Derek Tywoniuk: This Quiet Night (2015)
a prelude to Bach's Partita in D-Minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004

performed by Derek Tywoniuk
live in Thayer Hall at The Colburn School


Tywoniuk: This Quiet Night (2015)

Derek Tywoniuk, marimba
Live in Thayer Hall at The Colburn School

Piazzolla (arr. Tywoniuk): Cinco Piezas, II. Romantico

Piazzolla (arr. Tywoniuk): Cinco Piezas, IV. Triston

Piazzolla (arr. Tywoniuk):  Cinco Piezas, V. Compadre

written for and premiered by HOCKET
http://www.hocket.org

for two performers, one piano

Byrd/Cage

Composition by Derek Tywoniuk
World premiere May 20, 2017 in Chicago, IL
Performance by: 
Jonathan Thompson, oboe
Andy Hudson, clarinet/bass clarinet
Hannah Christiansen, violin
Danielle Taylor, viola
Casey Karr, bass

Movements:
I: Prologue
II: Pursuit
III: Old Woman/Young Man
IV: The Happiness Machine
V: Epilogue

Jonathan Thompson's Album

Remembered/Reremembered/Unremembered

Derek Tywoniuk is a Los Angeles-based percussionist and composer.  As a performer, he has appeared with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Colburn Orchestra, and Spoleto Festival USA under conductors such as Pierre Boulez, David Robertson, Matthias Pintscher, and Gustavo Dudamel.  An avid advocate of new music, he is a member of the LA-based new music collective wild Up, as well as the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.  With the latter, he has recorded two albums on the Yarlung Records label.  As a composer, his music has been published by C.F. Peters, recorded on the Bridge and Yarlung Record labels, and performed by soloists such as Nancy Zeltsman and Beverley Johnston, as well as groups such as wild Up and Trio Céleste.  Derek holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied under Paul Yancich and Richard Weiner, as well as an Artist Diploma and Master of Music degree from The Colburn Conservatory where he was a student of Jack van Geem.  

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