be heard in a concert hall, with orchestrations for a symphonic band. On February 12, 1924, he presented his "Experiment in Modern Music'' at the Aeolian Hall which as the critic W. Damrosch later wrote "made a lady out of Jazz". This concert featured early traditional Jazz, comedy selections, the latest standards, and two creations: Victor Herbert's Suite of Serenade - the last composition of the operetta master - and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue!
Avalanche was very excited to celebrate this piece which crystallized the sound of American music, influencing Jazz, Classical and Music at large for the past hundred years! We presented a concert based on the original 1924 program, with a 25-piece Symphonic Jazz band Avalanche, our favorite Vladimir Rumyantsev at the piano and our Broadway Star guest Mary Callanan.
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Avalanche celebrate Polish Month with pianist RadosÅ‚awa Jasik and composer MikoÅ‚aj Górecki - November 22, 2022
They made it possible: Polish Diplomacy in Warsaw, Consulate General of Poland in New York, Polish Cultural Institute, Green&Szymanski Offices, Private Donors
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In the Polish Consulate’s stunning Ballroom pianist RadosÅ‚awa Jasik, Louis Arques, and the Avalanche Orchestra championed MikoÅ‚aj Górecki’s penetrating music and interviewed the composer on his work. To expand the artistic dimension of the evening, they invited the artist BolesÅ‚aw Ryzinski to exhibit his latest series of photographs.
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Musica Barata, by Columbian composer Fabian Beltran - recorded on June 22, 2022
They made it possible: NYU Science and Art, Avalanche Arts
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Recorded at NYU Science and Arts, this piece by composer Fabian Beltran "was conceived as a work of popular music that features a strong Latin jazz influence while incorporating a few elements of classical/contemporary composition. The music openly embraces the dancelike, folk, and rhythmic vitality that is often prevalent in popular music genres and non-Western traditions."
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