Charles Curtis is a performer and composer of a wide variety of music, with particular emphasis on the
avant-garde. Curtis is most strongly associated with
minimalism
In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Don ...
,
modern classical, and so-called "
downtown music."
A graduate of
Juilliard School, Curtis has since been involved with the music department at
Princeton University and at the
University of California, San Diego. He has served as Professor of Contemporary Music Performance at UCSD since
2000
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, where he serves as artistic director for the chamber music series ''Camera Lucida''.
Curtis has studied under such masters as vocalist
Pandit Pran Nath and composer
La Monte Young
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music. He is best kno ...
and still regularly records and performs. He has also worked closely with composers such as
Eliane Radigue and
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Mi ...
.
Selected discography
External links
Charles Curtis bio on UCSD faculty pageBiography at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl
American cellists
Living people
King Missile members
University of California, San Diego faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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