David Wolfson is a composer, music director, arranger, pianist and copyist who lives in New York City. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1985, and in that same year was the first recipient of the newly established Darius Milhaud Award and won the Bascom Little Fund’s Musical Theatre Composition Competition for his … Continue reading David Wolfson : Dual citizenship in the “classical” music world and the world of musical theatre
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Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
“To hear composers take my work and take it seriously... it’s a thrill.” – Stephen Sondheim Liaisons is a landmark commissioning and concert project, conceived by acclaimed concert pianist Anthony de Mare, based on the songs of legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim. Both an homage and a celebration, Liaisons makes the case for Sondheim … Continue reading Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
The Passion of Stephen Sondheim
For years, the standard criticism of Stephen Sondheim went something like this: “Brilliant lyricist, music tends to sound similar. Sondheim is a cerebral composer whose work rarely causes an emotional response from the audience.” While I readily agree that he is a brilliant lyricist, arguably the best to have worked in musical theater, I would … Continue reading The Passion of Stephen Sondheim
Composer Profile: Sophie Lacaze
Website | Mezzo Compo Feature Unsubdued but attentive to musical trends and schools, French composer Sophie Lacaze has developed an original aesthetics that takes into account the current research on sound while looking to restore music its primary functions, i.e. ritual, incantation, dance, and its links with nature. Sophie Lacaze studied music at the Conservatoire National de … Continue reading Composer Profile: Sophie Lacaze
New Voice: Bernhard Philipp Eder
Website | Soundcloud | YouTube Bernhard Philipp Eder, born in 1984 and raised in Vienna, Austria, has devoted his life to the arts of music from a very early age, when he began taking piano lessons and visiting classical concerts. At the age of 15, while studying at the Konservatorium Wien University and the Musikgymnasium Wien Neustiftgasse … Continue reading New Voice: Bernhard Philipp Eder
New Voice: Matthew Ricketts
Matthew Ricketts describes a recent work ~ A recent work is Women Well Met (2013) for vocal sextet, premiered last November by the uncannily gifted Ekmeles Ensemble. The text (by Lauren J. Rogener) concerns different portraits and sculptures of women at the Metropolitan Museum, incidentally one of my favorite places here in New York City. BIOGRAPHY … Continue reading New Voice: Matthew Ricketts
New voice: Alberto Arroyo
Invisibili, for 4 groups in one invisible space, one semi-invisible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFQaPvPWMng BIOGRAPHY Born in 1989, Barcelona, Alberto Arroyo began his musical studies at Conservatorio Joaquin Turina in Madrid. Soon he entered a higher level class of harmony and analysis which awakened his interest in composition. In 2007 he traveled to Boston to begin lessons in … Continue reading New voice: Alberto Arroyo
Musica Kaleidoskopea 