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Suffolk County Community College and the Long Island Composers Alliance
Present
OPEN EARS IX:
The Furious Band
Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus
Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Inside (2000)
Daniel Weymouth
(b. 1953)
World Premiere
Canonic Intermezzo (1980)
Peter Winkler
(b. 1943)
Pipe Dreams (1999)
Perry Goldstein
(b. 1952)
Launch (2000)
William Ryan
(b. 1968)
World Premiere
The Furious Band
Andree Martin, flute
Ken Long, clarinet
Gabrielle Painter, violin
Katie Schlaijker, cello
Jeff Meyer, piano
Paul Vaillancourt, percussion
This concert is partially funded by a grant from the Suffolk County Office of Cultural Affairs, Robert J.
Gaffney, County Executive.
The Furious Band is renowned for vital and exciting performances of music
representing a diverse group of contemporary composers.
The Furious Band evolved out of the Contemporary Chamber Players at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook where members met while pursuing graduate
degrees.
Selected as the Contemporary Ensemble in Residence for the 2000 Aspen Summer Music
Festival, The Furious Band presented several contemporary programs including the opera
Golem, by British composer John Casken conducted by Diego Masson. The group also
provided readings of new works and works in progress composed in Aspen by students of
the Aspen Center for Composition Studies under the guidance of John Corigliano,
Christopher Rouse, George Tsontakis and Sydney Hodkinson. While in residence the
ensemble developed educational outreach concerts for area summer school programs.
The Furious Band has performed extensively around New York City, at area universities,
and at the 1999 Brandeis Chamber Music Festival in Boston. The Band has been invited
to participate as visiting artists for the fall residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
They look forward to collaborating with composers from Canada, Mexico and the United
States.
The Furious Band has premiered works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, David Lang and
Brian Cherney and has recorded works by Tamar Diesendruck and Ricardo ZohnMuldoon. They can be heard on CRI.
Composer/conductor Daniel Weymouth writes for a wide array of ensembles, from
standard orchestra to computer-interactive "instruments." He has studied and worked at
several of the worlds leading computer-music facilities, including Stanford's CCRMA,
Pierre Boulez's IRCAM and Iannis Xenakis' CEMAMu (both in Paris). He is a founding
member of NAME (New American Music in Europe) and has been an invited composer
at the Lüneburg, Germany, Internationalen Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik, the
University of Kansas City, Missouri, and Christopher Newport University. Commissions
have come from the Lüneburg New Music Ensemble, the Ensemble des Deux Mondes,
the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Stony Brook Contemporary
Chamber Players, the Guild Trio as well as numerous performers; grants from Meet the
Composer and ASCAP. His compositions have been performed throughout Europe,
Canada and the United States and appear on the MIT, SEAMUS and New World Record
lables. Weymouth is currently on the Composition faculty at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook where he is the Director of Computer Music and Co-Director of the
Laboratory for Technology in the Arts. A ten-year stint as an itinerant musician in
popular genres may have something to do with his fascination with gadgets, as well as the
kinetic and compact nature of much of his music, both acoustic and electronic.
Perry Goldstein (born 1952 in New York City, New York) studied at the University of
Illinois, UCLA, and Columbia University, from which he received a doctorate in music
composition in 1986. His principal composition teachers were Herbert Brün, Chou WenChung, Mario Davidovsky, Ben Johnston, and Paul Zonn. He has received commissions
from Juilliard Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick and pianist Gilbert Kalish, The Aurelia
Quartet, Slagwerkgroep den Haag, HET Trio, violist John Graham, the Guild Trio, and
pianist Eliza Garth, and his music has been performed throughout the United States,
Mexico, Canada, and Europe. A dedicated educator, he received the "Teacher of the
Year Award in the Arts and Humanities" in 1987 from Wilmington College of Ohio, and
a 1997 "Chancellor’s and President's Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, where he has taught since 1992. He has also
served on the faculty of the College Conservatory of Music at the University of
Cincinnati. Goldstein has been involved in a variety of activities in the service of
contemporary music. He has written extensively for, among other publications and
organizations, The New York Times, The Library of Congress, Carnegie Hall, Strings
Magazine, National Public Radio, Deutschlandfunk (German radio), the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, Speculum Musicae, the League
International Society for Contemporary Music, and for the New World, CRI, Arabesque,
GM, Folkways, and Bridge recording labels. He serves on a number of new music
boards and has been an adjudicator and advisor for several organizations. In 1992, he
was the United States delegate to the UNESCO-sponsored International Rostrum of
Composers in Paris, subsequently producing four radio programs of the event for
American Public Radio.
William Ryan is active as a composer, conductor, and educator. In addition to the
concert stage, he has written works for dance and video. His compositions have been
presented at numerous venues across the country and in Brazil and Australia, including at
the International Symposium on Electronic Art, the International Trumpet Guild,
SEAMUS and SCI National Conferences, the Florida Electro-acoustic Festival, the
College Music Society northeast chapter meeting, the C. Buell Lipa Festival of
Contemporary Music, and at the Brooklyn College Art Gallery. He has received several
awards for his compositions including an ASCAP Foundation Young Composers Grant,
six ASCAP Standard Panel Awards, a Meet the Composer Education Program Grant,
second prize in the Tampa Bay Composers' Forum chamber music competition, and
finalist in the First International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In addition to his own compositions, he has conducted several performances by
ensembles including the University of Illinois Contemporary Ensemble, the Crane School
of Music Contemporary Group, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, the
North Shore Pro Musica, and the Suffolk Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has taught
at the University of Illinois, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College,
served as composer-in-residence at the Lawrence Philharmonic School of Music, and is
currently an Assistant Professor at Suffolk Community College where he teaches music
theory, aural skills, and conducts the contemporary music ensemble.