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

Live performance by the CLUTCH Wind Ensemble on 1/30/14
Craig B. Davis, conductor

Finalist in the 2013 Frank Ticheli Composition Contest

www.michaelmikulka.com

www.newbandmusic.com

Prelude and Fugue

A piece for Wind Ensemble composed in 2012 and performed by volunteers from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ludvik

In this episode, Rachel Smith chats with Alecia Lawyer, the Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Oboe of ROCO. Based in Houston, Texas, ROCO is a dynamic and innovative professional chamber orchestra that flexes from 1 to 40 musicians from all over the US and Canada, with guest conductors from around the globe. Alecia discusses her journey to found ROCO, the philosophies that have guided and shaped the ensemble, and ROCO's initiatives to create access to their music and performances.

S4E17 - Creating Access with Alecia Lawyer and ROCO

Two beautiful songs featuring 
Mezzo Soprano, Page Stephens
Viola, Scott Moore scottmooreviola.wix.com/viol
Piano, Ann Schaefer http://annschaefer.com/


Brahms Two Songs, Op.91 (Live Spg. 2016)

Sunil Gadgil, alto saxophone
The University of Texas Wind Ensemble, Robert Carnochan cond.
March 5, 2010, American Bandmasters Association Convention
Rudder Auditorium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

William Bolcom, Concert Suite IV. Introduction and Jump (w/UT-Austin Wind Ensemble)

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.

The Keening Curve

Russell Podgorsek

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