Quatuor Bozzini Timespans Festival DiMenna Center for Classical Music August 14, 2018 NEW YORK – Quatuor Bozzini, a Canadian string quartet, have performed and recorded a plethora of contemporary music. While their advocacy is wide-ranging, the music of Canadian composers is near and dear to Quatuor Bozzini. They demonstrated this at the opening concert ofContinue reading “Quatuor Bozzini at Time Spans 2018 (Concert Review)”
Monthly Archives: August 2018
Friday: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church
CC: Once again, cheering for the home team. Locrian performed my Gilgamesh Suite in 2012. Towards the last days of summer, a concert that I eagerly anticipate is Locrian Chamber Players’ August season finale. The group’s mandate is to focus (nearly) exclusively on pieces composed within the previous decade. Artistic director David MacDonald, a composer who teaches at ManhattanContinue reading “Friday: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church”
loadbang Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Concerts, New Focus Recording
CC: Cheering for the home team in this post (I collaborated with loadbang back in 2011 on a microtonal setting of “Prayer,” a poem by Joannie Mackowski). Ten years ago, the members of loadbang met in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. A mixed chamber ensemble, consisting of Jeffrey Gavett, baritone, Andrew Kozar, trumpet, William Lang, trombone,Continue reading “loadbang Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Concerts, New Focus Recording”
Christopher Fox: Headlong (CD Review)
Christopher Fox Headlong Heather Roche, clarinets Métier CD MSV28573 Composer Christopher Fox has crafted an imaginative output, employing diverse approaches and many different technical resources. His latest Métier CD, Headlong, is devoted to clarinet music, for instruments of varying sizes. Heather Roche is the stalwart interpreter of these pieces. Her own versatility andContinue reading “Christopher Fox: Headlong (CD Review)”
This September – Premiere Performances of “A Lady”
The Bryne:Kozar Duo – soprano Corrine Byrne and trumpeter Andy Kozar – recently commissioned a quarter-tone piece from me, a setting of Amy Lowell’s poem “A Lady.” They will be premiering the work in Boston on September 9th, one of three performances they will be giving of the piece; the others are in New York and Media, Pennsylvania (see listings below). AlsoContinue reading “This September – Premiere Performances of “A Lady””
Rimarimba – Egg Foo Young (Video)
This Fall, Freedom to Spend is presenting their first catalog deep survey of an artist’s work. The Rimarimba Collection consists of four albums from UK-based Robert Cox’s Rimarimba project: 1983’s Below The Horizon, 1984’s On Dry Land, 1985’s In The Woods, and finally, the “once-imagined, now-realized assembly” of 1988’s Light Metabolism Number Prague. Cox is still active as a musician, but these documents attestContinue reading “Rimarimba – Egg Foo Young (Video)”
James Romig – Still (CD Review)
James Romig Still Ashlee Mack, piano New World Records 80802 Composer James Romig has spent the past twenty years cultivating a body of work that embodies both rigorous structuring and a wide-ranging gestural palette. As is explained in Bruce Quaglia’s excellent liner notes for Romig’s first New World CD, Still, there is good reason forContinue reading “James Romig – Still (CD Review)”
Christian B. Carey 