The CCO will perform the orchestral premiere of Elliot Cole’s De Rerum on the Winter Concert on Tuesday February 21, 2012. Elliot Cole is a composer who also uses video art and computer programming to explore liminal spaces in individual consciousness and cultural memory. Mythology resonates through much of his work: the neo-romantic opera Selkie, [...]
The CCO will feature the midwestern premiere of Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for Bass Drum and Orchestra on the Winter Concert on Tuesday February 21, 2012. Gabriel Prokofiev is a London-based composer, producer, and founder of the NONCLASSICAL record label & club night (www.nonclassical.co.uk). Despite studying music and electroacoustic composition at both Birmingham and York universities, he [...]
Lou Mallozzi is a sound artist who makes sound installations, performances, works for CD and broadcast, improvised music, sound design for cinema and media installations, drawings, visual installations, and other projects. He regularly collaborates with other artists and musicians – past (and present and hopefully future) collaborators include Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Hal Rammel, Gustavo [...]
Francisco Castillo Trigueros (b. 1983) is a composer of contemporary chamber, orchestral and electronic music from Mexico City currently residing in Chicago. He has received numerous distinctions such as the BMI Student Composer Award, an honorable mention in the 2011 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and several nominations for the Gaudeamus Music Week Prize in [...]
Nicole Mitchell is creative flutist, composer and educator. Founder of critically acclaimed Black Earth Ensemble and Black Earth Strings, Mitchell’s artistic work has been continually featured at festivals and art venues throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada. She composes for contemporary ensembles of varying instrumentation and size (from solo to orchestra) while incorporating improvisation and [...]
John Dorhauer leads a highly active and enjoyable life as a composer, arranger and educator. His compositions have been performed and recorded by the Biava String Quartet, Eighth Blackbird’s Timothy Munro, and the Orion Ensemble, who selected his piece Of Your Fortitude for their recent composition contest. John’s most recent honor was winning first prize [...]
Kyle Vegter (b.1986) is a Chicago based composer, performer, and producer.His work is conceptually rooted, usually concerned with spectral phenomena,and is often multimedia in scope and material. In 2010 Kyle worked with Homeroom Chicago to premiere a piece for chamber ensemble and video as part of their first ever Physics for Listeners concert, a collaboration [...]
Seth Boustead received his Master of Music Composition degree from the Chicago College for the Performing Arts where he studied with Stacy Garrop, Patricia Morehead and Robert Lombardo. His music is regularly performed across the United States and in Europe and has been heard on radio and television stations in Chicago, San Francisco, New York [...]
Ben Hjertmann is a Chicago-based composer, performer, and genre vagabond. He serves as Artistic Director for The Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles in addition to performing as a vocalist with the group. Hjertmann’s recent work has been performed/commissioned by Borromeo Quartet, Northshore Concert Band, The Anubis Quartet, The Callithumpian Consort, The Other Minds Ensemble, The Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Chicago [...]
George Flynn has composed about 150 works in all media, including six hours of piano solo music, and has recorded for Turnabout, ATCO, Finnadar,Wounded Bird and Southport records. Several CD’s of his music are available, most notably on the Southport Composers label, which recently released Flynn’s American City, including works for orchestra, large wind ensemble [...]