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Evan Antonellis

November 15, 2009, 3:06 pm
Filed under: Composers

Evan Antonellis

Born: August 23, 1984

Current Location: Manhattan

Bio:

Evan Antonellis was born in New England and was trained as a musician at age 6, beginning as a percussionist, then as a pianist and composer. He holds degrees in Composition summa cum laude from The Boston Conservatory and Manhattan School of Music, where his primary composition teachers were Andy Vores, Dalit Warshaw Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting; he is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts Candidate on full scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2009, he was honored with a BMI Student Composer Award for his piano work 「詠/twelve future(s)」, a work that was also a finalist for a 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and received an honorable mention for the 2009 Brian M. Israel Prize. In 2008, Manhattan School of Music recognized Mr. Antonellis with the Lloyd Gelassen Scholarship for outstanding talent and academic achievement. His compositions have been performed in Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and the United States in New York his works have been performed at The Flea, The Stone, The Gershwin Hotel, and other venues. He has participated in master classes and individual meetings with Rebecca Saunders, Christian Wolff, Bernhard Lang, Tristan Murail, Petr Kotík, Dawn Upshaw, Frederic Rzewski, and Richard Danielpour, and worked with the conductors Jeffrey Milarsky and David Gilbert. He has lectured on his music at Manhattan School of Music, Columbia University, and Janáček Conservatory in the Czech Republic. He is currently a Theory Fellow at Manhattan School of Music, teaching theory and ear training.

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Noah Meites

November 9, 2009, 12:35 am
Filed under: Composers

Noah Meites

Born: 1982

Current Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Bio:

Noah Gideon Meites is a composer and trumpet player in the doctoral composition program at the University of California Santa Cruz, where his primary teachers are Paul Nauert, Hi Kyung Kim, and David Cope. His music has been performed in Japan, South Korea, France, and the United States. Winner of the 2009 BMI Student Composer Award for his chamber work, bioskop, Noah was also a featured composer/performer at the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium as well as a finalist for the 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. His research interests include African American sacred and vernacular musical traditions and the music of Igor Stravinsky.

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Tim Sullivan

November 1, 2009, 12:23 pm
Filed under: Composers

Tim Sullivan

Born: 1971

Current Location: Potsdam, NY

Bio:

Tim Sullivan’s compositions have been performed throughout the U.S. at various venues and new music festivals, including the American Opera Projects, 2008 NASA Conference, Etcetera Festival of New Music, and World Saxophone Congress XIII. He has received awards and honors from the American Composers Orchestra/Earshot, ASCAP, Downbeat magazine, and ALEA III, and has published essays on the music of Alfred Schnittke and György Ligeti. He is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where he studied composition with Bright Sheng, Andrew Mead, William Bolcom, Betsy Jolas and Karen Tanaka. He also holds degrees from the University of Northern Colorado, where he studied with Robert Ehle and John McLaird. At present, Tim is on the music theory faculty at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY.

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Jeremy Podgursky

October 25, 2009, 4:05 pm
Filed under: Composers

Jeremy Podgursky

Born: August 21, 1975

Current Location: Bloomington, In

Bio:

Jeremy Podgursky is a composer of chamber, orchestral and electronic/electro-acoustic music. He received his B.M. in music composition/piano in 2001 from the University of Louisville, studying privately with Fred Speck, Marc Satterwhite, and Steve Rouse. In 2007, he completed the Grawemeyer Fellowship in music composition (M.M.) at the University of Louisville under the guidance of Steve Rouse and John Gibson. Upon completion of his master of music degree, he taught music theory/aural skills and private composition lessons at the University of Louisville. While teaching on the collegiate level, he also implemented and taught multiple after-school composition programs in Louisville, KY-area public high schools. Jeremy recently began the Jacobs School of Music Doctoral Fellowship (D.M.) at Indiana University where he is studying with Don Freund and John Gibson. He is also an Associate Instructor, and is currently teaching Notation and Calligraphy as well as private composition lessons.

Jeremy’s music has been featured in venues and festivals in the United States, the Netherlands and Japan. He has received performances by professional groups such as Arsenal Trio, Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, Juventas! New Music Ensemble, cellist Dana Winograd, and the North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra. Recent awards include first-place winner of the 2007 National SCI/ASCAP commissioning award, honorable mention in the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, winner of the Northridge Prize (Cal State University Northridge) for orchestra, and participant in the 2009 American Composers Orchestra/EARSHOT readings with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (Delta David Gier, conductor).

Jeremy is the founder/singer/songwriter/guitarist for the psychedelic/indie rock band The Pennies. Having shared the stages with the likes of My Morning Jacket, Mike Watt, The Grifters, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, and the Apples in Stereo, The Pennies have entertained audiences all over the country and in Europe. The Pennies’ complete discography includes the self-titled 7” EP, Decorate the Atomic Art four song CD, Come, We Go debut album/CD, and 10,000 Things ten song CD, as well as several compilation releases.

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Yotam Haber

October 19, 2009, 12:56 am
Filed under: Composers

Yotam Haber

Born: October 27, 1976

Current Location: Rome, Italy

Bio:

Yotam Haber, 32, was born in Holland and is a citizen of Israel and the United States. He was the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch 2007-2008 Rome Prize Fellow in Music at the American Academy in Rome, composing death will come and she shall have your eyes, a work that explores the music of the Roman Jewish community.

Haber attended Indiana University and completed a doctorate in composition at Cornell University in 2004. He received ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Awards in 2002 and 2004. In 2004, he also won the second bi-annual ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize for the wind ensemble work, Espresso, which was premiered at Carnegie Hall. He has been a Fellow at the Aspen andTanglewood music festivals, and been in residence at the Aaron Copland House, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Macdowell Colony and the Rockefeller Bogliasco Center. His music has been performed in prestigious halls throughout Europe and across the U.S. including the Buffalo and Colorado Symphony Orchestras. Haber resides in New York City and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Most recent performances include the Volans Trio performing Stendhal Syndrome in conjunction with Dutch Artist Maria Barnas in Berlin, Rome, and Leiden; Flux Quartet performing Torus at Bargemusic in New York, and the Knights Ensemble premiering A Wine-Dark Sea, and hailed by New Yorker critic Alex Ross as “deeply haunting.”

He recently had a premiere of two works commissioned by Pritzker-prize winning architect Peter Zumthor and has received a 2009 Meet the Composer commission for a large-scale work for the NYC-based Knights Ensemble.

Photo Credit: Ada Haber

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Steven Rice

October 11, 2009, 10:50 pm
Filed under: Composers

Steven Rice

Born: 1979

Current Location: Baltimore, MD

Bio:

Described as “surreal” music “to bewilder, amuse, and provoke”, the works of composer Steven Rice (born 1979) have drawn increasing recognition; he took 1st Prize in the 2005 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award and received a 2009 ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award. His music has been performed throughout the United States by ensembles such as the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Juventas, as well as at concerts where he and Heike Burghart Rice perform music for organ and electronics. Rice’s composing has been supported by the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Rice studied at Bowling Green State University (M.M.), with Marilyn Shrude, Elainie Lillios, and Mikel Kuehn. At the Eastman School of Music, he has studied with Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Robert Morris.

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Call for Composers 02

October 6, 2009, 1:10 am
Filed under: News

“Composer Takeover 02″

-No Extra Notes, the new podcast featuring interviews and music from up-and-coming composers, is posting an open call for for composers to participate in the first “Composer Takeover”. Three composers will be selected to be featured on the January 3rd podcast and will be allotted 15 minutes per composer to create there own podcast including their background and recording(s) of their work.

Selection will be based not only on the quality of the compositions but also on the quality of recordings. Keep in mind that this is an audio broadcast only, so please choose your submissions accordingly. No Extra Notes will only be able to air recordings supplied by the composers and will not offer to organize any live performances or new recordings of the works. The first Composer Takeover can be seen here.

Submission Guidelines

Materials must be emailed to: noextranotes@gmail.com

A complete submission includes a 2 music recordings in .MP3 format, a headshot and a .PDF document containing the following information:

- Date of Birth
- Current Location
- Brief Bio
- Website Link

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2009

Selected composers will be announced November 15, 2009 and will be featured on the blog and podcast in alphabetical order.

Nicholas Omiccioli

October 4, 2009, 9:57 pm
Filed under: Composers

Nicholas Omiccioli

Born: 1982

Current Location: Kansas City, MO

Bio:

Nicholas S. Omiccioli (b. 1982) has received degrees from Heidelberg University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the assistant director of Musica Nova at UMKC under the direction of Zhou Long. Mr. Omiccioli currently studies composition with James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Paul Rudy, and additionally with João Pedro Oliveira. His initial teachers include Brian Bevelander and Mark Olivieri. Mr. Omiccioli has received many awards including winner and judge’s choice in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competitions, 2009 DuoSolo Emerging Composer Award, Kansas City Chorale Crescendo Competition, Brian M. Israel Prize, Ars Nova Composition Award, and the Dance Rochester! Composer/Choreographer Competition. His music has been performed by DuoSolo, the Kansas City Chorale, Society for New Music, Heidelberg New Music Festival, Regional and National College Music Society Conferences, as well as numerous SCI Conferences at the National, National Student, and Regional levels. During the summer of 2009, Mr. Omiccioli will be a fellow at the 65th Annual Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College. In addition to composition, Mr. Omiccioli studies guitar with Douglas Niedt and teaches at the UMKC Academy of Music and Dance.

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Theme Music composed by Sarah Horick

Robert Raines

September 27, 2009, 11:22 pm
Filed under: Composers