This album features three premieres by composers Hartke, Ogonek, and Jones, recorded in Clonick Hall at Oberlin Conservatory.
Performer Biography
Stephen Hartke, one of the composers featured, is a Grammy Award winner for Best Contemporary Classical Composition and began his musical career as a professional boy chorister.
Performer Biography
The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME), featured on this album, has trained many new music performers and groundbreaking ensembles, including the Grammy-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird.
Performer Biography
Jesse Jones, the third featured composer, is also a multi-instrumentalist who tours professionally and builds acoustic and electric instruments, including microtonal banjos.
Performer Biography
Timothy Weiss, the conductor for this album, has directed the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble for over two decades and also serves as music director of the Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta in Norway.
Performer Biography
Pianist Xak Bjerken, who commissioned and premiered the works on this album, has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Disney Hall and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Performer Biography
Elizabeth Ogonek, another featured composer, served as the Mead Composer in Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2015 to 2018.
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