Gary noland, composer, pianist, theorist, writer, artist, concert organizer

   I. Snowbound
   II. From a Forest Soon to be Logged

Nancy Wood, soprano

Jeff Winslow, piano 

  
9. Jan Mittelstaedt 

Stained Glass for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano

Kathryn Hill, flute

Ann van Bever, oboe

Nanita McIlhattan, clarinet

David Crane, French horn

Margaret McShea, bassoon

Jeff Winslow, piano

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PREVIOUS CASCADIA COMPOSERS CONCERT…

http://www.garynolandcomposer.com/cascadia_composersnacusa.html

To Whom It May Concern:

I want to bring to your attention an exciting new organization of composers from the Northern Oregon / Southern Washington region—the Cascadia Chapter of NACUSA (the National Association of Composers, USA), which is having its inaugural concert of chamber music by seven of the region’s most distinguished composers—David Bernstein, Jack Gabel, Gary Noland, Dan Senn, Greg Steinke, Tomas Svoboda, and Jeff Winslow—at the Old Church (1422 S.W. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201) on March 13th, 2009 at 8:00 pm.  The organization of this chapter has been in the making for well over a year and its founding represents one of the first times in the history of this region that an organization has been formed with the sole purpose of supporting and overseeing performances of concert hall music written by living composers from the Northern Oregon / Southern Washington regions. As you may have noted, cities such as Portland and Eugene and their surrounding environs have increasingly become recognized as possessing vibrant contemporary concert hall music scenes. The formation of our group thus represents an historic moment in the cultural history of this region. We are proud to be having our chamber works performed by one of the region’s most daring contemporary music ensembles—fEAR no MUSIC—and several guest artists, including pianist Alexandre Dossin, who won First Prize and Special Prize at the Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2003. General admission is $20.00, seniors $15.00, students $5.00. 

Also: Prior to the March 13th concert, the Cascadia—NACUSA Composers are scheduled to give individual lecture-workshops on their music on the following dates:

Lecture-Workshoo III: Composers Jack Gabel and Gary Noland will talk about and present examples of their work on Monday, February 9, 2009, 7:00 pm, at Waterhouse Studio, 990 NW 161st Terrace, Beaverton, OR 97006. (Please click the link to the Waterhouse website for a detailed map.) Admission is free. Tax deductible donations will be accepted.

Lecture-Workshop IV: Composer Tomas Svoboda will talk about and present examples of his work on Monday, March 2, 2009, 7:00 pm, at Waterhouse Studio, 990 NW 161st Terrace, Beaverton, OR 97006. (Please click the link to the Waterhouse website for a detailed map.) Admission is free. Tax-deductible donations will be accepted.

Previous lecture-workshops by composers David Bernstein, Jeff Winslow, Greg Steinke, and Dan Senn have already taken place on December 7, 2008 and January 5, 2009.

Please review the information and links to high-res photos below. We would love to have a feature article written about us and are happy to answer any questions. Feel free to contact me, or the President of our chapter David Bernstein, for more detailed information on our group. To hear samples of our music, please go to the websites of the individual composers (listed hereinbelow) and/or go to www.northpacificmusic.com.

David Bernstein can be reached at: 503-396-5294 or you can contact him by e-mail at: db@davidbernsteinmusic.com

You may call me at: 503-235-3714. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes for the new year,

Gary Noland

(503) 235-3714

3106 SE Tindall Circle

Portland, OR 97202

Chapter of NACUSA—the National Association of Composers, USA

http://www.cascadiacomposers.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Old Church

1422 S.W. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201

8:00 pm, Friday, March 13th, 2009

General Admission: $20.00 • Seniors: $15.00 • Students: $5.00 • Children Under 13: free

Click below for hi-res. Images:

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FEAR NO MUSIC -- http://www.fearnomusic.org

And:

GUEST ARTISTS

David Buck, piccolo

Paloma Griffin, violin

Janice Johnson, voice

Nancy Ives, cello

PROGRAM:

Gary Noland              

                                   Waltz Fantasy  (Op. 87)*                                                                             

 Jeff Winslow             

                                   for voice and piano

                                   Janice Johnson, voice

                                   Jeff Payne, piano

Tomas Svoboda 

      

                                   Elusive Echoes (Op. 197a)

                                   for violin and xylophone

Inés Voglar, violin

Joel Bluestone, xylophone

Greg A. Steinke         

               

 

            The music of composer David Bernstein has seen its expression in a wide variety of genres. His concert music ranges from compositions for the theatre and musical theatre to works for dance, opera, orchestra, chorus, band and many varied chamber music ensembles.

            His large and varied output has been heard in over 100 performances in the United States, as well as in Canada, South America and Europe, and he is published by G. Schirmer, Lawson-Gould Pub., Music for Percussion, Inc., The Acoma Co., Ludwig Music Publishers, Inc., Willis Music and Abingdon Press.

            His commercial endeavors include music for The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., The American Greetings Corp., The Ohio Farmers Insurance Co. (Westfield Companies); projects for Classic Video Inc., Perfect Pitch Studios, Beechwood Studios, as well as other smaller companies in the Cleveland, Ohio area and Atlanta, Georgia.

            David Bernstein's musical education includes composition studies with Carlisle Floyd at Florida State University (BM and MM degrees) and work with Juan Orrego Salas and Bernard Heiden at Indiana University (Doctorate "with distinction").

Jack Gabel -- www.jackgabel.com

 

            Jack Gabel, (b. 1949 -) presently lives in Portland, Oregon. He has traveled extensively, throughout Europe, Africa and Asia and worked many summers as a commercial fisherman in Alaska.

Jack Gabel has written numerous concert hall works for many different combinations of instruments and voices, with and without electroacoustic accompaniments and/or enhancements. He also creates mixed-media works alone and with collaborators, using musique concrete and poetry, frequently his own, some of which has been published apart from its use in contemporary performance pieces and more traditional settings for singers.

Though classically trained with composers Derek Healey, Tomas Svoboda and poet Ralph Salisbury, Gabel recounts as his most memorable musical experience, the impromptu jam session he had with an Afghan tribesman in a Herat tea house in 1972 -- the composer on mouth organ and the local talent holding forth on his handmade, rough-hewn, 3-string lute. The two miraculously found a common modality straight away and carried on for several hours. "No concert-hall premiere or recording session can to date compare," adds the composer, "nor likely ever will."

Today, Gabel's work is infused with widely varied ethnic and ancient colors and motives, most notably those of the ancient, native cultures of North America.

His 1997 article on electronic music for the All Music Guide can be found at  www.allmusic.com 

In addition to his NPM releases, Jack Gabel's discography includes 

Whale Hunt Dream on the MMC (2000) release Viola Concertos, Vol. II by Karen Dreyfus with the Silesian Philharmonic, Jerzy Svoboda conducting

Etude de la Saison for solo koto, by Elizabeth Falconer on the Sparkling Beatnik (2000) release, Water Colors 

Auto-Mobile from original poetry for tenor sax, processed string bass and narrator/percussionist on a percussion battery infused with junked car parts, on the The Third Angle New Music Ensemble's Gagliano Records (1999) release, The Junkyard Concert.

 

 

Gary Noland – www.GaryNolandComposer.com 

 

            Gary Noland’s music has received ecstatic praise from some of the leading musicians of the era. He has been called the “Richard Strauss of the 21st century” and the “composer to end all composers” and has been described as the “most virtuosic composer of fugue alive today.” His music has been reviewed extensively and is historically acknowledged (Nicolas Slonimsky: Music Since 1900). Born in Seattle and raised in Berkeley, he grew up on a plot of land three blocks south of U.C. Berkeley known as People’s Park, which has distinguished itself as a site of civic unrest since the 1960s. As an adolescent, Gary lived for a time in Salzburg and in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (home of Richard Strauss), where he absorbed many musical influences. He earned a B.A. in music from U.C. Berkeley in 1979, continued studies at the Boston Conservatory, and transferred to Harvard where he worked as a teaching fellow and added to his academic credits an M.A. and a Ph.D. in 1989. His teachers in composition and theory have included John C. Adams, Alan Curtis, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, William Denny, Robert Dickow, Janice Giteck, Andrew Imbrie, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner, David Lewin, Donald Martino, Hugo Norden, Marta Ptaszynska, Chris Rozé, Goodwin Sammel, John Swackhamer, Ivan Tcherepnin, and Walter Winslow. He has attended seminars with composers David Del Tredici, Beverly Grigsby, Michael Finnissy, and Bernard Rands, and he has had private consultations with George Rochberg and Joaquin Nin-Culmell.

            Gary’s compositions have been performed and broadcast in many locations throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, and Japan, and are regularly featured on the Seventh Species composers concert series in Oregon, which he founded in San Francisco in 1990. Gary has taught music at Harvard and the University of Oregon and currently teaches piano, theory, and composition as an independent instructor in Portland, Oregon. Six CDs of his compositions are available on North Pacific Music at: www.northpacificmusic.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

         Greg A Steinke is Former Chair, Departments of Art and Music, (The Joseph Naumes Endowed Chair in Music), also Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon (now retired, 6/15/01); Associate Director, Ernest Bloch Music Festival (‘93–97) and Director, Composers Symposium (‘90–97) (Newport, OR); Professor Steinke holds a B.M. degree from Oberlin Conservatory, a M.M. degree from Michigan State University, a M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He is the author of articles on new oboe literature and music composition; he has done the revisions to the Paul Harder Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music, 6, 7, 8 & 9th Ed., Basic Materials in Music Theory, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11th Ed., Bridge to Twentieth-Century Music, Rev. Ed. for Prentice-Hall, and most recently with H Owen Reed a revision to the Harder-Reed Basic Contrapuntal Techniques for Warner Bros. Pub.; and an article, “Music for Dance: An Overview” in The Dance Has Many Faces, 3rd Ed., Ed. by Walter Sorell, a cappella books. He holds membership in a number of professional organizations. He has served as the National Chairman of the Society of Composers, Inc. (1988–97) and is currently Secty/Treas of Art Culture Nature, Inc. Professor Steinke is very active as a composer of chamber and symphonic music with a number of published/recorded works and performances across the United States and internationally, as a speaker on interdisciplinary arts and as an oboe soloist specializing in contemporary music for oboe. His most recent composition honors include: Finalist (of 4)- ‘01 Seoul International Composers Competition. Winner of Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity Composition Competition, ‘02. Honorable Mention - ‘02 “Britten-on-the-Bay” Composition Competition Series XIII (Saxophone Quartet). Special Mention – ’03 USA International Harp Competition (Solo Harp). Finalist/Winner – ‘04 of COMA Open Score Project in England (Generic Quartet). Honorable Mention - ’05, VIII International Composition Competition of the Corfu Festival (Guitar).

 

Tomas Svoboda -- http://www.tomassvoboda.com

 

            Born in Paris of Czech parents, December 6, 1939, Tomas Svoboda composed his first opus at age 9 and was admitted to the Prague Conservatory 5 years later as its youngest student.

           By 1962, after graduating from the Conservatory with degrees in percussion, composition and conducting, numerous performances and radio broadcasts of his music brought national recognition to Svoboda, clearly establishing him as Czechoslovakia's most important young composer.

Jeff Winslow

 

            Jeff Winslow was born into a musical family in Salem, Oregon in 1954. Twin discoveries, of Debussy and Mahler, inspired his first serious efforts at composition.  However, four things conspired to send him to the University of California at Berkeley as an electronics engineering student:  Middling performance chops, a disinclination for teaching, the harmonic monotony of most popular music, and spiky academic serialism. While at Berkeley, he studied theory and composition with Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Edwin Dugger, Michael Senturia, and Richard Felciano, but he remained inactive as a composer until the 90's, which brought mid-life crisis, and a long-overdue stylistic explosion in the world of art music. Years were lost, but not the dedication to piquant harmony, elegant line, and fluid rhythm. Two of his songs were performed at the 1998 benefit for Fear No Music. Recent performances have been by Cherry Blossom Musical Arts in Eugene, by Seventh Species in Portland, and by himself at the 2007 Oregon Bach Festival.

FEAR NO MUSIC PHOTO GALLERY:

Information on CASCADIA CHAPTER of NACUSA

Cascadia Composers is part of the National Association of Composers/USA (NACUSA), a national organization that currently has nine chapters in the following US locations: CS = Cascadia, EC = East Coast, LA = Los Angeles, MA = Mid-Atlantic, MS = Mid-South, SF = San Francisco, SO = Southern Oregon, TN = Tennessee, TX = Texas.

The Cascadia Chapter of NACUSA is the most recently formed group and represents composers in Northern Oregon and Southern Washington.

The NACUSA headquarters is in Los Angeles.

Founding Members and Governing Board

PRESIDENT: David Bernstein

VICE-PRESIDENT: Dan Senn

SECRETARY/TREASURER: Greg Steinke

RECORDER: Jeff Winslow

PUBLICITY: Gary Noland

ARCHIVIST (audio): Jack Gabel

ARCHIVIST (video): Dan Senn

AT LARGE: Tomas Svoboda

The Cascadia Mission Statement

The Cascadia chapter of NACUSA will promote the composition and performance of contemporary classical music by regional composers; stimulate national and international awareness of this music; and gather composers to share and disseminate information pertinent to its members and the community.

The Cascadia chapter is registered with the office of the Secretary of State of Oregon as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. This chapter also falls under the umbrella of the 501(c)(3) of the national organization that is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Cascadia serves northern Oregon and southern Washington and was founded in 2008 (read more).