Guy Klucevsek will perform at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in September, as part of the Christian Marclay Festival. Many of Marclay’s art works double as musical scores, and Guy will interpret those. Some are prints, some are films. His performances will be solo, some in duo or trio format.

Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography, and video.

This groundbreaking Whitney exhibition—activated by daily concerts and continually evolving—explores Marclay’s approach to the world around him with a particular focus on his “graphic scores” for performance by musicians and vocalists. Visitors to the Whitney will be encouraged to mark up a wall-sized chalkboard, with musical staff lines, thereby creating a collective musical score which will be performed throughout the run of the show.

Other Marclay scores, including the premiere of a new scrolled vocal work forty feet in length and three scores conceived as projections, will be continually on view and performed on a regular basis. World renowned musicians and vocalists, some of whom have been regular collaborators with the artist for three decades, will interpret a dozen scores, enabling museum audiences to experience a less well known aspect of Marclay’s varied art practice.

Christian Marclay: Festival was organized by curator David Kiehl with Limor Tomer, adjunct curator of performing arts.

Guy Klucevsek is a versatile composer/accordionist who has worked with many prominent musicians. His solo performances have included Spoleto Festival/USA, Ten Days on the Island Festival (Tasmania), Adelaide Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, Vienna International Accordion Festival, Cotati Accordion Festival and many more.

As a soloist, he has premiered pieces by Aaron Jay Kernis, John Zorn, Mary Ellen Childs, Jerome Kitzke, Lois V Vierk, Stephen Montague, Somei Satoh, William Duckworth, and accordion concerti by Henry Cowell (Concerto Brevis) and Julia Wolfe (True Love).
Guy founded the international group, Accordion Tribe, whose members are Maria Kalaniemi of Finland, Otto Lechner of Austria, and Bratko Bibic of Slovenia, and has released three recordings on the Intuition label.

They are the subject of Stefan Schwietert’s documentary film, “Accordion Tribe: Music Travels,” which has had a theatrical release in Europe, and has played around the world on televsion and film festivals, winning several awards as best documentary.

Guy has released over 20 recordings. Guy’s latest recording is “Dancing on the Volcano”, on the Tzadik label, with a band consisting of Guy Klucevsek and Alex Meixner, accordions, Steve Elson, sax/clarinet, Pete Donovan, bass, and John Hollenbeck, drums.

You can also hear him on John Williams’s scores for the Steven Spielberg films, “The Terminal”, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, and “Munich”. He has performed on Broadway in “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Victor/Victoria” and “Piaf”.

Here is the schedule for Guy Klucevsek’s performances:
Whitney Museum of American Art
Christian Marclay Festival

Wednesday September 1
1pm – Ephemera (solo)

Thursday September 2
12:30pm – Ephemera (solo)

Friday September 3
1:30pm–Informal Artist Talk, with Guy Klucevsek
2pm – The Bell and the Glass: Open Rehearsal
4pm – The Bell and the Glass

Saturday September 4
12:30pm – Screen Play: Open Rehearsal
2:30pm – Screen Play

Sunday September 5
4pm –Ephemera (solo)

Wednesday September 15
1pm –Ephemera(solo)

Thursday September 16
1pm – The Bell and the Glass: Open Rehearsal
2pm – The Bell and the Glass

Friday September 17
1:30pm–Informal Artist Talk, with Guy Klucevsek
3pm – Screen Play: Open Rehearsal
4pm – Screen Play

Saturday September 18
4pm – The Bell and the Glass

Sunday September 19
12:30pm – Screen Play

Wednesday September 22
1pm – Ephemera (solo)

Thursday September 23
1pm –Ephemera(solo)

Saturday September 25
2:30pm – Ephemera (solo)

For further information: gklucevsek@si.rr.com