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Tinted (1998)
| composer |
Lansing D. McLoskey (b. 1964) |
| performers |
Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
Andrew Talle, cello
Nina Ferrigno, piano |
| publisher |
Odhecaton Z Music (BMI)http://www.lansingmcloskey.com
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| label |
Odhecaton Z Music 005 |
| duration |
15:06 |
Lansing McLoskey:
"Tinted is a series of six 'aural snapshots,' each lasting two to three minutes and depicting a contrasting musical and emotional hue. The final movement is a montage of sorts, where the previous tints are superimposed, juxtaposed, or appear in 'negative exposure.'"
Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lansing D. McLoskey (b. 1964) studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Southern California. His principal teachers were Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Stephen Hartke and Donald Crockett. Additional studies include the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Aspen Music School in Colorado, and Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently pursuing a doctorate at Harvard University in Cambridge, where he has directed the Harvard Group for New Music.
McLoskey has won many international composition competitions including those of the Omaha Symphony, SCI/ASCAP 2000, Paris New Music Review "60 Seconds", Boston Chamber Ensemble, and the Charles Ives Center. His music has been performed across the United States and in Europe, Argentina, and South Africa. Nearly a dozen festivals have featured his works, including the International Viola Congress, Imagine Festival, and Piccolo Spoleto Festival, where he has been composer-in-residence. McLoskey has received commissions from the New Millennium Ensemble, Liber unUsualis and King's Chapel, among others. His music is published by Odhecaton Z Music and Soundout Digital Press, and has been recorded on Petroleum By-Products and LOGx Records, with upcoming releases on Capstone, CRS, and Wergo Schallplatten.
A scholar of contemporary Danish music, McLoskey has lectured and written extensively on the field, including his book Twentieth Century Danish Music: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Directory (Greenwood Press, 1998). In addition to his compositional and research activities, McLoskey has been active in the field of early music. He has studied contemporary and Renaissance choral techniques with Bo Holten and the Danish choir Ars Nova, and was the founder and director of Clamores Antiqui, an early music vocal ensemble based in Los Angeles.
related websites
http://www.lansingmcloskey.com
Violinist Joanna Kurkowicz is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster. She has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras in the United States and her native Poland, and has received awards from the Kosciuszko, Olevsky, and Presser Foundations, Harvard Musical Association, and several international competitions. Kurkowicz currently serves as concertmaster of the Boston Philharmonic, a post she previously held for several years with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Vermont Symphony. She has also been a member of the Metamorphosen and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras, and is a founding member and artistic advisor of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble and Plymouth Chamber Music Festival. Since 2002 Kurkowicz has served as artist-in-residence at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. A strong advocate of contemporary music, Kurkowicz has premiered works by Grazyna Bacewicz, Poul Ruders, Gunther Schuller, and Ralph Shapey, and performs frequently with Boston Musica Viva. She has recorded two solo CDs on the Bridge and Chandos labels; other performances may be heard on Albany, Archetype, Capstone, Centaur, CRI, and New World Records. Kurkowicz studied violin with Franciszek Falger privately; Jadwiga Kaliszewska at the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland; Charles Treger at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Masuko Ushioda at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
Andrew Talle studied both cello and linguistics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; his principal cello teacher was Hans Jorgen Jensen. Currently studying musicology at Harvard University, he is on leave in Leipzig, Germany to conduct research at the Bach-Archiv. Talle has also studied linguistics in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Boston-area pianist Nina Ferrigno currently performs with the AUROS Group for New Music and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She also regularly appears with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. Other Boston-area performances include WGBH Radio and the Young Artists Showcase Series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Ferrigno has participated in the New Hampshire Music Festival in Plymouth, NH and the chamber music series of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in Orlando, Florida. She has attended the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and has twice been a Fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut. Ferrigno initially studied with Wha Kyung Byun and Randall Hodgkinson at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
related websites
http://www.williams.edu/music/faculty/jkurkowicz.html
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