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Extractions: @import url(styles.css); counter)induction Individual Bios Composer Kyle Bartlett holds a degree in Flute Performance from the Longy School of Music, and a PhD in composition from the University of Pennsylvania. Her music has been performed in the UK, Germany (including a special workshop at the Darmstadt Festival), and the United States. She lives in Philadelphia. [ more ] Composer Douglas Boyce currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music at the George Washington University in Washington, DC., and holds degrees from Williams College, the University of Oregon, and the University of Pennsylvania. His works have been performed in a number of cities, including Philadelphia, New York, Aspen, Frankfurt and Prague. [ more ] With playing described as "something magical" by the Boston Globe's Richard Dyer, Benjamin Fingland plays many different types of music on soprano, bass and E-flat clarinet. He has performed with the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Juilliard Orchestra, the New York String Orchestra, Continuum, the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, and was recently appointed co-principal of the New Haven Symphony. [ more ] Sumire Kudo was born in Tokyo in 1978. Miss Kudo has received numer-ous honors including 1st prize at the 1992 Sapporo Junior Cello Competition and 2nd prize at the 62nd Japan Music Competition in 1993. Miss Kudo has performed in orches-tral solo performances, recitals and chamber music perfor-mances throughout Asia and the US. Sumire has also par-ticipated in numerous music festivals including the Nagano-Aspen Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Santa Fe Music Festival, and the Marlboro Music Festival. She is the cellist of the Avalon String Quartet, and is currently a touring member of Musicians from Marlboro.
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Minimum Security Composers Collective Brass, The Yesaroun' Duo, marimbists Nathan Davis and Paul Fadoul, pianist blair mcmillen, and flutist Jennifer Grim http://www.minimumsecurity.org/about.html
Extractions: At the mercy of performers who typically fill their programs with music of those long dead, composers tend to jockey for positions on concert programs. But not the Minimum Security Composers Collective. The Minimum Security composers - Dennis DeSantis Roshanne Etezady Adam Silverman and Ken Ueno - devote themselves to creating situations in which performing new music is a noble, distinguished, and exciting deed. The founding members of the Minimum Security Composers Collective met as graduate students at the Yale School of Music. They come from remarkably different musical backgrounds, from traditional "conservatory classical" to funk and jazz, from rock bands to musical theater. They come from all over the United States, from different ethnic backgrounds, and from different communities. Today, they come together to form a cross-section of the expanding world of contemporary music, and to fulfill a common goal: to broaden new music's repertoire and audience with music that combines a modern immediacy with classical rigor. Minimum Security unites with ensembles and soloists with demonstrated interest in contemporary music to present concerts featuring world-premieres by each of its members. A collaborative dynamic is forged in which the composers write for outstanding musicians, and performers gain insight through cooperation with living composers. In the end, the performers acquire four pieces "tailor-made" for them. This arrangement benefits all and keeps performances at a high quality.
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Extractions: Lara Downes - has attracted attention as one of the most exciting and communicative young pianists of today's generation, cited by critics for her "breathtaking virtuosity" and "penetrating, sensitive accounts of classical and romantic repertoire". Find out about Lara's concert tours, recordings, news and reviews!
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Extractions: What the critics are saying about Blair McMillen: "The soloist was Blair McMillen, who with his performances announced himself as a prodigiously accomplished and exciting new artist. Mr. McMillen was equally riveting in "Amnesia Variance," and also excellent in Lee Hyla's entrancing and witty "Wilson's Ivory-Bill." Anthony Tommasini, New York Times Read the entire review... "...after hearing Mr. McMillen play these difficult, bracing works with such command and excitement, I think I have a keener sense of who he is as an artist than I would have gotten from your basic Haydn-Beethoven-Chopin-Ravel debut recital." Anthony Tommasini, New York Times "The Debussy 'Estampes' was lustrously played here by McMillen..." Alex Ross, New York Times "...a brilliant pianist....." Sequenza "Pianist Blair McMillen contributed greatly to the high quality of the performance; he was a strong, supportive partner, and the artists' rapport was close and radiated mutual respect and affection." New York Concert Review "Proved to be one of the most versatile and complete pianists yet heard. Trained at Oberlin and Juilliard, he renewed our faith in Liszt with his intense reading of
Vows: Kay Nagata And Blair McMillen Friends of blair Carter mcmillen, a 30year- old concert pianist, describe him as a typically relaxed keyboard player. http://www.blairmcmillen.com/NYT_Nov_26_Vows.html
Extractions: OME people say you can judge musicians' personalities by the instruments they play. Friends of Blair Carter McMillen, a 30-year- old concert pianist, describe him as a typically relaxed keyboard player. "The lower pitch the instrument, the more laid back the person," said Immanuel Davis, a flutist and a friend. "Oboe players are often uptight people. Brass players are beer drinkers. Blair is definitely on the low-pitch, laid-back end of the spectrum." Mr. McMillen, who graduated from Oberlin and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Juilliard School, doesn't know a lot of people who aren't musicians. He says he's spent "the last 20 years in a practice room," working on everything from baroque music to the blues. In January 1999, he left his practice room to hear a favorite Shostakovich concerto performed at Avery Fisher Hall. During intermission, he dropped his program behind his seat and Keiko Nagata, a corporate bond analyst known as Kay and a fan of classical music, picked it up. "I looked around and there was this beautiful woman," Mr. McMillen remembered. "For me, it really was love at first sight. It took about one minute." Both were alone and fell into a conversation, which wasn't unusual for her. "Whenever I go to concerts at Lincoln Center, old ladies or old gentlemen always approach me," said Ms. Nagata, who is 32 and works in Manhattan for NLI International, an asset management subsidiary of the Nippon Life Insurance Company in Japan. "They say things like, `Do you study music?' So I was kind of used to it."
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Extractions: Pianist Blair McMillen has performed as soloist, collaborator, improviser, conductor, and jazz musician across the United States and abroad. Recipient of the Sony ES Career Grant, he is a past winner of the Juilliard Gina Bachauer Prize and the National Young Artists Competition. As a soloist, his performances have been broadcast on CBS's "Sunday Morning," WQXR, and National Public Radio. An active chamber musician, Mr. McMillen has appeared at festivals such as Aspen, Caramoor, Summergarden, the Cape and Islands, Taos, and Santa Barbara. He also frequently collaborates with tenor Anthony Dean Griffey. Dedicated to new and groundbreaking projects, Mr. McMillen is committed to the performance of the music of today. In addition to Non Sequitur, he is a founding member of the composer/performer collective counter)induction, which holds a residency at Columbia University and frequently performs lesser-known American and European works. A champion of the piano music of both emerging and established composers, Mr. McMillen recently commissioned and gave the New York premiere of Jon Magnussen's "Toccare" with the American Ballet Theater.
Links blair mcmillen Our pianist has information about his solo material at his personalweb site. counter)induction New music group cofounded by blair mcmillen. http://www.nonseq.org/links.html
Welcome To Piano.com Mañanes, Michel biography and repertoire for this pianist and educator basedin Spain. mcmillen, blair - biography, press, CD information, schedule http://www.piano.com/pianist/pianist_classical.cfm
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Extractions: Links Cello Sites World Cello Congress http://www.cello.org/ http://www.celloheaven.com/ http://www.classicweb.com/links/Cello/ ... http://cellomaster.norlink.net/ Bernard Greenhouse Bio Bernard Greenhouse Schirmer: American Cello Concerti Composers Augusta Read Thomas Mikhail Ermolaev Kollontay Jennifer Higdon Moscow Chamber Orchestra The Seasons Homepage Recordings Associates and Colleagues Courtney Pulitzer Creations , fundraising, promotion Ethan Winer, Cellist Serafino Piano Trio Sean Osborn, Clarinetist Blair McMillen, Pianist ... Adam M Rosenberg, E-Volition Solutions (Creator of this site)
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Extractions: April 16, 2002 American cellist Kate Dillingham has an interesting background, which seems to be divided between the United States and Russia. In this country, she was a scholarship student at Rutgers University, where she studied with Bernard Greenhouse; in Russia, she studied with Prof. Maria Tschaikovskaya of the Moscow Conservatory, and completed a master course with her in Germany, where she also performed the Haydn D major Concerto. She made her debut as orchestral soloist in Russia in 1998 with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra "The Seasons," and went back in 1999 to perform and record the two Haydn concertos with the latter group; the recording was released in 2001 by Connoisseur Society Records. The Merkin Hall concert was Ms. Dillingham's New York recital debut, but she is clearly a seasoned performer; her stage presence is poised, natural and dignified, without fuss or show. She is also an excellent cellist: her technique is solid and reliable, though not overly brilliant, her tone is focused, warm and flexible, if not very powerful; her musical approach is serious, intelligent, respectful of the composer and sensitive to style and idiom. Her playing is concentrated and direct, but generally introverted and reticent; a stronger sense of emotional involvement and more unrestrained projection would make it even more compelling. Pianist Blair McMillen contributed greatly to the high quality of the performance; with the piano on the small stick, he was a strong, supportive partner, and the two artists' rapport was close and radiated mutual respect and affection.
Coilmp3 Coil (2000). Requested by pianist blair mcmillen. Premiered by blair mcmillenand Nathan Davis at the Yellow Barn Festival in Putney, VT on July 21, 2000. http://www.hausemusic.com/httpdocs/Conservatory/ConservatoryMP3/Coil/Coilmp3.htm
Extractions: Coil Commissioned by pianist Blair McMillen. Premiered by Blair McMillen and Nathan Davis at the Yellow Barn Festival in Putney, VT on July 21, 2000. Written in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Greenville, N.C. Originally, the "coil" of the title was an incredibly long string of pitches (about 9 keyboard lengths) that I "wrapped around" the piano keyboard, providing myself with a deep well of raw material to draw from. This was discarded after I worked through many resulting possibilities and was unhappy with them. I then began a piece using symmetrical tetrachords, usually using 4-note chords which had the quality of two notes enveloping two notes snugly (like C-F enveloping C#-E); like measuring cups stacking into each other, or a magician pulling ever smaller hats out of hats. Thus, I retained my large intestine- or accordion-like approach to the pitch material. I still liked the title, so I spent some time exploring meanings of the word "coil." I discovered that Shakespeare used it in a very imaginative way. In his usage, the "coil" is a life conflict a conflict of the earth-bound body. His most famous usage is in Hamlet's most well known "to be or not to be" soliloquy. "Éwhen we shuffle off this mortal coilÉ" means, in short, to die. To Shakespeare, our days on earth seem as if our eternal soul is wrapped in mortal flesh and bones like a coil of material around a core. COIL develops continually, spirals, and grows. The life which flows through it which is also its own unique harmonic language are pitch collections, that are united by one concept: symmetry.
Aleba Gartner Associates pianist blair mcmillen has performed as soloist, collaborator, conductor,and improviser across the United States and abroad. Recipient http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/miller/press/october.html
Extractions: aleba gartner associates 135 charles street suite 5-h new york, ny 10014 tel: 212/206-1450 fax: 212/206-3677 e-mail: aleba@aol.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contacts: Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450; aleba@aol.com Mary Beth Fenlaw, 212/854-2382; mbf2021@columbia.edu MILLER THEATRE of Columbia University presents the first 2 COMPOSER PORTRAITS of the 2002-03 season: 10/19: DAVID LANG The Passing Measures 10/23: LEE HYLA Another bold season of adventurous programming is underway at with two Composer Portraits that showcase two highly individualistic American composers: David Lang and Lee Hyla Composer Portraits COMPOSER PORTRAITS Tickets: $20 Students: $12 (Box Office sales only; must present valid ID) New Works Passport includes all 10 Composer Portraits presented this season: $100 Saturday, October 19, 8:00pm 7:00pm preconcert discussion with David Lang and Alan Pierson DAVID LANG The Passing Measures (American premiere) The So-called Laws of Nature for percussion quartet (world premiere) Increase for 13 players (world premiere) Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet
Aleba Gartner Associates The program includes Wilsons Ivory Bill, Amnesia Variance, PrePulseSuspended, and Concerto No.2 featuring pianist blair mcmillen. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/miller/press/season.html
Extractions: aleba gartner associates 135 charles street suite 5-h new york, ny 10014 tel: 212/206-1450 fax: 212/206-3677 e-mail: aleba@aol.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Concert Schedule: see attachment Press Contacts: Aleba Gartner, 212/206-1450; aleba@aol.com Mary Beth Fenlaw, 212/854-2382; mbf2021@columbia.edu Martin Bernheimer, The Financial Times MILLER THEATRE of Columbia University Announces a Wealth of New Works for New York and Beyond YOUNG ENSEMBLES WITH NEW VISIONS MILLER LOVES NEW YORK New York Hardcore : violinist Jennifer Koh hits Miller with Carter, Coleman, Reich, Wuorinen, Zorn John Zorn/Julia Wolfe String Quartet Cycle : 3 concerts by the indefatigable foursome Ethel ND SEASON OF JAZZ COMPOSER PORTRAITS PORTRAITS OF LIVING COMPOSERS Pacifica String Quartet scales the heights of all 5 string quartets of nonagenarian Elliott Carter Sospeso sheds light on little-known French spectralist Gerard Grisey A NEW AMERICAN PIANO SERIES Italian piano provocateur Emanuele Arciuli pays homage to Thelonius Monk with 2 U.S. premieres: 6-CONCERT BACH SERIES: BACH IN CONTEXT Intensely focused series exploring the heart of classical music!
Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly Artist members of Music from Copland House include pianist and Copland House HelenaBugallo, Nicolas Hodges, Cherryl Seltzer and blair mcmillen; with violist http://www.sequenza21.com/copland.html
Extractions: "After Paris, Copland started to search for a way to connect his music to his environment; it was not until his first trip to Mexico (1932) that he found how. "Copland was in a position to help many of his colleagues. And he did. Many Latin American composers were published, had doors opened to them, and are on the map today, thanks to Copland. But I believe that an equal, if not greater legacy as a result of Copland's travels to Latin America was the voice Copland finally found within him. " The characteristic Copland sound that helped put the United States on major concert halls throughout the world is not the sound of Appalachia alone; it is the sound of the Americas. Artist members of Music from Copland House include pianist and Copland House Artistic Director Michael Boriskin, flutist Paul Lustig Dunkel, clarinetist Derek Bermel, and cellist Wilhelmina Smith. They were joined by several outstanding guest artists including soprano Susan Narucki, violinists Curtis Macomber and Deborah Buck, and violist Leslie Tomkins. Other Americas Society concerts scheduled
Sequenza21/The Contemporary Classical Music Weekly Their brilliant pianist blair mcmillen was featured in several pieces includinga witty Wilson's Ivorybill for baritone, piano and an old, scratchy field http://www.sequenza21.com/110402.html
Extractions: L ee Hyla, the American composer who lives now in Boston is as brilliant as he is unknown outside new music circles. At the age of fifty, he is going strong, utterly captivated with music and with his work as a composer and yet, it must also be noted, not yet the recipient of the resounding recognition as a truly great composer on the world scene that he deserves. Hyla is somewhat of an enigma in that he doesn't fall neatly into any category or school of the modern/new music movement and seems not to really need to do so. He lives in the eclectic American music landscape that encapulates everything from pure classical forms to punk rock and what sounds likebut isn'tfree form jazz. He seems to thrive on contemporary music scene's terrain, its liveliness, its expansiveness, its inexhaustiveness. Think Eliott Carter meets
Extractions: Star-Telegram staff writer Saturday, Feb 8: Dreary winter weather outside - and, inside, the five-member Cliburn audition jury, just two weeks after finishing up the European sessions in Moscow, starts a grueling schedule of 41 pianists packed into seven days in New York. The auditions are at Rockefeller University, a tiny east side institution north of the United Nations. No freshmen, frats or football here: a faculty of 150 interacts with 150 graduate-level students in medical science. Principal benefactors of the university include Fort Worth's Anne T. and Robert M. Bass. The 450-seat Caspary Auditorium has no backstage, and performers enter by walking down the center aisle. But the sound is reasonably clear and suitable for solo piano music. Still, lovely as Liszt's "Dante" Sonata and his Sonata in B minor both are, hearing both twice in one day can test the affection of even the most devoted Lisztian. Unruly preschoolers on the front row during one performance, and a competitor who blithely presents a program running a good 14 minutes over the 40-minute time limit, don't improve the day, either.
