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| James Orlick, named composer in residence at Aspen, Co |
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| Saturday, 30 June 2007 | |
 James Orlick, named composer in residence at Aspen, Colorado, and was commissioned, by Artist-faculty of the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado to orchestrate the Summer 2007 Percussion Concert Series, which includes two seminal concerts at the Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, Co.
The concert is July 31, 2007. Tickets are $30.00 and can be purchased online at the Aspen Summer Music Festival. http://www.aspenmusic.com/mia.html1)“The 70th birthday Celebration of the academy nominated film and concert composer, Philip Glass”: A Multi-Media Sonic Celebration, live with film Play by Samuel Beckett/ Music by PHILIP GLASS/JAMES ORLICK: Prelude to Endgame PHILIP GLASS/James Orlick: Sara Palada from Powaqqatsi- Motion Picture PHILIP GLASS/James Orlick: Train to São Paulo from Powaqqatsi- Motion Picture 2)”Blue Notes”, celebration of Duke Ellington ELLINGTON/JAMES ORLICK: Mallatoba Spank ELLINGTON/JAMES ORLICK: Tympaturbably Blue The 2007 summer theme is Blue Notes, an exploration of the jazz vernacular in classical music. Music of composers as diverse as Adams, Antheil, Bernstein, Bolcom, Copland, Debussy, Ellington, Gottchalk, Gershwin, Martinu, Milhaud, Ravel, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Tippett, Walton, and Weill will be represented throughout the summer. In addition to members of our extraordinary artist-faculty, 2007 guest artists and conductors include Adele Anthony, Yefim Bronfman, James Conlon, James DePreist, Julia Fischer, Jonathan Gilad, Andreas Haefliger, Sergey Klachatyrian, Robert Levin, Cho-Liang Lin, Robert McDuffie, Nicholas McGegan, David Robertson, Julius Rudel, Peter Serkin, Gil Shaham, Orli Shaham, Leonard Slatkin, Osmo Vanska, and Joyce Yang, as well as the American Brass Quintet, Brentano String Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Takacs Quartet, and Ying Quartet. Steven Mackey joins Christopher as composer-in-residence. James Orlick (Composer/orchestrator) and Percussionist received his Master of Arts Degree in Percussion and Film Composition from New York University and is currently in the Ph.D. program. His film composition teachers include Ron Sadoff director of film studies (composed the score for John Canemaker's, "The Moon and The Son: An Imagined Conversation (it was awarded the Oscar) http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/page.php?page_id=338), master classes from Tan Dun (crouching tiger, hidden dragon), Ira Newborn, film composer; and from world renown percussionist Jonathan Haas from NYU,Juilliard, and Peabody Conservatory at John Hopkins http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/page.php?page_id=907 As a music critic, Orlick studied for two years with Allan Kozinn, Music Critic from The New York Times. Orlick enjoys an emerging career in percussion and piano performance, pedagogy, music research, composition, arranging/orchestrating, film composition, and conducting. Orlick has composed over forty works, ranging from symphonies, chamber music for percussion as well as strings, and electronic works. He appears on thirty-seven professional recordings, including Equilibrium Records, and on three DVDs. He currently performs in the following NYU Ensembles: Film Orchestra (records film cues), Percussion Chamber Ensemble, Symphony and Community Orchestras, Steel Pan Ensemble, and World Drum Ensembles. Orlick also performs countless percussion recitals throughout the U.S. His music articles can be seen in the international Percussive Arts Society Magazine, the New York State Percussive Arts Society Magazine, the Pearl Drum Cooperation Educator's News, and Pro- Mark Drum Cooperation Educator's News. He is the "Produzione nel palco" (Production Manager) for the Grammy nominated Harmonie Symphony Orchestra of New York City. It has won numerous awards, including the Lincoln Center Community Arts Project Award, and the WQXR Action for the Arts Award. The Aaron Copland Concert was broadcasted nationally on PBS-TV, and featured in the film Copland, A Self-Portrait. Orlick is a composer in The Society of Composers and Lyricists, Beverly Hills, California. Such Performance Premieres: Commissioned by The Korean Government and Broadcasted Live from Loewe Theatre to Korea with Dancers; Soloist in "The Past is in the Present" composed and directed by Gunther Schuller, Pultizer Prize. Composition Commissions: commissioned to arranged 'Prelude to End Game' by Philip Glass. It was premiered November 2006 in Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas; commissioned by Jonathan Haas to compose a electronic version of 'Prelude to End Game' by Philip Glass which was premiered in Paris, France and Riga, Latvia in November 2006.;commissioned by Philip Glass to arrange live version of Philip Glass' "Powaqqatsi"; Commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival to Orchestra a Duke Ellington Concert for Summer 2007 Season and a Philip Glass Celebration Concert; commissioned by Helen Turley to compose an Opera "Tomorrow, I am John". Orlick is also responsible for the commissioning of five new percussion works in which he commissioned percussionists from the New York Philharmonic and Broadway percussion and was subsequently premiered. Orlick is the director of percussive studies and Professor of music at South Carolina State University in which the world premieres of the Philip Glass film scores for his 70th Birthday Celebration took place. The overall goal of the Percussion and Timpani Studio is to provide a rewarding and fulfilling musical experience while simultaneously preparing each student to be a serious competitor in the multi-faceted music industry. The studio operates in an atmosphere of cooperation and responsibility. Its members cultivate a spirit of mutual respect, which enables the percussion studies program to perform in an organized and professional manner. Ultimately, the goal is to serve music at the highest standard. For more info visit: http://www.jamesorlick.com Jonathan Haas (percussion artist-faculty) is principal timpanist of the Aspen Chamber Orchestra, principal percussionist of the American Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the American Composers Orchestra. He has appeared with most major performing arts organizations in New York. He commissioned Philip Glass's Concerto Fantasy for two timpanists and orchestra and he has performed the work with the American Symphony, Phoenix, New Jersey, Peabody, Pasadena, Long Beach, New York Pops, St. Louis, Mexico City, BBC, IRIS, Prague, Bergen, Milwaukee, Istanbul, Sydney, and Chicago symphony orchestras. He and Evelyn Glennie recently recorded the Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Gerard Schwarz. Mr. Haas has recorded the Grammy Award-winning Zappa's Universe and performed with Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Other recordings include 18th Century Concertos for Timpani and Orchestra and Johnny H. and the Prisoners of Swing for Sunset Records. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, Mr. Haas received his master's degree from the Juilliard School. He is director of the percussion departments at Peabody Conservatory, the Aspen Music Festival and School, New York University Classical Percussion Studio, and the Juilliard pre-college division. About the Aspen Music Festival: Founded in 1949, the Aspen Music Festival and School is an internationally renowned classical music festival that presents world-class music in an intimate, small-town setting. It is also one of the world's premier training grounds for pre-professional musicians. Music Director David Zinman presides over the nine-week summer Festival that comprises more than 350 events, including orchestral concerts, chamber music, opera, contemporary music, master classes, lectures, and kids' programs. Concerts take place daily at the 2,050-seat Benedict Music Tent, an acoustically superior and award-winning permanent structure that made its debut in 2000, the beautifully restored Victorian Wheeler Opera House, the jewel-like Harris Concert Hall, and in churches and smaller halls around town. Many events are free, lawn seating outside the tent is always free, and other tickets range up to $80. Aspen is also where the world's brightest young musicians come to study with the world's foremost instructors, where thousands of musical influences converge in a white-hot crucible of creativity. Year after year, the Music School has inspired young musicians to mature into some of the most brilliant and creative classical artists in the world, from New York to Paris, from Tokyo to Rome. Generation after generation, masters of the craft pass along their knowledge and passion for music to students, merging lines of musical and cultural differences and creating a constantly growing cycle of artistic magnificence. The Festival and School was founded by intellectuals and visionaries Elizabeth and Walter Paepcke of Chicago and is rooted in the lofty idea that it is the combination of art and nature that fosters the growth of the human spirit. Fifty-some years later, this guiding principle still informs every aspect of the organization. See for yourself. |
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