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Gartner / ingalls / Jones An evening of contemporary chamber music for clarinet, cello, and piano, featuring Helmut Lachenmann's Allegro Sostenuto. Geoffrey Gartner received his Bachelor of Music with Honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he studied cello with Georg Pedersen. He has perfomed widely as both soloist and chamber musician, with appearances throughout Australia, Europe, Canada and New Caledonia. Geoffrey is a longstanding member of Sydney new music group Ensemble Offspring and has also appeared with Melbourne's Libra Ensemble. He has performed at the Sydney Spring Festival of New Music, and The Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth and has premiered numerous works, including Australian premieres of Horatiu Radulescu's String Quartet no. 5 and Thomas Ades' opera Powder Her Face. Geoffrey has enjoyed working relationships with many respected international composers including Michael Finnissey, Thomas Ades, Peter Sculthorpe, Thomas Meadowcroft, Damien Ricketson, Rosalind Page and Matthew Shlomowitz. Solo works written for him include Rosalind Page's Extrema, and Damien Ricketson's Imagining Le Verrier. An accomplished chamber musician, Geoffrey is the founding cellist of the Tohzah Piano Trio, with whom he has toured extensively both in Australia and overseas. The trio has worked with many distinguished musicians and tutors including Manahem Pressler, Lawrence Lesser, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Bernadene Blaha, Gyorgy Sebok and Marco van Pagee. Recent performances have included Beethoven's Triple Concerto, as well as appearances at the Arts Festival in Banff, Canada.
matt ingalls - a clarinetist, composer, improviser, and computer musician from Oakland, California, "is of the most accomplished, most creative clarinetists on the bay area scene." [Doom - KZSU Stanford Radio] Perhaps known more for his dynamic yet "composerly" free improvisations, he is equally active in more traditionally notated new music. In addition to being an award-winning, internationally recognized composer, matt has premiered over 50 works by other composers - many of which are unaccompanied solo pieces written specifically for his unique sound and performance style. Just what is this unique sound? No doubt it is influenced by matt's heavy involvement in computer music, both as a composer and as a music software programmer. The sounds and textures he is able to produce on the clarinet are often brittlely "electronic," but most striking about his performances is how he often structures rhythmic and formal elements in a way that clearly resembles computer music. For example, matt's solo improvisations often contain "glitches" and interruptions, or they will offer a number of simultaneous musical ideas that are then cut up, rearranged, or "windowed" just like granular synthesis or phase vocoding algorithms. matt actively collaborates with bay area musicians such as Morgan Guberman, Scott Looney, Gino Robair, Tim Perkis, John Shiurba, and Matthew Sperry. He has also performed with Eddie Prevost, George Lewis, Peter Van Bergen, Jack Wright, Toshi Makihara, Sean Meehan, Andrew Voigt, John Raskin, Marco Eneidi, Chris Brown, Myles Boisen, Bob Marsh, William Winant, John Rose, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Tom Nunn, Phil Gelb, Ben Goldberg, Paul Hoskin, Carla Kihlstedt, Scott Rosenberg, and C.L.A.I.R.E. (matt's own "virtual" improviser). Some of matt's recent performances have included: The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, The 4th Annual CEAIT Electronic Music Festival at CalArts, Baltimore's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, The Big Sur Experimental Music Festival, Opus415 New Music Marathon, The Seattle Improvised Music Festival, The Monterey Rock and Art Festival, New Music Under the Stars at Stanford University, The F.U.N. (Festival of Ugly New Music) in Urbana, Illinois, and Oakland's East Bay Creative Music Festival. Christopher Jones was born in 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His compositions have been performed in numerous places in North America, including recent performances at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and at the University of New Mexico Composers Symposium. His recent projects include a quintet composed for the Ictus International Composition Seminar in Brussels, Belgium. Christopher is a very active performer of contemporary music. He is a former pianist of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, and has performed with New Works Calgary, The University of Washington Contemporary Group (Seattle, WA), and the New Vienna Ensemble (Indiana University). Christopher has had performances recorded for radio broadcast by WGBH in Boston, and CBC in Calgary. He has premiered numerous solo and chamber works. Currently, Christopher is pursuing a DMA in composition at Stanford University where he has studied with Jonathan Harvey, Brian Ferneyhough and Jonathan Berger. He has completed a Master of Music in composition at the University of Calgary, a Master of Music in piano at Indiana University, and a Bachelor of Music in piano at the New England Conservatory. strictly Ballroom | CCRMA home | Christopher Burns home Copyright © 2002 Christopher Burns. All rights reserved. |