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Actions – Remarks: John Cage’s Variations
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Irvine Arditti
Irvine ArdittiIn addition to his phenomenal career as first violinist of the Arditti Quartet, Irvine Arditti continues to excel as an extraordinary soloist. Born in London in 1953, Irvine Arditti began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16. He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after two years, at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master. He left the orchestra in 1980 in order to devote ... Read More

Arditti Quartet
The Arditti QuartetIrvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings (vlns), Ralf Ehlers (vla), Rohan de Saram (vc)The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet ... Read More

Michael Bach
Michael BachThe cellist Michael Bach enjoys an international career with concerts, CD recordings, radio and TV broadcastings. He provided numerous significant contributions to the art of playing the cello (including the book Fingerboards & Overtones). Since 1990 he has developed the curved bow (BACH.Bogen®) for string instruments which makes the simultaneous sounding of multiple strings possible. In 2001 he was invited by Mstislav Rostropovich to present the BACH.Bogen® in Paris. John Cage and Dieter Schnebel ... Read More

Gregory Beyer
Gregory Beyer Gregory Beyer has given solo performances and masterclasses throughout the world. A contemporary music specialist with significant experience in orchestral, jazz, and world music, Beyer combines the multiple disciplines of 21st Century percussion into a singular artistic voice. Beyer co-founded the flute and percussion duo, DUE EAST, which has released two commercial recordings. Beyer is Associate Professor and Head of Percussion Studies at Northern Illinois University, where he directs the Percussion Ensemble (performed ... Read More

John Cage
John Cage Discography CAGE EDITION by volume John Cage performances John Cage (1912-1992) was a singularly inventive and much beloved American composer, writer, philosopher, and visual artist, whose influence, already profound, has yet to be fully felt. Beginning around 1950, and throughout the passing years, he departed from the pragmatism of precise musical notation and circumscribed ways of performance. His principal contribution to the history of music is his systematic establishment of the principle of ... Read More

Van Carlson
Van CarlsonVan Carlson was born in Colorado and moved to Hollywood in 1978. He has received 10 Emmy Nominations, and 3 Emmy Awards for Photography in 1978, 1980, 1985. His work has taken him around the world, from Amazonia to the Virgin Islands. Carlson has worked with directors Steven Spielberg, Peter Friedman, and Bob Heath; and for productions with Arte/ZDF, A&E, HBO/Dreamworks, History Channel, Lifetime, and PBS. Of his work, Frank Zappa said: "The guy's ... Read More

Noam Chomsky
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Phd in linguistics in 1955 from the University of Pennsylvania. During the years 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. The major theoretical viewpoints of his doctoral dissertation appeared in the monograph Syntactic Structure, 1957. This formed part of a more extensive work, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, circulated in ... Read More

John Kennedy
John KennedyComposer and conductor John Kennedy has worked with many of the leading composers of our time in presentation of their work. He is Resident Conductor of Spoleto Festival USA, where he has led American premieres of operas by Dusapin, Glass, Rihm, Saariaho, and others. He is also Artistic Director of Santa Fe New Music, and has guest conducted with many organizations including the Lincoln Center Festival, the Santa Fe Opera, New York City Ballet, ... Read More

Ulrich Krieger
Ulrich KriegerUlrich Krieger has lived and worked in Berlin since 1983. He is known for his work in contemporary composed and freely improvised music and as a composer of electronic music and chamber music. Recently he has concentrated on his old neglected passion: the frayed experimental edges of contemporary pop culture. He has worked with Lou Reed, LaMonte Young, Phill Niblock, Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, David First, Mario Bertoncini, John Duncan, Merzbow, DJ ... Read More

Joan La Barbara
Joan La BarbaraJoan La Barbara’s career as a composer/performer/sound artist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries, creating works for a wide array of media, developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques (multiphonics, circular singing, ululation, and glottal clicks that have become her "signature sounds"), which has garnered awards in the United States and Europe and numerous commissions, recently from the West Deutscher Rundfunk; Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company; ... Read More

Henning Lohner
Henning LohnerHenning Lohner was raised in California to German emigrant parents. He returned to Germany to complete studies in musicology, art history and romanic languages, graduating from Frankfurt University in 1987. During this time, composer Iannis Xenakis became Lohner's life-long mentor. In 1988, while working as assistant to composer Karlheinz Stockhausen on his opera Licht at La Scala in Milano, Stockausen introduced Lohner to the medium of video and film. Subsequently, Lohner began working both ... Read More

Mayumi Miyata
Mayumi MiyataMayumi Miyata was one of the first to introduce the sho-, the traditional Oriental instrument, worldwide. Having been invited by major international festivals around the globe, her artistry has helped expand the recognition of sho- both in Japan and overseas.After graduating from Kunitachi College of Music, she studied Gagaku (Japanese ancient court music) and began appearing in the National Theatre of Japan in 1979. Ms. Miyata has performed in sho- recitals since 1983, continuously ... Read More

Charles Peltz
Charles PeltzconductorCharles Peltz is currently the Music Director of the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra and Director of Wind Ensembles at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was formerly a staff conductor with both the Syracuse Symphony and the Buffalo Opera Company. His guest conducting has included acclaimed appearances in the Lincoln Center Festival in New York, Orquesta Nacional in Bogota, Colombia, the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland, and the Merrick Symphony, where he serves ... Read More

Michael Pugliese
Michael Pugliese One of the great percussionists, Michael had a close artistic relationship with John Cage. This led to his recording of Cage's ETUDES BOREALES on Mode's first release, made at the suggestion of Cage and recorded under his supervision. Michael gained prominence as a long time touring musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company where he played alongside David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi. Pugliese died on the morning of 4 November in New York ... Read More

Tobias Rüger
Tobias RügerTobias Rüger was born in 1965 in Berlin. He took saxophone lessons with Alfred Harth in Frankfurt from 1980-85 and studied music at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin from 1987-94. In 1992 he was involved in the production of the CD "Pausen aus berühmten Opern." From 1994-96 he studied musicology at the Free University in Berlin. He wrote music for Hörspiele (Sender Freies Berlin/SFB, Norddeutsche Rundfunk/NDR, and DeutschlandRadio). He wrote music reviews for ... Read More

Sabat/Clarke Duo
Sabat/ClarkeCanadians Stephen Clarke and Marc Sabat are both active composers and performers of contemporary music. Since 1996, they have collaborated as a piano and violin duo. They have played concerts, made recordings, and commissioned composers to write new pieces, including Maria de Alvear, Martin Arnold, Gerald Barry, Christopher Butterfield, Allison Cameron, Chris Paul Harman, Michael Hynes, Udo Kasemets, James Rolfe, Linda Catlin Smith, James Tenney, and Christian Wolff. Their recordings include the first complete recording ... Read More

Arturo Tamayo
Arturo TamayoArturo Tamayo studied music at the Conservatoire of Madrid, his home town. He studied conducting with Pierre Boulez in Basel, Francis Travis in Freiburg and Witold Rowicki in Vienna. He also did postgraduate studies in composition with Wolfgang Fortner and Klaus Huber in the Musikhochschule in Freiburg. As a guest conductor, he has performed at the most prestigious Music Festivals in Europe, and has premiered works by countless contemporary composers ... Read More

Margaret Leng Tan
Margaret Leng TanMargaret Leng Tan has established herself as a major force within the American avant-garde: a highly visible, visionary pianist whose work embraces theater, choreography, performance. She is regularly featured at international festivals, has appeared at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and records for Mode, New Albion and ECM.Tan, a recipient of The National Endowment for the Arts' Solo Recitalist Award, is the first woman to earn a doctorate from The Juilliard School. Exploring ... Read More

Turfan Ensemble
The Turfan EnsembleThe Turfan Ensemble was founded in 1995 by Philipp Vandré and Thaddeus Watson in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is one of the few ensembles dedicated specifically to experimental music. Drawing from a permanent pool of musicians, the Turfan Ensemble is formed anew for each project. This guarantees high flexibility and does justice to the very varying demands of experimental music.Turfan is the name of an oasis in Eastern Turkestan, today part of ... Read More

Reimar Volker
Reimar VolkerReimar Volker was born in 1967 in Berlin. From 1990-95 he studied music education at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, majored in saxophone (studying with Detlef Bennsman and Christof Griese) and received a diploma in music education. Since 1984 he has been musically active as a jazz, chamber and orchestra musician. He has been involved in radio and CD productions of the Süddeutsche Rundfunk (SDR) in Stuttgart and Sony Music Deutschland; he has ... Read More

WDR Symphony Orchestra
WDR Sinfonieorchester KölnFounded in 1947 by the then Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunk (Northwestern German Radio) as an orchestra of the WDR. It worked together and made recordings with distinguished conductors - Otto Klemperer, Sir Georg Solti, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, among others. Currently, the orchestra gives some forty concerts per season at the Cologne Philharmonie and all over the broadcasting area of the WDR. The orchestra has travelled on concert tours through Europe and ... Read More

Margaret Lancaster
Margaret Lancaster “New-music luminary” (The New York Times), Margaret Lancaster (flutist/performance artist/actor/dancer) has built a large repertoire of interactive, cross-disciplinary solo works that employ electronics and mixed media. Performance highlights include Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Santa Fe New Music, Tap City, NIME/Copenhagen and the 7-year global run of OBIE-winning Mabou Mines Dollhouse (Helene). A member of Either/Or, Ensemble Ipse and Ghost Ensemble; guest appearances include Argento and the New York Philharmonic. Ongoing projects ... Read More

David Shively
David Shively Co-director of Either/Or (NYC) from 2004-2018; solo projects throughout North America and Europe; intermittent ecstatic drone work with UllU; numerous collaborations improvised and otherwise; string band music of Hungary and Romania. Shively has recorded for Starkland, New World, Tzadik, Mode, Quecksilber, Braxton House, and other labels in addition to compositions for dance, works for film, and sound installations… ... Read More