Composer Neil Rolnick, violinist Jennifer Choi and pianist Kathleen Supové will perform a concert of
Rolnick’s compositions Monday at 8 p.m. at the Clazel Theater, 127 N. Main Street in downtown Bowling
Green.
The free concert is part of the Music at the Forefront concert series sponsored by Bowling Green State
University’s MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music.
Composer Neil Rolnick pioneered the use of computers in musical performance in the late 1970s. Rolnick
has often included unexpected and unusual combinations of materials and media in his music. He has
performed around the world, exploring forms as diverse as digital sampling, interactive multimedia, and
acoustic vocal, chamber and orchestral works. Throughout the 1980s and 90s he was responsible for the
development of the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the U.S.
Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo violin,
chamber music and the art of creative improvisation. Since giving her New York debut at Carnegie Hall in
2000, she has performed in venues worldwide. She has premiered and performed more than 50 new music
works and has collaborated with composers including John Zorn, Christian Wolfe, Leo Wadada Smith,
Elliott Sharp, Randall Woolf and Susie Ibarra.
In May 2012, Kathleen Supové received the John Cage Award from ASCAP for “the artistry and passion with
which she performs, commissions, records, and champions the music of our time.” Supové is known for
continually redefining the definition of a pianist-keyboardist-performance artist.
Works to be performed are “Hammer & Hair,” “Dynamic RAM & Concert Grand,” “Fiddle Faddle”
and solo laptop works.
