Timothy Gill, the cellist on this album, is recognized as one of the most versatile instrumentalists of his generation and is currently professor of cello at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Composer Biography
David Gompper, the composer, has lived and worked professionally as a pianist, conductor, and composer in various locations including New York, London, Nigeria, and Iowa.
Performer Biography
Volkan Orhon, the double bassist on this album, was a prizewinner in the Concert Artists Guild competition and the co-first place winner of the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition.
Composer Biography
David Gompper received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City in 2009 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.
Composer Biography
David Gompper is a professor of composition and director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa, a position he has held since 1991.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer David Gompper's works on this album explore "binary ideas" such as day/night, light/dark, and open/muted, which are formally evident in the movement designs.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The three works on this album are the final compositions in David Gompper's "Sunburst series," which is a set of intervallic relationships that has provided him with material for a decade.
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