Jason Kao Hwang’s EDGE at RUCMA

From New York’s RUCMA:

Start: 01/26/2009 – 7:30pm
End: 01/26/2009 – 10:00pm

Jason Kao Hwang
Monday, January 26 @ 7:30 pm
Yippie Café: 9 Bleecker Street, near Bowery
General Admission: $10
Students and Seniors: $7
Jam Session @ 9pm: $5

Jason Kao Hwang, violin, viola, &compositions
Taylor Ho Bynum, cornet & flugelhorn
Ken Filiano, bass
Andrew Drury, drums

Composer and violinist, Jason Kao Hwang has created works ranging from jazz, classical, “new” and world music. As violinist, he has worked with Butch Morris, Reggie Workman, Pheeroan akLaff, Anthony Braxton, Vladamir Tarasov, Henry Threadgill and William Parker. As composer he has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His chamber opera, The Floating Box, A Story in Chinatown (New World Records), was named one of the top ten opera recordings of 2005 by Opera News. His duo with Sang Won Park(kayagum, ajeng, voice), Local Lingo, was recently released by Euonymus Records. His most recent releases on Innova Records are STORIES BEFORE WITHIN and his quartet recording, EDGE.

http://www.jasonkaohwang.com