Ryan Brown

Composer RYAN BROWN draws heavily on his omnivorous musical tastes while maintaining a unique sound all his own. His works are often noted for their energy and off-kilter, foot-tapping rhythms and have been called “modern composed music at its best: nimble, expressive, ear-turning, and strange in an accessible way, highly virtuosic but never pretentious.” (Washington City Paper)

Ryan’s music has been performed by many notable groups, performers, and presenters, including pianist Lisa Moore, guitarist Mark Stewart, the Robin Cox Ensemble, the BluePrint Project, the Great Noise Ensemble, and the MATA Festival. Ryan has received an Emerging Composer Award from the Gerbode and Hewlett Foundations, and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP. He is currently a fellow in the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s Composer Mentoring Program. Upcoming premieres and commissions include music for the Left Coast Ensemble, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

Ryan is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and California State University, Long Beach, and is currently a graduate fellow at Princeton University. He has studied with Dan Becker, Martin Herman, Steve Mackey, and Bruce Miller. Visit his website at www.ryanbrownmusic.com.

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Evan Ziporyn

Clarinetist Jeff Anderle will perform Evan Ziporyn’s virtuosic Tsmindao Ghmerto for solo clarinet. Ziporyn has toured the globe with the All-stars since 1992. He is also founder and Artistic Director of Gamelan Galak Tika, a Boston-based Balinese music and dance troupe devoted to new works by American and Balinese composers. With Galak Tika, he has presented his groundbreaking Balinese/western fusion works in venues as diverse as New York’s Zankel Hall and and the Balinese International Arts Festival. He is the recipient of the 2007 USA Artists Walker Fellowship and the 2004 American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Award. His music has been commissioned and performed by Yo-yo Ma’s Silk Road Project, the Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, the American Composers Orchestra, the American Repertory Theater (their acclaimed 2004’s “Oedipus Rex”), Maya Beiser, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, with whom he recorded his 2006 orchestral CD, “Frog’s Eye.”

His works have been released on Cantaloupe, Sony Classical, New Albion, New World, Koch, Innova, and CRI; his 2001 solo clarinet CD, “This Is Not A Clarinet”, made numerous Top Ten lists and was featured on All Things Considered and PRI’s The World. He has also recorded for Nonesuch (including Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint and the Grammy Award winning Music for 18 Musicians), Thirsty Ear, and Point; his music provided the soundtrack for the PBS film “Tail-enders”, and his playing was featured in Tan Dun’s soundtrack for the film “Fallen.” With the All-stars, a partial list of collaborators includes Brian Eno, Ornette Coleman, Thurston Moore, Meredith Monk, Iva Bittova, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Don Byron, Louis Andriessen, Cecil Taylor, Henry Threadgill, Wayan Wija, Kyaw Kyaw Naing, and Pamela Z. He has also recorded with Paul Simon, Matthew Shipp, So Percussion, and Ethel. He is Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has two children, Leo (14) and Ava (7). He is currently working on a opera based on the life of Colin McPhee, to be premiered in Bali with the All-stars in June 2009.

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David Lang

ADORNO will perform David Lang’s “Cheating, Lying, Stealing”. “There is no name yet for this kind of music,” writes Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed, but audiences around the globe are hearing more and more of David Lang’s work: in performances by such organizations as the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Kronos Quartet; at Tanglewood, the BBC Proms, The Munich Biennale, the Settembre Musica Festival, the Sidney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival and the Almeida, Holland, Berlin and Strasbourg Festivals; and in the choreography of Edouard Lock and La La La Human Steps, Twyla Tharp, the Paris Opera Ballet, The Nederlands Dans Theater and the Royal Ballet.

Recent projects include monumental musical environments like the dark and meditative amplified orchestra piece The Passing Measures; Writing on Water for the London Sinfonietta, with visuals by English filmmaker Peter Greenaway; Shelter for trio medaeival and musikFabrik, with co-composers Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe; The Difficulty of Crossing a Field - an opera for the Kronos Quartet; Grind to a Halt for the San Francisco Symphony; World to Come, a commission for cellist Maya Beiser from Carnegie Hall, and loud love songs, a concerto for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie and orchestra. Upcoming works include a collaboration with visual artist Mark Dion and Ridge Theater Company on an opera, entitled Anatomy Theater, and an opera with Paul Hiller and Theater of Voices that will premiere in Carnegie Hall in the fall of 2007.

His most recent CD is ELEVATED (Cantaloupe) - it comes with a DVD of Lang’s collaborations with visual artists William Wegman, Bill Morrison and Matt Mullican. The CD recording of THE PASSING MEASURES (Cantaloupe) was named one of the best CD’s of 2001 by The New Yorker magazine. Other CDs include the introspective chamber work CHILD (Cantaloupe) and other works on Sony Classical, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, Caprice, CRI and Cantaloupe labels.

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David Lang and Bang on a Can

Julia Wolfe

ADORNO volinist Graeme Jennings and pianist Eva Maria Zimmerman will perform Julia Wolfe’s “Mink Stole” for violin and piano. Wolfe’s music is muscular and kinetic and experienced through the body. She creates journeys like unfolding dramatic landscapes, a music meant to be entered into by the listener. Wolfe’s work is distinguished by this intense focus on sound, the power of sound, the ways in which sound is related to memory and experience, the possibilities for new harmonies between familiar chords and micro tonal tunings or sounds found in nature and the urban world. With a care and attention to detail that is both masterful and highly respectful, Wolfe’s music celebrates the extraordinary qualities contained within something as specific as a gesture or an inflection.

Julia Wolfe’s music is heard around the world in performances at the Next Wave Festival at BAM, the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, Settembre Musica (Italy), the Holland Festival, Theatre de la Ville (Paris), the San Francisco Symphony, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, and more. Upcoming works include a new work FUEL for Ensemble Resonanz with a film by Bill Morrison, and an evening length work with film for the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Recent works include My Beautiful Scream for Kronos and Orchestra, Cruel Sister for string orchestra, Impatience for the Asko Ensemble to the film of the same name by early Belgian experimentalist Charles Dekeukeleire, and an accordian concerto commissioned by the Miller Theater and written for Guy Klucevsek.

Recent collaborations with composers Michael Gordon and David Lang with writer Deborah Artman include Shelter written for musikFabrik and trio mediaeval with staging by the Ridge Theater Company; Lost Objects, an oratorio with Concerto Koln directed by Francois Girard; with Gordon and Lang The Carbon Copy Building with comic book artist Ben Katchor and the Ridge Theater. For The Carbon Copy Building, she received the 2000 Village Voice OBIE Award for Best New American Work. Wolfe received a 2001 OBIE for the music to Jennie Ritchie, a collaboration with playwright Mac Wellman and Ridge Theater.

Her recording “Julia Wolfe - The String Quartets” was released on the Cantaloupe label. Wolfe’s music has also been recorded on Teldec, Universal, Sony Classical, and Argo/Decca.

(excerpt from a bio by Deborah Artman)

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