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5/6/2005
Press Release, April 2005
Press Contact: Sara H. Phillips
sara@nowensemble.com
917 566 6120
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOW Ensemble presents a concert of ensemble and solo works, including
the premiere of Patrick Burke's External Forces, on May 26th, 2005,
8:00 PM, at the Church of Christ and St. Stephens, New York, NY.
NOW Ensemble concludes its exciting 2004-2005 season with the premiere
of the new work by NOW founder Patrick Burke, External Forces. Written
in Santiago, Chile, during a time of political upheaval in the United
States, External Forces is a view from abroad of the crisis at home.
NOW Ensemble will also perform its exciting new commission from
Israeli-American composer Yoav Gal, Child of Noble Family, and a
selection of solo works by Mark Dancigers, Judd Greenstein, and Nico
Muhly, all of which were written specifically for members of the
ensemble.
Formed in 2002 as a means of facilitating communication and shared
music-making between composers and performers, NOW Ensemble is a
dynamic new music group that is dedicated to the presentation of works
by emerging composers. From the group's inception, founders Patrick
Burke (composer), Judd Greenstein (composer) and Sara Phillips
(clarinetist) aimed to create an organization that would promote new
music from a combined perspective of both composers and performers, an
aim that has been met in the succeeding years. With performances in New
York City, Boston, and New Haven, NOW Ensemble has brought new music to
the attention of the public as an essential and crucial part of our
developing culture, engaging young audiences and non-musicians, as well
as regular concertgoers, with what Ed Montgomery of Context Studios
called "a new voice lifting in the context of a smaller world,
suggesting the shape of the sounds that will define art music in the
early part of this new century."
Hailed as "unquestionably a composer of promise," (Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review), composer Patrick Burke (b. 1974), a native of
Pittsburgh, PA, recently received an M.M.A. degree in music composition
from the Yale School of Music, where he is currently working towards
the D.M.A. At Yale, he studied with Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick,
and Joseph Schwantner. He also earned an M.M. in composition from the
University of Texas at Austin in May 2001. Mr. Burke has received
numerous awards, commissions, and fellowships to music festivals. In
October, 2004, he attended the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute
and Reading Sessions, where the Minnesota Orchestra read his orchestral
piece, Mood Swing, which had previously been premiered by the Yale
Philharmonia. In the summer of 2002, Mr. Burke attended the Norfolk
Contemporary Music Festival, where he composed Compound Fracture for
eighth blackbird. He received an ASCAP Morton Gould award for the same
work in 2003. In 2001, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble commissioned
Mr. Burke to compose All Possible Outcomes, which they premiered in
July of 2002. Mr. Burke is the co-founder and co-artistic director of
NOW Ensemble, and is currently living in Santiago, Chile.
Photos, bios & publicity materials:
http://www.nowensemble.com
http://www.burkemusic.com
More info:
http://www.juddgreenstein.com
http://www.yoavgal.com
posted by Coming Events
5/06/2005 04:45:00 PM
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