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New York New Music Ensemble
The New York New Music Ensemble (NYNME) is an American contemporary music ensemble. Since 1976, the group has commissioned, performed and recorded works by both emerging and prominent living composers. Its performances have been featured at several major music festivals including the Ravinia Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, June in Buffalo, the Pacific Rim Music Festival, and the Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF). NYNME has also been recognized and supported by many significant American foundations, including the Jerome Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Mary Flagler Cary Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, and the NEA and NYSCA. The group has held numerous residencies at universities, such as Rice University, Emory University, Brandeis University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Pittsburgh, and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Over the years, NYNME has premiered over 140 works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravinia Festival
Ravinia Festival is an outdoor music venue in Highland Park, Illinois. It hosts a series of outdoor concerts and performances every summer from June to September. The first orchestra to perform at Ravinia Festival was the New York Philharmonic under Walter Damrosch on June 17, 1905, with the ''Chicago Tribune'' praising its "musical entertainment so satisfying in quality and so delightful in environment." It has been the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since 1936. Located in the Ravinia neighborhood, the venue operates on the grounds of the Ravinia Park, with a variety of outdoor and indoor performing arts facilities, including the architectural prairie style Martin Theater. The Ravinia Festival attracts about 600,000 listeners to some 120 to 150 events that span all genres from classical music to jazz to music theater over each three-month summer season. The Ravinia neighborhood, once an incorporated village before annexation in 1899, is actively maintained by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Perle
George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist. As a composer, his music was largely atonal, using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School. This serialist style, and atonality in general, was the subject of much of his theoretical writings. His 1962 book, ''Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern'' remains a standard text for 20th-century classical music theory. Among Perle's awards was the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Wind Quintet No. 4. Life and career Perle was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He graduated from DePaul University, where he studied with Wesley LaViolette and received private lessons from Ernst Krenek. Later, he served as a technician fifth grade in the United States Army during World War II. He earned his doctorate at New York University in 1956. Perle composed with a technique of his own devising called "twelve-tone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor. Career Born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922, Foss was soon recognized as a child prodigy. He began piano and theory lessons with Julius Goldstein erfordin Berlin at the age of six. His parents were Hilde (Schindler) and the philosopher and scholar Martin Foss. He moved with his family to Paris in 1933, where he studied piano with Lazare Lévy, composition with Noël Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes, and flute with Marcel Moyse. In 1937 he moved with his parents and brother to the United States, where his father (on advice from the Quakers who had taken the family in upon arrival in Philadelphia) changed the family name to Foss. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Isabelle Vengerova (piano), Rosario Scalero (composition) and Fritz Reiner (conducting). At Curtis, Foss began a lifelong friendship with classmate Leonard Bernstein, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annelies Van Parys
Annelies Van Parys (born 5 June 1975) is a Belgian classical composer of chamber music, symphonic music, music for theatre productions and opera. Life Born in Bruges, Van Parys studied at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, piano with Johan Duijck and composition with Luc Brewaeys. She composed in 2001 ''Phrases V'' for guitar, harp, piano and percussion. The piece of about 9 minutes was written for the Ictus Ensemble and premiered in Bruges by the ensemble Contr'Art. It was awarded the prize Vlaanderen/Quebec and was performed in Montreal on 15 May 2002. In 2005, she wrote ''Méditation'', a piece of about 7 minutes for a double wind quintet. It was premiered by at a festival in Antwerp's centre for the arts deSingel on 23 October 2005. Her first symphony, written on a commission by Luc Brewaeys and subtitled "Carillon", was premiered at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR), on 26 October 2006 by deFilharmonie conducted by Sian Edwards. She composed ''Poème'' for solo voice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Brown (composer And Performer)
Elizabeth Brown (born 1953) is an American contemporary composer and performer, known for music described as otherworldly, which employs microtonal expression, unique instrumentation and a morphing, freewheeling language.Gann, Kyle. "American Composer: Elizabeth Brown," ''Chamber Music'', April 2002, p. 18–9.Kozinn, Allan"Zany New Music, But Quirkily Compelling,"''The New York Times'', May 14, 2003. Retrieved November 5, 2020.Clements, Dominy''MusicWeb International'', August 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2020. Her work is frequently commissioned for specific ensembles (e.g., Newband, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)Powers, Ann"A Generous, Friendly Dose of Experimentalism,"''The New York Times'', November 3, 2001, p. 16. Retrieved November 5, 2020.Keedle, Jayne. "A Musical Democracy: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra premieres the ''Lost Waltz''," ''The Hartford Advocate'', November 13, 1997. and has been performed internationally in solo, chamber and orchestral contexts at venues including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Bauer
Ross Bauer (born December 19, 1951, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. A professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. Life and career Born in Ithaca, New York, Bauer graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1975 with a Bachelor of Music degree. At the NEC he was a pupil of John Heiss and Ernst Oster. He studied music composition with Luciano Berio while a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1982. In 1984 he earned a PhD from Brandeis University where he studied with Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, and Seymour Shifrin. In 1986 he was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1988 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996 he was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. As a music educator, Bauer taught on the music faculties of Brandeis University (1981–1985), Stanford University ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Alexander
Kathryn Alexander (born 1955) is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University. Early life and education Alexander was born in Texas and was involved with music from an early age. She earned a bachelor's degree at Baylor University studying flute with Helen Ann Shanley, and went on to the Cleveland Institute of Music to study with Maurice Sharp. While at Cleveland, she began to compose. She sought guidance from Cleveland faculty Donald Erb and Eugene O'Brien, and went on to earn a DMA in composition at the Eastman School of Music, working with Samuel Adler, Barbara Kolb, Allan Schindler, and Joseph Schwantner. While at Eastman, she became one of the first women to teach in the Eastman Computer Music Center (now the Eastman Audio Research Studio). She pursued additional study with Leon Kirchner at the Tanglewood Music Center. Career Alexander serves on the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale University, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Narucki
Susan Narucki is an American operatic soprano who specializes in performances of contemporary classical music. Career She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the Dutch National Opera including Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's ''Writing to Vermeer'' and Claude Vivier's ''Reves d'un Marco Polo'' as well as in Elliott Carter's ''What Next?'' Selected awards * Best Classical Contemporary Composition Grammy Award for the recording of George Crumb's ''Star-Child'' (2000). * Best Classical Vocal Performance Grammy Nomination (2002) for the recording of Elliott Carter's ''Tempo e Tempi''. * UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award (2014) * Best Classical Solo Vocal Album Nomination for “The Edge of Silence — Works For Voice By György Kurtág” (2020). References Sources *Biography on www.susannarucki.neSusan Narucki*Peter DickinsonReview: ''George Crumb - Star-Child, Mundus Canis, 3 Early Songs'' '' Gramophone'', April, 2000. Acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Baker (composer)
James Baker is an American electro-acoustic composer, percussionist and conductor. Life and career James Baker graduated with degrees in music from State University of New York at Purchase and Juilliard, where he studied percussion and conducting. He began a long time collaboration with choreographer Tere O'Connor and has composed numerous works for Tere O'Connor Dance, including Bessie Award winner ''Heaven Up North''. He was also the composer for ''Like Two Kevins'' for the Lyon Opera Ballet. His works have been performed internationally. Baker works as Principal Percussionist for the New York City Ballet Orchestra and serves as director of the Percussion Ensemble at the New School, Mannes College of Music. He also serves as Music Director of the Composers' Conference at Wellesley College. Baker often leads the New York New Music Ensemble and Speculum Musicae, and is resident conductor at the University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Feinberg
Alan Feinberg (born in New York City) is an American classical pianist. He has premiered over 300 works by such composers as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Charles Ives, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen, as well as the premiere of Mel Powell's Pulitzer Prize winning ''Duplicates''. He is an experienced performer of both classical and contemporary music and is well known for recitals that pair old and new music. Musical career Feinberg toured several times with The Cleveland Orchestra and Christoph von Dohnanyi, first performing Shulamit Ran's Concert Piece (including an appearance in Carnegie Hall). He also performed the Brahms Second Piano Concerto on tour with The Cleveland Orchestra and participated in a collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra which featured the world premiere of the recently discovered Emerson Concerto by composer Charles Ives (performed also in London, Paris, and Amsterdam), and subsequently recorded the work. He was featured on opening night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Black (conductor)
Robert Carlisle Black (April 28, 1950 – November 14, 1993) was an American conductor, pianist and composer. He was most particularly associated with the promotion, performance and recording of contemporary classical music, but he also played and conducted the standard repertoire. Life Robert Black was born in Dallas, Texas in 1950. The pianist William Black (1952–2003) was his brother. He started his piano studies at age 5, presenting his first public recital at 13. He studied at Oberlin College and the Juilliard School in New York, where his teachers included Beveridge Webster, Roger Sessions and David Diamond. He taught at Oberlin, Stanford University, Long Island University (C. W. Post Campus), Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early recording of works by Franz Liszt was nominated by the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest for a Grand Prix du Disque. He founded the New York New Music Ensemble in 1975, was a me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emi Ferguson
Emi Ferguson is an English-American flutist, performer, singer, composer, and professor at the Juilliard School. Early life Ferguson was born in Japan to English people, English parents. A few years later, her family moved to London and then to Brookline, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Winsor School, The Winsor School in 2005 and then attended college at Juilliard School. Ferguson was the first person to graduate from Juilliard with both undergraduate and graduate degrees with scholastic distinction in flute performance. While pursuing her Bachelor's in flute performance, she studied epidemiology at Columbia University's Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health. She also received a second Master's degree, which was in historical performance as a Paul Soros, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. This program was Juilliard's inaugural historical performance class, with renowned musician William Christie (musician), William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
