Best In Score 2021 - Webcast Premiere

Tribeca New Music 2021-22 Festival 
Best In Score 2021 - Webcast Premiere  
Zac Zinger • Benjamin Rieke First Place scores of 2021 Young Composer Competition
The Resonance Collective - Zac Zinger - Jeremy Ajani Jordan - Mark Dover 
Thu Nov 18, 2021 6:00 PM EST  (Webcast will be accessible until Sun Nov 21, 2021 11:00 PM EST)

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TNM presents Best In Score 2021 featuring the winning scores of the Tribeca New Music National 2021 Young Composer Competition. Composer/performer Zac Zinger (Division 1, ages 22-35) will perform his Haiku in Variation for string quartet and shakuhachi (flute), and composer Benjamin Rieke (Division 2, ages 21 and under) will have his composition S Is performed by the Resonance Collective, a NYC-based string quartet.
The concert will also feature the music of composer/pianist Jeremy Ajani Jordan performing his For Flint (solo piano), Clarity (solo piano and electronics) by Pawan Benjamin, and God Only Knows by Brian Wilson, with clarinetist Mark Dover.

The Resonance Collective is a group of NYC-based musicians with a diverse range of expertise who have joined forces to merge new classical music with chamber jazz. With a line-up that ranges from a string quartet to a jazz orchestra, its members are Grammy-winning and nominated musical omnivores who have performed in major venues throughout the world such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Library of Congress, and Wiener Musikverein. They have made music with major artists including Steve Reich, Maria Schneider, Paquito D’Rivera, Brad Mehldau, Chris Thile, Bjork, Kurt Elling, Esperanza Spalding, and Yo Yo Ma. The musicians of Resonance Collective bring their wealth of experience as jazz artists, new music champions, vocalists, fiddlers, and composers to a unified mission of more clearly defining and innovating the genre of contemporary chamber jazz. Through live performances, recordings, and new music commissions, they passionately aim to bring this under-appreciated genre to wider recognition.

Critically acclaimed, “a clear technical virtuoso”, “a rare talent”, and “a true Wunderkind,” Chicago born Jeremy Ajani Jordan burst onto the music scene at age 9 playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a live televised performance. Jordan was born into a musical family where his mother and father were his first instructors. They ensured that his burgeoning talent was nurtured by providing a strong foundation in classical training and also encouraged his study of improvised music and composition. Jordan went on to appear on the acclaimed radio program From The Top and From The Top: Live from Carnegie Hall performing Liszt. Since then Jordan has made his solo Carnegie Hall debut performing Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and Wagner.

Jeremy continues to compose solo piano music, chamber music, orchestral music, and electronic music. His compositions have debuted on National Public Radio and have received world premieres at Seattle’s Emerald City Music Festival, New York’s National Sawdust, and Ireland’s Sounds From a Safe Harbour. His most recent album ‘For Flint’ featured several original jazz compositions and raised money to purchase clean water for families affected by the Flint Water Crisis.

Clarinetist Mark Dover has always maintained firm roots in classical music, while at the same time devoting his career to searching as deeply as he can into the vast world of improvised music. In January of 2016, Dover joined the Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds. With Imani Winds he maintains a busy touring schedule as well as multiple residencies. In fall of 2021, Mark will join the Faculty at Curtis Institute of Music with Imani Winds, where they will serve as the school’s first ever Faculty Wind Quintet.
In addition to his work in the classical world, Mark has an extensive background in jazz and improvised music. He formed the multi-genre duo Port Mande with pianist/producer Jeremy Jordan in 2017. Their debut EP “Is This Loss?” was released in July of 2020. Mark is a frequent collaborator with Vulfpeck, an American funk band formed in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan.