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The Shore Shore 
XI Records 
[release date: March 8, 2015]

Pasticcio per meno e più (2014)
performed by Nicolas Horvath

Engineer: Nikolaos Samaltanos
Recorded at Temple Saint Marcel (Paris, France)
on Fazioli Grand Piano

Cover photograph: Phill Niblock © (Japan, 1989)
Album design: Van Jazmin

The South Shore - Pasticcio per meno è più (2014) for piano solo

The South Shore 
XI Records 
March 8, 2015

Anthems (2014) for cello and piano
performed by Christine Kim (cello)
                    and Yael Manor (piano)

Produced By: Michael Vincent Waller, Ryan Streber, Christine Kim
Recorded By: Ryan Streber at Oktaven Studios, NY
Mastered By: Ryan Streber

Cover photograph: Phill Niblock © (Japan, 1989)
Album design: Van Jazmin

The South Shore - Anthems (2014) for cello and piano

The Shore Shore 
XI Records 

Organum (2014) for organ solo
performed by Carson Cooman

Produced By: Michael Vincent Waller, Ryan Streber, Christine Kim Mastered By: Ryan Streber

"In this prelude-like organ solo we are somewhere between the 12th century world of Spanish organ music, when the big split came between modal music and heavily chromatic music that was a division that raged over the next millennium, and the current century with its pattern music such as that in the work of Terry Riley that evokes an ephemeral world of the spirit. The distinct changes in registration show the many voices of the organ and delight us with their contrasts of timbre. The mode for this piece is Phrygian on E, which sometimes is expressed in flowing passages and tone clusters." 
- "Blue" Gene Tyranny



Organum (2014)

Lines (2016)
Michael Vincent Waller

Trajectories 
CD on Recital, Sept. 8, 2017

R. Andrew Lee (piano)
Seth Parker Woods (cello)

http://michaelvincentwaller.com/trajectories/
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Trajectories is the second full-length album by Michael Vincent Waller, featuring pianist R. Andrew Lee and cellist Seth Parker Woods. The album will be released on September 8th, 2017, on Sean McCann’s Los Angeles based label, Recital. The CD edition includes photography by Phill Niblock, liner notes by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, and mastered by Denis Blackham. 

Michael Vincent Waller is an American composer based in New York City. His music has been described as lyrical and introspective, drawing inspiration from impressionism, post-minimalism and world music. The work situates these familiar elements within decidedly unconventional and individual frameworks.  

Waller's practice has been cultivated through private study with La Monte Young, Bunita Marcus, and with Elizabeth Hoffman as an undergrad at NYU.  He has since collaborated with a number of noted soloists and ensembles including S.E.M. Ensemble, Ensemble Dedalus, String Noise, and members of the FLUX Quartet. In 2015, Phill Niblock's XI Records launched Waller's acclaimed 2-disc recorded debut, The South Shore, which compiles a number of solo and chamber works spanning 2011-2014.

Compared to Waller's debut, which offered a panorama of different instrumentation and approaches, Trajectories is more introspective and focused, working only with piano and cello through a personal language that is often intricate and spacious.

Pianist R. Andrew Lee is renowned for his performances of minimalist work. He has released twelve albums, including many long-form piano recordings on his label Irritable Hedgehog, including November by Dennis Johnson, which was selected by Time Out New York as the best classical recording of 2013. 
 
Cellist Seth Parker Woods has established a diverse career that straddles the worlds of classical, contemporary, electronics and performance art. He worked with artists ranging from Heinz Holier, G.F. Haas, and Klaus Lang to Peter Gabriel, Sting, and Aldo Tambellini.

Lines ~ Trajectories

Dreaming Cadenza (2016)
Michael Vincent Waller

Trajectories 
CD/LP on Recital, Sept. 8, 2017

R. Andrew Lee (piano)

"This limpid melody provides us with a  moment of gentle reflection somewhere between waking and sleeping" 
            - "Blue" Gene Tyranny, in the liner notes of Trajectories

recitalprogram.com/trajectories
michaelvincentwaller.com/trajectories

Trajectories

Dreaming Cadenza ~ Trajectories

Cyclone (2018)
for alto sax and piano duo

Performed by: 
Melaine Dalibert (piano)
Elie Dalibert (alto sax)

Excerpt, from live performance @ Spectrum
 Jan 26, 2018

Photo by: Filip Wolak

Cyclone

Michael Vincent Waller 
Per La Madre e La Nonna 
for string trio 

Performed by Ensemble Epomeo

"New Renaissance" - Works by Tenney, Harrison, Waller, Beethoven.
Recorded by Daniel Neumann
at Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral
10.19.12

Michael Vincent Waller - Per La Madre e La Nonna for string trio (Ensemble Epomeo)

http://michaelvincentwaller.com
Michael Vincent Waller is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living and working in NYC. Waller's work is expansive in its incorporation of avant-garde sound worlds and connecting them back to a more traditional, classical beauty - hailed by the New York Times as "sweetly lyrical" and "pensive". He also has studied world music, specifically raga, and focused on modal analysis. Waller's chamber works have been commissioned and performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble, FLUX Quartet, Ensemble Epomeo, Ensemble Dedalus, Eric Huebner, Jenny Q. Chai, String Noise (Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim Harris), Hilo String Duo (Caroline Chin & Brian Snow), Zentripedal Duo, Project SiS (Christine Kim), Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and many more, at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, and Spectrum. He has studied with La Monte Young, Bunita Marcus, Petr Kotik, and Elizabeth Hoffman as a graduate of New York University.

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