Elliott Carter on NPR

NPR site’s page on Elliott Carter:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98081089

Elliott Carter Centenary Site

A site celebrating Carter’s 100th:

http://www.carter100.com/

Messiaen on BBC.com

Some interesting info on Messaien at BBC.com

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/gx3n/

The New Yorker: The Century Club

An article in the New Yorker about Carter and Messiaen by Alex Ross.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2009/01/05/090105crmu_music_ross

Richard Festinger

Richard Festinger

Richard Festinger’s music has been performed throughout the United States, and in Europe and Asia. His works have been composed for numerous ensembles, including Parnassus, Earplay, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Alexander String Quartet, the City Winds, the Laurel Trio, the Left Coast Ensemble, the Alter Ego Ensemble, the Miroglio-Aprudo Duo, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the Redwood Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. His music has been performed by Griffin, New Millennium Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Phantom Arts, Composers Inc., the Empyrean Ensemble, the Sun String Quartet, the Alexander String Quartet, the Berkeley and Riverside Symphonies, sopranos Jane Manning, Patricia Green, Amy Burton, Alissa Deeter, and Karol Bennett, the Orchestra da Camera Italiana G.F. Ghedini, the Ensemble Italiano per la Musica Contemporanea, Ensemble Anti-Dogma, the Seoul, Korea Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, and the Boston Chamber Ensemble.

Mr. Festinger�s works have been commissioned by the Jerome Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, the Barlow Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Argosy Foundation, the Music Teachers National Association, the Hoff-Bartelson Music School, the Ross McKee Foundation, Volti, the Ringling College of Art and Design, and the American Composers Forum. He has received recording awards from the Aaron Copland Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, the American Composers Forum Subito Program, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He has been a resident artist at the Camargo Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Cit� Internationale des Arts in Paris, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Liguria Study Center for Arts and Letters in Bogliasco, Italy, the Rockefeller Foundation Conference and Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, the Centre International d�Accueil et d�Echanges des R�collets in Paris, the Aaron Copland House, the Oberpf�lzer K�nstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Bayern, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. A recipient of the George Ladd Grand Prix de Paris, he has been a fellow at the Wellesley Composers Conference and the June in Buffalo Festival, Composer in Residence several times at the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and has received both the Walter Hinrichsen Award and an Academy Recording Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Mr. Festinger earned a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California in Berkeley where he studied with Andrew Imbrie. Before turning to composing he led his own groups as a jazz performer, and later founded the acclaimed contemporary music ensemble Earplay. He has taught at the University of California in Berkeley and Davis, at Dartmouth College, and since 1990 has been a professor of music at San Francisco State University. His music is published by C.F. Peters, and recorded on the Bridge, Centaur, CRI and CRS labels. Bridge records released a CD of his works in February of 2008.

For information visit:
Howard Stoker Management

Yohanan Chendler

Yohanan Chendler

Yohanan Chendler, violinist and composer, was born in Jerusalem in 1983. He is pursuing his PhD degree in composition at Brandeis University, where he has studied composition, with Prof. Martin Boykan, Prof. Eric Chasalow and Prof.  David Rakowski, as well as violin with Prof. Daniel Stepner. He has received his Bachelor of music in composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and where he studied composition with Prof. Mark Kopytman and took private violin lessons with Mr. Albert Yaffe. This past summer he also worked with renowned Italian composer Azio Corghi at the Accademia Chigiana is Siena.
Yohanan Chendler’s works have been performed in Israel, Europe and the US. He has received several prizes, among them the Michele Pittalluga composition competition and scholarships of the America-Israeli Cultural Foundation for both composition and violin performance. His works have been published by Berben Musical Editions and by Lucian Badian Edition.

Tan Hainu

Tan Hainu

Tan Hainu, a winner of the inaugural ICA/SF Symposium on Music in the 21st Century 2009 Composition Competition, is an accomplished and innovative composer, performer, trainer, and cultural emissary whose works and charm have drawn respect and attention across continents: her music has been performed in China, the U.S., and Europe. She enjoys the challenge of conveying elegant Eastern aestheticism, Western expressionism, and abstractionism through her composition technique. A child prodigy, Tan began her musical training at four and composed a piano capriccio at age eight. She obtained her BA in music composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China’s best music school, where she received the highest mark for her graduation composition. She immigrated to the United States in 2004 (where she is currently a permanent resident) and has been a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and California State University, Los Angeles. Tan has received nineteen scholarships, presented compositions at four music festivals, and produced six music-paper presentations during her Master’s Degree schooling. Her paper The Conflict and Fusion of Japanese and Arabian Music Culture was selected for presentation at the 2008 Society of Composers’ Student National Conference. In the summer of 2008, Tan was privileged to have studied at the Freie Universität Berlin under Professor Samuel Adler of The Juilliard School, who gave her the highest marks and complimented her work ethic. She is affiliated with the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, and the Society of Composers.

For information on Tan visit:

Tan Hainu’s site

Tolga Yayalar

Tolga Yayalar

Tolga Yayalar played electric guitar in rock and jazz bands before taking up composition. Upon his encounter with the music of Webern, his first serious works incorporated serialism with jazz. Since then, texture and timbre have always been in the center of his music. To overcome the harmonic and sonic limitations of the tempered system, his music focuses on the different systems of microtonality. As the harmonic series constitute the harmonic focal point of this compositions, he also fuses some of the eastern tuning systems with the western tradition. His music has been highly influenced by his interests in architecture, psychoanalysis and post-structural narrative.

Ensemble and performers who have played Tolga’s music include Ensemble FA, Ying Quartet, Alrm Will Sound, the Cullithumpian Consort, Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, White Rabbit, Yesaroun Duo, Samual Z. Solomon, Benjamin Schwartz, Cihat Askin. His recent projects include an Orchestra piece for Orchestre National de Lorraine.

For more information on Tolga, visit:

Tolga Yayalar’s Site

Suzanne Sorkin

Suzanne Sorkin

Suzanne Sorkin (b. 1974) is active as a composer and educator.  She has received awards and commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Chamber Music Now, Third Millennium Ensemble, counter)induction, ASCAP, and others.  Her work has been programmed on Piano Spheres in Los Angeles, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Denison University New Music Festival, Chamber Music Quad Cities, Florida State University Festival of New Music, and Vassar Modfest.  She has written for ensembles including the Mannes Trio, Cabrini Quartet, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Third Angle, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.  She has been a composition fellow at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Ernest Bloch Composers Symposium, the Advanced Masterclasses in Composition at the Aspen Music Festival, and the Oregon Bach Composers Symposium.  Residencies include Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts.  She received her Ph.D. in composition from the University of Chicago through the support of a four-year Century Fellowship in the Humanities.   In Fall 2005, Suzanne Sorkin joined the faculty at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia as Assistant Professor of Music where she teaches composition, theory, and history.
For more information visit:

Suzanne Sorkin’s site

Carl Schimmel

Carl Schimmel

Winner of the 1999 Bearns Prize, Carl Schimmel has received numerous honors and awards for his compositions, and his works have been performed throughout the United States, from Alaska to Rhode Island, as well as in Canada, Japan, Korea, and the Netherlands. He has received performances and commissions from the California EAR Unit, saxophonist Taimur Sullivan, bass clarinetist Henri Bok, North/South Consonance, and many others. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University (B.A., Mathematics and Music) and the Yale School of Music (M.M. Music Composition), he has received fellowships and residencies from the Aspen Music Festival, the MacDowell Colony, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and is currently in his sixth year in the Music Composition doctoral program at Duke University. His teachers have included George Tsontakis, Ezra Laderman, Martin Bresnick, Evan Ziporyn, Ned Rorem, Anthony Kelley, Scott Lindroth, Sydney Hodkinson, and Stephen Jaffe. His most recent works have explored humor and absurdity, set theoretical approaches, diatonicism, and short forms. For more info and sound clips, check out:

www.carlschimmel.com
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