The MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music is a national center devoted to the study, performance, creative work and promotion of contemporary music within the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University. www.bgsu.edu/music/MACCM
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- Music at the Forefront
College of Musical Arts - Bowling G...
Thursday, November 19 at 8:00pm - 30th Annual New Music Festival
College of Musical Arts, Bowling Gr...
Thursday, October 22 at 12:00pm - Music at the Forefront
Bryan Recital Hall
Thursday, September 17 at 8:00pm
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Well Ladies and Gents, tonight is the night! Catch world renown pianist Alan Feinberg perform an impressive array of piano works this evening. Concert begins at 8:00 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall. Be there or be a rhombus!
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Check out the New links and Articles on Alan Feinberg on our Music at the Forefront Concert Series!
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Join the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music in welcoming world renown pianist Alan Feinberg Thursday, November 19th, in 8:00pm Bryan hall.
Le Chocard des Alpes (from Catalogue d’Oiseaux,1959)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
An Tasten (1977).................................M
Grande Etude Brilliante1(991)........................
Where Branched Thoughts Murmur in the Wind (2004)
Dance of the Honey Monkey (1999)
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High Window (1996)..................................
Etude #2 for the left hand (1975)................Robert Helps (1928-2001)
Third Piano Sonata (1986).......................Charles Wuorinen (b. 1938)
Pianist Alan Feinberg has forged a remarkable career based on musical exploration. His intelligence, integrity, and affinity for an unusually wide range of repertoire place him among the few artists who are able to build a bridge between the past and the present. Championing music ranging from Bach to Babbitt, Feinberg has a uniquely creative approach to programming. With well over 300 premieres to his credit by such composers as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, John Harbison, Steve Reich, and Charles Wuorinen, he is well known for recitals that pair old and new
music and put a fresh and provocative perspective on both.
Feinberg has toured several times with The Cleveland Orchestra and Chris¬toph von Dohnanyi, first performing Shulamit Ran’s Concert Piece (including an ap¬pearance in Carnegie Hall). He has also performed the Brahms Second Piano Concerto on tour with The Cleveland Orchestra. A recent collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra which featured the world premiere of Charles Ives’ Emerson Concerto (per¬formed also in London, Paris and Amsterdam) was hailed as a major achievement by Ives scholars.
Feinberg is often on the cutting edge. He was featured on opening night of the San Francisco Symphony’s Maverick Festival, at the New Horizons Festival of the New York Philharmonic, the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the American Compos¬ers Orchestra, the 92nd Street Y’s Berio Sequenza Marathon, the first performance of John Adams’ Nixon in China for the Guggenheim’s Works in Progress Series and Carnegie Hall’s Birthday celebration of the music of George Gershwin with Dick Hy¬man. Feinberg has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the London Philharmonia, the Montreal Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish, the American Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the New World Sym¬phony and many others.
Feinberg has recorded four solo CDs for London/Decca that survey Ameri¬can music: The American Romantic, The American Virtuoso, The American Innovator, and Fascinatin’ Rhythm–American Syncopation. In addition, he has recorded piano concertos by Milton Babbitt, Mel Powell, Andrew Imbrie, Kamran Ince, Morton Feldman, Paul Bowles, Amy Beach, Charles Ives, Leo Ornstein, Samuel Adler, Don Gilles and Robert Helps. He received his fourth Grammy nomination for “Best Instrumentalist with Orchestra” for his recording of the Amy Beach Concerto with the Nashville Symphony. Recent recital programs have highlighted his interest in bridging the old and the new; these include a program of Bach and Ustvolskaya, “Reconsidering Haydn” (works of Haydn, Schubert, Weir and Kagel), “Basically Bull,” a program featuring works of Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, Morley, and Wuorinen, and a program featuring Chopin, Bach and Ives.
In recent years Feinberg has taken on work as a programmer and presenter. He has been the Artistic Advisor for the “Chautauqua Days” festival in Castine Maine, and was the Music Director of the Monadnock Music Festival. He has acted as a programming consultant for an upcoming series at the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.
Feinberg has participated in several of the Guggenheim Museums Works in Process events including collaborations with director Robert Wilson and choreogra¬phers Brian Reeder and Pam Tanowitz.
Feinberg also enjoys an outstanding reputation abroad. He has appeared at festivals in Edinburgh, Bath, Huddersfield, Geneva, Budapest, Berlin, Brescia, Ber¬gamo and Tokyo, and he was the first pianist invited by the Union of Soviet Compos¬ers to present American contemporary music in Moscow and Leningrad.
An Evening with Guest Pianist Alan Feinberg
Time:8:00PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:College of Musical Arts - Bowling Green State University, Ohio
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music The 30th Annual New Music Festival has Arrived! Check us out starting this Thursday for an experience you won't want to miss!
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Thanks to all who came out and supported the Forefront Concert! Now checkout our page for the 30th Annual New Music Festival!
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Forefront Concert this Evening! Flautist Robert Dick tonight at 8:00 pm. Bryan Recital Hall BGSU! Reception to follow :)
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Flutist Robert Dick to perform at BGSU on September 17
Innovative flutist Robert Dick will appear at Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts on Thursday, September 17 performing his own works for flute and electronics as part of the Music at the Forefront concert series sponsored by the MidAmerican Cent...er for Contemporary Music. He will perform his own works for flute and electronics. The concert begins at 8 pm in Bryan Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.
As a composer in the classical world, Robert Dick is one of only two Americans ever to be awarded both Composers Fellowships (twice) and a Solo Recitalist Grant by the N.E.A. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and commissions from the Jerome Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the city of Zurich, the Philharmonie in Cologne and many more. At the 1999 National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta, Dick was soloist in his “Concerto for Flute/Bass Flute Strings and Percussion.” Close to two thousand flutists gave his performance and his music a standing ovation. At the premiere of his concerto at Town Hall in New York City, The New York Times spoke of the work as "riveting in its timbral variety and brilliant in Mr. Dick's playing."
Robert Dick's multifaceted musical life includes work on redesigning the flute itself. Brannen Brothers Flutemakers manufactures his invention, the "Glissando Headjoint," which does for the flute what the "whammy bar" does for the electric guitar. Dick performs on a special flute that Brannen built for him, a radically expanded version of the their Kingma-System model. This flute has a myriad of new musical possibilities and many of Dick's recent compositions embrace these freedoms. Dick also has a relationship with Emerson Musical Instruments, which produces the Robert Dick Model bass flute.
Dick has authored and published, on his Multiple Breath Music imprint, a number of seminal works for contemporary flute: “The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques;” “Tone Development Through Extended Techniques; Circular Breathing for the Flutist;” and “Flying Lessons: Six Contemporary Concert Etudes (Volumes I and II).” These books on contemporary flute technique are the acknowledged standard in the field.
Music at the Forefront is an annual concert series featuring performances by accomplished and innovative performers of contemporary music. For more information contact the center at 419-372-2685 or email kdoles@bgsu.edu.
An Evening with Guest Artist Robert Dick
Time:8:00PM Thursday, September 17th
Location:Bryan Recital Hall
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Robert Dick Instructional Youtube Video!
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Robert Dick kicks off his instructional video series with a lesson on Throat Tuning. He shows how to use the voice to insure that "bad days" are banished!
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Having a bad day? Check this out and see your woes float away!
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Using his Glissando Headjoint®, Robert Dick rocks the house with an excerpt from his piece "Sliding Life Blues". Taped in Kosovo in 2005.
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music Here are a few shot of this seasons guest artists!
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music The Event Schedule has been posted! Take a look under our Boxes tab...
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music The 30th Annual New Music Festival at Bowling Green State University will feature guest composer Steven Stucky, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and many more guest composers, performers and presenters.
Oct. 22-24, 2009 - save the dates!
Time:12:00PM Thursday, October 22nd
Location:College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University
