With the dedicated commitment to celebrating Artpark's legacy of music and nature over time, the concert will be recorded and released on Golden Wheel Records as a collaboration with nature and with royalties benefiting Artpark State Park conservancy. https://parks.ny.gov/parks/113/details.aspx
 
Join us for an unforgettable journey into the secret world of plant music – an experience that promises to captivate your senses, ignite your imagination, and connect you further with nature and the life it carries.
           
Concert
At Artpark Mainstage Theater
August 25, 2024 at 4PM
Featuring music created for Artpark by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Ricardo Romaneiro, Marcus Foster, John Kaefer, Brent Chancellor, and live plant DJs Golden Wheel Records.

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About the ensemble: 

Brent Chancellor is an award-winning conductor, composer, and curator recognized for his powerful, dynamic style and direct human communication. A passionate educator and founder of the immersive orchestra project LUX, he has performed throughout the US, including at Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, DiMenna Center, and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. His music and sound installations have been featured at the Festival of New American Music, Festival of the Arts, Sacramento Film Festival, and NY Fashion Week. Fascinated by the intersectional merging of interdisciplinary arts, performance practice, and education, his programming explores collaborations that present important works.

John Kaefer is a composer for film, television, and media. A trusted collaborator, he is known for his distinctive musical voice and nuanced, imaginative scores. John’s work ranges from artful electronic soundscapes to bold, propulsive orchestral music. A doctoral graduate of The Juilliard School, he embraces all aspects of the creative process and relishes crafting a score from the script to final mix. Feature films include A Score to Settle starring Nicolas Cage and Only starring Leslie Odom Jr./Freida Pinto. Of the score for Only, Film Music Magazine wrote "in a world increasingly in need of tenderness as it deals with growing madness, the elegiac quality of ONLY strikes a powerfully tragic, yet entrancingly melodic chord." Additional recent films include How To Be Alone starring Maika Monroe/Joe Kerry, Party Boat starring
Jay Mohr/Sung Kang (Sony Pictures), MEATS starring Ashley Williams, and the documentary COURAGE RISING. Active in television, John teamed up with composer Cliff Martinez on The Wilds (Amazon). Other projects include the drama series Sequestered (Sony Pictures Television/Crackle), Spirit & Soul (Nat Geo doc), the Emmy Award winning docuseries Could You Survive The Movies (Ample/YouTube Originals), as well as the Main Theme and Thematic Music packages for ABC's flagship programs Good Morning America and 20/20, and the ABC primetime hit show Would You Fall For That, and much more. 

As a composer of contemporary classical music, John's work is performed worldwide by leading musicians and ensembles at prestigious venues, including Carnegie
Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, The Montalbán Theatre in Los Angeles, Wigmore Hall in London, and La Schola Cantorum in Paris. John has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, ASCAP, and the Barlow Endowment, among others. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Composers Now and is Director of the BMI Foundation Pete Carpenter Fellowship. In addition to a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School (C.V. Starr Fellow), John also earned degrees in music composition from Yale University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM). He is currently on the Screen Scoring faculty
at New York University. John is represented by Soundtrack Music Associates.

Ricardo Romaneiro was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil and moved to the U.S. at an early age. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ricardo’s music synthesizes his major musical influences & passions: classical music & electronic music. The New York Times described his work as “a blissful and compelling mix of Minimalist-derived rhythmic ecstasy and nightclub beats”. His music has been featured, performed and commissioned in eclectic range of institutions, festivals, and projects such as the Museum of Modern Art’s Summergarden Series, New Juilliard Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Artechouse, Metropolis Ensemble, Wordless Music, Ensemble LPR, Nu Deco Ensemble, ECCE, American Composers Orchestra, Quintet of the Americas, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Colorado Ballet at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and the Sacramento Ballet. 

Ricardo’s music has been featured on NPR live broadcast from Prospect Park Bandshell as part of Celebrate Brooklyn! summer concerts. His work has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal,  Vice/Creators Project, Esquire Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Untapped Cities, Vogue & Edible Manhattan A recipient of the ASCAP Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship, Ricardo earned a Bachelor degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music and a Masters degree in composition from The Juilliard School.

Recent performance with the Wordless Music Orchestra at BAM Opera House for the live film & orchestra performance of Terrance Malick’s film Voyage of Time, it was orchestrated, composed and arranged by Ricardo for 100 piece orchestra and choir with Ricardo performing live electronics with producers & director present for the performance. Other film works include Nat Geo & Disney+ commission for “Welcome To Earth” & “Secrets of The Whales” live premiere performance, Kennedy Center live scoring of Thomas Edison’s silent film “A Christmas Carol”. And the live scoring of silent classic films such as Metropolis and The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari. 

Ricardo has co-founded an audiovisual collective & collaboration called SUBHAZE, where they create immersive concerts, festival installations and concepts with an array of artists, brands, ensembles, orchestras & venues – creating an audiovisual experience that transcends the traditional forms of presentation. 

Marcus Foster is a London-born sculptor, musician, and composer living and working in New York City. As an interdisciplinary artist, he is fascinated with connecting visual and sonic worlds. Foster specialized in sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art and completed an MA at The Royal College of Art in London. His artwork has been bought and shown in galleries across Europe, including group shows in Greece and Italy. 

Foster is a burgeoning score-writer specializing in film and dance. He recently composed the score and sound design for Gibney Dance Company’s Artistic Associates short film, directed by Amy Gardner, and works closely with New York-based choreographer Loni Landon on original compositions for her live dance works. 

He began his musical career over 15 years ago, appearing on tours across the US with Michael Kiwanuka, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Bahamas, performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallonwith The Roots, playing showcases with Ed Sheeran, and beyond. In 2018, he began releasing music under the moniker Seramic, influenced by R&B, soul, and gospel. He is currently researching and working on his first score for a feature film about a man who learns the language of mosquitoes. 

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a classically-trained American composer, performer, and producer from the Pacific Northwest. Her music is a form of auditory interpretation, powered by curiosity and her toolkit of modular, analogue, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral textures, and voice. Since her first self-releases in 2012, she has explored the endless possibilities of electronic instruments and the relationship between sound, shape, color, body movement, and expression. Spanning releases on Western Vinyl, RVNG Intl., Ghostly International, and her own multidisciplinary project, Touchtheplants, her work has drawn acclaim from all reaches of the experimental music world, including NPR, The New York Times, The Wire, and Rolling Stone. The latter named Smith’s 2017 LP The Kid their avant-garde album of the year. Her collaborations include projects with Danny Elfman, Emile Mosseri, Suzanne Ciani, and commissions for Apple, BBC Orchestra, Epcot Center, Google, and others. With Let’s Turn It Into Sound, her latest album on Ghostly, Smith moves through vibrant avant-pop and neoclassical songcraft, expressing a feeling that words alone cannot.

Golden Wheel Records is a record label is a groundbreaking creative venture founded by Sophie Baudry and Coco Reilly. Central to Golden Wheel's mission is the creation and release of music that not only serves and supports nature conservation but also collaborates with nature itself, honoring it as an artist in the creative process.

Golden Wheel Records is the record label branch of ONNA, an initiative that brings together talent (musicians, recording artists, composers) and experiences (installations, concerts, exhibitions, festivals) to craft impactful projects that transcend traditional industry norms, all while benefiting nature conservation.

Sophie Baudry, Golden Wheel Records & Onna Co-Founder, is a music curator, composer, and record producer. With a discerning perspective on the industry, she is a true advocate of the transformative role of music in individuals' lives.

A distinguished graduate of Berklee College of Music, Baudry's professional journey has been a tapestry of diverse roles, ranging from a Universal Music recording artist, performing in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, the Blue Note (NYC) or the Olympia in Paris, to Sony Music Publishing signed songwriter. Adding to her repertoire, she has steered the ship as the owner of the synch agency and management company, Freak N See, working with networks such as Disney, Netflix, BBC, HBO, while concurrently thriving as a composer.

With a multifaceted career, Baudry has intricately woven a robust network of talent and industry executives spanning Europe and the United States. Her creative expertise is the cornerstone of her endeavors, continually pushing boundaries and seeking novel ways to infuse music with a heightened/profound sense of purpose.

Dedicated to exploring innovative avenues that transcend conventional industry models, Sophie Baudry emerges as a creative force on a mission to curate projects that not only captivate but also leaves a lasting, meaningful impact.

Coco Reilly, Golden Wheel & Onna Co-founder, is a creative director, musician, composer and producer. As a creative director, Coco has spent the past 15 years directing various projects for indie labels to major brands, contributing a unique, holistic approach to all of her collaborations.

As an artist, her music has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone, Paste, NPR, Rock N Folk and NYLON. She scored her first short film in 2016 for Bridey Elliott’s critically acclaimed Affections (Sundance Film Festival, Jury Award IFF Boston,...) and returned to Sundance in 2020 for her second collaboration with Elliott, with the short doc, The Starr Sisters.

She currently serves as Head of Production for artist Chris Holmes’ immersive art collective, Fascinated by Everything, directing her energy towards the company’s mission to use screens for a meaningful purpose while connecting audiences to a state of curiosity, joy, wonder and awe.

ONNA combines her commitment to creativity and meaningful initiatives, while also fulfilling her lifelong passion of studying the interconnection between nature, science, sound, and art.