Richard is a composer and improviser who has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. His long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986 (and its more recent octet version fORCH), composing for and performing with the ELISION contemporary music group since 1990, and regular appearances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003. He studied composition principally with Peter Wiegold, and currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. You can listen to more of his music at www.richardbarrettmusic.com.
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podcast 66-Richard Barrett (Part 1 of 2)
Richard is a composer and improviser who has collaborated with many leading performers in both areas, while developing works and ideas which increasingly leave behind the distinctions between them. His long-term collaborations include the electronic duo FURT which he formed with Paul Obermayer in 1986 (and its more recent octet version fORCH), composing for and performing with the ELISION contemporary music group since 1990, and regular appearances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003. He studied composition principally with Peter Wiegold, and currently teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. You can listen to more of his music at www.richardbarrettmusic.com.
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podcast 65-Chaya Czernowin (Part 2 of 2)
These episodes are normally limited to one per composer but Chaya has been to too many interesting places. The first part will focus on her biography with the occasional excursion into her music and the second part will focus mostly on her music.Chaya is a composer from Israel who teaches composition at Harvard University. She has written music for all types of mediums including chamber music, orchestral music, opera, and music theatre. She has received numerous awards for her compositions, including the Kranichstein Music Prize, Asahi Shimbun Fellowship Prize, the Schloss Solitue Fellowship, the IRCAM reading panel, the Encouragement Prize by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Prize, the Fromm Foundation Award, a nomination of the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg, and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award. You can listen to more of her music at www.chayaczernowin.com.
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podcast 64-Chaya Czernowin (Part 1 of 2)
These episodes are normally limited to one per composer but Chaya has been to too many interesting places. The first part will focus on her biography with the occasional excursion into her music and the second part will focus mostly on her music.Chaya is a composer from Israel who teaches composition at Harvard University. She has written music for all types of mediums including chamber music, orchestral music, opera, and music theatre. She has received numerous awards for her compositions, including the Kranichstein Music Prize, Asahi Shimbun Fellowship Prize, the Schloss Solitue Fellowship, the IRCAM reading panel, the Encouragement Prize by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Prize, the Fromm Foundation Award, a nomination of the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg, and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award. You can listen to more of her music at www.chayaczernowin.com.
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podcast 63-Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler
Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler is a German composer who is currently based in Berlin. He studied composition at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann, and at the Music Academy Prague with Marek Kopelent. He also studied architecture, musicology and history of art at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2006 he received a scholarship of the Cité International des Arts from the Senate of Berlin, and in 2007 he was been awarded a scholarship for the Tschaikowsky Conservatory Moscow by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). You can listen to more of his music at www.elikowskiwinkler.blogspot.de.In out conversation we talk about the Sorbian culture he comes from, why he started composing, and his connection to politics and music.
Composer Conversations is an outlet where composers can discuss their experiences living and working in the contemporary music world, the effect it has on their approach to music making, and hopefully in the process break down some of the mythology about what a composer is.
In short it is a weekly interview series that focuses on the politics and daily life of the international new music scene from the point of view of the people living in it, alongside the music that the featured composer has written. These long form conversations often drift into other regions of the composer’s life outside of aesthetics and are meant to be informal, accessible, personal in nature, and above all candid.
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