Composer Robert Carl(breakfast in Japan)On Feb. 23rd, the premiere of Robert Carl's Processional: A
Tree Rises for zheng and bass clarinet took place at Conservatory Connections, Nelson
Atkins-Museum of Art, (Kirkwood Gallery) in Kansas City, MO.
Upcoming performances of music by Robert Carl include:
March 3, 3 PM: Changing My Spots for variable
instrumentation; The Generous Ensemble, Scott Comanzo, director, Westfield
State College, Westfield MA.
March 11, 7:30 PM, Merkin Hall, New York City: premiere
of The Geography of Loss for soprano, baritone, chamber choir, and 8
instrumentalists; Khorikos, Jesse Peckham, conductor, with Jolle Greenleaf,
soprano and Vince Vincent, baritone. Get tickets here.
March 20, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Theater, University of
Hartford: premiere of The Inevitable Wave (C) for chamber orchestra
and fixed media; Foot in the Door, Edward Cumming conductor.
Robert Carl (b.1954) received his musical training at Yale,
Penn, and the University of Chicago. He also studied in Paris during
1980-1 as a Lurcy Fellow at the Conservatoire Nationale Suprieure and
the Sorbonne. His teachers include Iannis Xenakis, Betsy Jolas, Ralph
Shapey, George Rochberg, Jonathan Kramer, George Crumb, Richard Wernick,
and Robert Morris. Mr. Carl has received prizes and fellowships from
such organizations as the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music
America, American Chamber Symphony, NACUSA, and Tanglewood. He is the
recipient of a 2005 Chamber Music America commission for a string
quintet premiered by the Miami String Quartet and Robert Black,
contrabass. An excerpt from his opera-in-progress Harmony (libretto by Russell Banks) was premiered in May 2006 at the New York City Operas VOX showcase series.