Artists

Andrew Czink News

• solo piano music at the Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur (100 Sherbrooke East) on Saturday Oct 18, 2003 at 8pm.
  
• round table discussion about improvisation and composition at the same venue (part of McGill's Project Improvisation) at 1:30pm on Friday Oct 17, 2003 along with Vancouver pianist/composer Paul Plimley and New York improviser Marilyn Crispell.
• premiere of new song cycle for the Kate Hammett-Vaughn Art Song Sextet, Saturday December 16th, 2000 at the Western Front. See Details.
• Structural Damage performed March 31, 2000 at the Western Front, 303 E. 8th, Vancouver, CANADA with guest composer/performers Giorgio Magnanensi and Douglas Schmidt. The music of these artists is available on earsay CDs harangue 1, harangue 2, and STRUCTURAL DAMAGE: Live at the Lux (es-00001).
• performed a solo piano work at this year's SONIC BOOM festival of New Music in Vancouver, CANADA, March 24-26, 2000
• performed with earsay artist Giorgio Magnanensi their collaborative work MU for piano and DJ at SONIC BOOM festival of New Music in Vancouver, CANADA, March 2000
• Artist-in-Residence at CFRO Vancouver Cooperative Radio, Jan - May 2000 where he created new work for an upcoming earsay release.

earsay artists Andrew Czink and John Oliver have formed an ensemble called Structural Damage

whose mandate is to perform new work for piano/keyboards, guitars and electronics with special invited guests for every concert. Their March 31 performance at the Western Front (Vancouver, BC, CANADA) featured Guest Artists Giorgio Magnanensi (DJ), and Doug Schmidt (accordion).

Georgia Straight reviewer Douglas Hughes was there and had this to say: "As composers and performers, all four made strong contributions to a program of 10 works...Like it or not, electronic music is with us. And it gets more interesting all the time in the hands of people like Oliver (a master of the guitar), Czink (a pianist of extraordinary energy and power), Schmidt (who seems incapable of error as he skitters around the...accordion, and Magnanensi (who can manage a table piled high with blinking and beeping gizmos as skillfully as a surgeon...)