ThreeTwo '98 Participant Biographies

Apartment House was created by Anton Lukoszevieze in 1995.  Since then it has rapidly established itself as the leading British exponent of avant-garde and experimental music from around the world.  Apartment House’s performances have included many U.K. and world premieres of music by a wide variety of contemporary composers, notably John Cage, Dieter Schnabel, Gerhard Stäbler, Laurence Crane, Kunsu Shim, Michael Parsons, Helmut Oehring and Michael Finnissy.

The Apartment House ensemble has no fixed instrumental line-up; each new project is devised with a new programme concept in mind, thus allowing for a vast range of performance possibilities.

Apartment House has received grants and awards from The Arts Council of Great Britain, the Britten-Pears Foundation, the Goethe Institute, the Hinrichsen Foundation, the Holst Foundation, the Michael Tippett Foundation and the British Council.

1996
May - Featured ensemble at Sonorities Festival, Belfast (BBC Radio 3 Broadcast Hear and Now).

1997
February – Lecture/workshop performance day at Reading University (Lachenman, Heyn).
April – Dieter Schnabel concerrt in Innsbruck, Austria (Utopie Musik Festival), part of which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear & Now programme.
May – Resident ensemble, Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery, Cambridge, as part of the Patterns of Connection symposium.
June – Beyond Music, a day of new German music in association with the Goethe Institute, London, and guest composer Gerhard Stäbler (music by Stäbler, Hespos, Heyn, Schnebel).
September – Britische Kunst an der UnterElbe, KunstRaum, two concerts of new British Music in Northern Germany (in association with the British Council).

1998
January – BBC Radio 3 Hear & Now concert featuring a new Arts Council Commission from Michael Finnissy, UK Premieres of works by Gerhard Stäbler and Helmut Oehring.
April – James Clarke Portrait concert, London.
June – Two concerts of English and American experimental music with Michael Parsons, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, and Conway Hall, London.  Premieres of Apartment House Suite by Michael Parsons and Joy by Kunsu Shim.
December – Michael Tippett Memorial concert, KunstRaum, Hamburg, Germany (in association with the British Council).

1999
February – Bristol University Concert, works by Prtichard (SW Arts Commission), Xenakis, Oehring, etc.
March – Christopher Fox Portrait Concert, London, and Alvin Lucier Portrait Concerts (with Alvin Lucier), London, Norwich, Cambridge, and Birmingham.
April – BBC Radio 3 studio broadcast of premieres by James Clarke, Christopher Fox, Walter Zimmerman, Gerhard Stäbler and Helmut Oehring.
May – Programme of English and American experimental music, Evenings of New Music, Bratislava, Slovakia.
 

Anton Lukoszevieze was born in Devon in 1965.  He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, with Michael Evans and maste classes with William Pleeth (1985-89).  He also attended Oliver Knussen’s contemporary msuci performance courses at the Britten-Pears School, Snape, 1992-1994.  He is the founder and director of the ensemble Apartment House.  He has performed at many festivals in the UK, Europe and Norht America.  Groups he has worked with recently include Almeida Opera Ensemble, Ensemble Aktive Musik, Essen, KORE Ensemble, Montreal, and Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Berlin.  Composers who have written for him are Gerhard Stäbler, Michael Parson, Kunsu Shim, Geir Johnson, Larry Polansky, Laurence Crane, Paul Rhys, Keith Moore, Ross Lorraine, Philip Corner, and Helmut Oehring.  He has given solo performances at the Bath International Festival Xenakis Weekend, London South Bank Centre, Sonorities Fesgival, Belfast, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, King’s College, University of London, Music Marathon III and IV, Essen/Duisberg, Germany, and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Detscher Rundfunk.  He has recently been the subject of a radio programme for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln.   Recent solo projects have been in London (Philip Corner Retrospective), Germany (Aktive Musik) and Italy (Musica 2000).  He is based in London, U.K. 

Andrew Sparling is a graduate of Clare College, Cambridge and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.  He has given recitals and chamber music concerts throughout Europe, and in Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Veitnam, but this is his first visit to the United States. 
He has made many BBC radio broadcasts and recorded for CD and TV with the British new music groups Apartment House, Lontano, Ensemble Exposé, Opus 20 and the Almeida Opera Ensemble.  As a member of the chamber music group Double Image he has recently been made an Associate Research Fellow of Southampton University. 

Laurence Crane was born in Oxford in 1961 and studied composition at Nottingham University with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne.  Musicians who have performed his work include the ensembles Apartment House, Tapestry, Reservoir, Ensemble Corrente, Topologies, The Graham Fitkin Group and the Flute House Trio and the performers Nancy Ruffer, Andrew Sparling, James Clapperton, Anton Lukoszevieze, Melanie Pappenheim and Michael Parsons.  His music has been performed extensively in London and at festivals in Bath, Brighton, Cambridge and Edinburgh; also in Bergen, Buffalo, Innsbruck and Prague.  He works as an editor and composer in London. 

Michael Parsons 

Georges Aperghis, the most renowned Greek composer of his generation, is a prolific composer of international reputation.  His work, characterised by an interest in theater, often deal with the human voice.  He has studied with Papaioannou and Xenakis. 

Richard Ayres: Born in Cornwall (Great Britain) 29/10/ 1965. Status; happy. Function in life: witness, documentation. 

Furthermore: RICHARD AYRES studied electronic music, composition, and trombone at the polytechnic in Huddersfield, graduating in 1989. Since September 1989 he has lived and worked in the Netherlands. He followed the post-graduate composition course at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, studying with Louis Andriessen, and graduated in 1992. 

Richard Barrett studied genetics at University College London and composition with Peter Wiegold.  He also pursued further studies at the Darmstadt summer courses.  He co-founded Ensemble Exposé with Roger Redgate and taught at Middlesex University from 1989 to 1992.  He has been awarded the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis and the Gaudeamus Prize, and regularly performs live electronics in his duo ensemble FURT with Paul Obermayer. 

Ben Blanchard 

Rick Burkhardt is a composer, playwright, poet, and songwriter, whose works have been performed throughout the United States and in German-speaking Europe.  As a pianist, actor, and theater director, he has commissioned and performed dozens of new politically committed works in various experimental and hybrid media.  With Rishi Zutshi he cofounded Utopia Train, an ultraprolific theater company whose original plays were hated by the Chicago Reader.  He studies Music Composition at the University of California at San Diego. 

Cornelius Cardew was identified in the mid-sixties by Morton Feldman as the only European composer who understood the new American music.  He had studied with Ferguson, Stockhausen (for whom he composed large portions of Carré, and about whom he later wrote the well known article Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, 1974) and Petrassi.  Cardew was appointed to the Royal Academy of Music in 1967 and founded the Scratch Orchestra with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton in 1969.  His extreme left wing politics led him to refute modernism, including all his own previous work, and take up writing workers’ songs in a modal idiom.  His always-venturing mind seemed to be preparing for more radical changes when his life was brought to a premature end in a 1981 auto accident in London. 

James Clarke 

Philip Corner was an early minimalist and associate of Fluxus.  He has had a long standing interest in Asian music since the days of his service in the Army in South Korea.  He held a long teaching appointment at Rutger University beginning in 1972 and currently resides in Italy where he is active as a composer and performer. 

Paul de Jong lives in New York.  He composes mostly for the theatre, performs there and on the concert-stage as well.  This generally happens in the Netherlands and U.S.A. 

Jason Eckardt is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Ensemble 21 contemporary music group. Eckardt's works have been heard at major festivals in Germany, France, Holland, Korea, Hungary, and the United States. Most recently, he was awarded the Symposium NRW Prize and commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University and Carnegie Hall. 

Ross Feller, composer and saxophonist, holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition and Theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was a Visiting Lecturer.  He has also taught at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and elsewhere in the United States and in Europe. 
 His compositions have been performed throughout the United States, in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.  His saxophone quartet "Trellis" was one of the finalists in the 1995 International Gaudeamus Foundation Composer's Competition.  He has also received awards, grants, and fellowships from ASCAP, the Basel-Landschaft Kanton, the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel, the Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, Brussels, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, USA. 
Presently, Mr. Feller is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota, USA. 

Brian Ferneyhough’s music has caused much controversy over its performative difficulty and notational complexity.  Internationally renowned, he is one of the most important composers of his generation.  As a teacher he has been an important figure for a wide range of students and is currently on the faculty of University of California at San Diego.  In his formative years he worked with Lennox Berkeley, Maurice Miles, Ton de Leeuw and Klaus Huber. 

Michael Finnissy is an internationally recognized composer and a pianist.  His difficult scores often referred to as part of the British new complexity  movement, he has been performed and broadcast worldwide and has also commissioned works from many of the major figures of the British new music scene (from new complexity, to new simplicity, to the new nationalism).  He currently teaches at University of Sussex and the Royal Academy of Music.  His teachers were Bernard Stevens, Humphrey Searle and Roman Vlad.  He was president of the International Society of Contemporary Music from 1991 to 1996. 

Christopher Fox (composer) is based in the north of England, where he was born in 1955.  He studied composition with Hugh Wood, Jonathan Harvey and Richard Orton, and in 1981 won the composition prize of the Performing Right Society of Great Britain.  Since then he has established a reputation as one of the most individual composers of his generation.  His work has been performed and broadcast worldwide and has been featured in many of the leading new music festivals, from Montreal to St. Petersberg and London to Sidney.  Between 1984 and 1994 he was a member of the composition staff at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School, and returned there in 1996 as a featured composer.  During 1987 he lived in West Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme.  His work was featured in the BBC Promenade Concerts for the first time in 1997.  He has worked with many of the leading new music ensembles and soloist, includin ght eArditti Quartet, Arraymusic (Toronto), Anthony de Mare, Roger Heaton, Rolf Hind, Ensemble Koln, Ensemble Bash, Philip Mead and the last Yvar Mikhashoff.  More recent performances have been given by the Ives Ensemble, and Ensemble Corrente.  His writings on music have been widely published in journals such as Contrechamps, Tempo, Contact and Contemporary Music Review. 

Matthew Gold recently completed his studies at the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Daniel Druckman.  Mr. Gold performs extensively in both orchestral and chamber music, and as a soloist.  He is active in the performance of new music with such groups as Sequitur, the Lower East Side Ensemble, the Norfolk Contemporary Ensemble, and on the Summer Garden concerts at the Museum of Modern Art.  Mr. Gold is involved in a percussion duo with Brian Resnick which was cited by the New York Times for its, "aurally and visually enticing," performance.  He made his solo debut with the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, and has performed as a guest artist with Da Camera of Houston, on the SYZYGY New Music series, on The World of Percussion series at SUNY Albany, and at the Academie der Kunste in Berlin. 

Andy Gricevich 

Benjamin Grosser, whose music has been called “...very loud and ugly…” by the St. Louis Riverfront Times, makes things, including music compositions, paintings, and computer-music software.  He received his B.M. and M.M. in music composition from the University of Illinois, prior to its current neo-traditional revival.  He has been active in the construction of original software for sound synthesis and computer-assisted composition. Currently his primary creative output is in the construction of abstract visual art.  Grosser is currently manager of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.  His animation, modeling, editing and sound work recently appeared at SIGGRAPH '97 in Los Angeles. He has received no awards for his music, had performances in the U.S., Asia and Europe, and has fulfilled commissions by Taimur Sullivan and Alex Lazarevich. 

Gabriel Jackson was born in Bermuda in 1962 and studied composition at the Royal College of Music, first in the Junior Department with Richard Blackford and later with John Lambert. He has written for a wide variety of chamber, choral and instrumental ensembles, solo instruments and voice.  A strong involvement with the visual arts has led him to work with film, and pieces based on works by artists Richard Long, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Robert Mapplethorpe. With writer Richard George Elliott he has produced a number of vocal and choral works and he is currently writing his first orchestral piece "Atlantis". 

Drew Krause has written over 40 works for electronic tape, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra since 1983.  Trained at the Juilliard School and the University of Illinois, his activity as a composer, pianist and conductor includes work with the THUMP Piano Duo and Performer's Workshop Ensemble, and performances at the FUNMusic, BONK, In Your Ear, and Subtropics festivals.  His compositions are published by Frog Peak and Basson Heritage Editions, and are recorded by Innova, Frog Peak, New Ariel, Bonk Recordings, and the University of Illinois Press.  He currently lives in Miami. 

Margaret Lancaster plays a dual role - flutist and actor.  Noted in both disciplines for collaborating with writers and developing new works, she is a core performer at the BONK New Music Festival and has appeared as a lecturer/soloist at the Niagara Frontier Flute Club, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of South Florida, and the 1996 National Flute Association annual convention.  Margaret is currently recording her first solo CD and 2 weeks ago performed a concert with composer Paul Reller at the KNOB New Music Festival in Wichita, Kansas. 

Alex Lazarevich recently completed his Masters degree at the University of Illinois. His primary teachers were Zack Browning, Herbert Brün, Salvatore Martirano, Jack Melby, and Sever Tipei.  Alex was co-organizer of the People Against IN Festival held at the University of Illinois in September, 1995. 

Ross Lorraine lectures on composition at King’s College, London, where he is completing a Ph.D. in composition under the supervision of Sir Harrison Birtwistle.  He is editing Birtwistle’s music for Universal Edition, and works as his assistant.  His music has been widely performed throughout Europe, and broadcast on Radio 3.  He was awarded the Purcell Composition Prize for Hidden Voices, which was performed at London’s South Bank Centre and in Belgium and Holland.  In 1996, he was a member of the adjudicating panel for the Match Composition Prize.  He has also given lectures and run workshops on the relationship between music and painting.  Two interviews he conducted with Sir Harrison Birtwistle on this subject were recently published in the Musical Times.  He graduated in music at King’s College Cambridge, where he studied composition with Hugh Wood. 

Alvin Lucier is a senior and key figure in the experimental music scene.  In live-electronic composition and performance, he introduced the use of brain-waves, and pioneered the use of physical spaces as musical material, the notation of performer actions, composing with the physical-spatial properties of sound, and the use of feedback as a sound source.  One of his primary preoccupations in his instrumental works has been the exploration of difference tones and heterodyning.  Internationally renowned, Lucier has collaborated with the Arditti String Quartet, Robert Wilson, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the S.E.M. Ensemble, the Viola Farber Dance Company (Music Director 1972-1977) and many others.  He is John Spencer Camp Professor of Music at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. 

Paul Marquardt lives in New York City and is active as a pianist and composer.  He holds degrees from   Eastman School of Music and the University of Illinois.  Since 1988, he has been performing with Drew Krause as the new music piano duo THUMP, and he is a member of the Vector Ensemble, along with flutist Margaret Lancaster and cellist Paul DeJong. 

Keith Moore founded the ThreeTwo 1994.  Last he year completed a commission for the Musikfabrik NRW, was a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and pursued studies with Sir Harrison Birtwistle at King’s College London.  Recent performances took place at the South Bank Arts Centre, SPNM Manchester, Poetic Arcs, Le Domaine Forget Modern Music Symposium, June in Buffalo,  FUNMusic, and Fondation Royaumont, where he was a fellow studying with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in 1996.  As a trombonist, his activities include appearances at Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge), Conway Hall (London), the Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival, the LUCIER@65 Festival (which he co-curated), and recordings for New Albion and Braxton House (upcoming).  He studied at the University of Illinois and Wesleyan University with Zack Browning, Herbert Brün, Salvatore Martirano, John Melby, Anthony Braxton, Neely Bruce and Alvin Lucier. He recently completed a commission for the Music Paradise concert series in Essen.  Future projects include a premiere by the Kölner Schlagquartett and a new work for Anton Lukoszevieze. 
 
Tristan Murail is a co-creator of the spectral techniques of composition which have been influential in the creation of many musical styles for composers of this generation.  His advanced studies first focused on Arabic, Economics and Political Science.  Eventually Murail enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire to study with Messiaen, and was awarded the Premier Prix in 1971.  After two years in Rome, having won the Prix de Rome, he co-founded the ensemble L’Intinéraire.  In 1982 he began a long association with IRCAM, and he is currently on the faculty of Columbia University in New York. 
 
Marilyn Nonken: "This pianist enthusiastically explores modern and other contemporary areas where a lot of pianists fear to hang out," wrote the Village Voice of pianist Marilyn Nonken, "and she packs enough artistry and technique for the journey." Heard regularly at New York's Weill and Merkin Halls, Flea and Miller Theatres, Christ and St. Stephen's Church, and Greenwich House of Music, Ms. Nonken has performed at venues throughout the United States and abroad. Highlights of last season included the world premiere of North American Spirituals, written for her by Michael Finnissy, and appearances with the League of Composers/ISCM-New York, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, and Ensemble 21, the new music performance group of which she is Artistic Director and a co-founder. Upcoming projects include the world premieres of new works written for her by Milton Babbitt, David Rakowski, and Jason Eckardt and solo appearances at the Guggenheim Museum, Carnegie Hall, and the June in Buffalo Festival. 

Helmut Oehring, one of Germany’s most fascinating young composers, was born in Berlin in 1961.  A child of deaf-mute parents, he learned sign language before learning German, guiding him towards unique perspective on the nature of physical gesture, sound, and communication.  Consequently, his pieces often verge on performance art and draw upon visual media.  He has been performed at leading festivals including Munich Biennale, Wien Modern, Spoleto, Donaueschingen, Witten and Almeida Opera. 

Susan Parenti received her degrees in music composition from the University of Illinois, studying with Herbert Brün and Sal Martirano.  She works with the Performers' Workshop Ensemble and the School for Designing a Society in Urbana, Illinois: composition, an illegal immigrant, working, but unable to get a visa. 

Eric Poland, of Westford, Masssachusetts, is currently a student at The Juilliard School where he studies percussion with Gordon Gottlieb.  Eric is an avid performer of orchestral, chamber, and solo music throughout the New York area.  He has studied with well known percussionists including Tim Genis and Mitchell Peters and has attended several festivals including Tanglewood and the Music Academy of the West. 

Larry Polansky is widely known as composer of acoustic, electronic and computer music, displaying an interest in tuning, sonority, algorhythm, and the vernacular.  Polansky is a performer of various plucked instruments and author the valuable text New Instrumentation and Orchestration.  He is also co-author of the computer language HMSL.  With Jody Diamond he founded the publishing house Frog Peak and the American Gamelan Institute.  Since 1990 he has been on the faculty of Dartmouth College. 

Roger Redgate 

Kunsu Shim was born in 1958 in Pusan, South Korea, and studied composition in Seoul.  In 1987-88 he studied with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule, and from 1989-92 with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang Musikhochscule in Essen.  Since 1987 he has been living in Germany, and has been organizing concerts  for “Aktive Musik” in the Ruhr area with Gerhard Stäbler.  “Sound, which has no place to go, no words to speak, no time to stay, is something knocking in my mind.  Sound is light.” 

Howard Skempton has gained an international reputation through his often perplexing small and austere works.  His compositional interest, removed from self-expression, is based on an objective approach to the discovery a work’s chosen materials.  Skempton came to London in 1967 to study with Cornelius Cardew, with whom he founded the Scratch Orchestra in 1969.  He has written songs, choral compositions, chamber works and orchestral compositions, and is also an active accordionist,  performing many of his own works.  Skempton is currently a freelance composer and editor living in Leamington Spa, England. 

Allison Sloan recently performed as a soloist with the Music Festival of Arkansas Orchestra as the winner of their concerto competition.  She received her degrees in performance from the University of Illinois and from Michigan State University and has performed in the United States, Belgium, and Switzerland.  For the past five years she has served on the faculty of the Flint Institute of Music and Mott College in Michigan.  She resides in New York City, where she pursues careers in performance and environmentalism. 

Gerhard Stäbler is one of Germany’s most radical and influential composers.  His work, characterized by its social-consciousness, embraces all media and is presented around the world in both traditional venues and in the many experimental contexts which he has created in a constant effort to invigorate and maintain a working relationship with the public.  In 1981 he won the Cardew Memorial Prize, since which he has maintained an international profile, being particularly active in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Brazil, Japan, Korea and the Middle East.  In 1997 he was composer-in-residence at the ThreeTwo Festival. 
 
Taimur Sullivan is a concert saxophonist specializing in the performance of contemporary music.  He has performed in nine countries and has received critical acclaim as a performer "...not only dedicated and skilled, but also talented, fearless and sensitive" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) whose playing is  "...far more interesting and dynamic than Kenny G.’s...." (Classical New Jersey)  Active in advancing the contemporary repertoire for the saxophone, he has premiered over 35 works by composers including Jeff Nichols, Alvin Lucier, Olga Neuwirth, Gerhard Stäbler and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Harbison.  He has performed recently as a soloist at Lincoln Center and the Sonic Boom Festival in New York and MusicMarathon ‘98 Festival in Germany, and during the past season was presented in recital at King’s College London and selected as a finalist for the Pro Musicis Award.  Upcoming projects include recordings on Mode, CRI, Furious Artisans and Innova, and the premieres of works by Gunther Schuller and Larry Polansky.  Mr. Sullivan resides in New York City, where he is a member of the PRISM Saxophone Quartet. 

Kelland Thomas is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.  He gave his debut with the Houston Symphony in 1993 and has since performed with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States and in Canada, Switzerland,and Germany.  In May 1997 he completed a tour of Japan with world-renowned marimbist Keiko Abe and the Michigan Chamber Players.Dr. Thomas' recording of Luciano Berio's Sequenza IXB is set for Spring 1999 release on the Mode label.  In 1996 He traveled to Milan, Italy to work with Mr. Berio.  He completed the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone from the University of Michigan. 

THUMP Piano Duo was formed in 1988 by composer/pianists Drew Krause and Paul Marquardt.  Its repertoire includes over 50 works for solo and duo piano, pianos with electronics, and piano-four hands, including original compositions, many commissions, and works by Stravinsky, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Cage, Feldman, and Kagel. The January 1996 American Record Guide writes: "Their debut disc on Frog Peak is one of the year's best.  They play a diverse, forward-looking program (including their own compositions) with skill, conviction, and musicality."  Thump has frequently performed at festivals and universities throughout the U.S. since its inception. 

Tomoko Uchino, a native of Japan, began learning the piano at the age of three. After moving to the United States to study at the University of Michigan, she was a prize-winner in the MTNA National Competition, Ettlingen International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, and the Sonoda Takahiro International Competition. She has appeared as a solo performer with the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Germania Symphony Orchestra, and the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra. She received her Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ann Schein. She currently resides in Tucson Arizona, where she freelances and maintains a private piano studio. 

Lisa Wolfe, an active performer of new music, has premiered over 30 works in the past four years.  Ms. Wolfe freelances in New York and regularly performs in new music festivals around the country; recent appearances include the FUNMusic Festival, June in Buffalo, Norfolk Contemporary Chamber Music Festival, the Lucier@65 Festival, and the Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors Festival.  Last year she appeared as soloist several times with the Connecticut Consort in celebration of the Schubert Centenary.  Ms. Wolfe studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music (MA) and the University of Illinois (BM); she continues to work privately with Curtis Macomber.  In 1996 she was awarded a fellowship from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music. 

In the early fifties, 20th Century Master Iannis Xenakis developed means utilizing set theory, sieves, probabilistic calculus, symbolic logic, brownian motion and other stochastic procedures, and the use of computers, to create a statistically conceived, but  fully determined music.  His approach proved profoundly influential for composers looking to move forward in the exploration of sound. 

Rishi Zutshi