John and Jim - live

That secret from the river will premiere February 5th, 2016 at Northwestern University. Commissioned by Northwestern University in celebration of the completion of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts and is dedicated to Mallory Thompson and the members, past and present, of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

This is a teaser from the middle of the piece. Please join us for the premiere if you are anywhere near Evanston/Chicago. This group is amazing!!!

that secret from the river TEASER PREVIEW

Pushing Air (for RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin Maloney)

mute materie by Nadir Vassena
Jeffery Kyle Hutchins, alto saxophone
Live at University of North Carolina Greensboro
1.27.17

mute materie by Nadir Vassena

Premiered at the Norfolk New Music Workshop on June 30th, 2017. Dedicated to the memory of Kevin Scheidt.

as stars scrape the universe (for "pierrot plus" ensemble)

for uilleann pipes and string quartet aka the brilliant Pádraic Keane and ConTempo Quartet!

something like light but not (string quartet and uilleann pipes)

For voice and amplified chamber ensemble

Performed by Madeline Healey and the Refugee Orchestra Project, conducted by Lidiya Yankovskaya

Premiered at National Sawdust, 06.12.18

Constellations

Slovenia RTV Orchestra. Steven Loy, conductor

Plany d'Antígona [2018] for chamber orchestra

INTERVIEW & BROADCAST: https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/creation-mondiale-l-integrale/ripped-tapestry-de-joel-jarventausta-laureat-du-concours-ile-de-creations-2019-diffusion-integrale-69955

Written in August - November 2018
Performed by Orchestre national d'Île de France, conducted by Jean Deroyer, Centre des bords de Marne, Perreux-sur-Marne, France - 21.02.2019

Recipient of 1st Prize in the 7th Edition of the Île de Créations Composition Competition.

Ripped Tapestry is built of five short movements, all responding to the famous anonymous medieval tune - l’homme armé - in either structural, harmonic or melodic ways. The title refers to the idea of an imaginary tapestry - depicting the armed man - destroyed, ripped apart resulting in an abstracted version of the original. The music follows in this vein.

Ripped Tapestry is a sister piece to Stonewalls (2017) which responds to a medieval plainchant too, however not from France but Finland.
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Recording courtesy of France Musique & Radio France

Ripped Tapestry - for orchestra (2018)

Viet Cuong, composer
performed by Alarm Will Sound

Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 28, 2018

Electric Aroma (a disagreeable noise)

Called “alluring” and “wildly inventive” by The New York Times, the music of Viet Cuong (b. 1990) has been performed on six continents by ensembles such as Sō Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Sandbox Percussion, the PRISM Quartet, JACK Quartet, Albany Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Midwest Clinic, and International Double Reed Society Conference. Additionally, his work has been featured twice on American Public Radio’s Performance Today and his wind band works have amassed over a hundred performances by wind ensembles worldwide.