Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran ( born December 13, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Iceland ) is an American composer.

Curran studied with Elliott Carter. Together with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum and others, he founded in 1966 the improvisation ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva. From 1991 to 2006 he was professor Darius Milhaud at Mills College.

Curran used in his music regularly electronic sounds, but also sounds of the environment. 1988 his composition Crystal Psalms was first performed to commemorate the pogroms of November 1938. Since 1996 he is working on Inner Cities, a series of solo piano pieces.

On June 19, 2010 Curran led on Schaumainkai on the northern banks of the Main in Frankfurt am Main with 100 musicians commissioned by the Musikhochschule Frankfurt under the title of Maritime Rites on.

In 2011, Alvin Curran was awarded the Fellowship of media convergence to the Gutenberg Research College of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is " composer in residence " at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz. In this context, it is realized newest work " rhinestones " in Rhododendrenhain on the National Garden Show 2011 in Koblenz and designed a closing ceremony of the spectrum Villa Musica of New Music Network on September 14, 2011.

Discography

  • Maritime Rites (1984 ), New World Records
  • Electric Rags II ( 1989) New Albion Records, with the Rova Saxophone Quartet.
  • Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden (1975/1993) Catalyst Records
  • Schtyx (1994) CRI. Abel Steinberg Winant Trio.
  • Animal Behaviour (1995 ) Tzadik.
  • Theme Park (1998) Tzadik.
  • Crystal Psalms (1999) New World Records.
  • Toto Angelica (2005) I Dischi di Angelica.
  • Inner Cities ( 2005). Daan Vandewalle: Long Distance Records
  • For Cornelius. Kees Wieringa, Thu Records
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