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DAVID TADDIE, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, spent his teenage and young adult years playing in rock bands, serving as a church organist, arranging and performing on radio and TV commercials, finally beginning his formal studies in music theory and composition at Cleveland State University at the age of 20. He received his BA and MM from CSU, where he studied composition with Bain Murray, Rudolph Bubalo, and Edwin London. From 1985-1992, he served as pianist with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. He also composed for, and performed with, the New Music Associates in Cleveland, performed as a duo-piano team with his wife, Karen, and was active as a theory and piano teacher. After a decade of working as a freelance composer, performer, and music teacher, he moved to Boston in 1992 to attend Harvard University where he received his Ph.D., studying composition with Donald Martino, Bernard Rands, and Mario Davidovsky.
Taddie has written music for band, orchestra, choir, solo voice, piano, and a wide variety of chamber ensembles as well as many electroacoustic compositions. His music has been widely performed in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia by numerous soloists and ensembles. Among his awards are those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Fromm Foundation, and the Music Teachers National Association. He currently resides in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he is Professor of Music, Coordinator of Composition, and director of the Electronic Music Studio at West Virginia University. Prior to his faculty appointment at West Virginia University, he served on the faculties of UMass-Dartmouth, Cleveland State University, and Cuyahoga Community College.
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n 2010, Greg Harrison and Jonny Smith created the percussion duo TAKTUS while pursuing Masters Degrees at the
University of Toronto. With a wide range of musical influences - from classical to electronic - Taktus seeks to
create music that crosses borders between genres and is relevant to contemporary audiences. Their premiere project
is set of marimba duet arrangements of Glass Houses - a seminal work of Canadian minimalism by composer Ann Southam.
Their performances have been described as "virtuosic" (Gapplegate Music), "impeccable and articulate" (The WholeNote
Magazine), and ”daring" (I Care If you Listen). 2015 was a break-out year for Taktus with the launch of their
critically acclaimed debut album, Glass Houses for Marimba (Centrediscs). The album gained national recognition by
earning spot on CBC’s “Top 10 Classical Albums of 2015” and a nomination for "Classical Recording of the Year” at
the 2017 ECMA’s. Taktus has performed in a wide variety of venues ranging from classical music concert series to
contemporary/experimental music festivals. Highlights include performances with the Music Gallery, Toronto Summer
Music in the Garden, Musique Royale, Din of Shadows, Intersection, Lupercalia, and FUZE Fest. Taktus’s music has
also been licensed for use in contemporary dance and visual art projects. Their recording of Glass Houses No. 13 was
choreographed by the Artistic Director of the Toronto Dance Theatre, Christopher House, and featured in dance
performances across Canada and internationally. Taktus also performed live with the TDT in the finale of the
theatre’s 50th Anniversary Season. Through every avenue, Taktus aims to connect with a diverse array of audiences,
providing them with a fresh perspective on minimalist music.
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view workZLATKO TANODI graduated in composition in the class of Milo Cipra (1978). From 1981 to 1993 he worked as a music editor-producer of Music Production of Radio Television Zagreb. He is a tenured Full Professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music where he teaches applied and electronic composition. He recorded performances as synthesizer soloist in London, Los Angeles, Paris, Baden-Baden, and other cities, and has performed with numerous orchestras (Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eurosong Festival Orchestra etc.). His composing interests are diverse, ranging from orchestral to chamber music, from pop and jazz to avant-garde. Most of his opus was recorded or stored at the Croatian Radiotelevision recording archive while some of his records were released abroad (Journeys to Other Worlds - United States, Ambienta Croatica - Germany). DVD-Audio Recombinant Art 01 - Canada also contains two of Tanodi's compositions recorded in surround sound: Anima-Animus and mo-RE. His latest original record of electronic music entitled Electronica was released by Cantus Ltd. in 2011. Some of his most significant works include the musical Black Queen (1994), Air (Music Biennale Zagreb - MBZ 1997 and XIII CIM - Italy, 2000), Margins (Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony and Jazz Orchestra, 2000), Anima-Animus (MBZ 2001, International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music - Copenhagen 2002), Piano Etudes (8th International Competition Etudes and Scales, 2002), Requiem (MBZ 2007, Luenberg - Germany 2007).
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Michael Sidney Timpson's musical beginnings were borne out of playing baritone saxophone and "electric" bass clarinet with a strong interest in American improvisational forms, especially Free Jazz and Fusion; this would later evolve into incorporations American popular genres, such as Funk, Hip-Hop, and Alternative Techno. A child of the multicultural era in Northern California, he was intrigued with East and Southeast Asian traditional musics, these seeds that would eventually bear a lasting impact on his musical style. With his research on Chinese instruments, he has also become an improviser on various Asian woodwinds.
A composer in virtually every medium, many of his recent compositions are for percussion ensemble and for orchestra; he has also composed many works for Chinese and Korean instruments. A winner of multiple composition awards, recorded on major labels, and with significant publications, his works continue to be featured throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Timpson won the ASCAP Grant for Young Composers, the BMI Student Composers Award, the DownBeat Magazine award for extended composition, and was twice nominated for the American Academy of Arts and Letters composition award. He also won the Brian M. Israel Prize (The Society for New Music and the New York Federation of Music Clubs), the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award, National Federation of Music Club's Youse competition, second places at the Music From China International Competition and in NACUSA's composition competition, very highly commended in England's Kathryn Thomas Flute Competition, and honorable mention at the National Federation of Music Club's Beyer competition. His orchestral works have received performances and recording by the Kiev Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and the National Orchestra of Korea. Timpson's works continually appear on radio shows throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe and have a strong visibility on the web.
He is an Associate Professor of Music Composition at at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea. He was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in the Humanities in Taipei, Taiwan in 2009 for research on his forthcoming book on orchestration and compositional philosophy on Chinese instruments for western composers (for which he has already published two articles.) He has also been on the music composition and electronic music faculty at the University of South Florida, Rhodes College and the University of Kansas. A student of Samuel Adler, William Albright, William Bolcom, Donald Crockett, Morten Lauridsen, Frederick Lesemann, Milcho Leviev, Andrew Mead, and Joseph Schwantner, he earned his undergraduate composition degree at the University of Southern California, his master's at the Eastman School of Music, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. www.michaelsidneytimpson.com
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Cross-Cultural Collisions, Reinventions, and Fertilizations
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Originally from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Joshua Tomlinson is a composer, sound artist and teacher specializing in electroacoustic music and technology. His background is in rock music with subsequent classical training in voice and guitar, and his compositions incorporate a range of musical styles, instrumentation and media. Joshua serves on the steering committee of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and he has participated as a composer and audio technician at NYCEMF since 2012. His compositions have also been performed at the PARMA, NSEME, SEAMUS, and EMM music festivals.
Recently he was commissioned to compose a ballet titled Sand, which premiered at the 2018 Puterbaugh Festival. It was based on the short story of the same name by German author Jenny Erpenbeck and produced in collaboration with choreographer Boyko Dossev. Joshua is an adjunct professor at Mid-America Christian University in Oklahoma City, and is currently completing his D.M.A. in Composition at the University of Oklahoma. His primary instructor is Dr. Konstantinos Karathanasis. When he isn’t composing or teaching music he enjoys surfing, diving, and traveling with his wife.
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view workInspired by the image of winds and wood flying through the air, Ricardo Climent and Paul Wilson conceived THE TORNADO PROJECT: a set of commissioned works for flute, clarinet and computer-generated sound, to be performed by American wind virtuosi Esther Lamneck (clarinet) and Elizabeth McNutt (flute). Tornado performances have taken place in New York, Manchester, Belfast, Aberdeen, Phoenix AZ, Denton TX, Cincinnati OH, and at the SEAMUS Conference, International Computer Music Conference, and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. The first Tornado Project event was the opening of the NOVARS Research Centre at the University of Manchester, England, in 2007, and included the Climent, Wilson, May, and Lyon works on this album. The repertoire of the project has grown with each performance. www.tornadoproject.xyz
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view workInspired by the image of winds and wood flying through the air, Ricardo Climent and Paul Wilson conceived THE TORNADO PROJECT: a set of commissioned works for flute, clarinet and computer-generated sound, to be performed by American wind virtuosi Esther Lamneck (clarinet) and Elizabeth McNutt (flute). Tornado performances have taken place in New York, Manchester, Belfast, Aberdeen, Phoenix AZ, Denton TX, Cincinnati OH, and at the SEAMUS Conference, International Computer Music Conference, and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. The first Tornado Project event was the opening of the NOVARS Research Centre at the University of Manchester, England, in 2007, and included the Climent, Wilson, May, and Lyon works on this album. The repertoire of the project has grown with each performance. www.tornadoproject.xyz
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Erin Helgeson Torres is the Lecturer of Flute at Ohio Northern University and Muskingum University, and Adjunct Instructor at Ashland University. Second Flute/Piccolo with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and the Principal Flute of the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra, Erin is also solo flutist with the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE), Principal Flute of the Queen City Opera, and an auxiliary flutist with the Louisville Orchestra. She has performed in various area orchestras including the Columbus, West Virginia, Central Ohio, Springfield, Westerville, and Lima symphonies. Erin holds degrees from The Ohio State University, Stetson University, and the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, and is a Burkart Performer.
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Saxophonist, composer, educator, and curator Michael Rene Torres currently serves as Lecturer of Saxophone at The Ohio State University and Lecturer of Saxophone and Composition at Muskingum University. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble (CODE), a contemporary music ensemble that is dedicated to the promotion, performance, and perception of new music in Central Ohio. Michael is an active recitalist and chamber musician, and as a composer is a winner of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and the Greater Columbus Arts Council Composition Fellowship. He holds degrees from The Ohio State University, Northwestern University, and Stetson University, and is a Conn-Selmer Endorsing Artist.
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The members of Trio Verlaine are drawn together by friendship and a strong desire to further this unusual instrumental combination first dreamt of by Debussy. Each player has distinguished themselves in their respective field. David Harding is Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He has an extensive solo and chamber music career, having performed in such venues as the chamber music halls of Berlin Philharmonie and Concertgebouw, and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. In addition to Trio Verlaine, David is also member of Philip Glass' chamber ensemble, the "Days and Nights Festival Players" with whom he has made several recordings.
Heidi Krutzen is principal harpist of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and former principal harpist of the CBC Radio Orchestra. She has been guest principal harpist of the National Symphony (Washington D.C), Toronto Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, and Vancouver Symphony. Celebrated for her chamber music, she performs in the US, Canada, UK, and Asia. Heidi teaches at the University of British Columbia, and is on faculty for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. She is also a member of COULOIR, a duo with cellist Ariel Barnes with whom she has commissioned and recorded numerous works.
Scottish-born Lorna McGhee is principal flute with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the USA. She has performed as guest principal with Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Vancouver Symphony. Before emigrating to North America in 1998, Lorna was co-principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, England.
Together the members of Trio Verlaine draw on a wealth of experience and imagination. In the words of one critic, "these three showed how good a trio can get when they spend a lot of time together...making music and coming up with truly original programs." (The Register-Guard, Oregon)
Trio Verlaine can be heard frequently on NPR radio in the States and CBC radio in Canada. Recently featured at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Trio has also performed a live recital for BBC Radio 3 as part of a retrospective on Debussy's last sonatas. In North America, they have appeared t at many of the finest chamber music festivals and series, including the Oregon Bach Festival, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Music in the Vineyards, Sitka Summer Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains, Music in the Morning, Festival Vancouver, and World Harp Congress. In addition to standard repertoire, Trio Verlaine's exploration includes arrangements of works suited to this rare combination, and the commissioning of entirely new, original works.
Trio Verlaine has released two CDs, "Fin de Siecle, the music of Debussy and Ravel" on Skylark Music and "Six Departures" on Ravello Records.
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