CAMP

Contemporary Art Music Project

The Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides living composers and performing artists a platform to create contemporary music and interdisciplinary art through collaboration.

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  • Eunmi Ko piano/suzuki andes recorder keyboard

    Hailed as “exceedingly interesting” by the New York Concert Review and “kaleidoscopic” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, pianist/entrepreneur Eunmi Ko concertizes as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. As a sought-after collaborator and champion of new music, she works with contemporary composers, ensembles, and performers from around the world.

  • Kevin von Kampen - percussionist

    Kevin von Kampen is an active percussionist and educator based in Tampa, FL. He is currently on the music faculty at the University of South Florida teaching percussion. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of South Florida, and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

  • Sebastian Stefanovic - Violist

    Violist Sebastian Stefanovic joined The Florida Orchestra in the fall of 2022. He is a Baltimore native and completed bachelor's and master's degrees at Rice University's Shepherd School while studying with Ivo-Jan van der Werff. Stefanovic is a passionate advocate for new music and the expansion of the viola repertoire, and he has commissioned, premiered and recorded a variety of solo and ensemble works, including the winning composition of the American Viola Society's Gardner Prize, as well as participated in the 2020 and 2021 Composers' Conference. As a chamber musician, he has received quartet fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival and the Robert Mann String Quartet Seminar. He enjoys inventive and multifaceted programming, frequently curating interdisciplinary collaborations for the Houston-based conductorless string orchestra Kinetic. He spent three years as a Young Artist for DACAMERA, performing and teaching in schools, museums and galleries across Houston.

  • Katherine Weintraub - Saxophone

    Dr. Katherine Weintraub (a native of Sarasota, Florida) is a decorated performer and passionate educator. She has been praised by composer Libby Larson for her "technical brilliance" and her "uncanny ability to communicate the music directly to the heart of the listener". Dr. Weintraub is currently a private studio instructor and freelance performer residing in Tampa, Florida. She also serves as the Adjunct Professor of Saxophone at The University of South Florida and Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. From 2016-2018, Dr. Weintraub served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Florida State University. She has been named winner of several international competitions, including the 2020 Matthew Ruggiero International Woodwind Competition and the 2014 International Saxophone Symposium and Competition. Dr. Weintraub received her Doctorate of Musical Arts (with Performer's Certificate) from the Eastman School of Music (where she studied with Dr. Chien-Kwan Lin), and her Bachelor's and Master's of Music from the University of Michigan (where she studied with Donald Sinta). She is also a Selmer Performing Artist.

Events

  • Music for piano and viola in A minor
    E. Bugra Balci

    There is no program note. Please feel free to play the composition as you feel the most comfortable about the phrases. You can play with the tempos or the dynamics. Just make it as possible as yours.

    Virtuoso Concert Pianist and Composer with the awards by NASA, IBM, Yamaha, AT&T, InVision Author of The Virtuoso Pianist and Art of Piano (10800 pages, 179 books of New Era Music) Yamaha grand piano endorser artist. www.ebugrabalci.com

  • On, Off
    Logan Barrett

    Logan Barrett is a composer, audio engineer, and arts administrator based in Rochester, New York. His work deals with the interplay between abstraction and re-appropriation of musical materials to raise questions about the way we listen. Recent projects include an audience-participatory piece featuring custom built phone apps and a piece for two saxophones and interactive electronics to be premiered at the North American Saxophone Alliance.

  • Vertical Advection
    Douglas DaSilva

    Composed after putting up storm shutters in Florida, preparing for Hurricane Milton. Advection is the movement of a mass of fluid, such as air or an ocean current, and can play a role in hurricanes in several ways including increased storm surge, maximum winds, and overall intensity.

    Douglas DaSilva spends his days teaching music & martial arts to very young children in NYC. He feeds off the positive life-energy of children. Every day he questions whether the relationship is symbiotic or if the souls of the young will wither away prematurely as he recharges parasitically.

  • Mini-Werk XXXXXIII WVE-401
    Shigeru Kan-no

    This piece is an absolute piece of compositional beauty that is made up only of special playing techniques and 12 notes.

    A Japanese Composer-Conductor. borned in Fukushima/ Japan. Studies in Fukushima, Tokyo, Wien, Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg and Frankfurt : theory, piano, composition, conducting and musicology. He conducted Nuerunberg Philharmonic, Roma Symphony Orchestra. Paris Contemporary Music Ensemble. etc.

  • crazy
    Jona Kümper

    Crazy - composed in November 2024 for CAMP - The Contemporary Art Music Project - Katherine Weintraub, Eunmi Ko, Sebastian Stefanovic and Kevin von Kampen and their Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame program. The title says it all, a somewhat crazy piece for a somewhat crazy line-up. Just a little virtuoso encore piece, a wild mixture of classical modern melody, canonic polyphony and uptempo jazz, musical trash, but worth recycling.

    Jona Kümper born 1973, is a pianist and composer from Bochum, Germany. He has won various Composition Prizes: 2008 Composition Prize of Neuss 2012 third prize at the Composition Competition Sofia 2015 first prize at the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Competition of Oldenburg University 2017 second prize at the VocalEspoo Choral Composition Competition, Finland 2019 "Square dance" was selected to be performed during the Basel Composition Competition 2020 third prize at the Harald Genzmer Competition "Spielmusik", Munich 2024 first prize at the Tapiola Choir Choral Composition Competition 2024 second prize and prize from the audience at the Composition Competition Regensburg www.jona-kuemper.de

  • Deduce, Decycle, Defuse
    Ralph Lewis

    The percussion instrumentation of the call for works that inspired “Deduce, Decycle, Defuse” specified using items in a recycling bin. This theme of "reduce, recycle, reuse" permeates the work in several structural ways, including reducing the opening ritonello throughout the work, a cycle of extended mediant relationships harmonically situates the composition, and more.

    Dr. Ralph Lewis is a composer and music theorist who currently serves as Adjunct Instructor of Music Composition and Music Theory at Millikin University. His compositions seek meeting points between sonorous music and arresting noise, alternative tunings and timbre, and the roles of performer and audience. Lewis’s music has been presented at festivals and conferences including TENOR and ACMC (Australia), Convergence, the ARC Project, Radiophrenia Glasgow, and Sonic Cartography (the United Kingdom), Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music Festival (Estonia), ICMC/ISSTA (Ireland), the Orpheus Institute (Belgium), Audio Rocket Festival (Japan), as well as numerous events in the United States.

  • Look Where the Light is Best
    John Liberatore

    "Look Where the Light is Best" is a rule of research, suggested to me as a title by a dear friend and essayist. In this short, playful piece, I'm revisiting textures, gestures, and rhythms that I have explored elsewhere, but reconfiguring them in a new light, taking an observational stance on a facet of my own compositional style. In other words, I'm being myself for 60 seconds, doing what I do best.

    John Liberatore is a composer with many interests. His music seeks poignancy through levity, ambiguity through transparency, and complexity within simple textures—“to feel pulled along at varying speeds in multiple directions, but always forward” (Cleveland Classical). His distinct compositional voice amalgamates many styles and influences. He performs as a pianist, narrator, and one the world’s few glass harmonica players. Since 2015, he has taught at the University of Notre Dame. His second portrait album, Catch Somewhere, a collaboration with Zohn Collective, is available on New Focus Recordings.

  • Dérive
    Shiwei Liu

    Dérive is a piece inspired by the French concept of “drifting”, combining improvisational exploration and the recreation of cultural symbols. Inspired by the dialogue between the city and the natural space, the piece expresses the process of “drifting” in different cultural backgrounds while trying to find one's own position through a free and fluid musical language.

    Born in 1995, Changsha, Hunan. Her work focuses on exploring the possibilities of using language as a musical instrument from a female perspective and multicultural background. She combines the tonal variations of the Hunan dialect with Western contemporary music to give language a new musical expression and reveal the subtle connections between culture, gender and nature. Through this cross-cultural fusion, She breaks traditional boundaries, explore how the unique expression of women through sound can be conveyed in the context of globalization, and promote innovation and exchange between culture and gender in contemporary music.

  • Elodea - Flow with Grace in Eb Mixolydian
    Emily Macklow

    Elodea - Flow with Grace in Eb Mixolydian by Emily Macklow Composed 30 November, 2024 Specially written for and dedicated to CAMP – Contemporary Art Music Project. Instrumentation: Saxophone Suzuki Andes Recorder Keyboard Viola This piece was inspired by the ebb and flow of the waterweed as it undulates in the water. Facing the challenges of our present time, it seems we have much to learn from the humble Elodea that knows how to gracefully flow no matter what may come to disturb the water.

    Born in California but a longtime citizen of New Zealand and now living in the UK, Emily Macklow has been sharing her musical passion with audiences around the world for many years. She has been songwriting and composing for most of her life for a wide array of musical instrumentation and occasions. Music has been how she celebrates and makes sense of the joys, challenges and heartaches that come with being alive. She enjoys playing on the boundaries between intention and improvisation, creating soundscapes that evoke deep feelings for which there are no words.

  • Polytonal
    Vinícius Nascimento

    Polytonal is a work with a strong influence from Choro or Chorinho, a Brazilian musical genre. However, it is not a traditional Choro, it is a reinterpretation and experimentation of the fusion of the genre with polytonality. A work dedicated to the Contemporary Art Music Project

    Vinícius Nascimento is a composer, guitarist and writer. He graduated in Composition from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music (CBM). He is currently studying a Bachelor's degree in Classical Guitar at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has obtained placements in several competitions and composition calls.

  • Moonbeast
    Darth Presley

    The moonbeast is a ferocious, tenacious, and thoroughly horrifying adversary. Simply seeing one can send strong adventurers fleeing for their lives . . . Moonbeasts are active only at night and are usually invisible, eyewitness descriptions of them tend to be hazy.” (“Dungeons & Dragons: Monster Manual II,” p. 149).

    Darth Presley was born on August 16th, 1977 at 3:31PM in Snake River, Idaho. Presley proudly served as the first kapellmeister to the nation of Kugelmugel. Contemporaneously, he taught as an adjunct instructor of para-computational orchestration at the University of Maximegalon, eventually being promoted to vice provost for land acquisition.

  • rituals I the sundance
    Volker Ignaz Schmidt

    Sun Dance, most important religious ceremony of the Plains Indians of North America and, for nomadic peoples, an occasion when otherwise independent bands gathered to reaffirm their basic beliefs about the universe and the supernatural through rituals of personal and community sacrifice. Traditionally, a Sun Dance was held by each tribe once a year in late spring or early summer, when the buffalo congregated after the long Plains winters. The large herds provided a plentiful food source for the hundreds of individuals in attendance. (Encyclopædia Britannica)

    Volker Ignaz Schmidt (born 1971 in Germany) studied computer science although his passion is music. He has composed solo works, chamber music, vocal pieces, orchestral music, one opera, conceptual and electronic music. He has written piano textbooks and he worked in school projects on contemporary music.

  • Choro em 7
    André D. Tuffo

    Choro em 7 Choro is a national treasure. This piece explores the characteristic melodic contour of the genre within a different rhythmic context. Its melody retains the distinctive syncopation that is crucial to Choro.

    André D. Tuffo, https://linktr.ee/andredtuffo. Master's student, graduated in composition and piano from UNICAMP. Creator of D.Tuffo Trio and Descompasso. Arranger for Big Band São Junqueiro. Student of Jônatas Manzolli, José Augusto Mannis, Mikhail Malt, Manu Falleiros, Rafael dos Santos, Amilton Godoy, Hercules Gomes, Hans Peter Schurz.

  • Picnic
    Joseph M. Vogel

    A lovely day for a picnic......

    Joseph Vogel is a composer of acoustic and electronic works for various instruments and ensembles. He has an MA in Music Composition from the University of Minnesota. He is interested in acoustics and in collaborating with other artists of all types. He can also be found teaching and performing around the Twin Cities. He lives in Minneapolis with his cat, Morgaine.

  • The Restlessness On The Horizon
    YU Zhuen

    The inspiration for this piece came from a time when l was watching the sunrise by the lake. This piece contains my reflections on the real life I am in. Sometimes I amvery busy, I am overwhelmed by life, and I feel dizzyand unable to stop. Although I felt like I had tried my best, reality showed me the absurd side, crushing my defenses in unexpected ways.

    Yu Zhuen is a composition student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has wonfirst prize in the SunRiver composition competition and an honorable mention in the ICA composition competition.