CHAMBER MUSIC PERFORMANCES

As a Composer and Vocal Performer

• with violinist Yuki Numata and cellist Jonathan Golove - premiere (2015)

• with dancer Melanie Aceto - three performances (2014-15)

• with cellist TJ Borden - second and third performance (2014)

• with members of Ensemble Linea - June in Buffalo, premiere (2013)

• with cellist Jonathan Golove - premiere (2013)

• with Marshall University 4th Annual Festival of New Music Brass Duo - second performance (2013)

• with violinists Ana Vafai and Moshe Shulman - premiere and second performance (2012)

• with members of Meridian Arts Ensemble - reading (2011)

• with Klasik Keyifler Festival String Quartet - premiere (2011)

• with violists Siegfried Führlinger and Tuba Özkan, doing conduction (Butch Morris) - premiere (2010)

• with Marshall University Wind Quintet - premiere (2009)

ENSEMBLES OF CHAMBER MUSIC & IMPROVISATION

• Project Creator, Curator, Vocal Performer:

(Sept. 2015 - ...) ︎Senso di Voce focuses on the embodied experience of varying acoustical phenomena. Implementing the unique acoustic properties of their instruments and of the performance space, they create otherworldly performances that reveal the interconnected timbral threads among new music and early music from diverse cultural traditions. This, combined with improvisation and movement, brings audiences into an immersive experience that transcends expectations.


• Vocal Performer:

(2013 - 2016) Wooden Cities New Music Collective is a collective of performers and composers seeking to help increase the performance and awareness of contemporary music through unique, educational presentation.

• Performing music for voice by Aperghis, Feldman, Ives, Schoenberg, Pisaro, Heidelberger, Merrit, (...)

• Vocal performance in improvisatory ensemble pieces by Zorn, Oliveros, Ono, (...).

• Music theatre pieces: Lejaren Hiller's An Avalanche, Jamie Currie’s Examples of Excess

ENSEMBLES OF JAZZ, HYBRID GENRES, IMPROVISATION

• Project Co-creator, Arranger, Vocal Performer:

(March 2013 - 2018) resAUnance was a chamber jazz ensemble (of drummer / percussionist John Bacon, pianist Michael McNeill, electric-cellist Jonathan Golove and vocal performer Esin Gunduz).  Performances locally in WNY and tours.  Album “Migration”: recorded Nov. 2014, released May 2016 by FMR Records, England.

• Vocal Performer:

• Juini Booth Quartet (2016 - 2017)

• 10 x 5 x 2 - 5 min. solo improvisations of two sets by ten improvisers (2016)

• Buffalo Jazz Octet (2015)

• Buffalo Improvisers’ Orchestra (2013)

• McNeill, Gunduz, Holland - live music silent movie - of voice, piano, percussion (2013)

• 2 + 2 = 4? / iki + iki = dört? - Improvisatory Ensemble of keyboard / electronics, electric guitar / prepared steel guitar, drums / percussion, voice (2013)

• Kraliçe/Paz - Improvisatory band - of trumpet, cello, guitar and voice (2013)

• Bacon & McNeill Quintet - of voice, trumpet, piano, double-bass, drums (Nov 8th & Nov 30th 2012)

• UB Jazz Ensemble soloist (2011-2012)

• Klasik Keyifler Chamber Music Festival, Cello Octet - soloist (2010)

• Klasik Keyifler Chamber Music Festival, String Orchestra - soloist (2010)

• Nine, Improvisatory Collective - medium ensemble (2008-2009)

• Mark Zanter Group - of guitar, voice, double-bass, drums (2007)

         • Under Butch Morris’s conduction, Improv. Ensemble (2008)

• The General Sound Unit - joining with voice, keyboard, percussion (2006-2007)

• MU Jazz Ensemble - soloist (2006-2009)

• Chick Corea Tribute Band with Imer Demirer - of trumpet, voice, alto sax, tenor sax, guitar, bass, drums.

• Esin Gunduz Vocal Band - of voice, piano, double-bass, drums.

• BabaZula - vocals - psychedelic band of Turkish traditional music, with live dub: Mad Professor, London.

• The General Sound Unit - joining with voice, keyboard, percussion (2006-2007)

• IBU Candela Musical Theatre Group - head-role in Hair Musical (2006)

• TRT Turkish State Radio Television Jazz Orchestra - soloist (2005)

• Speech Bubbles, Musical Theatre Group - singer, dancer (2004-05)

• Fugu, a rock band -  keyboard and back vocals (2004)

• (...next to others)

ALBUMS IN OTHER GENRES

• resAUnance: Migration (FMR Records, England - May, 2016)

• Guest Appearances:

• 123 from İstanbul: Album “Stereo Love” - on “Damla”, speaking voice, narrative (who are we who we are Records, İst. -July, 2010)

• Bora Uslusoy: Album “Umutsuz Aşk” - layers of back vocals (Uslusoy Müzik, İst. - 2004)

• Üç Deniz: Album “Yağmurlar Dinmeden” - back vocals selected songs (Milhan Müzik, İst. - July 1999)

• Almora - vocals.

• (several) Jingle Productions - vocals, speaking voice.

OTHER FESTIVAL / CONCERT SERIES / PROJECTS

• Composer, Vocal Performer:

• Inaugural Muriel Wolf and Albert Steger Endowment Concert: “(Re)Constructions” - with TJ Borden.

• Brown Bag preview of the Inaugural Muriel Wolf and Albert Steger Endowment Concert

• M&T Lunchtime Concert Series: Villa Citizens - with cellist TJ Borden.

• [un] sound spaces, closing reception of photographer Megan Metté's [un] sound spaces exhibit - with choreographer Melanie Aceto, Wooden Cities.

• Made of Motion: A Concert of Contemporary Dance by Melanie Aceto, First Fridays at Albright Knox Art  

   Gallery, Buffalo, NY (April 4th 2014)

• Ana Vafai Graduate Recital - with violinists Ana Vafai and Moshe Shulman (Aug. 15th 2013)

• Buffalo Composers Get Up and Out! - with violinists Ana Vafai and Moshe Shulman (May 13th 2013)

• Vocal Performer:

• Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) - with Muje jazz ensemble (July 2009)

• Jazz a Juan Festival (France) - with Muje jazz ensemble (July 2009)

• ResAUnance performances: Pausa Art House, Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo, NY), Burch Mason Hall at Rosch Recital Hall (Fredonia, NY), BOP STOP at The Music Settlement (Cleveland, OH), Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (Trumansburg, NY) (2013 - 2017)

• Arts Services Initiatives of WNY Inc., 5th Annual Spark Cultural Awards Ceremony - Juini Booth Quartet.

• Buffalo Institute for Improvised Music and Performance - with bassist Juini Booth.

• A Musical Feast - Fundraising concert - with resAUnance.

• M&T Lunchtime Concert Series at Villa Maria College - with resAUnance, featuring Adam Unsworth (horn), Dave Ballou (trumpet) (March 6th 2014)

• null-point - Concert Series:

• Out of the dark: The Cass Project, Arts and Cultural Initiative (Sept. 23rd 2017)

• Null-Point 4. With Paper: WASH Community Project (Feb. 21st 2015)

• Live Music for Silent Drama-thriller Film: “M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder” (director: Fritz Lang, 1931)- Michael McNeill (piano), Liz Holland (percussion), Esin Gunduz (voice) - Pausa Art House (Oct. 12th 2013).

• Shakti Lounge: McNeill, Borden, Gunduz -Michael McNeill (Rhodes keyboard), TJ Borden (cello), Esin Gunduz (voice), Shakti Yoga, Buffalo, NY (March 9th 2013)

• Shakti Lounge: Paz - Daniel Bassin (trumpets), TJ Borden (cello), Zane Merritt (Guitar), Esin Gunduz (voice), Shakti Yoga, Buffalo, NY (Feb. 2nd 2013).

• 2 + 2 = 4? / iki + iki = dört? - Joe Rozler (keyboard, electronics), Bill Sack (electric guitar, prepared steel guitar), John Bacon (drums, percussion), Esin Gunduz (voice) - Live @ The Vault, Buffalo, NY (Jan 9th 2013)

• Wooden Cities - Concert Series:

• Women in the Electronic Arts, by Digital Music Production program at Buffalo State College.

• UB Poetic Plus Series “Words” - Sound Poetry: Wooden Cities performs works by sound and concrete poets as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of UB's Electronic Poetry Center.

• Finn-Fest USA 2015 at Kleinhans Hall: A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones - with artist Pia Lindman.

• “Classical to Contemporary” - First Fridays at AKAG, with the support of Young Audiences of WNY and Councilman Michael J. LoCurto.

• Cobra @Houghton w/ Wooden Cities

• MultipliCities: Wooden Cities & Girilal Baars

• EPC@20: Second Decade Celebration & Symposium

• Megan Kyle Faculty Recital, at Houghton College

• (mis)alignments: Wooden Cities & Ensemble Suplex

• Wooden Cities & Ryan Ross Smith event

• O Swan: Good Friday Music by Buffalo Composers

• Martin Luther King Day Happening at Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

• Cages CD Release, with Wooden Cities

• Film-scoring to Silent Christmas Movies, with Wooden Cities

• Aaron Staebell and Wooden Cities+ event

• TJ Borden Farewell Concert event

• Inharmonicity: Music for Carillon and Ensemble

• (B)uffalo (A)rt (D)ispensary Interactive Art Event

• An Excess of Voice: Steve McCaffery & Wooden Cities

• Music for the Passion: sacred music as part of St. Joseph's annual Good Friday concert.

• UB Poetics Program - Poetics Plus series: Words @ BPAC

• Yoko Ono Fan Club Exhibition at University at Buffalo CFA Art Galleries

• Chain Gang Citizens - pre-determined / guided improvisation project

• PAUSA Collective Showcase - 16-piece assemblage of musicians from Pausa favorites

• Rise and Fall: Songs for All Souls

• Ebbing Flow: UB Center for the Arts Open Studios event (2013)

• Zane Merritt: Solo Recital

• Sacred Spaces at St. Joseph's University Parish

• Guerrilla Tactics: Wooden Cities plays a program of game pieces and graphic music.

• The Fringe Festival of Buffalo NY

• Observe, Experience, Interact: Contemporary Music Ensemble, B.M. Conduction by Mark Zanter

• J.R. Clifford and the Carrie Williams Case - gala event

• Pullman Jazz Festival

• 31st Ohio State University Jazz Festival

• Marshall University Jazz Festival

• Leaders of Future, featuring Tuesday Jazz Combo

• All Jazzed Up: vocalists project

• Koç University Spring Festival - featuring Candela Theatre (2006)

• Bodrum Atatürkçü Düşünce Derneği - featuring Candela Theatre (2006)

• Önder Focan Vocalists Project (2005 - 2006)

• Nardis Young Jazz Vocal Contest, Runner-up (2005)

• İstanbul Çırağan Palace - as part of: Jazz nights featuring İmer Demirer (2004)

• IBU Harmony Class Project Showcase (2002)

• Istanbul Avni Akyol Anatolian Fine Arts High school - Annual Concerts - Violist for String Quartet &  

   Orchestra, Soprano for Choir, High/low register back-vocals for Popular Music Band (1997-2001)

LIST OF VENUES

   (USA)

• Kleinhans Hall (Buffalo, NY)

• EMPAC: Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, Albany, NY)

• Albright Knox Museum of Art (Buffalo, NY)

• Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY)

• Asbury Hall (Buffalo, NY)

• The Historic Colored Musicians Club (Buffalo, NY)

• Burchfield Penney Art Center (Buffalo, NY)

• Mason Hall at Rosch Recital Hall (Fredonia, NY)

• BOP STOP at The Music Settlement (Cleveland, OH)

• Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (Trumansburg, NY)

• UB Lippes Concert Hall at Slee Hall (Buffalo, NY)

• UB Baird Hall (Buffalo, NY)

• UB Center for the Arts Stage and Galleries (Buffalo, NY)

• Silo City (Buffalo, NY)

• Pausa Art House (Buffalo, NY)

• Villa Maria College Auditorium (Buffalo, NY)

• River Park Festival Stage (Buffalo, NY)

• Hotel Henry (Buffalo, NY)

• Sugar City (Buffalo, NY)

• Nietzsche’s (Buffalo, NY)

• Canvas @ 1206 (Buffalo, NY)

• Pro Music Performance Center (Buffalo, NY)

• Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)

• Unity Church of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY)

• Calvary Episcopal Church (Buffalo, NY)

• WASH Laundry Mat - Community project (Buffalo, NY)

• Trocaire College (Buffalo, NY)

• The Vault (Buffalo, NY)

• 500 Seneca, Boiler Room Art Space (Buffalo, NY)

• Shakti Yoga (Buffalo, NY)

• WNY Book Arts Center

• Ohio State University, Mershon Auditorium, (Columbus, OH)

• Educational TV Channel of WV (Charleston, WV)

• Marshall University, Smith Recital Hall (Huntington, WV)

• Marshall University, Jomie Jazz Center (Huntington, WV)

• Java Joint (Huntington, WV)

   (EUROPE, NEAR EAST)

• Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland)

• Jazz a Juan Festival (France)

• Nardis Jazz Club of Istanbul (Turkey)

• AKM: Atatürk Cultural Center (Istanbul, Turkey)

• French Cultural Center of Istanbul (Turkey)

• Italian Cultural Center of Istanbul (Turkey)

• Turkish Radio Television Istanbul Concert Hall (Turkey)

• Babylon-Istanbul (Turkey)

• San Pasifico Church of Büyükada-Princess Islands (Istanbul, Turkey)

• İstanbul Koç University, Sevgi Gönül Cultural Centre (Istanbul, Turkey)

• Çırağan Palace (Istanbul, Turkey)

• Bilkent University Concert Hall (Ankara, Turkey)

• Istanbul Bilgi University, Dolapdere Campus, Auditorium (Istanbul, Turkey)

• Beyoğlu Music Festival Stage (Istanbul, Turkey)

• İstanbul University Faculty of Dentistry Festival Stage (Istanbul, Turkey)

• Mersin University State Conservatory, Nevit Kodallı Concert Hall (Mersin, Turkey)

• Latin Catholic Church of Mersin (Mersin, Turkey)

• Ancient Caves, Saklı Vadi / Hidden Valley (Cappadocia, Turkey)