MODE RECORDS - Key Persons
Adam Sliwinski has built a dynamic career of creative collaboration as percussionist, conductor, and teacher. He specializes in bringing composers, performers, and other artists together to create exciting new work. A member of the ensemble So Percussion since 2002, Adam has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Lincoln Center Festival, Stanford Lively Arts, and dozens of other venues in the United States.
In that time, So Percussion has toured Russia, Spain, Australia, Italy, Germany, and Scotland. He has had the opportunity to work closely with Steve Reich, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky, David Lang, Matmos, Dan Deacon, and many others.
Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a founding member of Damocles Trio and Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and Aspen Music Festival. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and has performed with Continuum, ModernWorks, Son Sonora, Azure and RUCKUS. She holds degrees from Juilliard and Yale, and currently teaches at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Aiyun Huang enjoys a musical life as soloist, chamber musician, conductor, producer, researcher and teacher. She was the First Prize and the Audience Award winner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 2002. Her past highlights include performances at the Weill Recital Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra's Green Umbrella Series, LACMA Concert Series, Holland Festival, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Agora Festival in Paris, Banff Arts Festival, 7éme Biennale d'Art Contemporaine de Lyon, Vancouver New Music Festival, CBC Radio, La Jolla Summerfest, Scotia Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, Cool Drummings, Montreal New Music Festival, Centro Nacional Di Las Artes in Mexico City, and National Concert Hall and Theater in Taipei. She is a founding member of Canadian trio Toca Loca. Aiyun has commissioned and championed over 100 works in the last two decades collaborating with composers internationally. She is a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology in Montreal. Born in Kaohsiung, southern tip of Taiwan, Aiyun holds a DMA degree from the University of California, San Diego. Between 2004 and 2006, she was a Faculty Fellow at UCSD. She is the Chair of the Percussion Area as well as director of the McGill Percussion Ensemble at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Aiyun Huang's "Save Percussion Theatre"
mode 242 Aiyun HUANG Aiyun Huang's "Save Percussion Theater"; theatrical percussion works by Aperghis, Kagel, Globokar, Drouet and Alvarez. ... Read More
Aiyun Huang Aiyun Huang enjoys a musical life as soloist, chamber musician, conductor, producer, researcher and teacher. She was the First Prize and the Audience Award winner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 2002. Her past highlights include performances at the Weill Recital Hall, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra's Green Umbrella Series, LACMA Concert Series, Holland Festival, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Agora Festival in Paris, Banff Arts Festival, 7éme Biennale d'Art Contemporaine de Lyon, Vancouver ... Read More
Barbara Monk Feldman Barbara Monk Feldman was born in 1953 in Quebec, Canada. She received a Master in Music at McGill University in Montreal, a Ph.D. in Music at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she studied with Morton Feldman, to whom she was married in 1987.She has been a guest lecturer for performances of her music at the Ferienkürse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt 1988-94, and she has also lectured at universities ...
Brigitte RobindoréComposerBrigitte Robindoré, a French-American composer, studied composition and performance practice at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Ton de Leeuw and Jaap Schröder, followed by a degree at Duke University (USA), where she received three prizes for composition, graduating with the distinction summa cum laude. In 1989 she was recipient of an ASCAP young composer's award, which allowed her to continue compositional studies in Paris with Ton de Leeuw and Julio Estrada. There she was trained ...
Carol Robinson To say that Carol Robinson is a Franco-American composer and clarinetist does not really communicate the eclecticism of her experience and passion. She is not someone who likes the middle ground, preferring the edges, the extremes. Her music is situated in those places of tenderness and rage that come from commitment and mastery. Trained as a classical clarinetist, she graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory in the US before continuing her study of contemporary ... Read More
Cathy MillikenCathy Milliken was born in Australia, where she completed her music degree in piano and oboe performance. She continued her oboe studies in Europe with Heinz Holliger in Germany and Maurice Bourgue in France. In 1980, she cofounded the renowned Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt. As a member of this ensemble she has worked with composers and conductors such as Peter Eötvös, György Ligeti, Brian Ferneyhough, Frank Zappa, György Kurtág and Karlheinz Stockhausen who produced ... Read More
Charles PeltzconductorCharles Peltz is currently the Music Director of the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra and Director of Wind Ensembles at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was formerly a staff conductor with both the Syracuse Symphony and the Buffalo Opera Company. His guest conducting has included acclaimed appearances in the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, Orquesta Nacional in Bogota, Colombia, the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland, and the Merrick Symphony, where he serves ... Read More
Charles van TasselCharles van Tassel (bass-baritone) began singing as a chorister in his native city, New York. In 1965, he made his debut with the Contemporary Chamber Players under the direction of Ralph Shapey, making subsequent performances with the Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras. He began his opera career in Germany in 1968, since that time, he has interpreted more than 100 roles. From 1997-2000, Van Tassel was permanent guest in the opera ensemble from ...
Christian Wolff was born in Nice France. He's lived mostly in the U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition, briefly, with John Cage. Though mostly self-taught as composer, the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown have been important to him, as well as long associations with Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski. A particular feature of his music is the various freedoms it allows performers at the time of performance as well as the variable results possible for any one particular piece, for which various new notations have been invented. Underlying notions in the work are shared freedom, self-determination and democratically-spirited collaboration.
The music, currently about 170 pieces, is published by C.F. Peters, New York and much of it is recorded (including 19 solo CDs), on many labels. A number of pieces, starting in 1953, have been used and commissioned by Merce Cunningham and his dance company. Wolff has been active as a performer and as improvisor - with Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacey, Christian Marclay, Keith Rowe, William Winant, the group AMM, Kui Dong and Larry Polansky. His writings on music (up to 1998) are collected in "Cues: Writings and Conversations", published by MusikTexte, Cologne.
He has received awards and grants from the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Ford Foundation, DAAD Berlin, the Asian Cultural Council, the Fromm Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and Meet the Composer. In 1995 he received the John Cage Award for Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts. He is a member of the Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Academically trained as a classicist, Wolff taught classics at Harvard from 1963 to 1970 and was professor of classics and music at Dartmouth College from 1971 to 1999.
Christian Wolff Christian Wolff was born in Nice France. He's lived mostly in the U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition, briefly, with John Cage. Though mostly self-taught as composer, the work of John Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown have been important to him, as well as long associations with Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski. A particular feature of his music is the various freedoms it allows performers ... Read More
Clara NovakovaClara Novakova was born in Czechoslovakia. After studying the flute in Italy and Germany, she attended the Paris Conservatory, which in 1988, awarded her a unanimous first prize. She began winning international competitions in 1982 (Palmi, Ancona, Stresa) and in 1995, she won the Pro Musicis award, which led her to give recitals in Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has recorded for radio and television in France, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, ... Read More
Claron McFaddenClaron McFadden (soprano) studied voice at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She made her Glyndebourne debut in the title role of Lulu conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Other opera performances include the Netherlands Opera, Salzburg Festival, the Opéra Comique, the Bregenz Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Royal Opera. As well as singing many of the major oratorio works, Ms. McFadden is also in demand for her interpretation of modern and ... Read More
Cory Smythe Pianist Cory Smythe is a graduate of the music schools at Indiana University and the University of Southern California. As a member of ICE, he has contributed to many premieres, worked with composers Philippe Hurel, Magnus Lindberg, and David Lang among others, and performed in many venues across the U.S. and abroad. Cory has contributed frequently to the Boston-based Firebird Ensemble, Milwaukee's Present Music, and the New York Miniaturist Ensemble ... Read More
Curtis RoadsComposerCurtis Roads studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles) and the University of California, San Diego. He received his doctorate from the University of Paris VIII. He now teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Roads was a researcher in computer music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1987. He then taught at the University of Naples "Federico II," Harvard University, Oberlin Conservatory, Les Ateliers ... Read More
Daniel TeigeDaniel Teige, born 1977, studied Electronic Music and Sound Design at the Electronic Music Studio at the Technical University Berlin. He works as a freelance sound artist, composer and Klangregisseur in Berlin.His focus is on arts and audio-technology, in particular on sound installations, improvisation and new concepts of interaction. He has given various lectures and workshops about sound and interaction design.His works has been shown at different festivals, recently at the NIME06, Agora Resonance ... Read More
Daniel TeruggiComposerDaniel Teruggi studied composition and piano in Argentina. In 1977 he came to France and studied at the Paris Conservatory. Member of the Ina-GRM since 1983, he is currently director of the Groupe de Recherchés Musicales.His particular field of interest is the relation between composers, with their concerns regarding creation, and the research and development of new tools applied to electro-acoustic composition. Teruggi composes music for fixed media (tape), small instrumental groups and tape, ... Read More
David Shively Co-director of Either/Or (NYC) from 2004-2018; solo projects throughout North America and Europe; intermittent ecstatic drone work with UllU; numerous collaborations improvised and otherwise; string band music of Hungary and Romania. Shively has recorded for Starkland, New World, Tzadik, Mode, Quecksilber, Braxton House, and other labels in addition to compositions for dance, works for film, and sound installations… ... Read More
Douglas AhlstedtTenorDOUGLAS AHLSTEDT continues his career as a leading tenor in the world's great opera houses and concert halls, from the renowned stages of Europe, South America, the Orient and Africa, to the Metropolitan Opera, where he has sung 189 performances.Ahlstedt is the only American tenor featured in leading roles on the James Levine 25th Anniversary Collection of notable scenes from the Metropolitan, including Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff and Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande ... Read More
Elena AndreyevA graduate of the Paris Conservatory and the Tchaikovski Conservatory in Moscow, Elena Andreyev (cello) plays both the baroque and modern cello. In addition to being a member of Les Arts Florissants and Le Grand Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, she performs as a soloist and with various smaller ensembles. In the contemporary realm, a highly diversified activity leads her to collaborate with numerous composers (Aperghis, Pesson, Gabriele...) who have dedicated works to ... Read More
Erik Carlson Erik Carlson has performed as a soloist and with many chamber and orchestral ensembles throughout Europe and the Americas. He is a highly active performer of contemporary music and has had works written for him by numerous composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Charles Wuorinen, Tom Johnson, and Georges Aperghis. Mr. Carlson is an enthusiastic proponent of interdisciplinary collaboration, and performs frequently with poets, dancers, actors, and film ... Read More
Felix FanFelix Fan's versatility has made him one of the most sought after cellists in classical and contemporary music. At a young age, he was drawn to the cello after hearing an inspirational performance by the esteemed musician, Chuck Meyer. In 1998, Fan founded Muzik3, a performance series dedicated to the advancement of modern music, theater, video and dance. He is also a member of the trio, Real Quiet ... Read More
Françoise RivallandA student of G. Hiéronimus, Françoise Rivalland (percussion) also worked with F. Branna, G. Sylvestre and J.P. Drouet. As either soloist or chamber musician, she is an active participant in many European ensembles and international festivals. She is also an expert zarb and cymbalum player, and improvises frequently. Since 1987, she has collaborated as performer or assistant for multiple works with Georges Aperghis. She was cofounder of ensemble S:i.c. of which she is now ... Read More
Gerard PapeComposerGerard Pape was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He has had private composition lessons with David Winkler, George Cacioppo and William Albright. He studied electronic music with George Wilson. Gerard has composed more than 70 works for orchestra, chamber music, and electronic works for instruments, voice and/or tape. His music has been performed in numerous festivals in the USA, Canada, ... Read More
Giacinto ScelsiA long ignored eccentric and outsider of the new music world (who never wanted his photograph to appear in connection with his music), the Italian composer and poet Giacinto Scelsi (strictly speaking Count Giacinto Scelsi di Ayala Valva, 1905-88) gained considerable recognition in the mid-1980s, just as his creative powers began to slacken. Hence he is often called the Charles Ives of Italy. While it took music publishers nearly 50 years to take on ... Read More
Greg Stuart Born in Berkeley, California (1978) and hailing from Minnesota's Twin Cities, Greg Stuart is dedicated to expanding new music for percussion through commissions, improvisation and mixed-media projects. He has performed with Joscha Oetz, Anders Ästrand, Steven Schick, Frank Gratkowski, Andreas Wagner and Hans W. Koch. He has appeared in numerous festivals including the L.A. Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Line Space Line, Muzik3, SEAMUS, La Jolla Summerfest, Pro ... Read More
Hilda Paredes Hilda Paredes was born in Mexico were she began to study piano and flute. She arrived in London in 1979 where she continued her studies and performances as a flutist. In the first few years in London she also did several arrangements of popular and classical music for various ensembles with whom she regularly performed. Her first completed compositions date from this period. As a composer she was an active participant in master ... Read More
Howard Skempton Howard Skempton was born in Chester in 1947, and has worked as a composer, accordionist, and music publisher. He studied in London with Cornelius Cardew from 1967 (helping to organize the Scratch Orchestra) and Cardew helped him to discover a musical language of great simplicity. Since then he has continued to write undeflected by compositional trends, producing a corpus of more than 300 works - many pieces being miniatures for solo piano or ... Read More
Iannis Xenakis: Xenakis Percussion Works (mode 171-173)
Irvine ArdittiIn addition to his phenomenal career as first violinist of the Arditti Quartet, Irvine Arditti continues to excel as an extraordinary soloist. Born in London in 1953, Irvine Arditti began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after two years, at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master. He left the orchestra in 1980 in order to devote ... Read More
Jacqueline LeclairOboist Jacqueline Leclair, one of the United States' foremost interpreters of new music, resides in New York City and is a member of Alarm Will Sound and Sequitur. She has presented solo and chamber music concerts throughout the United States and Europe, and can frequently be heard performing with New York City ensembles such as Sospeso, Ensemble 21 and Carnegie Hall's Zankel Band.Ms. Leclair specializes in the study and performance of new music. She ... Read More
James Harley Composer / ResearcherJames Harley is a Canadian composer and researcher presently teaching at the University of Guelph. He obtained his doctorate at McGill University in 1994, after spending six years in Europe. He studied with Iannis Xenakis at the Université de Paris I in 1985-87 while working with the UPIC computer music at CEMAMu in Paris. His book, "Xenakis: His Life in Music," was published by Routledge in 2004, and he has published ... Read More
James WeeksJames Weeks (b. 1978) read Music at Cambridge before completing a PhD in Composition at Southampton University studying under Michael Finnissy. His music has been performed in festivals and concert halls worldwide by artists such as Endymion, EXAUDI, Apartment House, Kürbis, Uroboros Ensemble, Zephyr Quartet, Alison Balsom, Christopher Redgate, Anton Lukoszevieze and Andrew Sparling, and is represented by Sound and Music's New Voices programme. For the past few years his works have explored the ... Read More
Jane PetersJane Peters, violinist, was born in Adelaide, Australia. She began studying the violin at age 7 and made her stage debut at age 10. Two years later she won the Showcase Com-petition on Australian television, and in 1986, won the 3rd Prize and the Public Prize at the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow. Now based in Paris, she has appeared in numerous international festivals, such as Marlboro (USA), Prussia Cove (Cornwall), Barosso (Australia) and Festival ... Read More
Jean-Paul Dessy Jean-Paul Dessy (b.1963 in Huy, Belgium) is a composer, cellist, conductor and artistic director of the ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. What he calls "acting as a musician" links the sacred and the profane without confusing them, in an intimate journey in search of a common and shared listening experience. He has directed over 100 performances worldwide and almost 200 diverse works of contemporary music as the conductor of the Wallonia Chamber Orchestra or the ... Read More
Jerome KitzkeJerome Kitzke was born in Milwaukee in 1955 and has lived in New York City since 1984. His music arises from the North American landscape and celebrates vitality in its purest forms, thriving on the spirit of driving jazz, Plains Indian song, and Beat Generation poetry, where freedom and ritual converge. It is direct, dramatic, and visceral,always with an ear to the sacred ground. Often political and always topical, his music aims at revealing ...
Joan La BarbaraJoan La Barbara's career as a composer/performer/sound artist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries, creating works for a wide array of media, developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques (multiphonics, circular singing, ululation, and glottal clicks that have become her "signature sounds"), which has garnered awards in the United States and Europe and numerous commissions, recently from the West Deutscher Rundfunk; Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company; ... Read More
John Mark HarrisJohn Mark Harris plays an eclectic range of keyboard music from the Renaissance to the present day. He holds degrees in performance from the University of California at San Diego, the New England Conservatory, and the University of South Florida; his teachers included Robert Helps, Aleck Karis, and Stephen Drury. He has appeared as soloist at the Salzburg and Donaueschingen Festivals (with the Southwest German Radio Symphony), the L.A. Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series, ... Read More
Juan Pablo IzquierdoconductorJuan Pablo Izquierdo has an international career conducting the major orchestras in Europe and South America-including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and those in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Leipzig, Madrid, Paris, and Brussels; and the BBC Glasgow, Holland Radio Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. He has been principal conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon and the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra which he reorganized and conducted until 1986. In the Middle East, Izquierdo has ... Read More
Julie Josephson has been praised by the Boston Globe as "spellbinding" in her solo work. One of the few brass musicians to receive the prestigious Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music, she has won several concerto solo competitions and done various solo appearances around the United States. A freelance artist in the New York area, Julie has performed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. She also performs, tours and has records with many new music groups. She has been a guest artist at various schools and universities, such as Boston University, Eastman School of Music, and others on Long Island and New Jersey, where she has performed, taught, and coached students. Julie is a solo artist and clinician for the Bach/Selmer company.
Julio EstradaComposerBorn in Mexico City in 1943, Estrada's family was exiled from Spain in 1941. A composer, theoretician, historian, pedagogue, and interpreter, he began his musical studies in Mexico (1953-65), where he studied composition with Julián Orbón. In Paris (1965-69) he studied with Nadia Boulanger, Messiaen and attended courses and lectures of Xenakis. In Germany he studied with Stockhausen (1968) and with Ligeti (1972). He earned a Ph. D. in Musicology at Strasbourg University (1990- ... Read More
Keeril MakanDescribed by The New Yorker as "an arrestingly gifted young American composer," and by The New York Times as "consistently stimulating," The Boston Globe portrays Keeril Makan as a composer "whose music deserves to be more widely heard." Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Luciano Berio Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, he has also received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, ...
Lauren RadnofskyLauren Radnofsky is a cellist and founding co-Artistic/Executive Director of Ensemble Signal. In her dual role with Signal, she manages all aspects of its varied season, including repertoire, program design, and project management, in addition to being a regular performer in the ensemble. Under her direction, since its inception in 2008, the Ensemble has performed over 40 concerts, premiered 20 works, and coproduced 5 recordings, consistently receiving enthusiastic critical acclaim. With Signal, she has ... Read More
Louise BessettePianoAn exhilarating and elegant concert pianist, Louise Bessette stands out as one of the pre-eminent performers of modern music. Her combination of eclectic repertory and impeccable delivery has earned Bessette several of the most prestigious honours awarded for the interpretation of contemporary music, including, most notably, the First Prize at the Concours International de Musique Contemporaine in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France, 1986), and both the First Prize and the Special Prize for Piano at the International ... Read More
Marc Sabat Canadian composer of Ukrainian descent Marc Sabat (*1965) has been based in Berlin since 1999. He makes pieces for concert and installation settings, drawing inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of Just Intonation and relating to various music traditions-folk, experimental and classical. He is a frequent collaborator, seeking interactions with other musicians and with artists of visual and literary modes to find points of shared exploration and dialogue between various forms ... Read More
Margaret Lancaster "New-music luminary" (The New York Times), Margaret Lancaster (flutist/performance artist/actor/dancer) has built a large repertoire of interactive, cross-disciplinary solo works that employ electronics and mixed media. Performance highlights include Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Santa Fe New Music, Tap City, NIME/Copenhagen and the 7-year global run of OBIE-winning Mabou Mines Dollhouse (Helene). A member of Either/Or, Ensemble Ipse and Ghost Ensemble; guest appearances include Argento and the New York Philharmonic. Ongoing projects ... Read More
Michael Pugliese One of the great percussionists, Michael had a close artistic relationship with John Cage. This led to his recording of Cage's ETUDES BOREALES on Mode's first release, made at the suggestion of Cage and recorded under his supervision. Michael gained prominence as a long time touring musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company where he played alongside David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi. Pugliese died on the morning of 4 November in New York ... Read More
mode 216 Morton FELDMAN, Vol. 10: Trio - Aki Takahashi, piano. Marc Sabat, violin. Rohan de Saram, cello. 2-CDs or complete on one surround-sound DVD with full video. DVD also includes video talk on Feldman and the "Trio" by Walter Zimmermann. ...
Morton Feldman FELDMAN EDITION by Volume: Vol. 1: Aki Plays Feldman - Aki Takahashi, piano (mode 54) Vol. 2: First Recordings - Turfan Ensemble Philipp Vandré and Thaddeus Watson (mode 66) Vol. 3: Complete works for Violin & Piano - Sabat/Clarke Duo (mode 82/83, 2-CDs) Vol. 4: The Straits of Majellan; 2 Pieces for 6 Instruments; Durations (complete); Projections (complete) - The Turfan Ensemble/Philipp Vandré and Thaddeus Watson (mode 103) Vol. 5: Voices & Instruments ... Read More
Nicola CisterninoComposerNicola Cisternino (born in San Giovanni Rotando, Foggia, Italy, 1957), graduated from the Conservatory of Parma and obtained a degree from the Institute DAMS (Disciplines of Art, Music and Spectacle), University of Bologna. He has also studied analysis and composition with Sylvano Bussotti at the Flessole and Genazzano schools of music.Since 1980, his compositional interests have centered on new musical notations, elaborating his own graphic-sonic universe (sonic graffiti), which have been shown and performed ... Read More
Olivier VoizeOlivier Voize (clarinet) graduated in clarinet from the Amsterdam Conservatory. He also has degrees from the University of Paris in Literature and in Linguistics. A freelance musician, he mainly plays chamber and orchestral music with, among others, the Paris Opera Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble FA, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He has participated in numerous recordings directed by Pierre Boulez, Heinz Holliger, Claudio Abbado, Christophe Eschenbach and others ...
Patricia Dallio Patricia Dallio (b.1958) has been a member of Art Zoyd since 1979. She recorded 14 albums with the founder of the group, Gérard Hourbette. She co-wrote film music for Metropolis and The Fall of the House of Usher, and music for the robot operetta Armageddon and the children's play The Night of the Jabberwock. She has experimented in the visual realm with Cyril Dumontet, with whom she co-founded the organization Sound Track. She ...
Pauline VaillancourtSopranoSoprano Pauline Vaillancourt, a native of Québec, is a lyric and contemporary artist whose performances have reached audiences across North America and Europe. A versatile talent, she has presented works by such diverse composers as Mather, Tremblay, Finnissy and Evangelista.In addition to her credits as a performing artist, Vaillancourt is the founder and artistic director of Compagnie lyrique de création Chants Libres, an organization whose mission is to bridge all of the artistic disciplines-music, ... Read More
Peppie WiersmaPeppie Wiersma (percussion) expresses her talent over a wide range of musical styles reaching from the 17th to the 21st centuries. She plays with a large number of conductors, ensembles and composers among today's best known: Ensemble Modern, György Ligeti, Philippe Herreweghe, Karlheinz Stockhausen, La Petite Bande, Peter Eötvös, Klangforum Wien, Frans Brüggen, Les Arts Florissants et Das Neue Ensemble. Currently principal impanist of the Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, and member of Asko, she ...
Peter OttoelectronicsPeter Otto studied violoncello from an early age, completing undergraduate studies before undertaking composition at CalArts with Morton Subotnick and Mel Powell. Otto taught and managed the Electronic Music Studios at CalArts after completing the MFA. In Los Angeles, he was director of audio for numerous festivals including New Music America and the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival. In 1987, he became Director of Technology at Tempo Reale in Florence, working as Luciano Berio's assistant, ... Read More
Philip Larsonbass-baritoneBasso-baritone vocalist Philip Larson has performed avant garde music at concert halls in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo, Munich, Lisbon, and Warsaw. He has been a featured soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and SONOR-the resident new music ensemble at U.C. San Diego, where Larson is a professor of music.You can hear Larson on CDs featuring compositions by Robert Erickson, Kenneth Gaburo, Will Ogdon, Roger Reynolds, ... Read More
Pierre DutrieuPierre Dutrieu (clarinet) received first prizes in clarinet and chamber music from the Paris Conservatory. His interest for contemporary repertoire prompted him to give first performances of diverse works in France and elsewhere. He has performed as soloist in some of the most demanding contemporary pieces, notably Pierre Boulez's famous Dialogue de l'ombre double. While being at the same time a permanent member of ensembles Court-circuit, S:i.c. and Sillages, he is regularly invited to ... Read More
Robert Black's interests range from traditional orchestral and chamber music to solo recitals, collaborations with actors, music with computers and MIDI, movement-based improvisations with dancers, and live action-painting performances with artists. He has commissioned, collaborated, or performed with musicians from John Cage to D.J. Spooky, Elliott Carter to Meredith Monk, Cecil Taylor to young emerging composers. His recital activities frequently take him to five continents. Black performs with the Bang On A Can All Stars. Additional chamber music activities include performances with the Ciompi and Miami String Quartets. He recently created and performed the music for Kathryn Walker and the Music Theater Group's production of The Odyssey and Time On Our Hands with the Full Force Dance Company. Other collaborations include films by Rudy Burckhardt and live action-painting improvisations with the Brazilian painter Ige D'Aquino. He annually appears at the Monadnock Music Festival and the Moab Music Festival. Black maintains a full teaching schedule at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, the Festival Eleazar de Carvalho (Brazil), and the Manhattan School of Music's Contemporary Music Program.
A recipient of numerous grants, he received a 1998 Bessie Award for his collaborative work with The School of Hard Knocks in NYC. His solo CDs are State of the Bass (O.O. Discs), The Complete Bass Music of Christian Wolff (Mode), and an up-coming 2-CD set of mid 20th Century American Bass Music. He has also recorded for Sony Classical, Point/ Polygram, Koch International, CRI, Neuma Records, Gasparo, Opus One, Artifact and Folkways. Additionally, Black serves on the Board of the International Society of Bassists, on the Advisory Board of the international radio series "Art of the States," and is editor of the New Scores column for the journal Bass World.
Robert BlackRobert Black's interests range from traditional orchestral and chamber music to solo recitals, collaborations with actors, music with computers and MIDI, movement-based improvisations with dancers, and live action-painting performances with artists. He has commissioned, collaborated, or performed with musicians from John Cage to D.J. Spooky, Elliott Carter to Meredith Monk, Cecil Taylor to young emerging composers. His recital activities frequently take him to five continents. Black performs with the Bang On A Can All ... Read More
Robin Lorentz, violinist, has been involved in music and theater since childhood. She has been a member of the California Ear Unit since 1984, where she also performs as vocalist and actress. She recently gave the world premiere of John Adam's Road Movies at the Kennedy Center. An accomplished arranger and composer as well as a versatile instrumentalist, Ms. Lorentz' solo violin playing has been featured in motion pictures such as Other People's Money and Back To The Future III as well as the television series Northern Exposure. She is a featured performer on tour with composers Terry Riley and John Luther Adams. She has recorded for New Albion, Sony, MCA and Glenfinnian Records. Ms. Lorentz is currently writing a collection of ethnic encores for Leisure Planet Publications, and co-wrote and performed a series of Stephen King audio books for Penguin Publishing with composer Eve Beglarian. She attended the University of Washington and California Institute of the Arts. Ms. Lorentz is a featured performer in the Santa Fe Pro Musica, and served as concertmaster on the LA Philharmonic Green Umbrella series and the Ojai Festival. She has also served on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts.
Robin LorentzRobin Lorentz, violinist, has been involved in music and theater since childhood. She has been a member of the California Ear Unit since 1984, where she also performs as vocalist and actress. She recently gave the world premiere of John Adam's Road Movies at the Kennedy Center. An accomplished arranger and composer as well as a versatile instrumentalist, Ms. Lorentz' solo violin playing has been featured in motion pictures such as Other People's Money ... Read More
Roger Reynolds Roger Reynolds was born on 18 July 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He was educated in music and science at the University of Michigan, when he co-founded the ONCE Festivals. His aesthetic outlook was jointly shaped by the American Experimental tradition and - through his teachers Ross Lee Finney and Roberto Gerhard - also by the Second Viennese School. Reynolds refuses categorization, responding to the variety of the contemporary world with a uniquely diversified ... Read More
Shannon WettsteinShannon Wettstein, pianist, has performed countless new works throughout the United States and internationally. She has collaborated with composers such as Brian Ferneyhough, Chinary Ung, Martin Bresnick, Gunther Schuller, Lee Hyla, and Jeffrey Mumford. She has given performances in New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the New School for Social Research, Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Jordan Hall, the New Zealand Embassy in Washington D.C., the Japan America Theater in ... Read More
Stefan AsburyStefan Asbury gained scholarships to Oxford University and the Royal College of Music and studied composition with Oliver Knussen. Conducting studies continued in America at the Tanglewood Music Center as a recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship. Since Tanglewood, where he holds the position of Associate Director of New Music Activities, he has worked closely with Oliver Knussen, Sir Simon Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas. He also holds the post of Co-Director of the ... Read More
Stefka PerifanovaThe Bulgarian-Swiss pianist Stefka Perifanova is an interpreter of classical repertoire as well as of modern music up to the most contemporary music of the 21st century. She has won several international competitions and is active as a soloist, chamber musician and Lied accompanist throughout Europe, in Korea, Colombia and the USA. She is a member of the ensemble Camerata Variabile and co-founder of the Absolut Trio, with whom she regularly commissions new works ...
Stephen ClarkePianist Stephen Clarke has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Composers' Orchestra, and has given solo performances in various cities in Europe and North America. His own projects have included Canadian premieres of works by Scelsi, Feldman, Wolpe and Ustvolskaya. Composers who have written for him include Matteo Fargion, Michael Hynes, and Udo Kasemets. Recordings include a solo CD of works by Toronto-based ... Read More
Stephen Marotto Stephen Marotto is a native of Norwalk, Connecticut. He has received a Bachelors degree with honors from the University of Connecticut, and Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Boston University. Stephen's formative teachers include Michael Reynolds, Kangho Lee, Marc Johnson, and Rhonda Rider. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Stephen plays regularly with chamber groups throughout New England and also performs on various new music concert series in the Boston area ... Read More
Steven Schick Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past thirty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He studied at the University of Iowa and received the Soloists Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany. Steven Schick has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed these pieces on major concert series such ... Read More
Séverine Ballon Séverine Ballon was born in France in 1980. She studied cello with Joseph Schwab at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and with Troels Svane at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck. She made important experiences with new music at master classes she took with Siegfried Palm, Lukas Fels and Rohan de Saram, as a performer in such ensembles as the Klangforum Wien and the musikFabrik Köln and in collaboration with numerous contemporary ... Read More
Takehito ShimazuComposerTakehito Shimazu was born in 1949 in Shimoda in the province of Shizuoka (Japan). He graduated in composition at the University of Tokyo-Gakugei and obtained his Masters degree in composition and conducting from the same university under the direction of professors S. Kai and S. Sumitani. From 1977 to 1981, he pursued his education as a composer in the Berlin Art School with Isang Yun. A that same time, he studied electronic and computer ...
Toby TwiningComposer and vocalist Toby Twining (b.1958) has focused on expanding the musical palette with a new choral sound, hyper-consonant harmony, and innovative instrumental techniques. Recordings of his music include Shaman and Chrysalid Requiem (Toby Twining Music: BMG Classics, 1993 and Cantaloupe Music, 2002, respectively), Satie Blues and Nightmare Rag (Margaret Leng Tan, The Art of Toy Piano: Uni/Point, 1997), and 9:11 Blues (Matt Haimovitz, Anthem: Oxingale/Artemis 2002). Cantaloupe Music will release Twining's forthcoming CD, ... Read More
Tom KolorTom Kolor (percussion) specializes in 20th and 21st century music, and holds degrees from William Paterson University and the Juilliard School. He is currently an adjunct professor at Purchase College and William Paterson University. Kolor is a member of Talujon Percussion, Columbia Sinfonietta, Ensemble 21, Sospeso, American Modern Ensemble, Newband, and New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. He is a frequent guest of such ensembles as New York New Music Ensemble, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln ...
Veronica TennantPrima Ballerina with The National Ballet of Canada for 25 years, Veronica Tennant, won hearts and accolades on the national and international stage, dancing with such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Since 1989, she has become acclaimed as a gifted filmmaker, writer, producer/director, with her works garnering several Gemini Awards and the prestigious International Emmy Award.A gifted communicator, she has also built an extensive reputation as narrator, actor, broadcaster, and lecturer. Forming ... Read More
Vincent LetermeVincent Leterme (piano) studied at the Paris Conservatory, which awarded him first prizes in piano and chamber music. The recital partner of many singers and instrumentalists, he is especially devoted to the music of today, in particular as part of ensemble S:i.c. Georges Aperghis has dedicated several solo piano pieces to him. He has also participated in numerous productions that combine music and theater with Aperghis, but also with Gérard Pesson and Fréderic Fisbach ... Read More