The San Francisco-born musician is an artist in residence at the annual Kronos Festival, which begins today.
“It’s quite unusual for me to be the focus,” says Jacob Garchik. You have to hand it to San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet. In its nearly 50 award-winning years as an eclectic string ensemble, it can spot potential young talent almost preternaturally early.
Fifteen years later, Garchik bumped into Harrington while playing in a Brooklyn brass band that specialized in interpreting Balkan music, which had secured a coveted opening slot for Kronos.
But over the three-day Kronos Festival, he’ll be performing as well, anchoring his Pete Seeger-inspired “Storyteller” and then “Upon a Star,” a suite based on a John Williams soundtrack. Additionally, Garchik will oversee “Flow,” a work composed with his occasional New York collaborator Laurie Anderson, and “The Heavens,” a sans-Kronos concept piece featuring his Atheist Gospel Trombone Choir.
Garchik’s typically busy schedule slowed down during lockdown. But he managed to complete a new jazz quintet album called “Assembly,” plus several new Kronos arrangements, and has returned to teaching chamber ensemble arrangement at the New School and appearing onstage in Broadway’s hit musical “Hades Town.”
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