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Wed, Jul 27, 2011
River Cow Orchestra's inexplicable level of communication through spontaneous musical creation and effortless mastery is showcased in their Zen Jazz performance for the Kansas City Fringe Festival.
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Nihan Yesil
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Nihan Yesil is a composer/performance artist and currently a candidate of M.M.Composition at the UMKC Conservatory. She composes both acoustic and electroacoustic music and has a strong interest in experimenting with the perception of sound and language.
Nihan started studying classical music with her father, M. Emin Yesil, at an early age and earned a bachelor's degree in Jazz Composition in Istanbul, Turkey, studying with Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, Ali Perret, and Aydin Esen. She participated in festivals and artist residencies inclduing the Henry Mancini Institute, Czech-American Summer Music Institute, Brevard Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Women in New Music, Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Escape to Create Artist-in-Residence Program and I-Park Artists' Enclave Residency where she also served as a selection committee member for the composition program. Her compositions have been performed at number of venues both in Turkey and the U.S.
Her favorite activity is experiencing or witnessing any form of artistic creativity. Nihan is a big fan of the Internet and keeps several blogs where she presents her unsolicited opinion on different subject matters.
Don't never misunderestimate "Caldwell's Bomb"
Wed, Aug 03, 2011
An impressive performance reevaluates the concept of "enemy" in “Caldwell's Bomb,” a dark comedy that posed questions with light tragedy and heavy laughter at the Kansas City Fringe Festival.
Celebration of Harold Pinter begins
Thu, Aug 18, 2011
Kansas City Actors Theater makes an ambitious start into its 7th season with The Pinter Project. Hitting the mark with "The Birthday Party," KCAT boldly proclaims the forthcoming exciting season.
Fall 2011 preview: New music
Tue, Aug 30, 2011
Kansas City is once again in for an onslaught of new sounds and inspiring contemporary music events this season. Here are some of the major events and new music groups you can indulge in this fall.
One night with a troubled legend
Tue, Sep 20, 2011
With its production of “Nobody Lonesome For Me,” the American Heartland Theatre starts of its year with a one-man tribute to Hank Williams’s trying times and soulful music.
Press treated to a promise of things to come
Wed, Sep 21, 2011
A result of collaborative artistic endeavor is often exciting. Rarely is the product as heart pounding as the one that costs $413 million to realize. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a crowning achievement that will take Kansas City to the top of the world's performance art scenes.
PREVIEW: Evolution of collaboration
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
Produced by The Friends of Chamber Music, The Darwin Project is not only a tribute to the mastermind of evolution theory but also a documentation of musical evolution through history. Co-presenting with the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts the result is a multimedia spectacle that aims to reignite a passion for science and music.
Rhythm & Ribs in full swing and full of flavor
Tue, Oct 11, 2011
Rhythm & Ribs Jazz and Blues Festival, a Kansas City staple, offered an eclectic menu of musical delights for every taste and every age.
Lonely party for an EP release
Tue, Oct 11, 2011
Sir Threadius Mongus held strong as the band played for an intimate gathering on October's First Friday. Celebrating their newest EP, the former Tulsans join the ever-growing list of artists who now call Kansas City home.
Asinine antics abound
Wed, Nov 02, 2011
UMKC Theatre's production of Plautus' "The Comedy of Asses" is ultimate escapism. The madcap show proved that the actors involved are indeed "devoted students of comedy."
Bach, the Bard, and a bull
Tue, Nov 22, 2011
Attuned to the upcoming holiday season, Bach Aria Soloists offered a program inspired by literature, featuring one of the best-known characters of children's literature: Ferdinand the Bull.
Symphony's spectacular performance
Wed, Nov 30, 2011
Kansas City Symphony presented a thoughtful program of Russian musical lineage under the direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto with violin soloist Tianwa Yang.
Grinch saves the holiday spirit
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
A jazz-themed holiday concert brought the diverse group of musicians that form Mid America Freedom Band, the singers of PerformOUTKC, and that mean Grinch together on the same stage. Who stole the show? Well that was rather surprising...
With love from South Africa
Tue, Jan 31, 2012
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the ten-member male performing group from South Africa brought their distinctive harmonious sound to the Muriel Kauffman Theatre on Tuesday as part of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Series.
Free-spirited Freelon at the Folly
Wed, Jan 18, 2012
Acclaimed jazz vocalist, Nnenna Freelon makes her long overdue debut at the Folly Jazz Series with a breathtaking performance of beloved standards and takes from her most recent album, "Homefree."
2012 Bach Festival: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
The Friends of the Chamber Music continued the 2012 Bach Festival with a remarkable headliner and a mission: one pianist, Konstantin Lifschitz, playing five concerts in ten days of nothing but the seminal works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
UMKC Theatre rises with "Judas Iscariot"
Tue, Feb 14, 2012
UMKC Theatre continues to raise the bar in the local theater scene with its spunky production of a contemporary play, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.”
Movers, Shakers, Stalwarts: Nicholas Omiccioli
Tue, Apr 03, 2012
Kansas City is a mecca for talented young composers. Among their ranks is Nicholas Omiccioli, a doctoral student at the UMKC Conservatory. Omiccioli is establishing himself as an international composer having received numerous commissions and prizes from around the world. KCMetropolis' Nihan Yesil sat down with Nick to discuss his career and what life is like in Kansas City for emerging composers.
Match made in minimalism
Fri, Apr 06, 2012
One of the most influential composers of our time, Philip Glass, and a rising star violinist Tim Fain shared the stage at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts for a whimsical evening.
Rossini's madcap "Barber"
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
The Lyric Opera of Kansas City closes its first season at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on a high note with a smart and entertaining production of Rossini's masterpiece "The Barber of Seville."
Night of half-hearted songs
Tue, May 15, 2012
Songs of love, blues, and drinking were downplayed in the wonderful, but low-keyed, jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux's appearance as the Folly Jazz Series' season closer.