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Musical Accompanists To accompany the many silent comedies to be shown during SLAPSTICON, we have booked these very talented musicians. Philip Carli has been accompanying silent film since the age of 13. He tours extensively as a film accompanist throughout North America and Europe, and has performed at such venues as Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal, the National Film Theatre in London, and the Berlin International Film Festival. Dr. Carli performs annually at several film festivals in the United States, as well as at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy. Dr. Carli has recorded piano accompaniments to over seventy films for video release by the Library of Congress, a number of film and video companies, and for broadcast on the American Movie Classics and the Turner Classic Movies cable channels. He has most recently composed and recorded scores for Kino's edition of Peter Pan and Laughsmith Entertainment's The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. For more information about Dr. Philip Carli, go to http://philipcarli.com/. Ben Model has been a silent film accompanist on both piano and organ for the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the past 27 years. He is also co-curator of MoMA's "Cruel and Unusual Comedy" slapstick series (May 2009 and October 2010 at MoMA, EYE Biennale in Amsterdam April 2010, and "Silent Film Days" in Norway September 2010), and in 2006 he co-curated MoMA's Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle retrospective. Ben also curated the new "Ernie Kovacs Collection" www.erniekovacs.info, DVD box set released by Shout Factory in April. Ben is a regular accompanist at Cinefest, the fall Cinesation, and the "Silent Film Days" festival in Norway, and performs at universities, museums, and historic theaters around the country. Ben is the producer/accompanist for the popular NYC-based "Silent Clowns Film Series," which he co-founded with Bruce Lawton in 1997. Ben's recorded scores can be heard on on Kino's Edison, baseball, Houdini and Barrymore DVD sets, on AllDay's Charley Chase and "American Slapstick" sets, as well as on several DVDs from UnknownVideo and ReelClassicDVD. Ben's composed ensemble scores for films by Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are performed around the U.S. every year by symphony orchestras and concert bands. Ben has recorded alternate musical scores for silent films released on DVD that can be downloaded at www.altscore.com, and his chamber work "The Spice of the Program" was released on CD in July 2010. Visit Ben's website for more information, performing schedule and to watch videos of silent films with his scores on them at http://www.silentfilmmusic.com/. Andrew Earle Simpson, composer, pianist, and organist, is ordinary professor and chair of the division of theory-composition at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. As Resident Film Accompanist at the National Gallery of Art and House Accompanist at the Library of Congress’ Mt. Pony Theater, Dr. Simpson performs improvised piano and organ scores. Andrew also creates fully-notated scores for silent film for live performance and DVD release. He has performed silent film scores at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone, Italy, the New York Public Library, Sala Cecelia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Kennedy Center, and many other venues. Dr. Simpson also explores film and video as part of a larger theatrical context: cabaret, musical theater, opera. The Comic Roach: A Roadhouse Picture Show, which premiered at the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival , is an example of embedding silent film within a larger theatrical production (a “film-cabaret”). He is also the co-founder of the Snark Ensemble http://www.snarkensemble.org/.
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