Welcome to my webpage. Here you will find a calendar of upcoming performances of my compositions, a list of my works with audio and score excerpts, my biography and reviews of my music. You are welcome to look around and contact me if you have any questions or would like copies of scores, parts or recordings. Enjoy!
As a composer, I aim to create compelling yet accessible musical works that vividly engage the listener's emotions, imagination and spirit. My pieces are often inspired by historical musics. For example, medieval pieces provided the models for my chamber works Hocket and Annuntiantes and my recent orchestral piece Organum Infinitum. At other times, my inspiration has been from alchemy and the visual arts. For instance, I use surreal seventeenth-century alchemical texts in my piece Symbiosis Nonetheless and I musically depict the bizarre images of medieval marginalia in my recently premiered cantata, Motets & Marginalia. Similarly, my recent piece Labyrinth for solo saxophone was inspired by a floor labyrinth located in a medieval church in Ravenna, Italy. Generally, my musical vocabulary is rather eclectic, synthesizing tonality, modalism, expressionistic chromaticism, quotations of early music and references to popular and jazz idioms.
I have also had wonderful experiences collaborating in dance and theater productions. While living in Durham, NC, I composed the music for two evening-length works, Walking Miracles and Contents Under Pressure. These shows dealt with such themes as child abuse, racism and bias and were both educational and powerfully therapeutic for the community. Recently, I have been collaborating with choreographer Angela Hill and the University of Tennessee Dance Company in a biannual event titled Art Moves, an site-specific dance production at the Knoxville Museum of Art. The music and dance of these exciting shows are based on works of art on display in the museum. (For more about these collaborations, please see my Works list page.)
My works have been featured at the New Music Days Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Encounters/UNC Festival of New Music, the North Carolina Dance Festival, the NYU Composers Seminar, the Sonoklect New Music Festival, the Otterbein "Old Links to New Music" Contemporary Music Festival, and the University of Nebraska New Music Festival. They have been performed by such groups as the Plymouth Music Series Orchestra, Auros Group for New Music, Ciompi String Quartet, Rilke Ensemble, a renowned professional choir in Sweden, the Cornell Chamber Singers, University of Washington Chorale, and by college choirs throughout the Southeast.
RECENT NEWS: My works Labyrinth for alto saxophone and narrator and Moses and the Serpent for alto saxophone and percussion are now published by Dorn Publications, Inc. (See Works List for more about these pieces.)
RECENT & UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
That is the Magic, for SATB chorus and piano, 11 am, Sunday, October 9, 2005, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Choir, TVUU Church, Knoxville, TN.
Rosarium Philosophicum for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and percussion, 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 20, 2005, NU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Northwestern University Concert Hall (Pick-Staiger), Evanston, IL. For more info, email: vyampolsky@northwestern.edu
World Premier of Dans le Labyrinthe de Marais for cello and piano, Luna Nova Ensemble, 7:30 pm, Monday, October 24, 2005, Guerry Auditorium, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN. For more info, click here.
When Cold December, for SATB chorus and piano, 11 am, Sunday, December 18, 2005, Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Choir, TVUU Church, Knoxville, TN.
Magnifcat and Nunc Dimittis, Friday, February 10, 2006, Puerto Rico Conservatory Choir, William Rivera, cond., College Music Society Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
SOUNDS OF THE LABYRINTH, a multimedia event on music and mazes throughout history. Saturday, March 4, 2006. On the program: Dans le Labyrinthe de Marais and Victimae Paschali Laudes for SATB and organ, featuring performances by Harmonia Vocal Quartet and Circle Modern Dance. Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Performing Arts and Lecture Series, Knoxville, TN. Admission free.
World Premier of Ascent of Tiger Mountain: Four Haiku for Piano, Cynthia Lawing, piano, 8 p.m. April 3, 2006, Sloan Music Center, Tyler-Tallman Hall, Davidson College, NC.
Ascent of Tiger Mountain & Gryllus, Cynthia Lawing, 7:30 p.m. April 5, 2006, St. Luke's Chapel, Sewanee: The University of the South, TN.
World Premier of Currents in Liquid Paper for koto and violin, Junko Oba and Katherine Lehman, April 12, "Music at Noon" Recital Series, St. Luke's Chapel, Sewanee: The University of the South, TN.
The Lord is my Shepherd for SATB chorus and piano, Annual Choir Concert, 8:45, Friday, May 5, Temple Beth El, Knoxville, TN.
Meditation for a Mountaintop, John Bordley, carillon, 3 p.m. June 4, St. Rombout Cathedral, Mechelen, Belgium.
Ascent of Tiger Mountain and Gryllus, Cynthia Lawing, 7:30, June 23, NITLE New Music Festival, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.
2004-05 Season Performances
I'm currently living in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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