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American composer
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- United States of America
- music teacher, composer
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2024-04-25
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-04 19:21:12
BSO Announces Subscription Season
[…] Jonathan Biss, welcome back!); and some lesser-known Russian works, including Rachmaninoff’s striking Symphony No. 3 (his best); and a lovely ancestor, The Enchanted Lake by Anatol Liadov. Among recently composed works, Tania León is back again with a new commission; Kevin Puts, Carlos Simon, Hannah Kendall, Chen Yi, Adolphus Hailstork, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gabriela Ortíz likewise, mostly with topical or political pieces; and it’s good that there’s at least one Boston composer represented, Michael Gandolfi, with a work for organ and orchestra (heard here once before), paired with an old BSO favorite, the Saint-Saëns Third Symphony. And the roster of visiting conductors seems intriguing and even stimulating. And important soloists there are aplenty. We now defer to the BSO press office. In celebration of Andris Nelsons’s tenth anniversary as music director, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2024–25 season delves deeper into the popular programmatic themes from Nelsons’ first decade with […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-18 19:54:34
[…] Heiss claimed that he was offered full scholarship to the Lenox School of Jazz for his saxophone performance but turned it down to pursue a career with IBM – the other performer to be offered this same full ride was Ornette Coleman. Ian Wiese is Associate Professor of Ear Training at Berklee College of Music and a doctoral candidate in Music Composition at New England Conservatory. He studied under the late John Heiss and Michael Gandolfi. The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2021-08-28 00:29:00
African American Composer Initiative: Good News - That's the name of our new CD!
[…] It is our hope to return to live performance in early 2022, if national, state, and county health mandates will allow us to do so. Thank you for your ongoing support as AACI looks forward to welcoming you back to the concert hall before long. In the meantime, may the glorious music of “Good News” unite us in spirit by bringing hope and sustenance in these challenging times.Sincerely,LaDoris Cordell, Jodi Gandolfi, and Deanne Tucker,co-founders, African American Composer Initiative
2021-03-24 10:20:01
Connected Skies: six new works from composer Angela Elizabeth Slater debuting digitally
[…] Maggie Cox, a solo cello piece for Sarah Gait, and an accordion piece for Kamila Olas. To come are a new piece for flute with glissando head piece for Emma Coulthard, a percussion piece for Iris van den Bos, and a piece for mezzo-soprano Kameryn Leoung. Slater did a Ph.D at Nottingham University and was selected as a 2020/21 Tanglewood Composition Fellow. She was the 2019 Mendelssohn Scholar which enabled her to study with Michael Gandolfi at the New England Conservatory. She was a 2017 Britten-Pears Young Artist through which Angela worked with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Michael Gandolfi, where she developed Soaring in Stasis which received its premiere at 2018 Aldeburgh Festival. Further details from Angela Elizabeth Slater's website.
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