Three Trapped Tigers

Three Trapped Tigers is an ensemble of recorder players focussed on performance on new music. The core members are David Barnett and Tom Bickley. Their first performance was on 21 June 2003 as part of the Garden of Memory at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, CA. This page will be updated to include information on upcoming performances, etc. Meanwhile, please contact Tom Bickley at tbickley@metatronpress.com or telephone him at 510 204 0607 for more information.

Upcoming Performances:

Trinity Chamber Concerts presents: Three Trapped Tigers : Looking East And West
Saturday, April 9, 2005 - 8 p.m. For free poster, click ->Trinity Concert flyer

$12 General/suggested donation
$8 Senior; Disabled; Student/suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds

recorder players Tom Bickley and David Barnett perform 14th century music with 21st century insights,
and 21st century music with 14th century insights,enjoying the contrasts and common points of both repertoires.
They will present works from Italy, England, Japan and the US to surprise, engage, inspire and entertain you.
Memorable tunes, striking dissonances, and "sonorous open fifths" - (American Recorder, September 2004)

http://trinitychamberconcerts.com
Trinity Chapel
2320 Dana Street between Bancroft Way & Durant Avenue in Berkeley, California
–one block from the U.C. Berkeley Campus. Trinity Chapel is wheelchair accessible.
Free parking is available
For advance tickets call (510) 549-3864

Three Trapped Tigers performs this concert as part of the Concerts for Peace:
The Music for Peace Project 2005 is a global effort to fill the world with music as a call for peace. By coordinating a vast number of concerts worldwide between April 8-10, 2005, The Music for Peace Project will bring popular and media attention to international peace efforts while building a global community of active, socially conscious artists. Dedicated to cultivating peace as both a means and an end, The Music for Peace Project creates a global celebration of peace and provides a voice for the vibrant community that believes in peaceful solutions for the future. Any musician can participate.

Music has the power to inspire compassion and foster understanding between cultures while deepening the bonds that form our communities. Together, all musicians participating in The Music for Peace Project are helping to create a global community of musicians that cannot be ignored.

"Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world—a faith that will lead not to destruction, but to transformation," —Alice Walker

The Music for Peace Project: www.m4p.org

Previous performances

Sunday 29 February 2004
4 pm
Bay Area Recorder Series Benefit Performance (reception following the concert)
St. Albans Episcopal Church
1501 Washington Av
Albany, CA

$18 gen admission
$16 SFEMS/ARS/EMA, students, seniors
$5 children with adult

To assist in funding the accessibility retrofit for St. Albans Church, Three Trapped Tigers performs on a program including the Farallon Recorder Quartet, Judy Linsenberg (of Musica Pacifica), Eileen Hadidian (of Healing Muses), Frances Feldon, Sabine Djernaes, and visiting Swedish virtuoso Dan Laurin. Keyboardist Yuko Tanaka and harpist Natalie Cox also perform. This will be a marvelous opportunity to hear a variety of recorder repertory played by a gathering of excellent professionals, and a chance to support a church that unstintingly supports recorder music in the Bay Area.

This summer look for a Three Trapped Tigers concert at the SFEMS Recorder Week at Domenican University in San Rafael 18-24 July! Details coming soon!

Sunday18 January 2004
8:15 pm
ACME Observatory (a s e r i e s o f c o n t e m p o r a r y m u s i c)
@ The Jazz House (http://www.thejazzhouse.org/)
3192 Adeline (at MLK Jr Way) in Berkeley, CA USA
acme@sfSound.org (510) 649.8744

Cost : Free, donations go to the performers
For more information see http://metatronpress.com/ttt
or contact:
David Barnett
(707) 996-8524 damabarn@aol.com

music by Landini (14th c. Italy), Hirose (20th C. Japan), Bickley (21st c. America), Machaut (14th c. France),
Gasser (20th c. Switzerland) and improvisations (21st c. America)

The concert reflects the performer's love of music as diverse as trecento Italian music, the Ars Subtilior, Asian musics, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, John Coltrane and Matching Mole (to name a few).

On the same performance, the improvising quartet Vorticella:
Brenda Hutchinson (acoustically processed vocals), Krystyna
Bobrowski (natural and household phenomena), Karen Stackpole (gongs and exotic percussion) and Erin Espeland (cello)

Three Trapped Tigers at the Garden of Memory, at the Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, California

21 June 2003
5-8 pm Open to the public, Admission is $10 general, $5 students and seniors.
This performance will include the first performance of Repose for solo alto recorder in g by Tom Bickley, as well as Ode II by Hirose for two recorders, and improvisations and compositions for recorders solo, duo and with electronics.
See Garden of Memory for more information.

Biographies:

DAVID BARNETT is one of the leading chamber music performers in the San Francisco Bay Area, performing on recorder, historical clarinets and chalumeaux. His recorder playing has been described as "compelling as anything since the pied piper," (San Francisco Chronicle.) As recorder soloist, he has presented the full range of the instrument's literature from medieval to modern. Composers Richard Felciano and Pete Rose have written for him and he has given the U.S. premieres of works by British composer Gordon Crosse. He directed the SFEMS Recorder Workshop for ten years and has been a guest conductor for many chapters of the ARS. David performs on historical clarinets chalumeaux and recorder with Zeitgeist 1800, which was a featured ensemble at the 1998 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest. He has performed with the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival, and the Albany Consort and recently performed the Telemann Concerto for 2 Chalumeau at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival with Eric Hoeprich. He has recorded for the Earthbeat, Pacific Artist and Centaur labels.
TOM BICKLEY is a composer, performer and teacher using recorders, voice, and electronics to encourage performers and audiences to enjoy listening to the world. He moved to the Bay Area from Washington, DC after enjoying a composer residency at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in the Fall of 2000. There he performed new works by graduate student composers for recorder and realized a version of Oliveros' Portrait of Tom Bickley for recorder and live electronics. He holds degrees in music, liturgy and information science. Mr Bickley studied with Scott Reiss, Pauline Oliveros, and Ruth Steiner. He's certified by Pauline Oliveros to teach the meditative improvisation techniques of ³Deep Listening.² He sings at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, directs the Cornelius Cardew Choir (large choral ensemble devoted to performance of experimental music), and is active in the duos Gusty Winds May Exist (with shakuhachi player Nancy Beckman) and Mapa Mundi (with cellist Hugh Livingston). His work is available on CD on Quarterstick and Metatron Press. Musical influences in his life include Gregorian chant, Landini, Lou Harrison, John Cage, John Coltrane, and the natural environment.
last update Tuesday 24 February 2004