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New Works by Max Kennedy & Clover Nahabedian featuring Jeremiah Cossa and Nick Cutroneo

  • The Lilypad 1353 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA, 02139 (map)

Max Kennedy is a guitarist, composer, songwriter and math teacher. He has recorded several albums and toured nationally with the band Big Fuzzy and as a solo artist, and he has composed for several Boston theater companies including Artists' Theater of Boston and Actors' Shakespeare Project. He has had the honor of studying with some of the great guitar innovators, including Gustavo Assis Brasil, Chris Weisman and Guinga. His work as a composer combines a unique and expressive harmonic vocabulary with a mathematician's approach to melodic and harmonic structure as a set of nested puzzles. You can hear his music at maxkennedy.bandcamp.com and bigfuzzy.bandcamp.com

clover (she/her) is a trans composer, songwriter, and performer who makes music that either has a sinister sense of whimsy, or is whimsically sinister. it depends on who you ask. she did a masters degree in composition at boston conservatory and has written three operas that cover everything from wall street conspiracies to serial killers who work for jigsaw puzzle companies. clover's band 'cheap city' has played over 100 shows across the eastern half of the united states and canada. their newest album 'blue dancers' is a ballet in 12 movements - the film of which, directed by c. neil parsons (4th wall ensemble) will premiere later this summer. she lives in pawtucket, RI, collects electric organs, and thinks more about both gremlins movies than she'd really care to admit.

Jeremiah Cossa is a versatile pianist currently residing in Boston, where he is active as a soloist, chamber musician and band member in a dizzying array of projects. Jeremiah has been featured as a soloist with Claremont Symphony Orchestra and Boston Conservatory’s Contemporary Music Ensemble. Jeremiah tours nationally with the acclaimed Chamber Music and Rock crossover group, Cordis, and plays locally with on-the-rise Punk band Nurse Joy and with his jazz trio. Jeremiah earned an M.M. in Piano Performance from Boston Conservatory and a B.M. from Azusa Pacific University. He studies with Max Levinson.

Known for being a "communicative player with natural musicality," American classical guitarist Nick Cutroneo is a sought-after performer and pedagogue onstage and online. Nick took an interest in guitar and decided early on to pursue his passion for music professionally, attending the Pre-College division at the Juilliard School of Music studying with world renowned guitarist Antigoni Goni. Nick went on to study at the Hartt School of Music completing his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Classical Guitar Performance where he studied with guitar pedagogue Richard Provost; as well as completing the Long Term Suzuki Pedagogy program. During his time at Hartt, he was a member of the prestigious Performance 2020 honors program. In addition, he won the Miami String Quartet Competition and was named finalist in the Hartt School’s Paranov Concerto Competition. Additionally, he was a semifinalist in the Boston GuitarFest Adult Competition.

An active performer, Nick has extensively toured throughout the United States and Italy both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has been involved with the New England Guitar Quartet, the violin and guitar duo Tempo del Fuoco and has performed with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Blackledge Music Inc, the Northeast New Music Collective just to mention a few. Nick has premiered numerous new works for the classical guitar including most recently Shadow of the Sun by Frank Wallace and Stagger Breathing by Colin Britt. Other composers whom he has worked with include EMMY Award Winning Composer Sean Pallatroni, Thomas Schuttenhelm, and Dan Lis who wrote and dedicated a Guitar Concerto for Nick.

Nick maintains an active private teaching studio, working with students in person in Glastonbury, CT, in addition to students all over the world through online lessons. He regularly posts educational content on his youtube channel (youtube.com/nickcutroneo) in addition to his live and studio performance videos. Nick is on faculty at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT and Bay Path University, Longmeadow, MA. Nick provides lectures and masterclasses to guitar societies and guitar programs throughout the country as well as given a lecture at the Suzuki Association of the Americas conference and taught at the Volterra Project. Nick can also be found on his social media accounts with videos and live streaming practice and performance sessions on twitch.tv/guitarshreda; Facebook & YouTube.

Nick plays a 2017 “Simple Lattice” Guitar built by Alan H. Chapman of Chapman & Fisher Guitars.