Robin Michael, the cellist on this recording, plays a Vincenzo Panormo cello made around 1791.
Composer Biography
Joe Cutler is currently the Head of Composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, where he has taught since 2000.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Joe Cutler draws inspiration from a 'modern' range of extra-musical influences, including authors Jack Kerouac, Primo Levi, and Kazuo Ishiguro, and artist Willem de Kooning.
Composer Biography
Joe Cutler has spent considerable time in the Netherlands, working with groups like Orkest de Ereprijs and Orkest de Volharding.
Composer Biography
Joe Cutler, born in London in 1968, studied composition at Huddersfield and Durham Universities and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw.
Compositional Technique
Joe Cutler's scores often use evocative words as titles and performance directions, such as 'blues tempo', 'funky', and 'groovy'.
Recording & Production
The album features settings of four poems by Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet whose work is translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh.
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