The ArtHouse opened it's 2020 season with the local Syracuse musician, Chris Cresswell on electric guitar and electronics and Boston based Byrne-Kozar Duo. ArtHouse fosters public engagement in the arts, expands boundaries of exhibit making that supports and advocates creative, socially engaged individuals as artists. As a cultural hub it seeks local expressive participants, who see a way of solving social problems through cultural works. 

'Dirt and Sky' 

Created by New York City/Boston based soprano Corrine Byrne and trumpeter Andrew Kozar, the Byrne-Kozar Duo presents historically informed performances of Baroque music for natural trumpet and soprano in addition to commissioning new works for modern trumpet and soprano. They have been said to create 'an arresting symbiosis in their melding of voice and trumpet timbres' (Textura) and that the 'trumpet and voice seem to take on one another's qualities' (Bandcamp Daily). 

'Dirt and Sky' featured music that explores the concept of opposing forces in inventive and ingenious ways. The exploration of the earthly and divine heard in the music of Hildegard von Bingen, the oppositions inherent in war through Rob Deemer's 'Thalia Fields' with text by an Iraq War veteran, the 'clean' or 'dirty' possibilities of tonality in Scott Wollschleger's 'Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World,' and our views of life and death through the prism of loss, in Chris Cresswell's 'all that's left is dirt and sky' are just some of the remarkable works for the Byrne-Kozar Duo that were presented.

Scott Wollschleger - Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World, Mvt. 1
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) - Karitas
David Smooke - All Are Welcome Here (2017)
Scott Wollschleger - Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World, Mvt. 2Chris Cresswell - all that’s left is dirt and sky
Rob Deemer (text by Brian Turner) - Thalia Fields (2017)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) - Cum vox sanguinis
Reiko Futing - eternal return
Scott Wollschleger - Bring Something Incomprehensible Into This World, Mvt. 3


CNY based Electric guitarist and composer, Chris Cresswell opened the concert with a short set from his 'With Electronics' series, featuring new works for electric guitar and electronics. This set included works by Patrick Ellis, Adam Scott Neal, and Sean Clancy.

Many thanks to CNY Arts and ArtRage Gallery for making this event possible.