Chaconne Coréenne (2018)for solo harpsichord
Commissioned by Eunji Lee.
Excerpt recorded live during its first performance by Eunji Lee
Friday 23rd, 2018, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea.

Chaconne Coréenne (excerpt)

Contact me at bret.bohman@gmail.com

Bret Bohman is a composer, producer, guitarist and artistic director of the chamber classical group Khemia Ensemble. With a background in electronic music production and jazz guitar, his concert works draw from these influences as well as modernist and post-modernist traditions. Recent works have explored memory loss, art as healing, acoustics of ancient sites and travel.

Mr. Bohman's compositions have been heard throughout the United States at various venues and festivals including New Music Festival at Bowling Green State University, Strange Beautiful Music X in Detroit, New Music Gathering 3, the Aspen Music Festival, the New York City Electronic Music Festival at Abrons Playhouse, the 73rd Wellesley Composers Conference, Trinosophes, Toronto International Electronic Symposium, SCI National Conference, SEAMUS National Conference, Electronic Music Midwest, Atlantic Music Festival, Society for New Music, 3rd Annual TUTTI Festival and more. His music has received awards or recognition from the Society of New Music (Brian Israel Award), the National Federations of Musics Club, ASCAP and the Michigan Music Teachers Association.

In 2015 he co-founded the Khemia Ensemble, a chamber music group dedicated to commissioning and presenting diverse selections of contemporary voices in innovative ways. The ensemble will perform at Strange Beautiful Music X in Detroit in September while recent performances were at New Music Gathering at Bowling Green State University and the Latin IS America Festival at Michigan State University. The ensemble has held residencies at the University of Michigan, the National University of Bogota, Colombia and the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. In the summer of 2017 they were in residence at Avaloch Farms for the second year in a row.

Anthony Joseph Lanman is an active and passionate musician that divides his time between composing, performing, teaching and advocacy for new classical music.

As a composer, Anthony creates music that reaches general audiences as well as new music connoisseurs. Embracing influences that range from progressive rock and metal, to medieval and renaissance music, to jazz, to new classical, Anthony strives to create a sound that is his own. He has written for ensembles and soloists around the world.

Recent commissions include – E.G.S./A.J.L. for guitarist Matthew Cochran, Hear Us! for children’s choir and string ensemble commissioned by Otter Creek Middle School, Automaton – a concerto for 8-string electric guitar and percussion for Clocks In Motion, The Rag and Bone Shop – a song cycle for baritone and piano trio for Brian Lewis and David Small commissioned by the University of Texas Butler School of Music, Rush – a quartet commissioned by the Music Teacher’s National Association and the Indiana Music Teacher’s Association, Hommages for Piano, Book 2, for Holly Roadfeldt, and Damselfly – a duo for 8-string electric guitar and percussion for Kyle Lutes.

Anthony’s performing career began in high school while singing and playing electric guitar with his touring progressive band Canvas. His principle instrument changed to classical guitar during his undergraduate years at University of Texas at Austin where he studied with Adam Holzman. Through his graduate study at Indiana University he added renaissance lute and theorbo to his instrumental arsenal, studying with Nigel North. He has performed with the University of Texas New Music Ensemble, the University of Texas Early Music Ensemble, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Indiana State University Wind Ensemble, and Clocks in Motion. He has also performed many concerts of solo and chamber music.

Anthony’s advocacy is life-long. In the nineties, he hosted a contemporary classical music radio show on KVRX in Austin, Texas. In the 21st century, he promoted fellow Indiana University composers through a web presence on Mp3.com (now defunct); created Guitar Heroes, a weekly presentation series in Second Life; and produced more than 100 episodes of his ongoing music-centric podcasts All the Cool Parts and the 1,000 Recordings Podcast. He has appeared as a guest on Soundnotion, Composer Quest, Classical Guitar Insider, Goes 2 Eleven, and The Portfolio Composer.  His new podcast 1 Track focuses on the music of the contemporary classical world.  In addition, he has exposed thousands of new listeners to contemporary classical composers by sharing this music to his more than 400,000 followers on Soundcloud.

Anthony has held several positions at multiple universities and colleges, as well as K-12 public schools. In 2016, he held an adjunct position at Butler University in addition to teaching choir and music at West Vigo Middle School. He holds a BM in composition from the University of Texas, and an MM and DM in composition from Indiana University.

Anthony currently resides in Bloomington, IN with his wife Jenna and their cats Silas and Bod.

Chaconne Coréenne (excerpt)

Texu Kim