The 60 Seconds Composers
T.J. Anderson, Jr. was born in 1928 in Coatesville, PA and now lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After early days as a jazz musician, he graduated from West Virginia State College, Penn State University, and earned a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. His composition teachers were T. Scott Huston, Philip Bezanson, Richard Hervig, and Darius Milhaud. His works range from chamber music to opera and his collaborators include poets; Philip Levine, Derek Walcott, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
www2.emji.net/tjanderson/
Roberto Andreoni, after studying in Milano with G. Manzoni, F. Donatoni and G. Grisey pursued his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. His several solo, chamber, orchestral, electronic as well as theatrical works include the recent success of his multimedial opera "S", commissioned by the City of Bergamo - performed sept. 2000. R.A. teaches Armonia Contrappunto Fuga e Composizione at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano and is the director of the Institute for the INternational Education of Students at the IULM University of Milano.
www.iesabroad.org/milan
Louis Andriessen studied composition with his father, Hendrik Andriessen and subsequently at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag. He also studied with Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin. His compositions for large ensemble include “De Staat,” “Mausoleum,” “De Tijd,” and “De Snelheid.” In 1989 The Nederlandse Opera presented the world premiere of his opera “De Materie” in a production by Robert Wilson. In 1994 he collaborated with Peter Greenaway on the opera “Rosa, a horse drama.”
Eilon Aviram was born in Israel in Kibbutz Ein-Harod Meuhad in 1960. He began his piano studies at the age of 9, and musical education at the age of 11, at the Gilboa Conservatory, Israel. During his studies, he began to write music for professional Theaters, and also composed for TV magazines and movies. Recently he became musical director of several choruses. His first symphony piece “Six and a half years old”, was performed last April by the Symphony Orchestra of the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Danielle Baas is a self-taught composer, currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium.
Joanna Bailie currently lives in Amsterdam, where she is studying with Richard Barrett under a scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. She has also studied Sonology at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, attended the Darmstadt New Music Course in 1994, and studied with Roger Redgate. She holds a First Class Honors Degree in Music from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
Paul Beaudoin (b. 1960, Miami, FL) has received degrees from the Univ. of Miami; the New England Conservatory (with academic distinction) and Brandeis University. He has been performed by the Lydian String Quartet, Boston Symphony flutist Fenwick Smith, pianist Virginia Eskin and the Royal Opera House Garden Venture program. He has studied with Dennis Kam, Robert Cogan, Martin Boykan, Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy, and has participated in various festival workshops. As a theorist he has written about the music of Milton Babbitt, Gyorgy Ligeti and Beethoven.
He is currently on the faculties of the Boston Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music and Northeastern University.
Derek Bermel holds his B.A. from Yale University, and his Doctorate from the University of Michigan. His works have been premiered in Carnegie Hall, De IJsbreker, in Paris, and around the world. He is an accomplished clarinetist as well.
Born and raised in Indiana, Scott Betz received his MFA in painting from the University of Tennessee. After a year studying in Paris, he moved to Mississippi, to teach painting and sculpture. He has collaborated frequently with musicians, dancers, poets, and other artists.
William Bolcom “A 60-second Ballet for Chickens” is performed with permission of Edward B. Marks Music Company and Bolcom Music. He teaches composition at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
Pierre Boulez is world-renowned as a conductor and composer. He has been director of the New York Philharmonic, the IRCAM, and the Ensemble InterContemporain. His compositions include “Répons,” a seminal work for large ensemble and spatially oriented electronics, and many important orchestral works such as “Le Marteau sans Maître,” and “Pli selon Pli.” Pierre Boulez did not write a piece for this project.
Jerome Bourdellon is a composer and flutist residing in Nancy, France. He collaborates frequently with the Musique-Actions Festival in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, and has just released a new CD of his music. His interests are wide ranging, and he has written and improvised music for dance, theater, and concerts with an international range of musicians--classical, jazz, and contemporary. The composer notes that this piece may be performed with any means of delivery possible, including but not limited to horseback, submarine, bicycle, car, unicycle, rollerblades, helicopter, etc...
Richard Brooks (b. 1942) grew up in up-state New York and holds a BS in Music Education from the Crane School of Music, SUC Potsdam, a MA in Composition from Binghamton University, and a Ph.D in Composition from New York University. Since 1975 he has been on the music faculty at Nassau Community College where he has been Chair of the Music Department since 1983. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Society of Composers, Inc., is currently President of the American Composers Alliance and has served on the boards of the Long Island Composers Alliance and the Music Theory Society of New York State. He has received several awards for his compositional work including a major grant from the State University of New York Research Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and several Meet the Composer grants. He has composed nearly sixty works in all media, including symphonic, chamber music, opera, choral and vocal music. His children's opera, Rapunzel, was commissioned by the Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, NY which presented the premiere performances. It has subsequently been presented by the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia, The Wolf Trap Farm Park, and the Denver Symphony/Central Singers. Other commissions have come from the Kent Philharmonia Orchestra, Grand Rapids, MI, the New York State Music Teachers National Association and several individual performers. His works have been performed throughout the United States and in Europe. A number of works are recorded on the Advance and Capstone Record labels.
Stephie Büttrich was born on the 4th of July in 1968 and decided to become a professional user of her vocal chords right after her first scream. After studying school music in Köln, she went to Berlin with the musical group "College of Hearts". Besides music her passion has always been theatre. During the past several years she has performed in various experimental music/theatre works by Piotr Klimak, Matthew Ostrowski, Anne Wellmer, Scott Blick, and Paul Doornbusch. In addition she was featured as a soloist with the "Gelsenkirchener Ensemble für Neue Musik." Since October 1997 she has been a member of the “Crash Ensemble” in Ireland, a group devoted to the promotion of contemporary music involving interactive multimedia. In conjunction with her performance skills, Stephie Büttrich also is an avid organizer and concert producer, directing and managing performances in Holland, Ireland, and Germany.
Pepe-Tonino Caravaggio: see biography of Atsushi Yoshinaka below...
Richard Carrick is a composer and pianist who was born in Paris, France in 1971; immigrating to the United States at a young age. He has received degrees from Columbia College (BA in Mathematics and Music), the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague-The Netherlands, and the University of California-San Diego, where he is presently finishing a Ph.D. under Brian Ferneyhough. His music has been performed throughout Europe and America. He has worked with the Nieuw Ensemble, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, SONOR, the Arditti Quartet, and the percussion ensemble Red Fish/Blue Fish directed by Steven Schick.
Joshua Cody's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, and Africa. He has studied at Northwestern University (Chicago) and privately in Paris with Alan Stout, C. P. First, Jay Alan Yim, and private master classes with Pierre Boulez and Louis Andriessen.
His radio program Music of this Century was broadcast in Chicago from 1993 to 1996. Mr. Cody was Chicago Editor and later Paris Editor for the international periodical The Paris New Music Review from 1993 to 1995, and he co-founded the Ensemble Sospeso in 1995; the ensemble has been responsible for many US and world premieres of chamber works by American and European composers. Mr. Cody is the author of many published articles on contemporary music, and also an accomplished visual artist and professional designer; his work has been exhibited internationally. He is currently a Fellow of the Faculty of Columbia University and pursuing his doctorate in composition. In 1978 he was honored by a presidential appointment as Secretary of Commerce under the Carter administration, the first composer to be so honored.
Ketzel is a six-toed cat currently living with Morris Cotel in New York City. After we awarded her a commendation in our competition, she was featured in the New York Times, and other major newspapers. “As she stealthily crawled down the keyboard as if stalking an imaginary mouse,...I grabbed pencil and paper. Writing quickly, I was able to capture the descending pattern of her paws on the keys and thus seize this fleeting and evanescent musical pattern” --Morris Cotel
Christopher Culpo was born in 1960 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He has earned degrees in composition from Boston University and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Theodore Antoniou, Milton Babbitt, David Del Tredici, and Bernard Rands. Mr. Culpo has received awards from ASCAP, the New York State Council of the Arts, Harvest Works, Centre Acanthes, Annette Kade Foundation, Fulbright Commission, and the French Ministry of Culture. He lives and works in France and Italy.
Moritz Eggert wrote 60 pieces for one pianist to be played in one minute: Prologue; Prelude; Overture; Twinkle; Fishy; Song; Uprising; Hommage à Glenn Miller; Downfall; Empty; Memories; Love Story; Soldier’s Tale; 1-second Waltz; All Good Things...; Eroica; Galop; Elegia; Dusk; Curiosity Killed the Cat; Finnegan wakes; Dawn; Tombeau; La Traviata; Ohne Sonne; Serenade; Requiem; 60 notes per second; Concerto Grosso; 1”; Cadenza; Civilization; Advanced Civilization; Hymn; Study; Easy Rider; Absolutely; Fragment; Poème; Interlude; Peep-Show; Erwartung; Dialogue; Erfüllung; Forget-me-not; Forced Laugh; Pattern; Far Out; Toccata; Mystic; Scherzo; Pastorale; Jeux; Rondo; Variations; Les Adieux; Finale; Epilogue; Private Reception.
Robert Eidschun was born in 1962 and having discovered Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, decided to take up the trumpet. He wrote his first composition at the age of 11 for his primary school jazz band. Robert holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a Ph.D. in music composition from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Recently, Robert received an NEA Composers Fellowship, "Best Runner Up" at the Jazz Composers Alliance Competition, and a grant from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University.
Victor Ekimovsky is a composer from Moscow, and has recently been working at the Goethe Institute in Bremen, Germany. This piece is in graphic notation.
Barbara Engel was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in music composition and theory from Brandeis University. Ms. Engel has been pianist and composer with various jazz improvisation ensembles in Boston, notably the group Odyssey. From 1985-2000, she was the classical music director and host of “Classical Waves” and “Jazz Waves” at WMBR-FM Radio in Cambridge.
Carl Faia is an American composer living and working in France. After a long stint in Ircam he currently manages the studios at the Cirm (Centre International de recherche musicale).
I wrote "What if I just said..." for Guy in 1998 after he had stopped by the studios at Ircam, where I was working, and recorded some spoken phrases. Most all of the material for the piece comes from the analyses/re-synthesis/treatment of his voice.
The career of Donal Fox straddles two traditions: Western classical music and African-American jazz and blues. Mr. Fox is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. He studied at the New England Conservatory, the Berklee College of Music, and the Tanglewood Music Center. As a pianist, composer, and improviser, he has recorded for New World Records, Music & Arts, Evidence Records, and Yamaha's Original Artist Series. His latest CD GONE CITY features Mr. Fox performing his chamber music, including his ballet suite Gone City, and duets with poet Quincy Troupe and alto saxophonist Oliver Lake.
FREDERICK FRAHM (Hemet, California, 1964-), a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, studied with Gregory Youtz, Gary Smart, and Roger Briggs. He is currently Organist and Choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bellingham, WA. He is formerly an Adjunct Faculty member in music composition and theory at Concordia University, River Forest, IL. His extensive output is largely liturgical and reflects the influences of Paul Hindemith, Peter Hallock, and Daniel Pinkham. His secular compositions include works for voice including song cycles, chamber opera, and numerous choral works. Essentially a lyricist, Frahm uses a harmonic idiom that embraces a tertian neotonality that combines colorful dissonance, synthetic modality, and a keen sense of counterpoint. Recent large scale works include The Death of Isaiah Robb (an oratorio based on texts of American Civil War era poets), Love Songs (a song cycle in 11 parts on texts by Kenneth Rexroth), From East to West (a Christmas Cantata based on texts Luci Shaw), and a Concertino for violin and orchestra. He is presently at work scoring an opera Joyzelle, based on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck. His music published by CPH, St. Louis; Live Oak House, Austin; and Capstone Records, Brooklyn; and Musica21, Palm Beach. Mr. Frahm is a Member of ASCAP, the American Music Center, the American Guild of Organists, the Center for the Promotion of contemporary Composers, and Opera America.
Isak Goldschneider was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont and received training at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. His works have been performed at the Concertgebouw, Dodorama, de IJsbreker, and Lincoln Center among other venues. Current work: electronic performance, hypnosis theater.
Annie Gosfield is a composer and keyboardist based in downtown New York. Her compositions include fully-notated acoustic as well as electronic works, and her music often includes elements of improvisation, detuned strings, prepared piano, and a combination of acoustic instruments and sampled sounds. Many of her pieces are inspired by non-musical sources, such as ruined pianos or factory sounds. Her work has been widely performed by The Bang on a Can All Stars, The Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Harry Partch instruments, and many others, on labels such as Tzadik, Sony Classical, CRI, Atavistic, EMF, Staalplaat, and Rift. She performs worldwide with her own ensemble, playing sampling keyboards and piano.
The American composer Newton “Newt” Hinton was born in 1948 in Inkster, Michigan, and died in March of 1994. He was much influenced by a chance meeting with John Cage in New York in 1968. His short life was fraught with controversy, and most of his works were never performed. Hinton became chiefly known as a musicologist, especially through his research on Australian Aboriginal music, and also West African native musics. His career spanned the worlds of poetry, farming, and avant-garde music.
Paul von Hippel is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ohio State University, where he conducts research in the psychology of music. His research interests include expectation and emotion.
http://music-cog.ohio-state.edu/~pvh
Anders Jallen performed for many years as an avant-garde guitarist in Paris and Sweden. He is currently living in Amsterdam and pursuing a career in crisis management with IBM International.
Jonathan Katz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Yale University in 1988 and a Master of Music in Jazz and Contemporary Music from the Eastman School of Music in 1991, where he studied with Bill Dobbins and Ramon Ricker. In 1988, he went to Tokyo to study Japanese language at Sophia University. Since 1991, he has been performing, writing, recording and teaching throughout Japan as well as in his native New York. Apart from his recording activities (he has released three trio recordings under his own name and co-produced the World Soul Chorus Soul & Gospel Christmas CD) and performing schedule (he has worked as pianist with Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell and Lew Tabackin), Jonathan teaches at the International School of the Sacred Heart, Yamaha Music Academy and other institutions in Japan. Jonathan is also co-leader and composer/arranger for CANDELA, a group devoted to original works and interpretations of music from a wide variety of genres, from traditional Japanese melodies to Latin jazz.
http://www.jkatz.net
Roger Kleier is a guitarist and composer whose unique guitar style draws equally from improvisation, contemporary classical music, electronic processing, and the American guitar traditions of blues and rock. Much of his compositional work involves the development of a broader vocabulary for the electric guitar through the use of extended techniques and digital technology. With various ensembles Roger has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. His discography includes CDs on the Tzadik, CRI, Intakt, Atavistic, and Geffen labels. His two solo CD's are entitled "KlangenBang" (Rift) and "Deep Night, Deep Autumn" (Starkland). He currently lives in New York and continues work with his partner Annie Gosfield.
Daniel Landau: The piece “Losing it again” is based on a manipulated bar from Octandre (bar #19) by Varèse. The motif is restructured in patterns of neural disorders, and shrunk into this miniature. Born in Jerusalem/El-Quds (1973), this is his second year of refuge at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. Previously he studied at the Rubin Academy of music in Jerusalem Recently he was commissioned by the Dutch Brass ensemble “De Volharding” for an April 22 1998 premiere.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1968, Vanessa Lann studied with Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner and Peter Lieberson at Harvard University. Her pieces have received numerous European awards; the most recent was the Boswil International Composition Competition (Switzerland), where her piano solo, Inner Piece, won 2nd Prize. She also received the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts "1995 Prize For Music Composition." Her music is performed in concerts and major festivals including Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Gaudeamus Music Week, Ars Musica (Belgium), Lichtung (Japan) and June-in-Buffalo (USA). For the past ten years she has written on commission for such performers as bass clarinetist Harry Sparnaay, pianists Ananda Sukarlan and Tomoko Mukaiyama, The Netherlands' Radio Chamber Orchestra, Nieuw Ensemble, the Syrinx Saxophone Quartet and The Netherlands' Nieuw Ensemble, Maarten Altena Ensemble and Orchestra "De Volharding."
huizen.dds.nl/~lann
Stéphane Leach is a pianist and composer living in Paris. He recently completed a Tristan Corbiere song cycle. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and the Geneva Conservatory. Mr. Leach has performed at the Festival d’Automne, the Centre Acanthes, la Maison de la Radio, and at the studio of the Opéra Bastille. He has appeared with the groups Contrechamps, the ensemble Fa, and the Radio-France orchestra. Mr. Leach has also written theater music for a drama of Strindberg, “La Danse des Morts”, for the cabaret “Karl Valentin”, and for “Too you”, a show merging dance, music, and poetry.
Pianist and composer, Giovanni Mancuso studied with Wally Rizzardo at the Academia di Musica “Benedetto Marcello” in Venice. He also studied composition with Salvatore Sciarrino in Perugia, and at the Philharmonic Academy in Bologna. As a pianist, he has performed in Italy, Portugal, and Norway. As a composer, he has won prizes in Terni, Rende, and Lisbon. He founded the “Laboratorium Novamusica” ensemble in 1991.
Alper Maral was born in 1969 in Turkey. While studying international relations and working as a theatre pianist and composer, Maral defined his musical language. Starting his professional career as a jazz pianist, he composed symphonic music for international organizations, show tunes for theatre and TV, and music for solo instruments, ensembles and electro-acoustical systems. Alper Maral now composes, teaches and lives [happily] in Istanbul. His work, mainly for stage and screen, uses diverse media; from electronics to baroque instruments, to name a few...
He writes:
How long?" (min./sec./frame) and "for when?" (the premiere) are the only questions he concerns for composing ( well, sometimes also: "how much?").
Verschiebung / shifting: moving of a horizontal line / melodic cell perceived via constant / vertical / insisting reference points ; honesty: material / idea /continuum as they are: 52 seconds total!
Patricia Martínez is an internationally active young composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a performer and improviser of experimental music with piano and electronics. She holds degrees from the National University of Quilmes (Buenos Aires) and was completed the Annual course in composition and computer music at the IRCAM in Paris. She has been awarded prizes at the 21st Electroacoustic Competition of Bourges, at the “XVI Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo”, at the Juan Carlos Paz Competition the First Prize in electroacoustic music (Arg.), at the III International Young Composers´Meeting - Gaudeamus Foundation (Apeldoorn), at the "60 seconds international piano competition" - PNMR, and others. She has been in residence at G.E.M. Bourges, at the L.I.EM. Madrid, and she was granted fellowships for to compose from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust For New Music Foundation (EEUU), and from the National Found of Arts and Antorchas Foundation (Arg.).
Composer/pianist John McGinn is currently a DMA student in composition at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he studied with Leon Kirchner and Ivan Tcherepnin. His compositions have been performed at Merkin Hall in New York, Davies Halls in San Francisco, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. He is an alumnus of the Tanglewood Music Center.
Lansing D. McLoskey (b.1964) came to the world of composition via a rather unorthodox route. The proverbial three B's for him were not Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, but rather The Beatles, Bauhaus, and Black Flag. Lansing holds degrees with honors from the University of Southern California and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also studied at The Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. He has received many national and international awards, including First Prizes in the Omaha Symphony International New Music Competition, the Kenneth Davenport National Competition for Orchestral Works and the 2000 SCI/ASCAP National Composition Competition, and awards from The American-Academy of Arts & Letters, ASCAP, and the Charles Ives Center. His music has been commissioned by The N.E.A., the Barlow Foundation, King's Chapel, The New Millennium Ensemble, and Tapestry, among others, and is available on Capstone, Petroleum By-Products, LOGx, and CRS Records.
Theft. The funny thing about life is that itís temporary; that is to say, temporary in the ìtemporalî sense of the word, meaning that all living things and all that we do are subject to the precepts and effects of time. If you live an average lifespan and escape such non-time-related hazards as fire, wolves, cancer, steep precipices, Mack trucks, and bolts of lightening you can count on somewhere in the vicinity of thirty-nine million minutes for you to use as you see fit according to your free will and constraints that may be imposed upon you by environmental, health, economic, and political boundaries. Though this may sound more than sufficient, consider that the first nine million are spent learning to simply function and trying to figure out what your priorities are. Thirteen million of them are spent sleeping and another five million or so eating to obtain the energy needed to deal with the little remaining time. Of course in order to buy all this food and protect yourself from the wolves and lightening youíll spend some nine million working by the sweat of your brow. Untold millions are spent enduring uninteresting conversations, watching bad TV shows and doing things that you donít like. You ever feel like someone just stole a minute of your life?
P E R F O R M A N C E N O T E S : Spoken part: The text is to be spoken by the pianist. Although a certain amount of inflection and expression is appropriate, it should not be delivered in an overly dramatic, affected or comical manner, nor quasi-sung as sprechstimme. Neither should it be recited in a dry, robotic monotone. Rather, it should be spoken in the performerís natural register and in a relatively ìmatter-of-factî fashion. Use of microphone & amplification for the spoken part is optional. The dynamic level of the spoken part may vary and coincide somewhat with the dynamics of the piano part; for example increasing in intensity in mm. 25-29. However, it is important that the spoken part does not mimic measure-for-measure the dynamics of the piano, and the text should never be whispered or yelled, even when the piano part is pp or ff. Whatever the dynamic, it is important that the text be enunciated clearly (again, without sounding overly affected). The tempo of the spoken part is quite fast, though it should not become rhythmicized or metrically even. It should be spoken following the normal rhythmic inflections of the words and syntactical grammar, albeit at a very fast tempo. The text is divided into several sections that correspond with piano phrases. The placement of the text in the score is only approximate and is not meant to imply specific timings and coinciding events between text and music. It does, however, provide a fairly accurate guideline and several benchmarks to facilitate the pacing: these are marked with vertical dotted lines. It is crucial that the spoken part end during the final bar so the total duration does not exceed 60 seconds. Though not necessary, it may prove helpful to memorize the text. Piano part: Accidentals hold throughout the measure. Pedaling is marked in certain places; the remaining pedaling is left to the discretion of the performer - it should neither be too dry or pointillistic, nor ìwashed outî with too much pedal.
American composer Ketty Nez is moving to Paris to work at IRCAM, after studies with Louis Andriessen in Holland. She completed her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and then taught for two years at San Francisco State University. Her works have been played abroad by ensembles in Germany, and pieces for traditional Japanese instruments have been performed in Tokyo, where she spent a year studying with Michio Mamiya in 1988. As a finalist in the Next Millennium Tokyo Opera City Composition Award, her orchestral work “Afterimages” will be performed by the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra.
Sergio Pallante lives in Messina, Italy. He writes music for electronics, electro-acoustic combinations, and conventional instruments as well.
Gene Pritsker was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to the United States at an early age. His musical training began on the violin which he studied for 8 years. Later he studied guitar with Rubin DeSemprun and composition with Christopher Vasilliades and Giampaolo Bracali at the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Pritsker has written over sixty compositions, including two chamber operas and five large orchestral works. His band, Sound Liberation, has just released a new album.
Born in 1964, Martial Robert studied acoustics and then turned to music, receiving a Gold Medal from the Conservatoire de Lyon. He graduated with a Doctorate from the Sorbonne after writing a 2,500 page thesis/biography of electro-acoustic composer Pierre Schaeffer. Mr. Robert is influenced by the orchestration of Berlioz, the intimacy of Debussy, and the musical appeal of Malec.
Joseph Butch Rovan is a composer, performer, and researcher currently working at the Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. He is the recipient of the 1996 George Ladd Prix de Paris, a two-year composition fellowship given by the University of California at Berkeley for study in Paris. His electronic and acoustic scores have been performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and his work on gestural controllers has been featured in IRCAM's journal Resonance as well as in the proceedings for the conference "KANSEI: The Technology of Emotion."
Charles Shadle, born in Ardmore Oklahoma in 1960, was educated at the University of Colorado, Tulane University, and Brandeis. He has completed commissions for SUNY Buffalo, Longwood Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Boston Aria Guild, and the MIT Concert Band. Dr. Shadle is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Elliott Sharp leads the groups CARBON, TECTONICS, and TERRAPLANE.Premieres include RACING HEARTS by the Spit Orchestra at The Kitchen; COCHLEA, for 30 musicians, Inner Ear Festival in Linz; LUMEN by the Meridian String Quartet at Carnegie Hall; X-TOPIA, for Soldier String Quartet and live electronics at 1994 Ars Electronica. Sharp’s recent CD releases include the soundtrack collection FIGURE GROUND and TECTONICS: FIELD & STREAM. Other activities include a featured performance on NBC-TV’s “Night Music”; a live broadcast with Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; collaborations with blues legend Hubert Sumlin and Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians of Jahjouka. He formed zOaR Records in 1978 to release his own and other extreme musics and produced the critically-acclaimed compilations STATE OF THE UNION and PERIPHERAL VISION.
Alan Frederick Shockley was born in Richmond, Virginia and spent most of his first 20 years in rural Georgia. He received a B.Mus. from the University of Georgia and an M.M. in composition from Ohio State University. Mr. Shockley is presently living and writing in a small town in the midst of Wisconsin’s vast farmland. “Cold springs branch, 10 p.m.” is one of a set of short pieces about various locales and times in Warm Springs, Georgia (population 600).
D. Andrew Stewart has been a prize recipient in the Canadian Composers Competition at the annual Winnipeg New Music Festival as well as a four time prize winner from SOCAN's Awards for Young Composers. In 1997, he received a fellowship in composition from the Tanglewood Music Center. Also, Mr. Stewart participated in the 1997 Made in Canada festival last November in Toronto. During this festival, his "The ART of Japanese Bed-fighting" was mounted by New Music Concerts. He is currently at The Royal Conservatory in Den Haag completing post-graduate studies with Louis Andriessen. These studies have been made possible with assistance from The Canada Council and Nederlandse organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs {NUFFIC}. He holds a Master of Music degree from The University of British Columbia. Andrew Stewart is obsessed with the idea of 'music as an active art.'
Yoichi Togawa was born in 1959 in Kyoto and graduated from the music department of Kyoto City University of Fine Arts and Music. In 1996 a portrait compact disc “Kaze No Ha” was released by Vienna Modern Masters. Togawa’s scores are published by Chiola Music Press, Italy. His works have been performed in Japan, the U.S., and in Europe. He is a winner of the Aoyama Music Award, and is a member of the Japan Federation of Composers.
Jack Vees teaches composition at Yale University, and heads the Yale Center for Electronic Music. His works are frequently performed in New York , Boston, New Haven, and around the world.
Dan Warburton. Born: 1963. Studies: Cambridge (Robin Holloway) Eastman School of Music (Robert Morris) New York (Steve Reich). Music: Post-everything (jungle vs. set theory vs. free improvisation). Activities: keyboards with French rock group Tanger. Piano with his trio Extensions. Also violinist and journalist (Paris Editor, Paris Transatlantic). Journalistic style: acerbic. Violin style: idem.
A composer, a music educator, Atsushi Yoshinaka ( a.k.a. Pepe-Tonino Caravaggio) is a chair person of the Creative music Education Lab., received degrees from Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo, Japan), Longy School of Music (Boston) and California Institute of the Arts. He studied with Mel Powell, Morton Subotnick and Fred Rzewski. Mr. Powell said “...Atsushi “Pepe” Yoshinaka is a Japanese Milhaud...”
Marek Zebrowski was born in Poznan, Poland, and began studying piano at the age of 5. After graduating with highest honors from the Music Lyceum, he went to France, where he was a pupil of Casadesus and Boulanger. Mr. Zebrowski continued his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees. Marek Zebrowski has appeared extensively with symphony orchestras in Europe and the United States, and has given numerous recitals, throughout the world. Currently, he is an Affiliated Artist and Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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