"THE BIG SHOW"
an evening of

new  music by
 Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin

and new artworks by
Angel Orensanz

Lev Zhurbin (a.k.a. Ljova) was born in Moscow, Russia and grew up in New York City. The son of the celebrated Russian composer and producer Alexander Zhurbin, and poet Irena Ginzburg, Lev began his musical training at the age of four with the violin, studying with Galina Turchaninova (who also taught Maxim Vengerov among others). He later continued his studies with Emanuel Vardi and Karen Ritscher at the Preparatory Division of the Manhattan School of Music and at the Juilliard School with violist and composer Samuel Rhodes. He has also studied composition with Bruce Adolphe, Christopher Vassiliades, Tom Cipullo and Alexander Yagupsky.

During his Juilliard years, Lev had the opportunity to perform with the Orchestra of St. Luke's; The Wild Ginger Philharmonic, the critically-acclaimed young orchestra; and recorded with the Electric Light Orchestra. An avid performer of contemporary music, Lev has premiered many works with the Absolute Ensemble, The New Juilliard Ensemble, as well as the Orchestra of the SEM Ensemble.

Shortly before graduating from Juilliard, Lev became very involved with many diverse projects involving music and collaboration on the Internet, as well as several film and theatre projects. The resulting projects have yielded an extensive archive of extremely diverse content, which may be accessed freely via the web at www.Ljova.com.

Angel Orensanz is a New York based artist born in Spain and educated in Barcelona and Paris. From his studio in New York he presently carries out art projects in many countries, and his work includes different formats and materials. During 1999 and parts of 2000 he has developed a long term project consisting of sculpture, painting and performance called the "Shattered Tent." He started in Strasbourg, France, in front of the European Parliament to protest the mass dislocations and subsequent bombing of Kosovo, and brought this concept during the various stages of the war to Geneva, Brussels and the UN headquarters in New York. In December 1999, he was invited to participate in the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence, where he presented a large collection of his bronze pieces and transformed a public bus into a public sculpture work. In January and February of 2000, Orensanz presented a sculpture/performance in front of the Russian Embassy in Paris. He was awarded the Grad Prize Lorenzo il Magnifico of the City of Florence. Over the last twenty years, Angel Orensanz has developed major art installations of sculpture and nature in urban spaces such as Holland Park in London; Roppongi Park in Tokyo; Red Square in Moscow, the banks of the River Oder-Nasse in Germany and The Pyrenees in Northern Spain. Angel Orensanz's work has been displayed at the Musee de Luxemburg in Paris; the Hara Museum in Tokyo; the Alte Museum in Berlin, and the film department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Angel Orensanz saved from demolition the oldest synagogue in New York City, making it into one of the most active and vibrant arts centers in the US. Exhibitions, concerts, plays, opera, dance festivals, creative fashion shows and lectures are regularly scheduled at this cultural space, to which close to 400,000 people have been attracted over the last 15 years.

On the web:

http://www.Ljova.com/ - A Ljova Project
http://www.orensanz.org - Angel Orensanz Foundation & Center for the Arts
http://www.angelorensanz.com - Angel Orensanz Exhibition details