Virtual Event Series

 

We all could use something to look forward to right now. For artists and music enthusiasts, PARMA Music Festival has just the ticket.

On Tuesday, October 20 at 1 PM ET, PARMA Music Festival together with MusicOlomouc will present a virtual chamber concert live from the Czech Republic: Flowers on the Snow featuring the ensemble Lichtzwang. This event kicks off a virtual season of performances and educational events hosted by the non-profit PARMA Music Festival.

Flowers on the Snow is a live streamed concert of contemplative contemporary music performed by the Czech chamber ensemble Lichtzwang. Streaming from the beautiful Corpus Christi Chapel in Olomouc, Czech Republic, Lichtzwang will perform a program featuring four contemporary composers, including two world premieres. The performance is free and available for the public to stream in.

Flowers on the Snow will be followed by numerous virtual musical experiences, including an interactive panel discussion with leading music industry experts, a truly wild orchestral performance, concerts featuring pieces selected through the PARMA Recordings Call for Scores, and more.

PARMA Music Festival and MusicOlomouc Present: Flowers on the Snow

October 20 at 1 PM EDT

Watch The Live Stream:

https://www.parmarecordings.com/event/pmf-live-stream-10-20-20/

The Pedrito Martinez Group

Global Music: The Pedrito Martinez Group

October 19, 2019 - 8:00pm
at The Dance Hall  /  7 Walker St Kittery, ME 03904 

"Pedrito is a genius. Working with him has been a revelation to me." – Wynton Marsalis

"The Pedrito Martinez Group is the real thing. They had the club JUMPING! It made me feel like a teenager!"
– Quincy Jones

"The Pedrito Martinez Group is writing a new chapter in Cuban music  history." – NPR All Things Considered

Pedro Pablo Pedrito Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba, Sept 12, 1973. Having settled in New York City in the fall of 1998, by 2000, he had been awarded the Thelonius Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion.

Pedrito has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, , Bruce Springsteen, and Sting and has contributed, as a percussionist and vocalist, to over 50 albums.

Pedrito's career as a leader began in 2005 with the formation in NYC of The Pedrito Martinez Group. The group's Grammy-nominated first album was released October, 2013 and was chosen among NPR's Favorite Albums of 2013 and The Boston Globe Critics Top Ten Albums of 2013.

Habana Dreams, PMG's second album, was released in June 2016. Accolades for Habana Dreams include #1 Latin Jazz Album in NPRs Jazz Critics Top Jazz Albums for 2016 and being named anong Boston Globe World Music Albums for 2016.

$40/advance   $45/door General Admission  
$50 advanced preferred seating (limited availability) 

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS

OURBIGBAND w/ Ben Allison

Friday, April 27th

3S Artspace

319 Vaughan St.

Portsmouth, NH 03801

Doors 6pm / Show 7pm

All Ages / Seated

$17 mem / $20 adv / $25 dos

PARMA Music Festival in Cuba!

For the first time in PARMA Music Festival history, on January 20th in the center of historic Havana, Cuba,  we are going to have a PARMA Music Festival event, featuring Apollo Chamber Players, at the National Museum of Fine Arts (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes). Admission is free to the public if you happen to be in the Havana vicinity!

This PARMA Music Festival performance is the second in our 2016-2017 festival series, our first featuring Dave Douglas, and OURBIGBAND at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH.

Stay tuned for upcoming performances on our Facebook and Twitter pages.

National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana

PARMA is headed back to Havana for the third recording session since the borders were opened by an agreement made between the Cuban Government and President Barack Obama back in 2015.

Shortly after the opening of the borders, PARMA Recordings launched a new label, Ansonica Records, an imprint featuring cross-cultural musical exchanges, and have since released two albums, ABRAZO: THE HAVANA SESSIONS, and INTERSECTIONS.

We’re looking forward to pushing musical boundaries and creating more opportunities for musical expression on behalf of our artists!

If you're not familiar with Apollo Chamber Players, have a listen to their Navona Records release BLURRED BOUNDARIES: 

"Tied Together" from Dave Douglas's album High Risk.

Check out "Tied Together" from Dave Douglas's album High Risk. 

This is only a taste of what you will be experiencing in just 8 days. 

Enjoy.

Meet World-Renowned Trumpeter, Dave Douglas!

Coming up on October 7th at the 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, NH, World-renowned trumpeter, composer, educator and entrepreneur from New York City, Dave Douglas from Green Leaf Music, is teaming up with OURBIGBAND for the annual PARMA Recordings Music Festival.

Dave Douglas is known for the stylistic breadth of his work and for keeping a diverse set of ensembles and projects active simultaneously. 

His unique contributions to improvised music have garnered distinguished recognition, including a DorisDuke Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an AaronCopland award, and two GRAMMY® nominations. While his career spans more than 40 recordings as a leader, his active projects include his Quintet; Sound Prints, a quintet co-led with saxophonist Joe Lovano; Riverside, a quartet co-led with Chet Doxas; a duo with pianist Uri Caine; and, High Risk, an electronic-inspired quartet with Mark Guiliana, JonathanMaron and Shigeto.

Douglas has held several posts as an educator and impresario. From 2002 to 2012, he served as artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at The Banff Centre in Canada. He is a co-founder and president of the Festivalof New Trumpet Music, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2012. In 2014, he completed two years as International Jazz Artist in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition to joining the faculty at the Mannes School of Music in 2015, he recently accepted a three-year appointment as the Artistic Director of the Bergamo Jazz Festival in 2016.

PARMA Music Festival is very excited to be presenting highly distinguished artists such as Dave Douglas. Here's a sneak peek to what you will be experiencing coming up on October 7th. Mark your calendars!

"Sad Clown" by OURBIGBAND

Take a look at this live performance of "Sad Clown" by OURBIGBAND from the PARMA Music Festival in 2014. If they were this good then, imagine them now.

Save the date: October 7th, 3S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH

OURBIGBAND! - Sad Clown (Live) from Ellipsis Entertainment on Vimeo.