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Beyond
Noend with Errante features the works of many of today's leading contemporary
composers and musicians. The following are brief biographies of these composers
taken from the CD booklet.
Jane
Brockman
Brockman's music
has been praised as: "most accomplished, virtuosic, complex," "highly
effective" and "among the best live electronics pieces." (LA Times) and
"...leaving vapor trails... sonorities that are sometimes animated, or statically
lush" (Fanfare). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and honors including
the Sigvald Thompson prize for orchestral composition. After twelve years of university
teaching, Brockman relocated to California to focus on composition. Her body of work is
distinguished by its diversity in music for concerts, opera, dance, film, and television.
Mark Carlson
Mark Carlson has
composed more than 70 works, including art songs, chamber and choral music, concertos, and
other large ensemble works. Commissions from the National Shrine and the New West Symphony
are among the nearly 40 he has received. Carlson teaches at UCLA and Santa Monica College,
and he is the founder and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles chamber music ensemble,
Pacific Serenades.
Joshua Chan
Joshua Chan is
an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. He has written over 130
compositions and numerous arrangements for various media including orchestral, electronic,
chamber, vocal, and Chinese instrumentals, and in various styles including contemporary,
classical, popular, and music that processes elements of East and West. His music has been
widely performed, broadcasted, and recorded throughout the world.
Jack Delano
Jack Delano
(1914-1997) was born in Kiev, Russia, raised in Philadelphia, and spent most of his adult
life in his beloved Puerto Rico. Although best known for his photography, his artistic
creations also included graphic art, cartoons, films and books (his autobiography is
published by Smithsonian Institution Press), as well as music for orchestra, choir,
ballet, chamber ensembles, and soloists.
F. Gerard
Errante
F. Gerard Errante is
a clarinetist, composer, author, and recording artist of international stature whose
performances at major international festivals have received critical acclaim. Widely
traveled, Errante has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, Korea, China, Japan, Africa, and the South Pacific. Actively
sought out by many of today's leading composers for his renowned interpretations of
contemporary music, Errante was a second prize winner in the International Gaudeamus
Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music. Dr. Errante is the past president of
the International Clarinet Association, a Professor of Music at Norfolk State University,
and the Co-Director of the Norfolk Chamber Consort.
Jody
Nagel
Jody Nagel is
Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory at Ball State University. He has a
D.M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.A. from the University of
Pittsburgh.
Carl Della
Peruti
Carl Della
Peruti combines the roles of performer, composer, and teacher in his musical career. He is
a co-founder and Co-Managing Director as well as trombonist for one of the nation’s
premier brass ensembles, Solid Brass, which performs regularly at the Lincoln Center with
the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera orchestra, and the New York City Ballet
orchestra.
Peter Terry
The Los Angeles
Times describes Peter Terry as a composer with a "prodigious ability to write
virtuosic melodic lines and ostinatos." The recipient of numerous awards and honors,
Peter Terry’s music has been performed at prestigious festivals, concert series, and
in alternative galleries and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe. He is
currently Director of the Media Center at Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio.
Robert Scott
Thompson
The term
"Musical Alchemist" best describes modern music composer Robert Scott Thompson.
Combining his mastery of the electroacoustic, contemporary instrumental, pop and
avant-garde genres into a swirling cohesive whole, he is an important pioneer on music's
new frontier. Robert is Director of the Center for Audio Recording Arts in the School of
Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he heads up a program in
audio engineering and in the applications of computer technology to recorded music and
sound design. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar to Denmark, and winner of the
"Mennzione d'Onore" in the 1994 Luigi Russollo Competition, the 1994 Bourges
Electroacoustic Music Competition, and the 1995 Irino Prize Foundation Competition in
Chamber Music.
John Toomey
John Toomey is
Professor of Jazz Studies and Music Technology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,
Virginia. Formerly music director and keyboardist for jazz legend Maynard Ferguson, John
has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Blue Note. He has
written the soundtracks for several nationally televised documentaries, and was designated
a cultural specialist by the State Department, resulting in a trip to Botswana, Africa, to
teach and perform.
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