New England - Lecture mit Stuart Saunders Smith

Die Uraufführung seines neuesten Werkes New England für Vibraphon solo am 30. Jänner 2015 in Wien ist der Anlass für den US-amerikanischen Komponisten
Stuart Saunders Smith eine Lecture an der Konservatorium Wien
Privatuniversität abzuhalten.
Stuart Saunders Smith gilt als einer der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen
KomponistInnen für Schlagwerk und ist Autor zahlreicher Kompositionen für
oder mit Percussion.

Inhalt der Lecture:
— Live performances von …and points north (Musiktheater für Percussion solo), New England (für Vibraphon solo, Auszug)
— rhythmische Komplexität
— Musiktheater und musikalische Porträts — Musik aus Mobile, Koexistenz von
Musik — Trans Media — weitere Hörbeispiele

Zielgruppe:
Schlagwerk- und Kompositionsstudenten

Stuart Saunders Smith
Stuart Saunders Smith (born 1948 in Portland, Maine, USA) is one of the
leading composers of his generation. He is one of the pioneers of the
confessional music movement – an intense compositional focus that reveals
the most personal aspects of one's life, in the belief that the revelations
of the particular speak to the universal.

Stuart Saunders Smith's music is performed regularly on an international
basis. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Maryland State of Arts Council, and the Pittsburgh Film Forum, as well
as the Hartt College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Percussive
Arts Society Citation for Distinguished Editorship.

Stuart Saunders Smith's music is published by Sonic Arts Editions and is
recorded on 11 West records, Centaur Records, Opus One Records, oodiscs,
Cadenza, BV Haast, and GAC Sweden. He has authored two books: Twentieth
Century Scores, Prentice-Hall; Words and Spaces, University Press of
America; as well as many articles published in Perspectives of New Music,
Percussionist, IS Journal, Percussive Notes, Ear Magazine, etc.

Stuart Saunders Smith has been on the faculty of the Atlantic Center for the
Arts, the Darmstadt Musikinstitut (Germany), Percussion Workshop Poland, the
University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Residencies include University
of California-San Diego, Yale University, Documenta 1992 (Kassel, Germany),
the University of Gothenberg (Sweden), and the University of Akron.

The Music of Stuart Saunders Smith by John Welsh is published by Excelsior
Music Press, (New York).