Steve Moshier's Liquid Skin Ensemble

Ruth Cortez, Keyboard
Mark Gordillo, Amplified Guitar
Susana Hernandez, Electric Bass
Jannine Livingston, Keyboard
Steve Moshier, Vibraphone
Hai Truong, Electric Guitar
George Wheeler, Saxophones & Technical Director

Steve Moshier is a composer and performer whose work encompasses theater, dance, and the concert stage. From its inception in 1979 until its demise in 1991, he was co-founder, performer, and composer of over 30 compositions for the chamber music ensemble Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra. In 1989, he was named honorary "Artistic Associate-Composer" at the Los Angeles Theater Center under the direction of producers Bill Bushnell and Diane White. Awards for music composition include the L.A. Weekly Theater Critics' Award, Drama-Logue Awards and, having been nominated six times, the Lester Horton Dance Award in 1996. Besides composing award-winning music for productions at the Los Angeles Theater Center, Berkeley Repertory Theater and the Laguna Playhouse, he has collaborated with performance artists John Fleck, Anna Homler, and Keith Antar Mason and the Hittite Empire, as well as, choreographers Rudy Perez, Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers, and Winifred R. harris and her Between Lines. His work has been performed in international festivals that included the Soho Arts Festival in New York, the Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI) festival in Fribourg, Switzerland, University of Mainz, Germany, Festspielhaus Hellerau, the Tanzwoche Festival in Dresden, Germany, and the ChangMu International Dance Festival. He is currently teaching music full-time at Rio Hondo Collegein Whittier, Ca;lifornia.

The Liquid Skin Ensemble is a 7-member post-minimalist acoustic/electric chamber ensemble that has been performing composer Steve Moshier's work extensively in Southern California for over ten years. Previous performances included evenings at the Getty Center, the Luckman Theater at Cal State LA, Highways Performance Space, the John Anson Ford Theater, the Japan America Theater, Los Angeles Theater Center and in 2004, international exposure with Hae Kyung Lee's Dancers at the LG Arts Center in Seoul, Korea. For the past four years, the group has bi-annually performed at the AH Gallery in Chinatown, downtown Los Angeles.

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