This album was recorded in June 2018 at the Richard & Helen Brodbeck Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.
Performer Biography
Keith Lienert, the percussionist, serves on faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, teaching applied percussion, percussion ensemble, and jazz.
Performer Biography
Corey Mackey, the clarinetist on this album, is the Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Principal Clarinetist of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra.
Performer Biography
Keith Lienert, the percussionist on this album, is based in Madison, WI, and is the principal percussionist with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra.
Performer Biography
Corey Mackey is a proponent of new works for the clarinet, having premiered or commissioned pieces by several contemporary composers.
Instruments
A carnyx, the ancient Celtic war horn that inspired Serban Nichifor's piece, was an S or C shaped instrument, five to six feet tall, played like a modern brass instrument.
Composition History
Serban Nichifor's "Carnyx" won the Valentino Bucchi Composition Prize in Rome in 1985 and the International Society for Contemporary Music Prize in Hong Kong in 1988.
