Composers Featured on the 6th
Annual UNCG New Music Festival:
Craig Hilton & Thomas Phillips
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ALLEN
ANDERSON Allen Anderson has composed works for the Empyrean
Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, the UNC Chamber Singers, Aleck Karis, Thomas
Warburton and Daniel Stepner among others. His work has been acknowledged
with awards or commissions from the Guggenheim, Fromm and Koussevitsky
foundations, Chamber Music America, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia-Alpha Ro, BMI,
League of Composers/ISCM (both the National and Boston chapters) and, in
2005, with the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. His music is published by C. F. Peters, APNM and Belmont Music
Publishers. He has taught at Columbia University, Wellesley College and
Brandeis University, and since 1996 at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He has a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of
California at Berkeley, where his teachers included Andrew Imbrie and Fred
Lerdahl, and both a Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Theory and
Composition from Brandeis University where he studied with Martin Boykan and
Seymour Shifrin. He recently completed Iceblink,
a 35-minute multi-media work on Antarctica, with photographer Brooks de
Wetter-Smith, a commission from the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild. He is
working on a piece about the 19th century removal of Cherokees
from the south.
TODD
COLEMAN Todd Coleman is a composer and
video artist who works within the contemporary "Classical" concert
music tradition, but whose works increasingly defy simple categorizations.
Recent compositions have incorporated visual elements of multiple projected
layers of digital video interwoven with live performers and immersive
surround digital audio, blending studio recording and film scoring techniques
with prerecorded electronic music and live sound. Coleman has a strong
background in technology and the arts, with many commissions and jobs which
blur the boundaries between creative disciplines. Coleman completed his Bachelor
of Music degree in composition from Brigham Young University in 1996, winning
a number of awards and commissions for his work. He went on to study
composition and double bass performance at the Eastman School of Music on a
prestigious Jackno Fellowship, earning his Doctorate in 2002. His composition
teachers included Joseph Schwantner,
Christopher Rouse, Augusta Read Thomas and David Liptak, and he studied double bass
with James
VanDemark. During that time he received awards for his orchestral and
chamber music as well as several commissioned works. Coleman is an assistant
professor of music at Elon University in North Carolina where he coordinates
and teaches courses in the new B.S. in Music Technology degree program. Prior
to coming to Elon, Coleman taught at Grinnell College in the Music Department
for four years after originally joining the Grinnell staff as a Curricular
Technology Specialist in Fine Arts in 2002 at the completion of his doctorate
in composition at Eastman.
THOMAS DEMPSTER Thomas Dempster was
born in Sandusky, Michigan in 1980, and eventually settled in North Carolina
with his family. An alumnus of the Governor's School of North Carolina,
Dempster completed high school with high distinction and was awarded
scholarships to study at a number of universities. He chose the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro where he studied bassoon with Yamaha Performing
Artist Michael Burns and studied composition with Eddie Bass, electroacoustic
composition with Craig Walsh, and counterpoint and orchestration with Frank
McCarty. He graduated summa cum laude with a BM in Composition in 2002
and was awarded scholarships and fellowships to attend the University of
Texas at Austin. There he completed the MM in Composition where he studied
with Kevin Beavers, Kevin Puts, Dan Welcher, and Yevgeniy Sharlat. He studied
extensively with Russell Pinkston and greatly increased his output and
quality of electroacoustic music. He is currently completing the requirements
for the Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Texas at
Austin. His music spans a wide
berth of styles and genre, from solo instrumental works to full orchestra.
His chamber orchestra work camera was awarded a 2004 BMI Student
Composer Award, and his work Four Movements for Saxophone Quartet was awarded
an honor by Sigma Alpha Iota. His music has been performed extensively
throughout the United States, and has had performances in Europe and South
America. His electroacoustic music has been performed in a number of SEAMUS and
LA-TEX conferences and has been broadcast as far afield as Denmark and
Australia. He has previously served as an instructor at the University of
Texas and the composer-in-residence at the North Carolina Governor's School.
He currently teaches first-year seminars in popular music, art music, and
critical theory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a position
he has held since 2006. He is an active researcher, melding literary theory
and popular music as well as analyzing the work of Takemitsu, Henze, Larsson,
Smalley, and Parmegiani. His interests primarily include close readings of
sub-popular rock music using gender and critical race theory, pedagogical
philosophy in the electroacoustic studio, and harmonic analysis through a
cultural theory lens. He is currently working on three articles: "A
Closer Look At Dystopia: A Polyvalent Reading of 'Monitor' by Siouxsie and
the Banshees"; "Envisioning a Lingua Franca for Electroacoustic
Music Analysis"; and "Henze, Hoelderlin, and the Long Line: Poetics
in Henze's Seventh Symphony". His article "Translating the Language
of 'Wind Chimes' through a Smalley Lens" has been considered for
publication by the Journal of SEAMUS. Tom currently resides
in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his cat Zarathustra and his numerous
houseplants. Tom is an ardent film buff, a far-too-avid reader, and enjoys
learning foreign languages as a hobby. He has also written a fair amount of
poetry and short prose, none of which you (fortunately or not) will see here. If there is anything
else you would like to know, please ask Tom. He may or may not answer. http://home.earthlink.net/~mark.engebretson/
MARK ENGEBRETSON Mark
Engebretson is Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a recipient of commissions
from the Fromm Foundation, and Thomas S. Kenan Center for the Arts. His music
is founded on contemporary notions of performer/composer virtuosity,
interactivity, melody, harmony and expressivity. “Engebretson creates innovative sounds
and shapes incorporating high velocity perpetual motion and multi-phonics.
The low pitches reminded me of Central Asian throat-singing, providing a
fascinating juxtaposition of the old and the new.“ (Classical
Voice North Carolina) Mark
Engebretson’s compositions have been presented at festivals such as ICMC
(International Computer Music Conference), Bowling Green Festival of New
Music and Art, Third Practice Festival (University of Richmond), Wien Modern
(Vienna), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), Sonoimagenes (Buenos Aires) Hörgänge
Festival (Vienna), Ny Musikk (Bergen, Norway), Indiana State University New
Music Festival (Terre Haute, Indiana), the Florida Electroacoustic Music
Festival, ISCM Festivals (Tirana, Albania and Baku, Azerbaijan), the UNCG New
Music Festival and World Saxophone Congresses (Pesaro, Italy, Montreal,
Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Ljubljana, Slovenia).
SUZANNE FARRIN Suzanne
Farrin’s works have been performed in the US, Europe and South America.
Commissions have come from a variety of sources and for combinations as
diverse as the Irish bagpipes and string quartet to solo piano pieces and
works for vibraphone. Her music can be heard on Signum Classics, VAI and
Albany Records.
CRAIG HILTON Craig
Hilton swas born in New York and now resides in Raleigh, NC. His first experimentations
in sound began as a teenager with a guitar and a 4 track tape recorder,
unknowing of the catalogue of experimental music that came before him.
LANCE HULME Lance
Hulme’s music “reflects the ambience and musical approach of the North
American musical tradition. Compositional eclecticism, a conscience, playful
and uninhibited attitude with tradition and the crossover between ‘serious’
and vernacular music. All these elements are to be found as well as the most
advanced structural and aural techniques.” (Die Rheinpfalz Zeitung) His music
has received awards from the International Witold Lutoslawski Competition,
ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Prize, Composición Musical Cuitat de Tarragona, Citta di
Trieste Orchestra Competition, International Trumpet Guild Composition
Competition and others, and has been performed by ensembles and orchestras
throughout Europe, Japan and the U.S. Hulme studied at Yale
University, the Eastman School of Music and the Universität für Musik in
Vienna, Austria. Among his teachers were Jacob Druckman, Martin Bresnick,
Francis Burt, Dominick Argento and Samuel Adler. He has been a MacDowell
Colony Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and was a guest artist at the Center for
Art and Media Technology (ZKM). A pianist, harpsichordist and conductor, he
has premiered his own works as well as that of other composers, living and historical.
His music is available through In Pegno Music, Seesaw Press and
Augsburg/Fortress Press. For many years, Lance Hulme
lived in Germany, where he was founder and director for Ensemble Surprise,
which presented “700 years of new music”. His music has been presented at the
Warsaw Autumn (Poland), New Organ Works (England) and ISCM (Japan) festivals,
and his computer music has been presented at the FICEA and Sonic Circuits
festivals. He has received commissions and performances from numerous ensembles
and organizations including the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo
Philharmonic Orchestra, Southern German Radio, the the State Theater of
Baden, Pioneer Valley Symphony, the State Orchestra of Magdeburg, West German
Radio, the Karlsruhe University Chorus, Coro Piccolo, the ProArte concert
series, the Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra, Klammer4, Quattro Mani, the Henschel
Quartet and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has received grants from
Fulbright Commission, ASCAP, Culture Commission of the City of Karlsruhe,
Ministry for Art and Education for the States of Baden-Württemberg (Germany),
the Margaret Fairbanks Jory Fund, Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Southern
German Radio and Center for Art and Media Technology . Hulme began his
musical career as keyboardist for the jazz-fusion band “Dreamscape”. Hulme's musical oeuvre
encompasses a wide range of musical genres and styles. Along with chamber,
choral and concert works, he has written for such diverse mediums as jazz,
opera, music theater, liturgical, commercial and computer music. His musical
style “cannot be pigeon-holed into one compositional school” but rather draws
upon the diverse elements of his musical experience to “weave a rich
expressive texture.” (Die Rheinpfalz Zeitung)
JAKOV JAKOULOV Jakov
Jakoulov is the versatile composer of three ballets, five concertos, numerous
symphonic, chamber and choral works as well as music for over 20 theatrical,
TV and cinema productions. In recent years Jakoulov’s music has been
commissioned and performed by leading orchestras and festivals including the
Boston Symphony Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Dallas Symphony
Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Chamber Concerts,
Armenian National Symphony Orchestra, New European Strings Chamber Orchestra,
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Kammerspiele Theatre (Munich), Swedish Theater “Lilla”,
New England String Ensemble in Boston and the “Bachanalia” Festival Orchestra
in New York City. Mr.
Jakoulov has an international reputation with commissions and performances of
his works in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Armenia,
Russia, Israel as well as the United States. In 1996 Jakoulov was elected to
Pi Kappa Lambda Chapter of the National Music Honor Society and was nominated
for an Annual Award in music composition of American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
Jakoulov’s
most recent commissions included the symphonic score Gifts of the Magi for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (Dmitry
Sitkovetsky, conductor; Peter Coyote, narrator), and ballet Street Talk, Suite Talk which will be
a part of the Edinburgh Fringe International Theatre Festival in August 2009.
Born
in Moscow, Jakov Jakoulov began taking lessons at the Gnesin Music Academy
from the age of four and studied piano, theory, counterpoint and composition.
He later attended the Moscow Conservatory as pianist and composer.
Subsequently, his experience included playing in gypsy ensembles and Jewish
folk groups, conducting a small circus ensemble, and performing with an
orchestra for news broadcasts. As a composer he began writing for film and
for television primarily for the Moscow Artistic Theatre. By the time he was
twenty-five, he had already written scores for twenty-five productions. In
1987, Jakoulov left Moscow to work in Munich and traveled extensively
throughout Europe before eventually settling in the United States. He holds a
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition of Boston University having
studied with Theodore Antoniou and Lukas Foss. He currently lives in Boston,
Massachusetts.
THOMAS LICATA Thomas
Licata is a composer and theorist. He holds MM and MFA degrees in composition
and music theory and a DMA in composition from the University of Maryland at
College Park. He also studied electroacoustic music at the Institute of
Sonology in The Netherlands. As a composer, Licata has written a wide variety
of music that has been performed in the United States, Europe and Asia. His
music is available on Neuma Records and Capstone Records. As a theorist, much of his recent research
has concentrated on the analysis of electroacoustic music, which is included
in the noteworthy book, Electroacoustic Music: Analytical Perspectives (Greenwood
Press, 2002). This book comprises a broad collection of essays of
electroacoustic works while also demonstrating recent approaches to the
analysis of this music. Licata is also editor of the book, Essays on the
Music and Theoretical Writings of Thomas DeLio (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).
Comprised of a wide collection of essays, written by composers, music
theorists, and performers, this book examines the work of one of the foremost
composers and music theorists working today. Licata teaches music theory,
composition and media arts at Hartwick College in Oneonta NY. He is also
founder and director of the Hartwick College Electroacoustic Music Studios.
ELAINIE LILLIOS Elainie Lillios’s music
focuses on the essence of sound and suspension of time, conveying different
emotions and taking listeners on "sonic journeys". The sounds she
uses for her music are varied--sometimes they are simple things like the
human voice, cars, wind chimes, or water. Other times her sound material is
less obvious, like crunching bits of branches, walking through snow, or
pebbles shuffling in water. Elainie holds degrees from Northern Illinois
University (BMus, MM, MM), the University of North Texas (DMA), and The
University of Birmingham (MPhil).where she studied electroacoustic
composition and sound diffusion with Jonty Harrison. Other influential
mentors in composition include C.T. Blickhan, Robert Fleisher, Jan Bach, Jon
Christopher Nelson, and Larry Austin. Elainie has been commissioned
by the International Computer Music Association, ASCAP/SEAMUS, La Muse en
Circuit (Paris), New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto), and Rèseaux
(Montreal), and awards/recognition from CIMESP (Brazil), Russolo (Italy), and
IMEB (France) among others. Her music has been presented at conferences,
concerts, and festivals internationally, including guest invitations to the
GRM (Paris), Rien à Voir (Montreal), l’espace du son festival (Brussels),
June in Buffalo (New York), and Sonorities (SARC Centre, Belfast). Elainie’s
music is available on the Empreintes DIGITALes, StudioPANaroma, La Muse en
Circuit, and SEAMUS labels, and is included on the CD accompaniment to New
Adventures in Sound Art’s The Radio Art Companion. Elainie teaches music
technology and composition at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where
she serves as Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Technology, and
participates as a Faculty Research Scholar in BGSU’s New Media and Emerging
Technology Center. www.geocities.com/marcus.maroney
MARCUS KARL MARONEY Marcus Karl Maroney studied composition and horn at The University
of Texas at Austin (B.M.) and Yale School of Music (M.M., D.M.A.). His
principle composition teachers were Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower
and Dan Welcher. In 1999, he received a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music
Center, the First Hearing award from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (for
Those Teares are Pearle ) and an ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer’s award.
Other awards and fellowships followed, including: a Charles Ives Scholarship
from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Music 2000 Prize from the
University of Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music, further awards from ASCAP, a residency at the
Copland House and consecutive Woods Chandler Memorial awards from Yale
University. Commissions have come from such
organizations and individuals as eighth blackbird (Rhythms ), the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s (Hudson), The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Introduction and Barrage for the
Gryphon Trio), Timothy McAllister (Denk Dir: ), the Moores School Percussion
Ensemble (Pantheon), the Texas Music Festival (Märchenbilder ), the Deer Valley
Music Festival (Three Pieces for String Quartet ) and the Juventas! New Music
Ensemble (Dust of the Road) . Mr. Maroney served on the faculty of the Yale
School of Music from 2002-2004. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Houston’s Moores
School of Music. His academic pursuits include research on the music and life
of Swiss composer Frank Martin, for which he was awarded a grant from the
University of Houston for residency at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel.
PAUL MORAVEC Paule
Moravec, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has composed over one
hundred orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film, and electro-acoustic
compositions. His music has been described as "tuneful, ebullient and
wonderfully energetic" (San Francisco Chronicle),
"riveting and fascinating" (NPR), and "assured,
virtuosic" (Wall Street Journal). The New York Times
recently praised his quartet, Vince & Jan: 1945, with,
"This masterly miniature conveyed warm nostalgia, buoyant swing and
wartime unease."
KIRK O’RIORDAN Kirk O’Riordan is an active
composer, conductor, saxophonist, and teacher. His music has been performed
in Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Finland, Italy, and Russia; and in 23
of the fifty United States. Performances of his works have been featured at
the Ravenna Festival (Italy), the Western Illinois New Music Festival, the
2008 Eugene Rousseau Birthday Celebration, national and regional conferences
of the Society of Composers, Inc. and the College Music Society; and in
concert by such performers as the Eaken Piano Trio, Orchestra Bruno Maderna
(Italy), the Arizona State University Chamber Winds and Symphony Orchestra,
the Susquehanna University Orchestra and Chamber Singers, Kenneth Tse,
Jeffrey Lyman, Marco Albonetti, Russell Peterson, Emily Bullock, Andrew
Rammon, Reuben Councill, John Perrine, and Holly Roadfeldt-O'Riordan. Kirk is the recipient of
numerous awards as both a composer and a performer, including annual ASCAPlus
awards, a Composer's Assistance Program grant from the American Music Center,
the 2001 Arizona State University Composition Competition, the 2000
Contemporary Music Society competition, and an ERM-Media Masterworks Prize.
In addition, his Cadenza for Piano Trio was one of two works selected by
audience members at the CMS Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Super-regional Conference
for performance at the 2008 CMS National Conference. Kirk's music has been
broadcast on KBAQ, WQSU, and WVIA radio. His Cathedral for Alto Saxophone
and Organ appears on a recording by Frederick Hemke and Douglass Cleveland
(EnF Records), and River Lights will appear on Masterworks of the
New Era vol. 15 (to be released in 2009 on ERM-Media). He has recently
received commissions from the EastWind Ensemble, saxophonist Farrell Vernon,
flutist Reuben Councill, the University of Delaware University Singers, and
the Grammy-nominated Eaken Piano Trio. In the 2009-10 season, Kirk’s music
will be heard in Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, and North Dakota. In August, 2009 Dr. O'Riordan
joined the faculty of Lafayette College where he serves as Assistant
Professor of Music and Director of Bands. In addition, he has served on the
faculties of Bucknell University and Susquehanna University. He holds the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University (the first
recipient of that degree from ASU); the Certificate of Performance in
Saxophone from Northwestern University; and three Master of Music degrees
(composition, saxophone performance, and conducting). His academic pursuits have
ranged from writings on musical aesthetics to works in musical analysis and
aural skills pedagogy. Several of his writings were developed from essays
presented on his radio program, Face the Music, which aired from 2007-2008 on
WQSU-FM. His current scholarly work focuses on interdisciplinarity: he
presented On Teaching Composition: Similarities, Differences, and Aesthetics
of Teaching Music and Prose at regional and national conferences of the
College Music Society, and continues an active interest in contemporaneous
art works which span multiple disciplines, and developed a seminar course on
art and music of the year 1912-13 for Lafayette College. Kirk has studied composition
with Rodney Rogers, Randall Shinn, James De Mars, Glenn Hackbarth, Jay Alan
Yim, Burton Beerman, Marilyn Shrude, and Donald M.Wilson. He has studied
saxophone with Frederick L. Hemke, John Sampen, Eugene Rousseau, and Iwan
Roth.
TOMAS PHILLIPS Tomas
Phillips is a composer, novelist, and teacher whose
ALEJANDRO RUTTY Born in Argentina,
composer Alejandro Rutty’s output includes orchestral, chamber and
mixed-media music, arrangements of Argentine traditional music, and
innovative outreach musical projects. In his music, Rutty attempts an
engaging blend of traditional subtlety, experimental sophistication, and
explosive energy. The Boston Globe
wrote about The Conscious Sleepwalker
Loops “…the result is a blaring,
multi-channel, gleefully vernacular carnival. It made a terrific
curtain-raiser." The New York
Times said: "Alejandro Rutty’s amusing “Conscious Sleepwalker
Loops” offered an immediate test of the ensemble’s mettle…”. Other pieces generated similarly positive
reactions: “… in every respect,
an impressive listening experience." Osnabrüker Zeitung (About L'accordeoniste) and the Minnesota Star Tribune (About
Tango Loops 2B) “…in Alejandro Rutty's
wonderful "Tango Loops 2B,"… a sexy, somewhat inebriated tango
pokes through the orchestral fabric every now and then, as if perceived in
memory” A
unique feature of Rutty’s music is its affection for textures suggested by
modern recording processing techniques, and the use of Tango - a genre he
performs as a pianist-and other South American genres as part of the music’s
surface. Rutty’s compositions and
arrangements have been played by the
Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina,
National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil,
Boston Modern Orchestra Project., New Mexico Symphony Orchestra,
Linköping Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, the New York New Music
Ensemble, the Amherst Saxophone Quartet, and the Cassatt String Quartet among
other groups. Recordings of his music have been released by Capstone Records,
Arizona University Recordings, and ERM Media. Recipient of a 2008 MATA
Festival commission and First Prize Winner of the 2008 Indianapolis Chamber
Orchestra Competition, Rutty’s recent and upcoming events include chamber and
symphonic performances in North America, South America and Asia.Rutty’s
appearances as conductor include the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil
(UFF), the UNCUYO Symphony Orchestra (Argentina), Hey, Mozart! Orchestra, June in Buffalo Festival Chamber
Orchestra, Catskill Choral Society,
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, American Opera and Musical Theatre
Company, Orpheus Theatre Company and
Grand Opera Theatre. Founder and Artistic
Director of the Hey, Mozart! Project, Rutty's activities have included his
work as conductor for numerous organizations, and arranger and pianist for
Argentine-Tango performances. He has been Artistic Director of the Hartwick
College Summer Music Festival for the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D. at
SUNY Buffalo) is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of
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