Doctoral Seminar in Composition: Marcos Balter

Doctoral Seminar in Composition: Marcos Balter
Date and Time
Tuesday May 26th, 2020
3:00 - 4:30pm
Location
online
About this event

This week's composition seminar guest Marcos Balter will give a presentation on contemporary orchestration and notation.

The music of composer Marcos Balter (b.1974, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is at once emotionally visceral and intellectually complex, primarily rooted in experimental manipulations of timbre and hyper-dramatization of live performance. Recent performances include his Miller Theater Composer Portrait, Carnegie Hall, Köln Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, ArtLab at Harvard University, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Hall, Teatro Amazonas, Sala São Paulo, Park Avenue Armory, Teatro de Madrid, Bâtiment de Forces Motrices de Genève, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago. His festival appearances Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Ecstatic Music Festival, Acht Brücken, Aldeburgh Music Festival, Aspen, Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, and Banff Music Festival.

Recent highlights include guest residencies at Stanford University, Harvard University, University at Buffalo, University of California San Diego, Yellow Barn, and Egelsholm Castle, a new work for countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo and the Shanghai Quartet commissioned by the Phillips Collection and Chamber Music America, a new work for cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Conor Hanick commissioned by the 92Y, the release of flutist Claire Chase’s live recording of “Pan” at Meyer Sound Studio, and performances by the JACK Quartet, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Constelation Chor, nois saxophone quartet, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony’s Soundbox Series.

Balter has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Lawrence University, Columbia University, Columbia College Chicago, and Montclair State University.

Event Sponsor
Department of Music, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics