Tag Archives: Contemporary Instrumental

Pianist Jim Wilson had an extended profession in keyboard-related complex function before he became a saving designer in his personal right. Given birth to in Greenville, SC, he relocated with his family members to Amarillo, TX, when he was six and was raised there. He 1st began playing your guitar …

New age/environmental instrumentalist Tajalli has released many albums of nature recordings for the IN Music label, like the Luminous Rainforest, Maganda, and Growth, documented with percussionist Pow. Buy of each recording helps rainforest preservation.

Only 12 years of age when he was named a Davidson Fellow in Music from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, California’s Evren Ozan is a Native American flute prodigy who found out the instrument while on holiday along with his family. He was just six when he spent weeks …

Larry Kucharz can be an digital composer and media musician who writes in both minimalist and religious ambient designs. He was created in 1946 in Chicago, where he grew up. He researched piano and theory on the Chicago and American Conservatories of Music and got his doctorate at Northwestern College …

Jazz bassist Dann Glenn offers earned accolades from such renowned magazines as Bass Participant Magazine, because of his use other artists, aswell as his regular stream of single releases. Glenn discovered the instrument in one of the electrical bass’ first accurate experts, Monk Montgomery, however the youthful bassist had to …

An American of Japanese descent, Chihara studied at Cornell University, with Gunther Schuller, Boulanger, and Ernst Pepping. He’s a teacher of music in the College or university of California at LA. He conducts the University’s collegium musicum and founded and directs the Double Ensemble. His fascination with Oriental music can …

Aaron Jay Kernis’ music personality emerged early and has remained essentially regular throughout his profession: he’s a composer with eclectic passions (both music and nonmusical), a theatrical, dramatic bent, and an uncompromising attitude toward his artwork. Kernis’ design is obtainable and well-known, and his music is normally widely performed. Kernis …

Well-respected composer/bass participant Rob Wasserman continues to be sharpening his go for musicianship because the early ’80s when he spent time schooling at the exclusive Conservatory of Music in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. His design of playing the bass within an upright style became his personal, making Wasserman an appealing …

Area of the later-’70s/early-’80s post-minimalist picture that also included performers just like the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Soft Verdict, Gavin Bryars, Piero Milesi, as well as the Durutti Column, the Shed Jockey were an instrumental outfit that fused the principles of minimalism to a far more rock and roll- and jazz-influenced …

The mystical sounds of Tibetan bells and singing bowls have already been used for years and years in Buddhist meditation and religious rites. Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings initial encountered these musical instruments throughout a 1969 visit to India and Nepal where they researched using the Kagyu branch of Tibetan …