Fantastic I used to play the Blues on NYC subways

Musical saw & theremin duet - a dream come true!

I have to say, on both sides of the equation (Music and live performance from so many different places), this is one exceptional piece! :)

Winner of the 2021 Catalyst Quartet Minute Young Composer’s Competition, this short blur of a piece was written for the Catalyst Quartet to commemorate their 10 years of existence. In October, 2021, my writing of this piece and my performing with the great pianist Hiromi intersected in a beautiful way. I was inspired by her use of accents and displaced strong beats to create a sense of rhythmic clarity or confusion, and her ability to span different harmonic spectrums including bright/dark, rich/simple, and jagged/smooth, all of which were delivered in a way that I found to be accessible in real time.

Violins and viola, Nick Revel. Cello, Gabriel Cabezas

Time Capsule (2021), Revel

Tagh [Diary] Of An Immigrant

Music by Ljova
commissioned by Chris Shimojima for the film "Signal Strength" - see the video at http://youtu.be/X6PhsrcO80g

ENSEMBLE SIGNAL STRENGTH
conducted by Ljova
http://Ljova.com

accordion
ALBERT BEHAR
http://albertbehar.com

bass
IAN BAGGETTE

beatbox
ADAM MATTA
http://adammatta.com

cello
LEAH COLOFF
http://leahcoloff.com

djembe & shekere
JEREMIAH MCFARLANE
CARL JACOB
(I & I DRUMLINK)

guitar
AMIT PELED

saw
NATALIA 'SAW LADY' PARUZ
http://sawlady.com

theremin
LLAMANO
http://llaminov.wordpress.com

trumpet
JORDAN HIRSCH

viola
ALLYSON CLARE

mixed by Casey Foubert
mastered by Steven Berson

Watch the Video!

Signal Strength

Something old and new

Peter Bruun - The Black Waters (Recorded Live at Thy Chamber Music Festival)

the first Knives Out sketch I played for Rian. Boston, December 2018

Knives Out Theme 1 sketch

Rhythmic Etude

I took the feathery boi's tune and did a bunch of variations

Love it when the scale of the automation for the time signatures changes when you change the time signature using the automation so it really do be changing itself

Kass Tetris

Ljova, fadolín
Boomerang III Looper
May 22 2013

Breaking News

Ensemble Modern
Conductor Lin Liao
Video: https://youtu.be/7GexO2-D97w

Марево

Gerald Cohen: "V'haarev Na (May the words be sweet)", (excerpt), a setting from the Jewish liturgy. Performed by Gerald Cohen, baritone; Marija Stroke, piano. From the CD: "Generations: Music of Gerald Cohen."

V'haarev Na (May the words be sweet)

Hailed by the New York Times as “dizzyingly versatile… an eclectic with an ear for texture… strikingly original and soulful”, LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, as well as a busy career as a freelance violist, violinist & musical arranger. Among recent projects is a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider and a commission for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, arrangements for Alan Pierson and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, tenor Javier Camarena, conductor Alondra de la Parra, the Mexican songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla, The Knights, and collaborations with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon and Eduardo Vilaro (with Ballet Hispanico). Ljova is also the composer and conductor of the video project “Signal Strength“, shared by over 200,000 viewers worldwide.

Signal Strength

Ljova

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