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American composer
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- United States of America, Mexico
- composer, musician, pianist
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Deadly Sins in New York and Silver Lion in Venice: Ensemble Modern
Wallis Giunta (Photo: Dario Accosta)Ensemble Modern is currently on a small tour of the USA with concerts in Houston and New York including Carnegie Hall. Under conductor HK Gruber the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta and a-cappella ensemble amarcord, will be presenting Kurt Weill's Die Sieben Todsünden, in a new version for chamber ensemble, plus music by Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Arnold Schoenberg. A second programme in New York will focus on Cuban-American composer Tania León alongside transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano studies.In September, Ensemble Modern will be at the Biennale Musica di Venezia 2024 and will be receiving the festival's Silver Lion whilst Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to the composer Rebecca Saunders. On September 26, Ensemble Modern opens the festival at the Teatro la Fenice together with the Orchestra del Teatro under the baton of Tito Ceccherini, performing Rebecca Saunders' Wound. On September 28, Ensemble Modern appears […]
2023-10-27 21:49:07
Conlon Nancarrow was an iconoclastic American composer who wrote in an utterly new way using new ins
2022-10-27 00:22:15
Conlon Nancarrow was an iconoclastic American composer who wrote in an utterly new way using new ins
2021-07-10 08:03:32
Rhythm pitch and tension: composer Graham Fitkin chats about his 1990 album of multi-piano music 'Flak' which has just been digitally remastered
[…] that at 11 he heard Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, at 12, Thelonius Monk and gradually other jazz saxophonists, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, Frank Sinatra or David Bowie. So he regards himself as classically trained but influenced by other styles as well. When he was writing Sciosophy he was listening to a lot of Keith Jarrett and Nelson Riddle's arrangements for Frank Sinatra. To these influences, you can add in the player-piano preludes of Cornelius Nancarrow.Three of the players on the disc, rather intriguingly, are composers, Graham Fitkin, Eleanor Alberga and Errollyn Warren, whilst the fourth pianist, Shelagh Sutherland, is a teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The participation of the other composers was partly accidental, Graham was living in London at the time and asked Errollyn, and it was she who suggested Eleanor who in turn suggested Shelagh. Graham was delighted, he felt the others were […]
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