2B&2C:
Our name, 2B&2C, comes from the Lower East Side garden-studio of the late Ken Cro-Ken. 2B&2C is the name that Ken lovingly called the garden because of its location – on 2nd St. between Avenues B and C.
Our Goals
2B&2C: The Ken Cro-Ken Memorial Foundation honors Ken’s life by providing artistic and cultural experiences to the public. In this way we hope to perpetuate his legacy of love and community development.
Community Service
2B&2C honors Ken’s mission of community service through the lens of his writings and ponderings on his role as artist and conversationalist with the ultimate creator: Nature.
“A key aspect of the art of life is the gaining of a greater sense of all that is occurring around us.”
Ken Cro-Ken
MATT SULLIVAN: Founder & Executive Director
Matt Sullivan is an internationally renowned oboist as well as Ken Cro-Ken’s longtime collaborative partner and husband. In 2004, Matt and Ken began their interdisciplinary collaboration in time-released performances in which live and pre-recorded videos of Ken’s painting experiments were juxtaposed with Matt’s music. Matt and Ken co-created these multi-sensory experiences entitled “multiple oneness” until Ken’s death in 2020.
Matt is recognized internationally as both a virtuoso performer and teacher, as well as an important advocate for the modern oboe. The New York Times has praised his “gorgeously lyrical playing” and The New Yorker has called his inventive performances “the cutting edge.”
As a composer, his innovative works created for oboe, English horn, and digital horn, along with his solo and chamber music performances and CDs, have been featured on local and national radio stations.
His solo career has included performances at Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress, the Palladium, Roulette, and many others. He serves as Director Woodwind Studies at NYU Steinhardt School’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions and he is a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University. In addition to his active teaching and solo recital schedule, he has been a member of Musicians’ Accord, the Richardson Chamber Players, the Westchester Chamber Orchestra, First Avenue Trio, and the Quintet of the Americas, among others. Matt is a Performing Artist for Buffet Crampon and plays exclusively on Buffet Oboes
contact: matt.sullivan@2b-2c.org
LEONID GALAGANOV: Managing Director, Composer-In-Residence
Leonid Galaganov is a New York City based composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist from a Russian Old Ritualist settlement in Estonia. Shaped by an eclectic background in jazz, classical, world and spiritual music, his music feeds on a broad range of both traditional and experimental influences.
Leonid is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at SUNY Stony Brook where his research is mainly focused on microtonality, multichannel spatialization and the exploration of new structures for improvisation. He has examined these subjects in the pieces of other composers as well as his own, giving presentations at the international symposium “Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful”, Manhattan International Composers’ Conference, SUNY Stony Brook and the Estonian Academy of Music.
Previously, Leonid studied orchestral conducting at Tallinn University and holds a BM in jazz studies from NYU as well as a MM in composition from SUNY Purchase College.
contact: leonid@2b-2c.org