Suffolk County Community College and the Long Island Composers Alliance
Present
OPEN EARS IX:
The Furious Band
Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus
Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Inside(2000) Daniel Weymouth
(b. 1953)
World Premiere
Canonic Intermezzo(1980) Peter Winkler
(b. 1943)
Pipe Dreams(1999) Perry Goldstein
(b. 1952)
Launch(2000) William Ryan
(b. 1968)
World Premiere
The Furious Band
Andree Martin, flute
Ken Long, clarinet
Gabrielle Painter, violin
Katie Schlaijker, cello
Jeff Meyer, piano
Paul Vaillancourt, percussion
This concert is partially funded by a grant from the Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs, Robert J. Gaffney, County Executive.
The Furious Band is renowned for vital and exciting performances of music representing a diverse group of contemporary composers.
The Furious Band evolved out of the Contemporary Chamber Players at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where members met while pursuing graduate degrees.
Selected as the Contemporary Ensemble in Residence for the 2000 Aspen Summer Music Festival, The Furious Band presented several contemporary programs including the opera Golem, by British composer John Casken conducted by Diego Masson. The group also provided readings of new works and works in progress composed in Aspen by students of the Aspen Center for Composition Studies under the guidance of John Corigliano, Christopher Rouse, George Tsontakis and Sydney Hodkinson. While in residence the ensemble developed educational outreach concerts for area summer school programs.
The Furious Band has performed extensively around New York City, at area universities, and at the 1999 Brandeis Chamber Music Festival in Boston. The Band has been invited to participate as visiting artists for the fall residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. They look forward to collaborating with composers from Canada, Mexico and the United States.
The Furious Band has premiered works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, David Lang and Brian Cherney and has recorded works by Tamar Diesendruck and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. They can be heard on CRI.
Composer/conductor Daniel Weymouth writes for a wide array of ensembles, from standard orchestra to computer-interactive "instruments." He has studied and worked at several of the worlds leading computer-music facilities, including Stanford's CCRMA, Pierre Boulez's IRCAM and Iannis Xenakis' CEMAMu (both in Paris). He is a founding member of NAME (New American Music in Europe) and has been an invited composer at the Lüneburg, Germany, Internationalen Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik, the University of Kansas City, Missouri, and Christopher Newport University. Commissions have come from the Lüneburg New Music Ensemble, the Ensemble des Deux Mondes, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, the Guild Trio as well as numerous performers; grants from Meet the Composer and ASCAP. His compositions have been performed throughout Europe, Canada and the United States and appear on the MIT, SEAMUS and New World Record lables. Weymouth is currently on the Composition faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he is the Director of Computer Music and Co-Director of the Laboratory for Technology in the Arts. A ten-year stint as an itinerant musician in popular genres may have something to do with his fascination with gadgets, as well as the kinetic and compact nature of much of his music, both acoustic and electronic.
Perry Goldstein (born 1952 in New York City, New York) studied at the University of Illinois, UCLA, and Columbia University, from which he received a doctorate in music composition in 1986. His principal composition teachers were Herbert Brün, Chou Wen-Chung, Mario Davidovsky, Ben Johnston, and Paul Zonn. He has received commissions from Juilliard Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick and pianist Gilbert Kalish, The Aurelia Quartet, Slagwerkgroep den Haag, HET Trio, violist John Graham, the Guild Trio, and pianist Eliza Garth, and his music has been performed throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. A dedicated educator, he received the "Teacher of the Year Award in the Arts and Humanities" in 1987 from Wilmington College of Ohio, and a 1997 "Chancellor’s and President's Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he has taught since 1992. He has also served on the faculty of the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Goldstein has been involved in a variety of activities in the service of contemporary music. He has written extensively for, among other publications and organizations, The New York Times, The Library of Congress, Carnegie Hall, Strings Magazine, National Public Radio, Deutschlandfunk (German radio), the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, Speculum Musicae, the League International Society for Contemporary Music, and for the New World, CRI, Arabesque, GM, Folkways, and Bridge recording labels. He serves on a number of new music boards and has been an adjudicator and advisor for several organizations. In 1992, he was the United States delegate to the UNESCO-sponsored International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, subsequently producing four radio programs of the event for American Public Radio.
William Ryan is active as a composer, conductor, and educator. In addition to the concert stage, he has written works for dance and video. His compositions have been presented at numerous venues across the country and in Brazil and Australia, including at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, the International Trumpet Guild, SEAMUS and SCI National Conferences, the Florida Electro-acoustic Festival, the College Music Society northeast chapter meeting, the C. Buell Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music, and at the Brooklyn College Art Gallery. He has received several awards for his compositions including an ASCAP Foundation Young Composers Grant, six ASCAP Standard Panel Awards, a Meet the Composer Education Program Grant, second prize in the Tampa Bay Composers' Forum chamber music competition, and finalist in the First International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to his own compositions, he has conducted several performances by ensembles including the University of Illinois Contemporary Ensemble, the Crane School of Music Contemporary Group, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, the North Shore Pro Musica, and the Suffolk Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has taught at the University of Illinois, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, served as composer-in-residence at the Lawrence Philharmonic School of Music, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Suffolk Community College where he teaches music theory, aural skills, and conducts the contemporary music ensemble.