From his website: Guy Klucevsek is one of the world’s most versatile and highly-respected accordionists. This outstanding composer, accordion virtuoso, and improvisor has been a major contributor to the accordion renaissance of the last 25 years.
He has performed and/or recorded with Laurie Anderson, Bang On a Can, Brave Combo, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell, Rahim al Haj, Robin Holcomb, Kepa Junkera, the Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Present Music, Relâche, Zeitgeist, and John Zorn.
He is the recipient of a 2010 United States Artists Collins Fellowship, an unrestricted $50,000 award given annually to “America’s finest artists.”
He has premiered over 50 solo accordion pieces, including his own, as well as those he has commissioned from Mary Ellen Childs, William Duckworth, Fred Frith, Aaron Jay Kernis, Jerome Kitzke, Stephen Montague, Somei Satoh, Lois V Vierk, and John Zorn.
Performances include the Ten Days on the Island Festival (Tasmania), the Adelaide Festival (Australia), the Berlin Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, Spoleto Festival/USA, BAM Next Wave Festival, Cotati Accordion Festival, San Antonio International Accordion Festival, Vienna International Accordion Festival, and the children’s television show “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
Klucevsek has released over 20 recordings as soloist/leader on Tzadik, Winter & Winter, innova, Starkland, Review, Intuition, CRI, and XI. Stereo Review cited his Starkland recording, Transylvanian Software, as a recording of special merit” (1995). He can also be heard on John Williams’s orchestral scores for the Steven Spielberg films, “The Terminal,” “Munich,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” and “The Adventures of Tin-Tin,” and on A. R. Rahman’s score for “People Like Us,”Rahman’s score for “People Like Us.”
Future performances:
Feb. 20, 2016, 6:30 PM CATSKILL, NY
Charles Busch: The Lady at the Mic
Feb. 21, 7 PM HUDSON, NY
Charles Busch: The Lady at the Mic
Feb. 26, 2016, 7:30 PM NEW YORK, NY/Lincoln Center
Charles Busch: The American Songbook Series
March 10, 2016, 8 PM BROOKLYN, NY:
Duo with Phillip Johnston, soprano sax
Barbés, 6th Ave./9th St., Park Slope
April 4, 2016 – May 2, 2016 HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Sausalito, CA
April 7, 2016, 6 PM SAN FRANCISCO, CA: Presidio Dialogues
Lecture/Demo Presidio Officers’ Club
April 22, 2016, Time TBA BERKELEY, CA: Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archives Guy will be part of an event curated by Sarah Cahill
BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA.
For further information: gklucevsek@mac.com
