Friday, January 19th
7pm doors, 7:30pm music
$15-30 sliding scale at door
Will Andrews aka Willverine is a Vermont-based producer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. Will is a constant collaborator, connector, and creator; working with Vermont acts such as psych-icana collective Freeway Clyde, soul shapeshifters Acqua Mossa, and local legends Japhy Ryder, as well as being dubbed the "remix king of Vermont" for his work remixing local acts. When it comes to sounds, Will loves the weird, the simple, and the unique, and strives to bring emotion and motion to whatever instrument he's playing, or group he's playing with. Check out his music on all streaming platforms, and come see him play live every Wednesday at the Wallflower Collective in Burlington, Vermont.
Matt LaRocca is a cross-genre composer and performer who likes making beautiful noises - you're just as likely to see him playing with a band as conducting an orchestra. He is on the composition/theory faculty at the University of Vermont and is the Music Director of the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra. Committed to new music and innovation, he works as the Creative Chair and Project Conductor for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, where he brings classical music to new audiences in new spaces and works in all things non-traditional. Matt's orchestral music has been commissioned by groups such as the Vermont Symphony, the Great Falls Symphony, and the New Jersey Youth Symphony. He performs on the electric viola with the psych-rock improvisation ensemble Freeway Clyde and is in demand as a collaborator and arranger for rock, folk, and electronic musicians including Guster, Kat Wright, Francesca Blanchard, and more. With a love of improvisation and crossing disciplines, Matt is a regular in the dance world and his collaborators include Jessie Owens, ERGO Movement, and Paul Besaw.
Composer Kyle Saulnier’s work has been celebrated by Downbeat as “a Great American Songbook of another order." His music has been performed by the Awakening Orchestra, the Metropole Orkest, the Westerlies, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, Saturn People’s Sound Collective, and TURNmusic, among others, and he has scored for television, advertising, and independent film projects. As a performer, Kyle leads and conducts the Awakening Orchestra, and has recently debuted the collaborative ensembles Edna (with Michael Chorney and Jeremy Frederick) and Cleary/Gagnon/Saulnier (with Tom Cleary and Andy Gagnon). He performs on acoustic bass and baritone saxophone, and has premiered new works by Eve Beglarian and Erik Nielsen, and appeared with artists including Moppa Elliott, Kat Wright, Francesca Blanchard, Brian Boyes, Michael Chorney, and LOVECRAFT. Kyle is the incoming artistic director of the Vermont Jazz Ensemble and the director of the Vermont Youth Symphony’s Jazz Program. He has served as music faculty at Middlebury College, Quinnipiac University, and Northern Vermont University, and is active with the visionary Music-COMP mentoring program.