0:00 - I. Brimming River
5:30 - III. Drums of Thunder

AMERICAN MODERN ENSEMBLE
Mason Lubert, conductor
Sean Claire, violin
Martin Medrano, violin
JJ Johnson, viola
Dave Eggar, cello
Amir Farid, piano

MOSTLY MODERN FESTIVAL
Skidmore College, Arthur Zankel Music Hall
Saratoga Springs, New York (USA)
6/9/2023

Release Sep 1, 2023  ARTHUR ZANKEL MUSIC CENTER

LINKS
Festival: https://www.mostlymodernfestival.org
Ensembles-In-Residence: https://mostlymodernfestival.org/ense...
Conductor: https://masonlubert.com/
Recorded by Arts Laureate: https://www.artslaureate.com

2023-06-09

Piano Quintet No. 1 - Simon Alami | Mostly Modern Festival

*** For better listening, use headphones ***

I'm Antonio Porrino (Tonino).
Graduated in Physics in March 1979, I was Researcher in Theoretical Nuclear Physics at the "Federico II" University of Naples until November 2019.
I studied music, initially at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Maiella in Naples and then self-taught piano, organ and composition.
I have been married to Anna since July 1982 and we have 5 children, Fabio, Luca, Francesca, Cecilia, Vincenzo and 3 grandchildren, Antonio, Sofia and Vincenzo, Fabio's children, married to Sara.
I founded the polyphonic choir "Vicus Novanensis" in 1992 and in 2019 "I Cantori di Maria", which have collected the legacy of the numerous "long distance adoptions" of the previous choir.
The musical activity takes place mainly at the "Pontifical Minor Basilica of Maria Santissima Assunta" in Santa Maria a Vico (Italy).
I have composed music of various genres.
My music would like to express and transmit feelings of peace, serenity and joy, contrasting those of war, hatred and oppression that seem to prevail on planet Earth, causing the degradation of the natural environment that guards us.

Sono Antonio Porrino, per tutti Tonino.
Laureato in Fisica nel marzo 1979, sono stato Ricercatore di Fisica Nucleare Teorica presso l'Università "Federico II" di Napoli fino a novembre 2019. 
Ho studiato Musica, inizialmente presso il Conservatorio di San Pietro a Maiella di Napoli e poi pianoforte, organo e composizione da autodidatta.
Sono sposato con Anna dal luglio 1982 e abbiamo 5 figli, Fabio, Luca, Francesca, Cecilia, Vincenzo e 3 nipoti, Antonio, Sofia e Vincenzo, figli di Fabio, sposato con Sara. 
Ho fondato nel 1992 il Coro polifonico "Vicus Novanensis" e nell'anno 2019 "I Cantori di Maria", che hanno raccolto l'eredità delle numerose "adozioni a distanza" del precedente coro. 
L'attività musicale si svolge prevalentemente presso la "Basilica Pontificia Minore di Maria Santissima Assunta" di Santa Maria a Vico (Italy). 
Ho composto brani musicali di vario genere. 
La mia musica vorrebbe esprimere e trasmettere sentimenti di pace, di serenità e di gioia, contrastando quelli di guerra, odio e sopraffazione che sembrano prevalere sul pianeta Terra, provocando la degradazione dell'ambiente naturale che ci custodisce.
Alcune delle mie musiche sono anche su youtube (porrinomusic)

The male and female energy meet in the duo FAZE'N'MIR.
Mir Bredberg Weber, song/piano/harmonica, has returned home after a number of years in the USA.
The songs are tied together by relevant comments and anecdotes, delivered with a twinkle in the eye.

Dizzy O’Brian creates Dizzy Rock — a fusion of Third Stream music, alternative rock storytelling, cinematic grooves, and surreal narrative worlds that make each track feel like a scene from a larger universe.

Composer, producer, and world-builder, Dizzy blends classical structure, jazz energy, alt-rock riffs, and fantasy-sci-fi imagery into music that feels both futuristic and mythic.

Inside the Dizzyverse, every piece has a story:
• Secrets of the Heart — a psychedelic six-movement rock suite
• Tea With the Alien — cosmic chamber-rock
• A Night in Appalachia — string-driven, dreamlike Americana
• The Electra Suite — classical drama reimagined through alt-rock
• And new singles every week, from ambient alt to narrative progressive rock

Dizzy’s music appears in short films, narrative videos, AI-enhanced visual stories, and the ongoing multimedia sagas The Oath of the Dreamers and The One True God.

If you like story music videos, cinematic alt-rock, experimental fusion, concept albums, and genre-bending sound worlds, you’ve found your new obsession.

🎧 Explore the Dizzyverse.
📌 Follow for new tracks weekly, exclusive deep cuts, and evolving stories.

Soundcloud is dead. Rock is dead. Most of my main listeners have vanished. Where I use to get 500 plays a week, now I'm lucky to get 50 no matter how hard I try to promote or support other artists. The interest has died and honestly that's killed my drive to want to spend time making more music for not even a quarter of the attention for what it used to get. I'm deleting this profile and all the music at the end of the year so listen up while you can. What a waste of 8 years just for this platform to die off. I've made all the songs downloadable for anyone that's interested.

Sketch and Noise, 
Sound and Texture
Guitarist and Composer

Simon Alami is a Canadian composer with a passion for blending different musical styles and traditions. He draws inspiration from master composers. Simon's compositional style is characterized by a fusion of diverse elements and a willingness to experiment with new forms of expression. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada and is a proud member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC), Canadian Music Center CMC and SOCAN.

Where there is music, there is life.  There is no other way!

Karl Kim is a man of many musical hats (perhaps too many for his own good, but that's a discussion for another time). 

​​His musical journey started off with piano lessons at age six, and from there he has picked up many other instruments over the years, including but not limited to: violin, guitar, trombone, and various percussion instruments. Karl was also just as quick to branch out to styles of music other than classical; most significant of these styles is rock and metal (especially of the progressive variety), but jazz, EDM, experimental music, and folk music from various parts of the world have also played a role in shaping him as a musician. 

As a concert music composer, these musical experiences, especially those as a metal guitarist, are what make up the voice that he projects into his compositions, especially in recent times. Pieces like "The Jury is Sleepless", "Without a Minute to Spare", and "So Cold, So Dark, So Chaotic" exist at a crossroads between music for the concert hall and music for the mosh pit. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Rhythm Method, S.E.M., and Bearthoven, and he holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University. 

"Karl with a K" is an alter ego of Karl Kim. Karl with a K, while having the same musical background as Karl Kim, draws upon a fascination for rhythm game music that started with Dance Dance Revolution at the age of eight, and grew considerably to encompass games including, but not limited to, Sound Voltex, In the Groove, beatmania IIDX, Voez, and Arcaea. Karl with a K brings his background in metal and 20th century classical music into rhythm game original tracks such as "!CAUTION! small but deadly", "BELLUM", and "rudimentary methods of overkill", which can be characterized by plenty of guitars, unusual rhythms, and sometimes non-instruments being used as instruments. Much of his output as Karl with a K is written for the purposes of Stepmania simfile creation (though as of BMS of Fighters: EighTeen's "0verfl0w_err0r" this is no longer exclusively the case).

Karl Kim currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Scoring for Visual Media at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Karl with a K can be seen lurking around the internet (especially specific Discord servers), occasionally not being above a good meme from time to time. In addition, Karl with a K is working on his first project as a game developer, a typing meets rhythm gaming fusion titled "glyph;".

Piano Quintet No. 1 - Simon Alami | Mostly Modern Festival

Simon Alami Composer