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Composers featured on the program will include:
Tom Moore holds degrees in music from Harvard and Stanford, and studied traverso with Sandra Miller. From 2004 to 2007 he was visiting professor of music at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UniRio), where he co-directed the early music ensemble, Camerata Quantz. In April of this year he became music librarian at Duke University, and is the new director of the Duke Collegium Musicum.
Also on the program are pieces of electronic music.
Please join us for these fine performances.
Notes on some of the pieces to be performed:
Sergio Roberto de Oliveira (b. 1970) studied composition with Cesar Guerra-Peixe and David Korenchendler among others, and in 2006 celebrated ten years as a professional composer with a CD release including six of his more than thirty works for flute. He is a native of Rio de Janeiro, where he still lives and works, and his music combines an unmistakable Brazilian flavor, drawing on folk and popular music traditions, with an abstract modernism and genius for counterpoint. The set of Bagatelles was written in 2004-2006 in response to a request for a work that would continue the tradition of the melodic etudes of Andersen and other 19th-century flutists.
Charles Koechlin (Paris, 1896-1950) produced one of the most extensive bodies of work for solo flute in the history of the instrument with his Chants de nectaire, three volumes of thematically-connected miniatures, 32 pieces per volume. The music is frequently modal, and occasionally more modern (quartal and chromatic writing). Koechlin evokes an Arcadian world untouched by the horrors of the Second World War outside (the pieces represent a sort of diary for 1944).
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), another Parisian, though born in the provinces, was perhaps the first composer to make a fortune (and a substantial one) from publishing his works, and clearly had a keen eye for what appealed to the Parisian musicians of his day, publishing over a hundred collections of works, with a large number of these chamber music for flute. The six suites op. 35 include suggestions for ornamentation by the composer, and can be performed with or without an accompanying figured bass.
October 1, 2007
Concert, Ballroom, Student Center, 7pm
Sixty pieces of electronic music by sixty different composers with each piece
lasting sixty seconds.
The music will be varied and if you don't like a
piece, just wait a moment and something else will play. This presentation will feature the
"International Mix" so we will hear works by composers from various parts of the world.
Hey, buddy, can you spare a minute?
February 25-26, 2008
Two Concerts and a Panel Discussion
For more information: North Carolina Computer Music Festival.