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ABOUT DBR & THE MISSION |
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Click
on a member of DBR & THE MISSION above for bio.
DBR & THE MISSION is (clockwise starting
at upper left): Elan Vytal, aka DJ Scientific (turntables,
beatbox), Jon Weber (viola), Kenny Grohowski (drums), Jim
Robetson (bass), Jessie Reagen (cello), Earl Maneein (electric
violin), Wynne Bennett (music director, keyboards, groovebox),
Daniel Bernard Roumain (electric violin, acoustic violin,
piano, vocals, laptop), and Matthew Szemela (electric violin). |
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From
a sold out performance with Philip Glass at Arizona’s
Gammage Auditorium, to the alternative and experimental monthly
show at New York City’s downtown Bowery Poetry Club,
DBR & THE MISSION presents lively, genre-jumping contemporary
music that is captivating audiences nationwide. Founded in
2003 by composer/performer Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), DBR
& THE MISSION is comprised of nine young, multi-cultural
musicians from diverse musical backgrounds including an amplified
string quartet, drum kit, keyboard, a vocalist, DJ and laptops.
Each member is well-versed in modern classical, jazz, rock,
and hip-hop performance practices and has the profound ability
to perform DBR’s wide ranges of pieces. DBR’s
Hip-Hop Studies and Études were highlighted at the
group’s sold out performance at Joe’s Pub receiving
critical acclaim---“true to form, these vary greatly
in style, from slow, introspective Neo-Classical ruminations
to rhythmically complicated, riffy pieces that would not be
out of place in a dance club.” (New York Times)
DBR
& THE MISSION recently received a stunning welcome to
Los Angeles at the Cerritos Center playing works “from
a woe-inflicted interpretation of ‘Amazing Grace’
to turntable-like scratching and deafening electric Jimi Hendrix
riffs” (LA Times). DBR & THE MISSION’s multi-disciplinary
performances (with Yuki Nakajima often providing a live video
mix) have been applauded at New York’s Joe’s Pub
and Cutting Room, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center,
Miami’s Caleb Auditorium, Pace University’s Schimmel
Center, Brooklyn’s 651 Arts, Arizona State University’s
Gammage Auditorium, Williams College and Montclair State University’s
Kasser Theater.
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