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Florida Contemporary Music Festival
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Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence
Cort Lippe is a leading figure in the field
of interactive computer music. He studied composition and
computer music with Larry Austin in the USA. He also followed
composition and analysis seminars with various composers
including Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki,
Stockhausen, and Xenakis. From 1980-83 he studied and worked
in The Netherlands, at the Instituut voor Sonologie with G.M.
Koenig and Paul Berg in the fields of computer and formalized
music. From 1983-1994 he lived in France where he worked for
three years at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathematique et
Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu), founded by Iannis Xenakis,
while following Xenakis' courses on acoustics and formalized
music at the University of Paris. Subsequently, he worked for
nine years at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination
Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by Pierre Boulez, where he
gave courses on new technology in composition, and developed
real-time computer music applications. His research includes
more than 35 peer-reviewed publications on interactive music,
granular sampling, score following, spectral processing,
FFT-based spatial distribution/delay, acoustic instrument
parameter mapping, and instrument design. His compositions
have received numerous international prizes, and he has
written for many internationally acclaimed new music soloists
and ensembles. His music has been performed at over 100
peer-reviewed and 150 invited festivals worldwide and his
works are recorded on more than 30 CDs. As a teacher, Lippe
has given over 100 presentations and guest lectures around the
world, and has been a visiting professor at universities and
conservatories in Japan, Denmark, Austria, Greece, and the
USA. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Award in 2009 where he
spent six months teaching and doing research at the National
and Kapodistiran University of Athens, Greece. Since 1994 he
has taught in the Department of Music of the University at
Buffalo, New York where he is an associate professor of
composition and director of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music
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Chamber Cartel, special guest ensemble
Chamber Cartel is an ensemble dedicated to finding the rare,
wonderful, and imaginative, in contemporary music. Based in
Atlanta, we have been hailed as “the darlings of Atlanta’s
[New Music] scene” and “contemporary classical heavyweights” -
The Goat Farm Arts Center. Having a flexible instrumentation,
Chamber Cartel has performed seventeen concerts unique
programming since 2012 and commissioned over seven works. We
have collaborated with artists such as
Nobrow.music.collective, Stacey Mastrian, the A/B Duo, Bent
Frequency, CORE Performance Company, Lotte Betts-Dean, and
Sonic Generator. This year we will participate in the
Northwestern University New Music Conference in Chicago in
April performing Riding with Death, a piece written for the
Cartel. Our third season, Arcana, includes highlights such as,
Le Marteau sans Maître, Tongues, The Brightest Form of
Absence, Four Thousand Holes, and newly commissioned works
from Aaron Jay Myers, Adam Scott Neal, Carolyn Chen, Tony
Donofrio, and our composer-in-association Marc Yeats. Later
this year we will release our first CD, The Shape Distance, a
collection of pieces by the same title written for Chamber
Cartel by Marc Yeats. We are thrilled to be included in the
University of Florida’s New Music Festival this year.
Visiting members of Chamber Cartel:
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Caleb Herron
(percussion) is an energetic performer of the new
and unheard. He was born with an ear for unique sounds and
feeds this intrinsic sense through his love for contemporary
music. Caleb founded several unique contemporary music groups
including Cerberus Percussion Group, Ensemble 64.8, The Devil
May Care Duo, and Chamber Cartel. These groups have expanded
the chamber repertoire by commissioning new works by up and
coming composers as well as performing rarely heard
masterpieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. As Artistic
Director, Chamber Cartel, performed twelve unique programs in
2012. Their third season, Arcana, unmasks the mystery
surrounding contemporary music and brings it to the public.
Caleb has been received with fervor as a soloist in New York,
Atlanta, San Diego, Chicago, and Seattle. He has commissioned
more than fifteen works for solo percussion. His concerts are
lively, tenacious, and ambitious leaving attendees with
feelings of wonderment and artistic moments that are the
highlights of their week, month, or even year. Aesthetically,
Caleb seeks to blur the line between gesture and sound through
his performance. With his work, he hopes to expose his
audience to new, exciting aural and visual experiences.
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From experimental chamber
rock to avant-garde New Music, Amy O’Dell (piano)
is a staple in the eclectic Atlanta music scene. She connects
these worlds with a passionate and focused energy that
permeates her performance. Amy is known as the quirky,
energetic keytarist/keyboardist in the Clibber Jones Ensemble
appearing in venues all over Atlanta. Since 2012 she has
become more involved in the New Music scene in Atlanta as the
adventurous, imaginative pianist of Chamber Cartel, sharing
the Cartel's passion for exploring ambitious and unusual
music. Amy's involvement in both of these ensembles has led
her to collaborate with and commission numerous works from
composers such as Aaron Jay Myers, Daniel Swilley, Adam Scott
Neal and Marc Yeats. She has given the Atlanta premiere to
several pieces of the New Music Canon. She can be heard on
Chamber Cartel's premiere recording, The Shape Distance, an
evening-length piece written for the Cartel by Marc Yeats and
will also be appearing on Chamber Cartel's second recording;
the music of Adam Scott Neal. Both discs are to be released
later in 2014. Amy received her Masters at Georgia State
University where she studied under Geoffrey Haydon, with an
emphasis on chamber music with Paula Peace and Brandt
Friederickson.
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Festival Schedule
All events are free and open to the public. All events will be
held in MUB 101 except where noted.
Friday, March 14 -
12:50-1:40pm - Student Convocation Performance
7:30pm - UnBalanced Connection
featuring music by Cort Lippe and UF composers
Saturday, March 15
10am-12pm - Masterclass with Chamber Cartel, guest
ensemble
3pm - Society of Composers Student Chapter Concert
7:30pm - Guest performers Chamber Cartel
featuring works by John Luther Adams
Sunday, March 16 -
1pm - Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence lecture
7:30pm - Nuclear Music Ensemble
featuring works by John Cage, Cort Lippe, and Frederic Rzewski
Monday, March 17 -
10am-12pm - Masterclass with Cort Lippe,
composer-in-residence (Friends of Music Room)
4:05pm - Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence lecture
(Friends of Music Room)
7:30pm - Benjamin O'Brien, doctoral recital
Tuesday, March 18 -
7:30pm - Faculty Chamber Series
featuring Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat (Soldier's Tale)
Special thanks to the UF Chapter of The Society of Composers,
Inc., the Sonic Computing Organization, UF Student Government and
The UF School of Music