Black Tie and Tails

downloade here Eugene Dinklaker, principal euphonist with the Pringler City Philharmonic, was über-casual about his concert attire, and that never ceased to irritate Maurice the conductor. So when the programming committee selected “Etude Bruté for Euphonium and Strings” for the orchestra’s spring concert series, Maurice stipulated in the contract that the soloist’s concert dress be traditional “black tie and tails.” Too bad he neglected to say anything about trousers.

David Gunn
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Upcoming Performances

Electronic Music Midwest in Bozeman, Montana

Saturday, February 22, 2014
concerts at:
- 10:30 AM
- 1:30 PM
- 4:30 PM
- 7:30 PM

Saturday, February 22, 2014 (BOZEMAN, MONTANA) The Electronic Music Midwest Festival is presenting 4 concerts for it "Mini" Festival in Reynolds Hall at Montana State University.

The Montana State University School of Music and Electronic Music Midwest present the 2014 Electronic Music Midwest & Mountains Invitational mini-Festival on February 22nd in Reynolds Recital Hall on the MSU Campus.

The festival will feature four concerts of electronic music, multimedia and sonic art by composer from around the country (10:30 am, 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm, & 7:30 pm).

Linda Antas - A Fulbright Fellowship recipient, Antas has also been recognized by the International Music Contest Citta' di Udine (TauKay Edizioni Musicali), and has received commissions from the International Computer Music Association, the Rind Fund, and internationally-renowned performers including Eric Mandat. She has performed as a flutist at the National Flute Association Convention, the Phonos Foundation’s (Barcelona) “Instrumental-Electroacoustica VI Festival”, the Seattle Chamber Players’ “Icebreaker Festival”, and performed Elliot Carter's Esprit Rude / Esprit Doux with clarinetist Eric Mandat in celebration of the composer's 100th birth year.

Scott Blasco teaches composition, music theory, and electronic music at Washington State University, and is a board member of the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and a founding member of the Kansas City-area electroacoustic new music ensemble The Digital Honkbox Revival. He holds degrees in music from Western Michigan University and Calvin College, in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary, where he studied theology and the arts, and recently completed a doctorate in music composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Jason Bolte is an Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the MONSTER Studios at Montana State University where he teaches courses in composition and music technology. Jason is a member of the organizational board of the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, and a founding board member of the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance.

The Chilean-American composer Miguel Chuaqui was born in 1964 in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Santiago, Chile. He has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, the Utah Arts Council (NEA), Meet the Composer, and from U.S. and international performers and ensembles. Honors include an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Aaron Copland Recording Grant, the Eisner Prize, a Nicola de Lorenzo Award, an award from the Society for Universal Sacred Music, and induction into the National Association of Composers of Chile.

Dr. Ian Corbett is the Coordinator of the Audio Engineering Program, and Professor of Music Technology and Audio Recording at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He also owns and operates "off-beat-open-hats - recording and sound reinforcement", specializing in servicing the needs of classical and jazz ensembles in the Kansas City area. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society's Education Committee, and has mentored, presented, and served on panels at local, regional, national, and international AES events.

Bruce Hamilton (b. 1966) composes and performs music in a variety of genres. He has performed as a percussionist, improviser, and electronic musician for over 25 years. His music is published by Non Sequitur Music and can be heard on the Albany, Amaranth, and/OAR, blank space, Capstone, Ilse, [ink | fuel], Memex, Phill, SEAMUS, Spectropol, split-notes, Three Legs Duck and Mark labels.

Ryan M. Hare (b. 1970), originally from Reno, Nevada, teaches composition, music theory, and bassoon at Washington State University, where he is an associate professor of music, and is Composer in Residence for the Washington Idaho Symphony. Hare was recently named “Composer of the Year” by the Washington State Music Teacher’s Association, an honor which endowed a paid commission (Dark Energy, composed for 88 Squared). Other recent honors include a prestigious Artist Trust Fellowship, grants from New Music USA’s “MetLife Creative Connections” program, the ASCAP Plus Award, and commissions and premieres from the Washington Idaho Symphony (Three Short Pieces for Orchestra and Maracanazo) and Affinity Chamber Players (Chamber Concerto).

Simon Hutchinson’s compositions have been performed across the US, Europe, and Asia, as well as at various music festivals and conferences, including NIME (2013), the Kyma International Sound Symposium (2013), SEAMUS (2012, 2011), Miso Music Portugal (2011, 2010), the Music Today Festival (2011), April in Santa Cruz (2007, 2006), and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium (2009). In 2008, he was awarded the 1st Young Composers’ Competition of CMEK (Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea, 2008), and his work has also been recognized by the Sasakawa Young Leader’s Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) OUS Fellowship, University of Oregon Graduate School Research Awards (2010, 2008), the University of Oregon Ruth Close Musical Fellowship (2008), ASCAPlus Composer’s Awards (2007-2011), the Porter Associate Fellows Graduate Arts Research Grant (2007), UCSC Music Department Graduate Fellowships (2006, 2005), and the Bates College Key Music Award (2002). Currently, Hutchinson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Montana.

Theo Lipfert, Associate Professor in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University, Bozeman, is a filmmaker who is exploring the intersection between visual media and sound. He earned an MFA in Painting at Hunter College in New York City and exhibited paintings and prints widely in North America and Germany before devoting his creative energies to film, video, sound, and teaching. His first film, “The Displacement Map,” was featured at the Tribeca film festival and won several awards for experimental documentary. Subsequent films, among them documentaries, narratives, and experimental shorts, have been shown in premiere festivals including Ann Arbor, SXSW, Cinequest, Mill Valley, and One Reel / Bumbershoot. In addition, some of his works have been broadcast on public television and garnered both awards and critical acclaim. Theo Lipfert was recently a Fulbright Scholar in the Republic of Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, where he taught digital media and produced a film about giant tortoises.

Mike McFerron's "Perspectives" had. . .rhythmic variety and energy. . .with drum and percussion ostinatos driving the music jazzily." - John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

Mike McFerron is Professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Lewis University in the Chicago area. At Lewis University, McFerron teaches music composition and directs the music technology program. He received a DMA in composition from the Conservatory of Music--University of Missouri at Kansas City where his primary teachers were James Mobberley, Chen Yi, and Gerald Kemner. A native of Oklahoma, McFerron also studied composition with Ray E. Luke. He has been on the faculty of UMKC and the Kansas City Kansas Community College, and he has served as resident composer at the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers' Forum in Bennington, Vt. McFerron is founder and co-director of Electronic Music Midwest.

David D. McIntire was born in upstate New York and has had some training on the clarinet. He has maintained his livelihood through playing, teaching, composing, and writing about music. Also played clarinet and saxophone in a number of eccentric and overly idealistic musical groups, most notably the Colorblind James Experience, the Whitman/McIntire Duo, and the Hotheads. He holds music degrees from Nazareth College of Rochester, Ithaca College and recently received a DMA in composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he was awarded a Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship. He also serves on the boards of Electronic Music Midwest and newEar Chamber Ensemble.

David Morneau is a composer of an entirely undecided genre. In his work he endeavors to explore ideas about our culture, issues concerning creativity, and even the very nature of music itself. Morneau's work is characterized by his eclectic interests and collaborative spirit. Described by Molly Sheridan as a "flashing beacon" of inspiration, Morneau's eclectic output is best exemplified by 60x365, his "ambitious yearlong musical project" for which he composed a new one-minute composition every day. These "miniature compositions include ambient tracks, found sound, instrumental performances, and plenty of loop and sample-based pieces." [The Year of Musical Thinking, A Minute At A Time, NPR's All Things Considered, 6/30/08]

From the ancient cypress swamps of Wewahitchka, Chester (Chet) Udell received his Ph.D. at the University of Florida in Music Composition with Electrical Engineering emphasis and currently serves as Instructor of Music Technology & Intermedia at the University of Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Music/Digital Arts from Stetson University (2005) and his Masters of Music Composition at the University of Florida. His interests include: Acoustic Ecology, Field Recording, Composition, Electrical Engineering (digital systems, interfaces, wireless communication), Circuit Bending, and building Autonomous Musical Agents. His dissertation research on novel musical interface design resulted in a registered U.S. patent (pending) and a technology startup company. Some of his honors include: Destellos International Composition Competition 2011 honorable mention and Sound in Space 2011 Finalist. He is the 1st prize recipient of the SEAMUS/ASCAP Student Commission Competition 2010 - one of the highest student honors for electroacoustic music in the United States. His music has been presented around the world and is available on the Summit and SEAMUS record labels.

Composer, producer, singer, Robert Voisey has been described as “mad” by the New York Times and publications around the globe. The LA Times highlighted Voisey as a composer using creativity to get his work heard. Rob Voisey embraces a variety of media for his compositions, and pioneers new venues to disseminate his music and reach audiences. His work has been heard in more than 40 countries in venues including Carnegie Hall, World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium, Stratford Circus in London, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MadArt Gallery, The Lobby – nightclub, Tompkins Park, Chashama’s street window in New York City, TV, radio, off-off broadway productions, movie screenings, bars, and audio synchronized to an installation projected against a building.

Michael Wittgraf has won the University of Minnesota Craig and Janet Swan Sesquicentennial Commissioning Project. Additionally, his music has received special distinction in the ASCAP/Nissim Foundation Composition Contest, and he has been a finalist in the Ladislav Kubik International Prize in Composition, the Modern Chamber Players International Composition Contest, and the Pi Kappa Lambda Chamber Music Composition Competition. His music has been performed by many artists, including Zeitgeist, Trio Montecino, the Chiara String Quartet, the BECS Quartet of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Thursday Musical of St. Paul, the University of North Dakota Wind Ensemble, the DuQuesne Contemporary Ensemble, and Tempus Fugit. Dr. Wittgraf has been commissioned through the National Symphony Orchestra, the North Dakota Council on the Arts, the North Dakota Music Teachers Association, The Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and many other organizations, ensembles and performers. He was the commissioned composer for the National Symphony’s North Dakota Residency in 2003. His music has been funded by the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center. He has been composer-in-residence for the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and is active in the Grand Forks region as a performer, composer, and lecturer.

Also composers Chris Huvaere, Ryan Lombard, Nayla Mehdi, Mark Vaughn, and Elizabeth Whitehorn.

Electronic Music Midwest is dedicated to programming of a wide variety of electroacoustic music and providing the highest quality performance of electronic media. Our goal is to bring together vibrant and interesting artists of all forms, give them a vehicle for their expressions, and a place for them to share ideas with others.

The EMM "mini's" were created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of EMM. The goal was to help other institutions and venue produce electroacoustic concerts in their community. It's a way for composers in the same geographic area an opportunity to interact with other composers, audiences, and students. In some cases, it's a way for teachers to grants performance opportunities for their students in a professional setting.

Since its beginning, EMM has programmed over 500 new electroacoustic compositions. Composers have traveled from around the world to graciously share their music with audiences in the Midwest and beyond. EMM strives to create an environment conducive to building community interaction. http://www.emmfestival.org

The Electronic Music Midwest & Mountains mini-Festival features an 8.1 channel surround-sound environment for live diffusion and projection. The festival is sponsored by the School of Music's MONSTER Studios, home of the Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology. Reynolds Recital Hall is located in Howard Hall, across from the MSU Duck Pond.

The Electronic Music Midwest "Mini" Festival
Saturday, February 22, 2014
concerts at 10:30 AM, 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM, and 7:30 PM
Reynolds Hall
The Montana State University School of Music
Bozeman, Montana
FREE ADMISSION

COMPOSER’S VOICE PRESENTS THE 4TH ANNUAL TRAJETORIA BRASILEIRA

Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 1:00 PM

Composer’s Voice presents its 4th Annual Trajetória Brasileira at Jan Hus Church. The concert will feature Brazilian and Brazilian inspired works featuring the ensemble Tom do Brasil and the duo David Souza, and Anoush Moazzeni for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame. The concert will include the work of Brazilian composer Rodrigo Baggio performed by guitarists Cristian Amigo and Angela Babin. Also will be a performance from Brazilian violinist Marcos dal Medico performing the works for David Morneau, Dafina Zeqiri Nushi, Sergio Roberto de Oliveira, and Yan Pang.

Originally formed to perform the Brazilian music style "Choro," TOM DO BRASIL has expanded their repertoire to include Bossa Nova, Forró, Sertanejo, and new works by contemporary composers inspired by the sounds of Brazil.

Tenor David Souza received the First Prize at “Solo with Orchestra Competition” in Quebec City and at “Disk Recording Competition 2012 Edition” and the prize of best singer of brazilian popular music at Cotovia Competition in 2000.

Persian born Anoush Moazzeni enjoys a performing career that has frequently taken her around the world. Highlights of recent seasons have included visits to America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Cristian Amigo is an American composer, guitarist, producer, and educator who explores connections between art, music and American popular and roots musics. He is currently composer-in-residence at INTAR Theater in New York City where he produces concerts and the INTAR Roots & New Music Festival. His awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and Meet the Composer and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Angela Babin has been playing guitar since she was 10 years old. She learned how to play at Girl Scout camp and first performed live at Folk City when she was 13 years old. She subsequently started playing electric guitar in a band that played at NYC high school dances and block parties when she was 14. Angela entered the downtown New York music scene playing with Off Beach and the Ordinaires in 1979, and got to perform all over Europe, Canada and the US. Angela has been playing guitar and bass, composing and recording with many bands and projects including Homer Erotic, Inviolate, the Raging Hormones, and more.

Combining the Brazilian Music, Improvisation and elements of Contemporary Classical Music, brazilian guitarist and composer Rodrigo Baggio has excelled internationally. He is the recipient of the “Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize”

Violinist Marcos Dal Medico began his violin studies at age seven with Roberto Dal Medico, continuing on with Manfredo Clélio de Vincenzo and Alberto Jaffé. He earned his Music Degree in Violin from UNESP (State University of Sao Paulo) under the supervision of Professor Ayrton Pinto. His teachers include Mary Lou Speaker, Gerald Rubinstein, Sergey Girchenko, Marcello Guerchfeld, Mathey Torpe, Claudio Micheletti, Eliza Fukuda and Pablo de Leon. He has performed as a guest violinist and soloist in many Brazilian concert halls.

Douglas DaSilva’s composing is influenced by Brazilian music. As Artistic Director for the Composer’s Voice concert series “DaSilva knows just how to tempt you with a delicious array of musical desserts that titillate your ear.” NM421 His compositions have been described as “very individual, and to us has a very clear personality” in Classical Guitar Magazine.

Described by Molly Sheridan as a "flashing beacon" of inspiration, David Morneau's eclectic output is best exemplified by 60x365, his "ambitious yearlong musical project" for which he composed a new one-minute composition every day.

Dafina Zeqiri Nushi, is a Kosovar composer; among her honors are three awards in the Cesk Zadeja competition for young composers in Tirana, Third Prize in the pre-art competition for young composers in Zurich, the Theodore Front Prize the International Alliance for Women in Music, the second prize “Chopin Kosovo” Composers Competition (2012), and First Prize in Composers Competition 2011 for chamber music from Kosovo Ministry of Culture.

Sergio Roberto de Oliveira was nominee for the 12thLatin Grammy (“Best Classical Contemporary Composition”).

Yan Pang is one of the most active composers of the new Chinese generation. She has released a number of publications consisting of “Glorious Times”, published by the China Scientific & Cultural Audio-Video Publishing Company in 2011, as well as score “Solis Ortus", and article “Comparative Music Analysis of Scene of Sichuan Opera” which were issued by China People’s Cultural Art Publishing Company.

Jonathan Russell is a composer, clarinetist, conductor, and educator, whose work has been hailed as “incredibly virtuosic, rocking, and musical” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and “a fantastically distorted perpetual motion of awesome” (I Care If You Listen).

"...the 15 Minutes of Fame project of Vox Novus is a godsend. " - NY Music Culture Examiner Fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute acoustic works by different composers. Fifteen Minutes of Fame gives a variety of new music by living composers to audiences hungry to hear what is being created in today's music scene.

One of the premier showcases for promising composers, Composer’s Voice Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers and musicians to express their musical aesthetic and personal “voice.” Composer’s Voice has presented over 100 concerts in New York City and scores of concert performances throughout the world. "[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and emerging composers. Those voices should be heard, and they can even be reheard on the Vox Novus website (http://www.VoxNovus.com)..." - New Music Connoisseur

Composer’s Voice Concert
Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 1:00 PM
Jan Hus Church
351 East 74th Street
(between First and Second Avenues) New York, New York
FREE ADMISSION

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Two Sets Fifteen Minutes of Fame with
Javier Pérez Garrido in Alicante, Spain

Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 1:00 PM

Composer's Voice International presents:Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Javier Pérez Garrido, Romances for solo clarinet to be premiered February 28, 2014 8:00 PM at Auditorio CAM de Alicante Calle Isabel la Catolica, 7, 03007 Alicante, Spain

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Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Javier Pérez Garrido, Romances for solo clarinet
Sueños y Agitaciones
Canciones de Esperanza
Friday, February 28, 2014 8:00 PM at
Auditorio CAM de Alicante
Calle Isabel la Catolica, 7, 03007
Alicante, Spain
FREE ADMISSION

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Announcing results for Fifteen Minutes of Fame:
Japan Perspective with
Thomas Piercy and Vilian Ivantchev

Thomas Piercy, clarinet & Vilian Ivantchev, guitar are to premiere Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Japan Perspective on April 13, 2014 for the Composer’s Voice concert Series at the Jan Hus Church in New York City.

The theme of this call is Japan. The Japanese theme could include pieces inspired by Japanese musical or visual art works (either traditional or contemporary), pieces using technical elements found in Japanese music or new works by Japanese composers.

Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed clarinetist with orchestral, concerto, solo and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His performances have been described by critics as "passionate," "pulling out all the stops," “the best Piazzolla in NYC,” and by the New York Times as “brilliant,” “playing with refinement and flair” and “evoking a panache in the contemporary works.” He studied at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music. He studied clarinet extensively with the English clarinetist Gervase De Peyer; additional studies were with Kalmen Opperman and Leon Russianoff. A versatile artist defying categorization - the clarinetist on the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CD and DVDs; performing Mozart with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; playing Broadway songs with Raoul Julia; working with the composer Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE rap music video; performing concert improvisations with jazz pianist Donal Fox; premiering new works; recording with members of Maroon 5 - as an instrumentalist, he has performed and recorded for Broadway and Off-Broadway, commercial recordings, television, radio, videos, and movie soundtracks.

Guitarist Vilian Ivantchev began his studies in his native country, Bulgaria, at the Lubomir Pipkov National Music School. When he moved to New York at age 11, he joined the Mannes Preparatory Division and its honors program. Mr. Ivantchev holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Mannes the New School for Music and a Master’s Degree from Manhattan School of music. In

Selected composers for Fifteen Minutes of Fame include:
Different Perspectives Over A Short Moment by Rodrigo Baggio,
Meandering in Kotoku-in by Jean-Patrick Besingrand,
Chi by David Bohn,
Satoyama by Julius Bucsis,
Hazy Aso by Young-Shin Choi,
First Snow by Masatora Goya,
Japan Perspective by Shigeru Kan-no,
Shianbashi by Laszlo Kékszakállu,
Japan Perspective by Emil Khoury,
(Mugen No Aki) by Danny W. Leo,
HIP by Luigi Morleo,
Matsuri Miniature by Lucas Oickle,
Tombeau de torui by Thomas Schuttenhelm,
Edo by Samuel Stokes, and
Sōkyoku by Donald Reid Womack

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http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/andPlay/

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Fifteen Minutes of Fame: Matthew Rosenberg
bassoon solo

Deadline: February 21, 2014

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Matthew Rosenberg, bassoon to be premiered in a video performance scheduled for June 2014. The video of this performance will be available for viewing on the Vox Novus website, Summer 2014.

Matthew Rosenberg, bassoonist, is a New York City–based freelance musician and a teacher currently serving as faculty at the Luzerne Music Center. He holds his B.M. from New York University, an A.D. from the Aaron Copland School of Music, and his M.M. from The Manhattan School of Music, where he was featured as a soloist in the Strauss Duet-Concertino as well as many other MSM performances. At NYU, he studied primarily under Leonard Hindell, and Mark Timmerman, and was a featured player in numerous productions. His undergraduate education took him as far as Prague, where he learned under the tutelage of Jaroslav Kubita of the Czech Philharmonic. At the Aaron Copland School of Music he worked under Marc Goldberg and has studied with Roger Nye of the New York Philharmonic while at MSM. As an active chamber and orchestral musician he is a two time winner of the Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition and has played with orchestras such as the Garden State Philharmonic, Nova Philharmonic, Park Avenue Chamber Orchestra, and the Amore Opera.

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