Amor Fati (Nate Wooley, Cecilia Lopez, Eli Wallace & Drew Wesely) & Victor Vieira-Branco/Sam Yulsman duo

Amor Fati:

Amor Fati are a new quartet of Nate Wooley (trumpet), Cecilia Lopez (electronics), Eli Wallace (piano) & Drew Wesely (guitar).

Nate Wooley:

Nate Wooley was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of 13. He made his debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at the opening series of their 2019 season. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language.Wooley moved to New York in 2001 and has since become one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz, improv, noise, and new music scenes. He has performed regularly with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Eliane Radigue, Annea Lockwood, Ken Vandermark, Evan Parker, and Yoshi Wada. He has premiered works for trumpet by Christian Wolff, Michael Pisaro, Annea Lockwood, Ash Fure, Wadada Leo Smith, Sarah Hennies, Martin Arnold, and Eva-Maria Houben.

Cecilia Lopez:

Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation and the creation of sound devices and systems. Lopez holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and an MA from Wesleyan University in composition (2016). Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), MATA Festival 2012, Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway) and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others. She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow in 2015 and has participated in various international residency programs. In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems coproduced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Collaborators include Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, Brandon Lopez, John Driscoll, Carrie Schneider and Lars Laumann among others.

Eli Wallace:

Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY, leading his own projects, collaborating with other like-minded artists, and co-curating the interdisciplinary performance series Invocation with Drew Wesely. His work as a pianist displays his vast milieu of experiences from classical, jazz, free improvisation studies, and extensive piano preparation, while his compositions employ notational strategies to broaden the manner in which sounds are created and the ways in which musicians interact. Over the past decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and has performed at such esteemed venues as The Stone, New York, NY, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, and the Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA.

Drew Wesely:

Drew Wesely is a guitarist, composer, and improviser based out of Brooklyn, NY. Their music explores relationships between timbre, gesture, duration and the fractal scales of form that emerge through improvisation. Their compositional approach aims to set processes in motion which engage spacial and physical aspects of sound perception.Drew’s interest in how states of consciousness affect the unfolding of sound as an experience and the implications it presents as an embodied phenomena has led them to create large-scale, immersive installation works including the curation and production of the interdisciplinary series “Invocation” alongside artists from radically divergent practices and histories. Drew has presented this work at The Stone, Roulette Intermedium, Firehouse 12, and Pioneer Works among others.

Victor Vieira-Branco & Sam Yulsman duo:

Victor Vieira-Branco is a Brazilian/American vibraphonist, having spent the 2010s in the vibrant São Paulo music scene. While Bark Culture is Vieira-Branco’s primary vehicle as a leader, his performances include work with Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, the Chad Taylor Quintet, and as active as an improviser having performed with Toshi Makihara, Ken Vandermark, Dorothy Carlos, Ben Hall, Jaribu Shahid and others.

Sam Yulsman is a pianist, composer and theorist with roots in a wide array of experimental music and jazz lineages. He has
collaborated closely with Jessie Cox, Roman Filiu, Brandon Lopez, Chris Corsano, Anaïs Maviel, Art Lande, Lester St. Louis, Alicia Hall Moran, Anna Webber, Diego Espinosa, TJ Borden, Marcela Lucatelli and Kevin Ramsay among many others. As a composer his work has been performed by ensembles and soloists including JACK Quartet, Talea Ensemble, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Distractfold, Ensemble Korea, Rage Thormbones and Séverine Ballon. He recently completed his DMA in composition at Columbia University where he studied with George E. Lewis. 

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This event supported by a sponsorship grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District