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| SICPP Faculty Bios |
| Callithumpian Consort Scott Deal Stephen Drury Louis Goldstein Joseph Kubera John Mallia Steffen Schleiermacher Yukiko Takagi Nicholas Vines Christian Wolff |
| The Callithumpian Consort |
| The Callithumpian Consort is based at New
England Conservatory, and was founded by Stephen Drury sometime in the
1990's. Dedicated to the proposition that music is an experience,
the Consort has performed music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, John
Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi, Ivan Tcherepnin, Iannis
Xenakis, Lee Hyla, David Shea, Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Paul
Elwood, John Heiss, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown,
Lukas Foss, and others. Recordings on Tzadik and Mode Records. www.callithumpian.org |
| Scott Deal |
Percussionist Scott Deal’s appearances include venues, festivals and conferences in North America and Europe. A performer who presents "a riveting performance (Sequenza 21), his recent recording of the music of John Luther Adams has been described as “a soaring, shimmering exploration of texture and tone...an album of resplendent mood and incredible scale” (Musicworks). Continually inspired by new and emerging artistic technologies, Deal is the founder of the Telematic Collective, a networked group of artists and empiricists. He has performed at Almeida Opera, Supercomputing Global, SIGGRAPH, Arena Stage, Chicago Calling, Ingenuity Festival, Moscow Alternativa, and with groups that include ART GRID, Another Language, Percussion Group Cincinnati, Digital Worlds Institute and the Helsinki Computer Orchestra. He is a Professor of Music and Director of the Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Research Center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He holds degrees from the University of Miami, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Cameron University. |
| Stephen Drury |
 Well-known
as a champion of twentieth-century music, Institute director Stephen
Drury has given performances throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and
Latin America, soloing with orchestras from San Diego to Bucharest. A
prizewinner in several competitions, including the Concert Artists
Guild, Affiliate Artists, and Carnegie Hall/Rockefeller competitions,
his repertoire stretches from Bach, Mozart, and Liszt to the music of
today. The U.S. State Department sponsored two concert tours that
enabled him to take the sounds of dissonance to Paris, Hong Kong,
Greenland, Pakistan, Prague, and Japan. He has appeared as conductor
and pianist at the Angelica Festival in Italy, the MusikTriennale
Köln in Germany, Spoleto Festival USA, and with the Britten
Sinfonia in England, as well as at Roulette and the Knitting Factory in
New York. Drury has also performed with Merce Cunningham and Mikhail
Barishnikov in the Lincoln Center Festival, at Alice Tully Hall as part
of the Great Day in New York Festival, with the Boston Symphony Chamber
Players, and with the Seattle Chamber Players in Seattle and Moscow. A
champion of 20th-century music, Drury’s critically acclaimed
performances range from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by
John Cage and György Ligeti. He premiered the solo part of John
Cage’s 1O1 with the Boston Symphony and gave the first
performance of John Zorn’s concerto for piano and orchestra
Aporias with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony. He
has commissioned new works from Cage, Zorn, Terry Riley, Lee Hyla, and
Chinary Ung. Drury has given masterclasses at the Moscow Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Mannes Beethoven Institute and
throughout the world, and served on juries for the Concert Artist Guild
and Orléans Concours International de Piano XXème
Siècle Competitions. His recordings include music by
Beethoven, Liszt, Stockhausen, Ravel, Stravinsky, Charles Ives, Elliott
Carter, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Colin McPhee, and John Zorn. www.stephendrury.com/ |
| Louis Goldstein |
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1947, Louis Goldstein's early piano study was with a wonderful private teacher named Margaret Schmitt. Further studies occurred at Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (BM), California Institute of the Arts (MFA), and Eastman School of Music (DMA and Performer's Certificate), including piano study with Joseph Hungate, Rudolf Ganz, Leonid Hambro, and David Burge.
Long fascinated with music of his own time, Dr. Goldstein was co-founder and co-director of the California New Music Ensemble and an associate member of the Los Angeles Group for Contemporary Music and Newband, in New York City. In ensembles and as a soloist, he has championed cutting edge work of current composers. His faculty recitals at Wake Forest present an absorbing blend of past masters such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Debussy, 20th-century giants such as Copland and Stockhausen, and the latest innovations of today. His CD recordings of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, Dream, and One5, and Morton Feldman's Triadic Memorieshave garnered accolades from print and internet sources as well as fellow musicians. His most recent recording, of Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus (Nuscope Recordings), ranked in the top 10 modern composition recordings of 2010 by The Wire Magazine. Another special interest of Dr. Goldstein's is American music. For 15 years he was on the faculty of the American Foundations Program at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He is also an active member of the Society for American Music. Over the years, Dr. Goldstein has been active as a recitalist, accompanist, and ensemble member, and has appeared as a soloist in such venues as New England Conservatory, Yale, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Universities of Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida State, as well as in Canada, The Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Israel. |
| Joseph Kubera |
 Hailed by Village Voice critic Kyle Gann as one of "new music's most valued performers," JOSEPH KUBERA has been recognized as a leading interpreter of contemporary music for the past 30 years. He has been soloist at such festivals as the Berlin Inventionen, the Warsaw Autumn and Prague Spring, Miami's Subtropics Festival and Berkeley's Edgefest. He has been pianist in residence at the Ostrava Days New Music Festival since its inception in 2001. Mr. Kubera has been awarded grants through the NEA Solo Recitalist Program and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and was a Creative Associate with the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at SUNY Buffalo in its heyday.
Mr. Kubera has had a long and committed relationship to John Cage and his music since the early 1970s. One of the few pianists performing the difficult chance-based, post-1950 works, he has recorded the complete Music of Changes and the Concert for Piano and Orchestra, and has toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Cage's invitation. In recent years, he has championed the music of his late Buffalo compatriot, Julius Eastman, reviving little-known piano works and directing performances of his multiple-piano pieces. Most recently, he has toured the remarkable new hour-long piano work Dreamers of Pearl by Michael Byron. Other composers who have written for Mr. Kubera include Larry Austin, Anthony Coleman, David First, Alvin Lucier, Roscoe Mitchell, Howard Riley, and "Blue" Gene Tyranny, among others. Mr. Kubera is a core member of S.E.M. Ensemble and Orchestra, and the Downtown Ensemble, and he has performed with a broad range of New York groups from the Brooklyn Philharmonic to the New York New Music Ensemble to Steve Reich and Musicians. He tours frequently with baritone Thomas Buckner, and luminaries such as Terry Riley and Ingram Marshall have written for his duo-piano team with Sarah Cahill. He has worked closely with such composers as Alvin Lucier, Robert Ashley, Morton Feldman and La Monte Young. In addition to the Cage above, solo recordings include Beth Anderson's Piano Concerto on New World, Lucier's Still Lives on Lovely Music, Cowell's Nine Ings on New Albion, and Michael Sahl's Serenades on Albany. He has also recorded for the Wergo, O.O. Discs, 1750 Arch, Mutable Music, Cold Blue, and Opus One labels. |
| John Mallia |
 Composer, Sound ArtistI live and work in Boston, MA, and am fortunate to have a teaching position on the Composition Faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music where I work with many talented students and direct the Electronic Music Studio. Much of my compositional process is informed by spatial models and concepts. I enjoy collaborating with visual artists on multimedia works including installation. Recent projects include a collaboration with new media artist Denise Marika on a score for her performance video Leg, and a collaboration with animator/bookmaker Misa Saburi on her work entitled The Boy In the Windy Town. My music has been performed internationally by organizations such as Musicacoustica (Beijing, China), Ensemble N_JP (Japan/US), ZeroOne Festival of New Media (San Jose), L.A. Freewaves (Los Angeles), Gaudeamus (The Netherlands), International Computer Music Association, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art (Barcelona, Spain), Festival Synthèse (Bourges, France), Interensemble’s Computer Arts Festival (Padova, Italy), Society for New Music (New York), CyberArts, and Medi@terra`s Travelling Mikromuseum (Greece, Bulgaria, Germany, Yugoslavia, Slovenia). I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) at the University of North Texas (2004-5), and have also taught electroacoustic music and sound art at Franklin Pierce College, Northeastern University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and Brandeis University. Photo by Andrew Hurlburt homepage.mac.com/jmallia/ |
| Steffen Schleiermacher |
Steffen Schleiermacher, pianist, composer, festival and concert promoter, born in Halle in 1960. He studied piano (Gerhard Erber), composition (Siegfried Thiele, Friedrich Schenker) and conducting (Gnter Blumhagen) at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music in Leipzig from 1980 until 1985. He was master pupil for composition with Friedrich Goldmann at the Academy of Arts in Berlin during 1986/87 and for piano with Aloys Kontarsky at the Cologne Academy of Music during 1989/90.
Steffen Schleiermacher has concertized as a soloist with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Mnchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and other orchestras under Vladimir Ashkenazy, Friedrich Goldmann, Ingo Metzmacher, Wladimir Jurowski and Fabio Luisi. Schleiermacher's recordings amount to more than 60 CDs (e.g. the first recording of the complete piano works by John Cage) with different labels such as Hat Art, Wergo, MDG. Concert tours have taken him throughout numerous European, South American and Far Eastern countries. Since 1988 he is in charge of the "musica nova" series at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, in 1989 he founded the Ensemble Avantgarde. He led the January Festival at the Museum of the Fine Arts in Leipzig from 1993 until 2000 and the annual festival "KlangRausch" at the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk from 2000 until 2010. Recent commissions include "Kokain" for the Oper Bonn (2004), the orchestral works "Gegen Bild" (2006) and "Das Leuchten der singenden Kristalle" (2009) for the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, "Die Beschwrung der trunkenen Oase" (2009) for the WDR Sinfonieorchster, "Das Tosen des staunenden Echos" (2009) for the musikFabrik, "Ataraxia" (2009) for the RIAS Kammerchor and "Four Pieces to interpolate the Bach-Mass" (2008) for the Kirchenmusikfestival Oslo. At present Steffen Schleiermacher is working on compositions for Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Akademie fr Alte Musik Berlin, Orchestre Franais des Jeunes, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Festival "plegrinage" Weimar. Schleiermacher's numerous prizes and fellowship awards include the Gaudeamus Competition (1985), Eisler Prize (1986), Kranichstein Music Prize (1986), Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize, Munich (1991), Fellowship of the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1992), Japan Foundation Fellowship (1997), Fellowship of the Cit des Arts in Paris (1999) and Chevalier des artes et letters (2010). |
| Yukiko Takagi |
 Yukiko
Takagi received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the
New England Conservatory where she studied with Veronica Jochum and
Stephen Drury. While a student at the Conservatory she was
selected to perform in several Honors programs and appeared regularly
with the NEC Contemporary Ensemble. Ms. Takagi has performed with
the orchestra of the Bologna Teatro Musicale, the John Zorn Ensemble,
the Auros Group for New Music, Santa Cruz New Music Works, the Harvard
Group for New Music and the Chameleon Arts Ensemble. She performs
regularly with the Eliza Miller Dance Company and the Ruth Birnberg
Dance Company and gives frequent duo-piano concerts with Stephen
Drury. Ms. Takagi is a featured performer with the Callithumpian
Consort. Her recording of Colin McPhee’s Balinese Cerimonial Dances
was released by MusicMasters. At New England Conservatory Yukiko
Takagi has appeared on the First Monday series at Jordan Hall, and is a
teacher and guest artist for NEC's Summer Institute for Contemporary
Piano Performance. |
| Nicolas Vines |
 Nicholas Vines (b.1976, Sydney) is a young Australian composer based in the US. His works have been performed in Australia, the US, the UK and Europe by such interpreters as Alarm Will Sound, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, ChamberMade Opera, the Callithumpian Consort, Ensemble Offspring, the Schola Cantorum Gedanesis Chamber Choir, White Rabbit, the BT Scottish Ensemble, the Australian Voices, Eliot Gattegno and Liwei Qin. He has received commissions from numerous ensembles and institutions, such as Faber Music, the Callithumpian Consort, Primary Duo, Prana Duo, the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Firebird Ensemble, the Tait Memorial Trust, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 2MBS FM Radio (Sydney) and Ars Musica Australis. Recognition for Vines’ work includes an Honourable Mention in the 2006 Salvatore Martirano Memorial International Composition Competition for Dolmen of New Albion, and a semi-finals position in the 2009 Opera Vista Competition (Houston) with The Sepulchre of Love. This summer, he will be a Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center. One work of his, Firestick, is published by Faber Music, London, while several other pieces have been selected for the Australian Composers Online Project. The remainder of his output is available through the Australian Music Centre. A CD of his compositions, featuring The Butcher of Brisbane, Firestick and Torrid Nature Scene, is in development with Callithumpian Consort and Mode Records. Having received a PhD in Music in 2007 from Harvard University, Vines is now a lecturer in theory and composition there, as well an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been the New Works Program Coördinator for New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice since 2007. www.nicholasvines.com |
| Christian Wolff |
Born March 8, 1934 in Nice, France; lived mostly in U.S. since 1941; U.S. citizen since 1946. Studied piano with Grete Sultan, composition (briefly) with John Cage. Mostly autodidact, but early contact with Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown, later Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski has helped form the direction of his work. Academic training in Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Has taught Classics at Harvard and, since 1971, Classics, Comparative Literature and Music at Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire).
Compositions include works for piano(s), miscellaneous keyboards, instrumental solos, chamber groups, unspecified groups of players and sound sources, tape, chorus and orchestra. A particular interest in Wolff's work has been to allow performers flexibility and ranges of freedom at the actual time of a piece's performance; to devise notations to make this practicable; to foster among both professional and lay players a spirit of liberating interdependence; and to draw material from traditions of popular political music. Wolff's music has been performed throughout the world, especially in Europe and the U.S. A number of pieces have been used by Merce Cunningham and his dance company; also the dancer Lucinda Childs. Music publisher: C.F. Peters, New York. Recordings on: Columbia-Odyssey, Vox, Time-Mainstream, Wergo, Centaur, Elektrola, EMI CRI, Opus One, Philo, EMI-TOCI, Collecta, Hat Hut, Mode, Koch International, Time-Scraper, Content. Writings on music collected in: Cues Writings and Conversations (published by MusikTexte, Cologne). Christian Wolff has performed as an improviser with Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacy, Christian Marclay, Kui Dong and Larry Polansky. Award from the American Academy and National Institute for Arts and Letters (1975); DAAD, Berlin (1974); Asian Cultural Council Grant (1987); John Cage award for music (1996); member of the Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin (1999). |
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