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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
DRIP BLIP SPARKLE SPIN GLINT GLIDE GLOW
FLOAT FLOP CHOP POP SHATTER SPLASH
(2005)
Andrew Norman (born in 1979)
Norman’s
Drip, Blip …
is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two
oboes, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, two bassoons, four horns,
three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion,
piano and strings. The performance time is 5 minutes.
In announcing Andrew Norman as one of the four emerging composers receiving
commissions through “Project 440,” a musical celebration of its fortieth anniversary
season, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra described him as “a lifelong enthusiast
for all things architectural who writes music that is often inspired by forms and ideas
he encounters in the visual world. His music draws on an eclectic mix of sounds
and usually features some combination of bright colors, propulsive energy, a healthy
dose of lyricism, and the fragmentation of musical ideas into little pieces.”
Norman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1979, raised in central California,
and earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Southern California
Thornton School of Music, where he studied composition with Donald Crockett and
Stephen Hartke and piano with Stewart Gordon, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale
School of Music, where he was a student of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron
Jay Kernis. Norman’s recent projects include commissions from the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, Aspen Music Festival, Des Moines Symphony and a theremin concerto
for Germany’s Heidelberg Philharmonic, where he was Composer-in-Residence for
the 2010-2011 season; his other residencies include Young Concert Artists, National
Youth Orchestra Festival, Copland House, Boston Modern Orchestra Project,
Roaring Fork Valley Schools in Colorado and a current three-year one with the Los
YEVGENY SUDBIN
makes his Chicago debut with this Grant
Park Music Festival appearance. In addition to annual recitals
in London’s Wigmore Hall Master Series, he has performed in
recital at the Tonhalle in Zurich, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,
Gilmore and Singapore international piano festivals, and in
New York City, Boston, Seattle, Montreal, Vancouver and
Milan, among others. He has appeared as soloist with the
London Philharmonic, BBC Proms, Grand Teton Music Festival,
Mostly Mozart Music Festival at Lincoln Center, and with the
symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Indianapolis, Utah, Kansas City
and Vancouver, and has toured in Australia with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Sudbin records exclusively for BIS and has performed and recordedwith the Saõ Paulo
and Singapore symphony orchestras, Bergen Philharmonic and Tapiola Sinfonietta in
Finland. He is currently completing a recording project with theMinnesota Orchestra,
under Osmo Vänskä, performing all of the Beethoven piano concertos. Born in
St. Petersburg, Russia, Sudbin displayed exceptional musical talent from an early age
and in 1987 entered the Specialist Music School of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
In 1990 he continued his studies in Berlin and in 1997 he moved to London, where
he studied with Christopher Elton at the Royal Academy of Music. He now lives in
London with his wife and two young children. The Pulvermacher Foundation, Alexis
Gregory Foundation and Wall Trust have played important roles in Sudbin’s career.
