Chris Belt, Electric Guitar
Thad Anderson, Drum Kit
Thomas Harrison, Recording Engineer

Recorded April 15, 2021 
Orlando, FL

Atoms

Bethany Hynes, Soprano
Nick Pauly, Viola
Rose Soenen, Harp
Alex Burtzos, Electronics

When He First Appears

When He First Appears (Remaster)

Performed by ShoutHouse (feat. Massaai) at ShapeShifter Lab in New York City. October 2017.

The F Word

Rachel Selan, Mezzo-Soprano
Will Healy, Piano

The Explosion, and Other Tales

A ballet in five sections, played by musicians from NOREE Performing Arts.

Amelia Dietrich, Violin
Yi Qun Xu, Cello
Yoon Lee, Piano

Live recording made August, 2018 at Kniesel Concert Hall, Blue Hill, ME.

II. The Tiger and the Bear / III. The Prayers (Tiger's Dark Mind)

I. Prologue

Contemporaneous performs "R A G E ." live at the DiMenna Center for Classical music in New York, NY. April 26, 2019.

Fanny Wyrick-Flax, Flutes
Vicente Alexim, Clarinets
Paul Kerekes, Piano
Adam Holmes, Percussion
Finnegan Shanahan, Violin
Sarah Elizabeth Haines, Viola
Amanda Gookin, Cello
Tristan Kasten-Krause, Bass
David Bloom, Conductor

R A G E .

ShoutHouse performs Alex Burtzos' "Love & Loss & Loathing & Lizards" with Hannah Zazzaro (soprano) and spiritchild (MC). Studio recording made 2017.

Love & Loss & Loathing & Lizards

Alex Burtzos' "pOwer trIo" (2018). Studio recording made May 2019. 

George Weremchuk, Alto Saxophone
Will Daniels, Piano
Thad Anderson, Drums and Vibraphone

Engineered by Thomas Harrison.

pOwer trIo

The Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra's Philharmonia performs Alex Burtzos's "PULSE." Recorded live on March 8, 2020. Matthew Davis, conductor.

"PULSE," for Youth Orchestra

Musicians from the Aston Magna Music Festival perform "The Hourglass Equation," by composer Alex Burtzos. Live recording made at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University (July 2016).

The Hourglass Equation

Musicians from the New Orleans New Music Ensemble perform Alex Burtzos' "Fantasy on a French Carol" (2009). Recorded live at The Big Top Gallery, December 2009.

Fantasy On A French Carol

The Loyola University New Orleans wind ensemble premieres Alex Burtzos' "Psyché" (2008). This recording made live at Roussel Hall, New Orleans, LA (April 2009).

Psyché

Alex Burtzos (b. 1985) is an American composer and conductor living in New York City.  His works, which bristle with "biting contemporary edge" [Berkshire Eagle] have been performed across the United States, Europe, and South America.  Recently, Alex has collaborated with JACK Quartet, loadbang, ETHEL, Righteous GIRLS, Fresh Squeezed Opera, Tempus Continuum Ensemble, the Aspen Music Festival, The Secret Opera, ensemble mise-en, and many others.  Alex is the founder and president of ICEBERG New Music, a New York-based composers' collective.

As a composer, Alex is committed to pursuing artistic expression unconstrained by boundaries of school or style.  His "riveting" [NY Concert Review] work incorporates elements of the 20th Century avant-garde, rock, metal, and hip-hop alongside or against classical/preclassical structures and sounds, justifying these juxtapositions with a great depth of musical ideas and extra-musical knowledge.  Alex’s music takes as its basis and provides commentary on a diverse array of subject matter, from early colonial history (A Country of Vast Designs) to recent events (12.14.12), from Shakespeare’s tragedies (Teach the Torches to Burn Bright) to naughty text messages (>; ) SXTG).  His unique approach has earned him accolades from organizations around the United States, and the opportunity to compose for some of the country's most accomplished chamber ensembles.

As a conductor, Alex exclusively performs the work of living composers, and has conducted premieres of works by Kenneth Fuchs, Anne Goldberg, Will Healy, Jennifer Bellor, Scott Lee, Nick Omiccioli, and others.  As the conductor of ShoutHouse, he blends elements of jazz and classical conducting styles to cultivate a unified, engaging sound that's "incomparable to anything existing."  Watch a video here.

Alex holds a DMA from Manhattan School of Music, where his primary teachers were Reiko Fueting and Mark Stambaugh.  He is a faculty member at Stevens Institute of Technology and Ramapo College of New Jersey.

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