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2024-02-13 18:00:42
Takács Quartet Debuts Flow
[…] two violas? One of my first chamber music works is named Primal Message. It’s based on the Arecibo message sent in 1974 to M13 globular cluster 25,000 light years away. We’re awaiting a return message in about 50,000 years. It’s based on prime numbers in binary form that Carl Sagan and others who composed this message sent. Then David Shifrin, artistic director of the Phoenix Chamber Music Society Spring Festival and then artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest, commissioned me to write either a clarinet or viola quintet to premiere with the Dover Quartet. So, I just decided to write myself in. We premiered it, then I orchestrated it because I was hoping for time to record it with conductor Anthony Armore and the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra after my Viola Concerto. But I didn’t have time to record it, as we worked on the concerto for the entire session. The […]
2021-10-10 00:21:18
Welcome to this week's episode of Arts Engines which now reaches over 100,000 weekly viewers in partnership with Detroit Public Television, Ovation TV, The Violin Channel and American Public Media including Performance Today and YourClassical. Arts Engines seeks to share the most valuable advice and input from arts administrators who tell their stories of creative problem-solving, policy, economic impact, crisis management and empowering the future of our field. This week's show is co-curated by our Creative Partner, Chamber Music Northwest and our guest is Soovin Kim, Violin faculty at New England Conservatory, Artistic Director of Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival and Artistic Director of Chamber Music Northwest, as he speaks about the balance of performing and administrating. Enjoy... and have a creative week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsm1gPQQfw
2021-08-20 00:53:00
Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program (MAP) Welcomes Flutist and Composer Valerie Coleman for Residency in 2021-22
[…] Utah Symphony, she has received the Herb Alpert Awards Ragdale Prize, Van Lier Fellowship, MAP Fund, and ASCAP Honors Award, among others. Her work UMOJA was listed by Chamber Music America as one of the top 101 great American ensemble works. In addition to multiple commissions from Carnegie Hall, she’s had commissions from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Collegiate Band Directors National Association, Chamber Music Northwest, National Flute Association, and Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Her work as a recording artist features an extensive discography with Imani Winds and appearances on albums by Wayne Shorter Quartet, Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance, Chick Corea, the Brubeck Brothers, Edward Simon, and Mohammed Fairouz on the labels Naxos, Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, eOne and Cedille Records. Her compositions and performances are regularly on the air […]
2019-11-14 06:32:00
Quasi Morendo (CD Review)
[…] strange but wonderful musical landscape. This is music from the bardo. Reto Bieri Moving from the mysterious to the familiar, the next piece on this release is the Brahms Quintet in b minor, op. 115, which I would assume is music with which many who read this blog are familiar. I myself have owned several recordings, back in the day on LP and now on CD. A quick check of my collection revealed the Shifrin/Chamber Music Northwest recording on Delos neatly filed where it belongs in a classical rack, but I failed to find the Stoltzman/Tokyo String Quartet version on RCA that is apparently piled in a box where is awaits refilling one of these days when I assemble the new CD rack that I bought months ago so I could accommodate my ever-growing collection. The Brahms is a piece near and dear to my heart and it is […]
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