Artists Registry
New York City NY United States
View
No art provided by this artist.
Artist's Statement
MATT SULLIVAN, Founder/Director of 2B&2C: The Ken Cro-Ken Memorial Foundation is an oboist/English hornist, digital hornist, composer/improvisor, cultural activist and Buffet Performing Artist. His performances have been praised by The New York Times for "gorgeously lyrical" and the New Yorker for performance/programming called the "cutting edge". As composer, his innovative works for oboe, English Horn and digital horn, have been featured on WNYC and WQXR, and nationally on National Public Radio (NPR) and Voice of America. Sullivan began his professional career at the age of 17 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Wind Quintet and the Miami Philharmonic at the age of 21. Matt has been a member of Quintet of the Americas since 1980. His electro-acoustic trio, First Avenue (1981 – 2004) was one of classical music’s only improvising trios (“Solace and adventure floating in the unforeseen” (NY Times). Concert venues include the Palladium, Roulette, The Kitchen, CBGBs, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, The American Embassy in Kharkiv, Ukraine and others. Matt Sullivan served as Director of both the Double Reeds Studies Program and the Woodwind Studies Program at New York University Steinhardt School’s Music Performing Arts Professions (2004 – 2022) and Princeton University (1991-2022). Sullivan has been a Performing Artist for Buffet Crampon since 1997 and plays exclusively on Buffet Greenline Oboe. Sullivan’s new art/performance space, 2B&2C: The Ken Cro-Ken Memorial Foundation, is quickly becoming one of the East Village’s most exciting art/performance venues.
Resume
I am Matt Sullivan. My husband and best friend was Ken Croken, a popular substitute teacher at both the High School of Leadership and the High School of Economic and Finance. ken was a painter/sculptor and regular substitute at both high schools. I am a musician/composer, retired from NYU and Princeton among other organizations. Ken and I performed together in a piece called, MultipleOness, a performance piece in which Ken Painted Live - projected, and I created music.