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Gene Pritsker

Gene Pritsker is a composer, guitarist, bandleader, orchestrator, and label co-director whose projects cross jazz, chamber music, rock, and hip-hop.

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Career Overview

About Gene Pritsker

Pritsker’s official biography documents more than one thousand compositions across orchestral, chamber, electro-acoustic, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and theatrical settings. It also identifies his parallel work as a guitarist, conductor, orchestrator, and recording-label co-director.[1]

Three durable organizations structure that wide catalog: Sound Liberation, Composers Concordance, and Absolute Ensemble. Pritsker leads the first, co-directs the second and its record label, and has served as a founding guitarist and composer-in-residence with Absolute Ensemble since 1993.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Founder, leader, composer, and guitarist

Sound Liberation

Pritsker’s artist biography presents Sound Liberation as an ensemble joining chamber writing with jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electronic practices.[1]

Co-director, composer, and record-label co-director

Composers Concordance

The organization and its label provide an ongoing home for Pritsker’s concerts, recordings, and cross-genre commissions.[1]

Co-founder, guitarist, and composer-in-residence

Absolute Ensemble

Since 1993

Pritsker’s long ensemble role includes original compositions, arrangements, touring, and work connected to Joe Zawinul and major orchestras.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

Col Legno

Open Up Your Ears and Get Some

Sound Liberation leader, composer, and guitarist

The official discography identifies this Sound Liberation album as a major recorded statement for Pritsker’s cross-genre ensemble.[1]

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Innova Recordings

Varieties of Religious Experiences Suite

Composer and Sound Liberation leader

The hour-long suite documents Pritsker’s writing for the quintet branch of Sound Liberation.[1]

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Cloud Atlas Symphony

Composer and orchestrator

Pritsker’s official history connects the symphony to his additional music and orchestration work for the film Cloud Atlas.[1]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Hear Pritsker-led, composed, and collaborative releases through his artist-authorized catalog.

Official recordings guide

Browse Pritsker’s Sound Liberation, chamber, orchestral, and electro-acoustic recording history.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Sat, Sep 26, 7:00 PM

Composers Concordance Presents Oscar Feldman & Steve Sandberg Duo at The Ellington Room At Manhattan Plaza

The Ellington Room At Manhattan Plaza · New York

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Sat, Oct 10, 7:00 PM

Composers Concordance Presents Semiquincentennial Quintet: Celebrating America @ 250 at The Ellington Room At Manhattan Plaza

The Ellington Room At Manhattan Plaza · New York

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Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official biography, organizations, and recording catalog

    Gene Pritsker

  2. [2] Artist-authorized recording catalog

    Gene Pritsker