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KG Price   composer/performer

150 Allen St   Buffalo, NY   USA   14201

716.830.6031           pricekg@gmail.com

kgprice.com 
 
 
 

MUSICAL EXPERIENCE

      2oo5-current  Suite 440, head and founder, independent modern music label and event organizer                     

composer/songwriter for Pocket Adventures on PBS's ThinkBright

                  Feb o7  New Echoes From Old Chambers, a concert of new music

                              Event organizer/GRANT WRITER     

                              conductor for arrangement of Ligeti's "Lux Æterna"

                              composed/performed in "Translations of a Landscape"

                        Featuring: Jean-François Laporte of IRCAM and U de M

                                       Jesus Contreras

                                    Bare Flames  (Tim Trump and Jim Abrahmson)

                                    Jonathan Golove of 'Meet the Composers'

                  Dec o6  Distribution of NEUMUSIK, promo CD for "New Echoes..."

                  Oct o5  "Nadia Says Hi!", BurchField-Penney Arts Center, The first Suite 440 concert         
 

2oo7-current TentetOctet and the Reactionary Ensemble

Percussionist, drummer and co-composer

June o7 Montreal InFringement Festival

Aug o7 The Edge, Roppongi, Tokyo and RAMLA Convention Center, Iidabashi, Tokyo

Nov o7 Squeaky Wheel Media Center with full ensemble



      2oo4-current Spiritwind Ensemble, writer, co-director and musical research for Butoh

                  and martial arts through electro/acoustic music and dance

                  Fall o4  Allentown Dance Studio

   Summer 06 Infringement Festival

                  Jan o7  Institute for Traditional Medicine, Toronto, ON 

      2oo5-2007 Milkfat, hip-hop/jazz/electronica, drummer, signed Good Charamel Records

                  Mar o7  Music Is Hope performance at Gow School for Boys

                  Aug o6-Mar o7 Drums, Keyboard, Trumpet at Trackmasters Studio

                  Jun o6  Opened for 'Blondie' at Albright-Knox Art Gallery 

      October o6 Shadow Mapping, musical response to theoretical architecture

                              performance and composition with Nimbus Dance Ensemble

                              to designs by architect Anthony Viscardi at Gallery 164 

      Summer o6 Post, electro/acoustic experimental blues, performances at:

                              Soundlab with Neptune

                              Soundlab with Yellow Swans

                              UB Center for the Arts with Josh Strauss 

      2oo5-o6  Film composer and actor for NY 'Islanders' videographer Matthew Holota,

                  Fall o5  showings at Soundlab and Albright-Knox Art Gallery 

       2oo1-o4  ETHOS New Music Society, various performances

                  Feb o3   Nusound 3 performed and composed for Joseph Schwatner    Feb o2   Nusound 2 performed for Samual Adler

                  o1-o4  Percussion liaison

                  o2-o3  Public Relations Officer

                  o3-o4  Poster Design and public relations 
   

    2oo3-o4   Mexican Marimba Ensemble at SUNY Fredonia

    2oo1-o4   Fredonia Percussion Ensemble, electronics and percussion

    2oo1-o4   Fredonia Wind Symphony

                  Fall o3  Principle Percussionist, Wind Symphony 

EDUCATION

      2oo1-o4   Bachelor of Music in Composition, SUNY Fredonia

          Composition of music, concerts and events. Electro/acoustic performance and musique concrete.  

          Film, philosophy and redtape (as a result of three colleges for one degree) 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

      Spring 2oo7-current Motivational speaking to high school children for Music is Hope 

      Summer 2oo4- current Private percussion lessons

      Summer 2oo3  ONE on ONE teacher's aide for disabled children 

LANGUAGES

      French  intermediate reading, writing and speaking

      Spanish  intermediate reading and speaking

      HTML  designed own website, kgprice.com 

OTHER EXPERIENCE

        1998-2oo1 Event organizer for Bubble Crew, Binghamton, NY

        1998-2oo1 Event promoter for Parlor City Punks 
         

SERVICE

        2oo4-current Music Is Art volunteer

        Summer o6 InFringement Festival Stage Manager for Soundlab

      Summer o6 Music liaison InFringement Festival

        2oo1-o4 ETHOS New Music Society member

      1993-2oo1 Volunteer for Toys For Tots 

General Interest

                  Analysis of contemporary art and music

                  Elementary education

                  Analysis of commercial music

                  Philosophy of æsthetics

                  Public Speaking

                  coffee (practiced barista)

                  Cultural activism