The piece is an expression of my anxiety about the impending climate catastrophe and frustrations regarding our collective short-sightedness in not enacting immediate and serious change to prevent it. The title is a combination of "The Keeling Curve" - a graph of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 1958 to present - and "keening" - wailing in grief for the dead.

It was written for a collaboration with Life/Art Dance Ensemble and performed by the New Dawn Quartet

The Keening Curve

Ravel Prelude in a minor for electric guitars.

Ravel Prelude in a minor (1913)

Performed by Lani Hamilton, Amy Harris, Renata van der Vyver, and Liz Lee at the Excessive Noise/You are Here Special Event on March 22, 2014 in Austin, TX.

II - a Milano, il vecchio tedesco

Written for and performed by Frank Jenkins and Anna Park at the Excessive Noise/You are Here Special Event on March 22, 2014 in Austin, TX.

Waterways I-III

Premiere of Septet by EEMS at Austin TX March 9th 2023, Januibe Tejera conducting.

Septet

Septet performed by the University of Texas New Music Ensemble led by Marc Sosnowchik - 22 September 2023

Reversal of Fortune (2012) for violin and cello

Commissioned by Life/Art Dance Ensemble (Denver, CO)

Reversal Of Fortune

"Water Music" for mezzo-soprano and wind ensemble performed at the Pale Blue. Winter Wind Ensemble Special Event on 2/5/15 by Page Stephens, mezzo-soprano and conducted by Craig B. Davis.

Water Music - III Strings In The Earth

Water Music - II Intermede

Water Music - I Be To Each Other Like Water

Puzzle Pieces for Symphonic Band in a single track

Puzzle Pieces

The third movement of my saxophone quartet "Six Memos for the Next Millennium"(after Calvino's lectures) played by the Bel Cuore Quartet. Recorded in Jessen Auditorium at the University of Texas at Austin on 24 June 2015 as part of a recording project comprising my recent saxophone music. Digital album to be released in October.

III. "like dunes shifted by the desert wind" - (Visibility)

Flavour Symmetries I - Baryon Decuplet

Flavour Symmetries II - Bishop's Coat Of Arms

Flavour Symmetries III - 300

Movements I, IV, and V extracted as a set from Six Memos for the Next Millennium for saxophone quartet

Translations

Six Memos for the Next Millennium - V Quickness

Six Memos for the Next Millennium - IV Multiplicity

Six Memos for the Next Millennium - I Lightness

Annachronism 1 - for baroque or modern violin

performed by Rachell Wong on modern violin, September 29th, 2012

A solo work for violin using techniques and material borrowed from virtuoso violin music of the Baroque period.   Originally written for Anna Griffis, hence the purposeful misspelling in the title.

Annachronism

Russell Podgorsek is a composer, violist, and electric guitarist. His recent awards and commissions include a NewMusicUSA Project Grant for a collaboration with NANOFiction and the Cordova Quartet, "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" for the Bel Cuore Saxophone Quartet, "Songs for the Sane 3.0" and "Reversal of Fortune" for the Life/Art Dance Ensemble (CO), "MicroSymphony" for the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (MD), and "Lament and Lullaby" for the Sudbury Youth Orchestra (Ontario, Canada). His work "Annachronism" for solo violin was featured on the 2014 i care if you listen Summer Mixtape. He was also featured as composer-in-residence at the Simsbury Chamber Music Festival (CT) in 2008. He earned his DMA at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, and Russell Pinkston. He is a graduate of both the Hartt School of Music (CT) and the University of Dayton (OH). 
 
Russell was a founding member of the Miklos Quartet, whose unique approach to music of all styles and perspectives has brought them on numerous tours and residencies throughout the Northeast and Midwest. As a member of the perceval duo he performed a number of his own works including Songs for the Sane and A Contest for the Future at the Woodstock Fringe Festival in Woodstock, New York. He has been awarded a number of grants and fellowships including several MetLife Creative Connections Awards.

Russell Podgorsek

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