Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 8pm
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Doors: 7:30pm Performance begins promptly at 8pm
Admission: $15 / $10 for members and students (suggested donation)
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Advanced tickets available
Non-Event is pleased to present Arthur Brooks Ensemble V featuring Arthur Brooks (trumpet and flugelhorn), Bill Heminway (trumpet and flugehorn), Polly Vanderputten (cello), Jeremy Harlos (bass), Anthony Santor (bass, Tibetan bowls. and Chinese gong) and Matthew Weston (percussion).
About the artists
Arthur Brooks was a member of the Bennington College faculty for 23 years as both teaching assistant and professor. There he founded Ensemble V. He has been a student and collaborator with Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, dancer Penny Campbell, dancer Patricia Bardi, Frank Wright, William Parker and many others. He was one of the founding members of the Boston Art Ensemble with the great Stan Strickland, Syd Smart, and the late Hayes Burnet. Brooks was also a member of Brute Force, a group founded by the late Richard Daniels where he met Stan and Sydney, and the trumpeter, Ted Daniel. He remains indebted to all of these artists, and inspired by the integrity of their spiritual and artistic pursuit.
Bill Heminway has been active in the music scene in Vt since the early nineties: The So-Called Jazz Sextet, New Nile Orchestra, Ensemble V, Pantet. He is eternally grateful to Penny Campbell, Michael Chorney, Arthur Brooks and Bill Dixon for introducing him to the world of improvised music, art, life within all of us. In addition to music Bill worked as a para professional and teacher for 25 years in local elementary schools. Bill's teaching now happens on his farm where he works mainly with Pollyprimary aged students and non-neuro typical adults in a quest to explore and share in the creative life forces which form our habitat.
Polly Vanderputten started playing cello as a kid in Burlington, Vermont. She has performed in orchestra and chamber groups ever since, including the Vermont Youth Orchestra, L'Orchestre Serenade de Montreal, the Vermont iteration of the Hadestown Band, and the Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra. She is grateful to all of her teachers, particularly Bonnie Thurber Klimowski and Mhairi Thomson-Tessier. She loves the shifting soundscape of Ensemble V which she has played with since 2006.
Jeremy Harlos studied with Arthur Brooks and Bill Dixon at Bennington College 1986-1992. B.A. in Black Music and Mathematics from Bennington College in 1990. Performed and recorded with Arthur Brooks, Jack Wright, Justin Perdue, Matt Weston, Michael Chorney, Anthony Santor, Bill Hemmenway, Alec Julien, Patricia Julien, Daniel Carter, Ehran Elisha, and Haim Elisha.
Anthony Santor is a bass player and massage therapist incorporating body work and sound immersion into his style of body work. His musical career spans 50 years of playing improvised music. He has been performing with Arthur Brooks in Ensemble V for over 20 years.
Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics, and has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. A student of Arthur Brooks, Bill Dixon, and Milford graves, Weston has has also collaborated with Bill Callahan Kevin Drumm, Mary Halvorson, Jeff Parker and many others. He appears on over 30 releases and has bee a member of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V since 1992.
