Avant Music Festival 2011 Fundraiser
October 12, 2010, Wild Project, NYC

Please join us on October 12th as Avant Media hosts its first ever fundraiser for the Avant Music Festival.

The second annual festival will take place from February 11-19 and features the meditative immersive Apparitions of The Four Pillars by Randy Gibson, a night of music by John Cage, a musical dialog between Reiko Füting and Nils Vigeland, and the New York Premiere of Georges Aperghis’ opera Sextuor.

Come enjoy free beer, wine, and food and a night of music and festivities all for a low minimum donation of $20.
Make your tax-deductible donation today.*

This special one-night-only event on October 12th will raise money for the 2011 Avant Music Festival and help support the work of the amazing composers and performers who are a part of the festival.

Our goal is to raise $1,000

to be able to have a piano for the festival, a central instrument to the work of John Cage and of Füting and Vigeland.

In addition to free beer, wine, and food, the evening will also play host to a preview of some of the exciting performances in store for the 2011 Festival including a World Premiere performance of Randy Gibson’s The Third Pillar with its Lowest Primes and Memories of The Second Pillar from Apparitions of The Four Pillars and an excerpt of Georges Aperghis’ Sextuor.

We will also screen a short selection of videos from the inaugural year and talk about our plans and curatorial process for the future. Special $25 full festival passes will also be available for purchase on October 12th, and only then.

Make a donation of $20 or more today and don’t miss out on this special one-night-only event.

Performers will include:

The Third Pillar...
Randy Gibson: Just Intonation Toy Organ, Voice
Drew Blumberg: Violin
Video by Oscar Henriquez

Sextuor
Fabienne Séveillac, Gelsey Bell, Megan Schubert: Voices
Émilie Girard-Charest: Cello
Lola Joulin: Stage Director

* Minimum donation is $20 per attendee. Avant Media is a 501 (c) 3 organization, all donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Many Thanks to Wild Project for hosting this event and for their Festival support.

The Avant Music Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.