Cornell ReSounds PlayPen: new instruments/new works

Featuring Mark Stewart and the EZRA quartet. Founded by award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Jones, EZRA is a collective of classical, jazz, rock, and bluegrass musicians focused on the creation of genre-crossing and style-inclusive new music. Though the instrumentation and personnel of the group fluctuates, EZRA's core ensemble consists of world-renowned mandolinist Jacob Jolliff, banjo virtuoso Max Allard, and bassist extraordinaire Craig Butterfield, with Jones on guitar- and keyboard-related instruments. Mark Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, song leader, composer, improviser, and instrument designer that has been heard around the world performing old and new music. Since 1998 he has recorded, toured and been Musical Director with Paul Simon. Mark is a co-founder (w/ Karen Curlee) of soundstewArt, a company that designs and builds immersive musical environments & instruments for all to play upon while presenting workshops to facilitate just that.

The concert will also feature a rebuilt experimental keyboard originally created in the 1960s by David Rothenberg and Robert Moog, as well as other newly invented instruments.