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For Irving Lippel (2004)
| composer |
John Link (b. 1962) |
| performers |
The Irving Lippel Project:
Jeffrey Irving, vibraphone
Daniel Lippel, guitar |
| affiliation |
ASCAP |
| label |
New Focus Recordings FCR103http://www.newfocusrecordings.com
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| duration |
07:30 |
John Link:
"For Irving Lippel was composed in 2004 for The Irving Lippel Project, a duo consisting of percussionist Jeffrey Irving and guitarist Daniel Lippel. The piece is a fantasia that explores the remarkably rich and suggestive combination of vibraphone and guitar. It is dedicated to Jeff and Dan with thanks for their wonderful musicianship."
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, John Link (b. 1962) has composed for diverse media including orchestra, chamber and jazz ensembles, rock bands, and electroacoustic instruments. He has received commissions from guitarist Daniel Lippel, cellist Caroline Stinson, the Athabasca String Trio, Flexible Music, Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music, New Jersey Arts Collective, and awards from ASCAP, Centre Acanthes, and Meet the Composer. Link is a founding member of the composers group Friends & Enemies of New Music, which presents an annual series of new music concerts in New York City. His music is recorded on the New Focus Recordings and 60x60 labels.
An internationally-known scholar of the music of Elliott Carter, Link has received fellowships from the Paul Sacher Foundation for his work on Carter's sketches. He is the author of Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research (2000), co-editor with Nicholas Hopkins of Elliott Carter's Harmony Book (2002), and is currently working on a book about Carter's late music. Other writings on music have appeared in journals in the United States and Italy, including Journal of the Society for American Music, Sonus, and Tempo. In 2008 Link was a panelist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elliott Carter: A Centennial Investigation. He was also a guest lecturer at the 2006 Contemporary Composers Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the 2002 Oliver Knussen Elliott Carter Workshop at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Link studied at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ohio State University in Columbus, and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His principal teachers were David Olan, Thomas Wells, and Randall Snyder. He is currently Professor of Music at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.
related websites
http://www.wpunj.edu/coac/music/link
The Irving Lippel Project was formed in New York City in 2001 to explore the possibilities of the percussion and guitar duo instrumentation. The group has commissioned several composers to date, including Douglas Boyce, John Link, Nico Muhly, and Sam Solomon. Percussionist Jeffrey Irving is an active freelance musician who has performed contemporary solo and chamber music with groups such as counter)induction, MET Chamber Ensemble, Newband, New York Philomusica, and Speculum Musicae. Recent orchestral engagements include the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and New York Philharmonic. Irving studied with Daniel Druckman at the Juilliard School of Music. Guitarist Daniel Lippel's activities as a soloist, chamber musician, and performer in non-classical ensembles have resulted in performances throughout North America and Europe as well as Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and Argentina. He is a regular member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and new music quartet Flexible Music, and director of the new music label New Focus Recordings. Lippel studied with Jason Vieaux and John Holmquist at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio and David Starobin at the Manhattan School of Music.
related websites
http://www.danlippel.com
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