Morgan Krauss (b. 1985) is a composer currently living in Chicago. She received her Bachelor of Music in Composition at Columbia College Chicago in the winter of 2012. She is now continuing her studies in Music Composition as a Doctoral student at Northwestern University. Krauss’ ambitions in her works are to produce tactile explorations based on ones physical … Continue reading Morgan Krauss : the clashing of emotional opposites
Category: New Music XXI
New composers; new music written since 2000.
Jacob Gotlib : experimental chamber and electronic music
Jacob Gotlib was born and raised in Louisville, KY, and has written music for instruments, electronics, dance, and multimedia. His music is regularly played at festivals around North America and Europe, most recently at the Wellesley Composers Conference (Wellesley, MA), the Acht Brücken Festival (Cologne, Germany), Hear+Now (Louisville, KY) and June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY). … Continue reading Jacob Gotlib : experimental chamber and electronic music
Happy Birthday Phill
Phill Niblock turns 82 today, and is still very busy: May 22 (6-10pm), 23(12-20) and 24-25 (12-18), A book fair at the Tate Modern, with a section by Frederic Acquaviva, of "La Plaque Tournante" in Berlin, laplaquetournante.org/ with a new book of "Cello Pieces" scores, by Phill Niblock Sunday May 24th 2015 , 8 pm … Continue reading Happy Birthday Phill
Kate Soper : vocal experimentation
Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer, performer, and writer whose work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice. She was a recent Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012-13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute … Continue reading Kate Soper : vocal experimentation
Klaus Lang : Austrian composer
Klaus Lang (*1971 Graz / Austria) lives in Steirisch Lassnitz (Austria). He studied composition and theory of music (with H.M. Preßl, B. Furrer and Y. Pagh-Paan) and organ. Klaus Lang loves tea and dislikes lawnmowers and Richard Wagner. Klaus Lang’s music is not a means to convey extramusical contents, such as emotions, philosophical or religious ideas, political … Continue reading Klaus Lang : Austrian composer
Mark Andre : French composer living in Germany
Mark Andre was born in Paris in 1964, where he studied at the École Normale Supérieure (writing a thesis on “Le compossible musical de l’Ars subtilior”) and with Claude Ballif and Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire (First Prize in Composition). Later he studied with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart University of Music, where he … Continue reading Mark Andre : French composer living in Germany
Alican Çamcı : new music from Turkey
Alican Çamcı’s (b. 1989) output includes works for small and large ensembles, solo instrumental music and electro-acoustic compositions. His music seeks to incorporate musical ideas inside and outside of Western classical music tradition as well as themes and concepts from philosophy and semiology. A native of Istanbul, Turkey, he was first introduced to music at … Continue reading Alican Çamcı : new music from Turkey
Evan Ziporyn
Evan Ziporyn (b. 1959, Chicago) makes music at the crossroads between genres and cultures, east and west. He studied at Eastman, Yale & UC Berkeley with Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, & Gerard Grisey. He first traveled to Bali in 1981, studying with Madé Lebah, Colin McPhee's 1930s musical informant. He returned on a Fulbright in … Continue reading Evan Ziporyn
Musica Kaleidoskopea 