Joseph Celli

Joseph Celli ( born March 19, 1944) is an American composer and oboist.

Celli attended from 1962 to 1965, the Hartt College of Music. After private Oboestudium with Ray Still (Chicago Symphony Orchestra ), Albert Goltzer (New York Symphony Orchestra ), Wayne Rapier (Boston Symphony Orchestra ) and John Mack ( Cleveland Symphony Orchestra ), he studied from 1970 to 1972 oboe and composition at Northwestern University in Chicago. He later learned to play instruments such as oboes Asian 1991-1993 the Piri in South Korea and the Hichiriki in Japan. In 1993 he founded the Korean Performing Arts Institute.

Celli was live, radio and television concerts and workshops in Asia, Europe, North and South America and Australia. In more than 3000 concerts, he played alongside other about fifty works composed for him. He worked with musicians such as John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Jerry Hunt, Phill Niblock, Malcolm Goldstein and the Kronos Quartet and was artistic director of Ornette Coleman Chamber Music Festival and the New Music America Festival in Hartford and Miami.

Works

  • In the bag ... ... for dancers and live electronics
  • Ringing for pools
  • Sky: S for J for five English Horns
  • Windbag. sound installation
  • Improvisation for oboe solo
  • Solo Improvisations for English Horn
  • Snare Drum for Camus for two to four percussionists on a drum
  • To Be Announced for 32 voices and tape
  • Improvisation for oboe, English horn and violin
  • Star Iceland for oboe and tape
  • Trio Improvisation for oboe, violin and percussion
  • Mukha Mukha Veena Veena for ( Indian oboe, usually meant Shehnai ) and two to four percussionists
  • Yellow Springs collaboration for musicians and dancers
  • New Orleans for Mukha Veena and tape
  • Painted Bride for chamber ensemble
  • Escalator for 200 musicians, 1983
  • Hip- Hop: A performance lecture with slides. 1985
  • Hands, Reeds & Video for Solo Performer and video. 1985
  • Totem for bass clarinet and video. 1986
  • 8 Mallets Four Brian for solo xylophone and video. 1986
  • Violin & video. 1988
  • Andes. 1990
  • Drum Hands. Video installation. 1990
  • Drum Hands for four percussionists from Africa, Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico and video. 1991
  • Quartet set. Structures for double-reed instrument, Komungo ( Korean Wölbbrettzither ), African drumming and didgeridoo. 1992
  • 36 strings for Komungo and video, 1992
  • Kwangju for Kiri, Komungo, oboe and Korean drums. 1992
  • Video Sax for sopranino and video. 1993
  • Reeds for San Francisco. 1993
  • World Sound Print: Asia for radio ( with Jin Hi Kim). 1993
  • Pink Pelvis. Music for double reed instrument, Korean zither ( Ajeng ) and Brazilian percussion. 1994
  • Sunny 's Piece. Dance music for double reed instrument, Komungo and drums. 1994
  • Quintet for Kayagum, WX 7 and three Kalimbas. 1995

Discography

  • Organic oboe. Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joseph Celli, Malcolm Goldstein and Stephen Schwartz
  • Celli Plays Niblock / Niblock for Celli. Works by Phill Niblock
  • No World Improvisations. Improvisations by Joseph Celli and Jin Hi Kim
  • Vermont the Seasons. Music by Malcolm Goldstein
  • La Belleza del Silencio. Music by Orlando Jacinto Garcia
  • No World (Trio ) Improvisations with Jin Hi Kim, Alvin Curran, Shelley Hirsch, Malcolm Goldstein, Mor Thiam, Adam Plack
  • Resolver. Music of David First, Joseph Celli at the Yamaha WX -7 midi breath controller
  • Video Ears - Music Eyes. Music video by Joseph Celli with Malcolm Goldstein, Ulrich Krieger, Brian Johnson, Jin Hi Kim and the Grupo de Musica del Peru Folklorica
  • Living tone. Music by Jin Hi Kim
  • Inori: A Prostituta Sagrada. Music of Jocy de Oliveira
  • Masters. Improvisation duets by Joseph Celli and Hwang Byungki, Kazue Sawai, Ornette Coleman, Foday Musa Suso
  • American composer
  • Oboist
  • Man
  • Born in 1944
Stephen Schwartz (composer)
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