WNUR - "Classical And Beyond" . . . . . MARI TAKANO June 21 Conductor MARIN ALSOP June 28 - Composer STEVEN GERBERJuly 5 - Conductor LEONARD SLATKIN July 12 - pianist stephen drury July 19 http://www.bruceduffie.com/wnurb.html
Sarah Bob, Piano Currently, Sarah is pianist of the Radius Ensemble, a fresh and New England Conservatory(NEC.) Her principal teachers include Steven Masi and stephen drury. http://www.sarahbob.net/sarahbob.htm
Extractions: Recognized as a risk taker, Sarah is a recent grant recipient of the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music and top prizewinner of the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2001. Sarah is also the founding director of the New Gallery Concert Series. Held in the South End's Community Music Center of Boston, the New Gallery Concerts bring together both new music and contemporary visual art along with their creators. Currently, Sarah is pianist of the Radius Ensemble, a fresh and creative chamber music group that focuses on both the traditional and cutting edge as well as a member of the Firebird Ensemble, a contemporary music chamber group. Sarah can be heard playing the music of Lee Hyla on the Tzadik label and Armand Qualliotine on Neptune Music Co. Sarah graduated with honors from the University of Michigan School of Music and soon after received her masters from the New England Conservatory (NEC.) Her principal teachers include Steven Masi and Stephen Drury. She worked extensively with Patricia Zander as a member of the 1998-1999 NEC Honors Piano Trio, as well as with Malcolm Lowe, concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Sarah has served as adjunct faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Music and is now on faculty at the Community Music Center of Boston as well as teaches privately throughout the Boston area.
Special Keyboard Events, School Of Music And Dance Sample of Previous Events. stephen drury Masterclass Saturday, October 16, 1999,Crowder Hall. Reknowned pianist stephen drury presented a masterclass. http://www.arts.arizona.edu/keyboard/keyboardevents.html
Extractions: photo by Blandon Belushin Stephen Bates, a conductor, musical director, composer lyricist and arranger who conducted the launch of the 2003 national tour of The Lion King, died Nov. 5 of AIDS-related lymphoma at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. Mr. Bates, a Chicago resident, had last conducted the smash Disney show Aug. 10 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, his 17-year partner, Larry Baker, told Playbill On-Line. Mr. Bates had told people at his 50th birthday party this year that he had the greatest gig in the world conducting a show whose theme is "The Circle of Life." As a writer, Mr. Bates contributed songs and arrangements to the popular revue, Naked Boys Singing, and was its initial musical director and conductor in Los Angeles and New York. He also wrote some 30 songs for Starr Struck, a musical spoof of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, which played L.A.'s Blank Theatre; and he was conductor and musical director of Blank's First Lady Suite
PianoMedia -- Print Article pianist engages in spirited workout. www.pianomedia.com/reviews_detail.php?id=P259_0_3_0By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff, 7/2/2003 stephen drury, artistic director http://www.pianomedia.com/print.php?id=259_0_3_0
Classical Piano Links Oliver Drechsel pianist (DE), stephen drury pianist/Conductor.Hans Eijsackers pianist (NL), Wolfgang Ellenberger pianist (DE). http://www.carolinaclassical.com/pianolinks.html
Backstage Pass: Zornfest pianist and conductor stephen drury is the foremost authority on Zorn smusic and has come to Oberlin as the festival s guest artist. http://www.oberlin.edu/con/bkstage/200004/zornfest.html
Diskunion Recorded by Joel Gordon. Mastered by Allan Tucker. Classical Music is luckyto have a pianist as dedicated and passionate as stephen drury. http://www.diskunion.co.jp/avant/catalogue_e/AVAN-022.html
Extractions: Classical Music is lucky to have a pianist as dedicated and passionate as Stephen Drury. A close collaborator of both John Cage and John Zorn, Drury's virtuosic solo recitals and critically acclaimed recordings are establishing him as one of contemporary music's most important performers. Drury's adventurous programming and unique interpretations of classical literature shed new light on these well-known masterpieces for solo piano. You will never hear Beethoven and Liszt the same way again.
Curtis K. Hughes - Concert Calendar 2002) PREMIERE PERFORMANCE by the Callithumpian Consort, stephen drury, artisticdirector. version) (1999, 2001) will be performed by pianist Sarah Bob as http://www.curtiskhughes.com/calendar.html
Art Of The States: Trio III pianist, conductor, and teacher stephen drury has performed throughout the worldwith a repertoire ranging from Bach and Liszt to John Cage and György Ligeti. http://www.artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=214
BSQ Reviews The Borromeo String Quartet and stephen drury, the pianist, conveyed the score svibrancy as well as the humor in its multiple fakeout endings. http://www.borromeoquartet.org/reviews/rev_03_12_04.html
Extractions: March 12, 2004 Raceful lyricism and dissonance would seem to be polar opposites and impossible to reconcile, yet Mark-Anthony Turnage, an English composer born in 1960, has built his art on fusing those qualities. Some of his works - including a few performed on an installment of the Making Music series at Weill Recital Hall on March 4 - tilt one way or the other. But where his music is at its most magical, he is able to continuously renegotiate this amalgam through the length of a piece, letting a listener ride the waves of musical discourse without worrying, from one phrase to the next, which way the balance is tilting. Perhaps one reason Mr. Turnage accomplishes this with such deftness is that he has other balancing acts going on as well. A fascination with jazz improvisation, for example, jostles for the spotlight with the rigors of fully-scored contemporary music. Mr. Turnage's latest recording, ``Scorched'' (on the Deutsche Grammophon label), is a collaboration with the great jazz guitarist John Scofield, and although none of the music on that disc was performed on Thursday, the program did include a pair of works performed by the jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano, as well as Mr. Lovano's improvisation on themes from one Mr. Turnage's ``Two Memorials'' (1995-2002). That improvisation, a study in muscular, chromatic swirls in which Mr. Lovano's tenor saxophone resounded through the hall, established the common ground between Mr. Lovano and Mr. Turnage, whose chromaticism in ``Two Memorials'' moves farther afield. Mr. Lovano, joined by Stephen Gosling, the pianist, also played ``Sarabande'' (1985), a quirky work in which the substance often sounded like 1950's jazz gone interestingly awry. But both players were also required to periodically ring a bell of the kind that used to be found in shops and at motel desks, giving the deadpan performance a hint of Monty Python zaniness.
Trummerflora Collective - Links Ernesto DiazInfante Composer, improviser. Donkey Electroacoustic improvisedmusic duo. stephen drury pianist. Earthboys Madison based improvisers. http://www.trummerflora.com/links/zcnt.asp?zcat=1
Mikhashoff Trust: Awards Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra (Syracuse NY), for commission to Erik Ona 1996Awards Students · Helena Bugallo, pianist, for study with stephen drury. http://www.mikhashofftrust.org/awards.html
ELSAproductions - Meeting Messiaen Philharmonic, EOS Orchestra, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Brooklyn Philharmonic, BayerischerStaatsoper, WDR Orchestra Koln and American pianist stephen drury. http://www.elsaproductions.com/messiaen.html
Extractions: Introduction to Messiaen will go beyond the borders of contemporary classical music and highlight the influence he still has on today's artistic life. From fields as diverse as computer music ( Subotnick Wessel ), jazz ( Zorn ), and the visual arts ( Brereton ), artists will present Messiaen's world and personality through their own work. The new opera production will be evoked by the performance of short excerpt from Saint Francois d'Assise These cross-disciplinary bridges will be highlighted by practical and didactic means. Kurt Brereton will evoke Messiaen's insatiable quest for birdsongs as well as synesthesia and the essential part musical colors would play in Messiaen's composition, through his paintings and installations. In informal discussions, computer music pioneer Morton Subotnick and eclectic composer John Zorn will share their interest in Messiaen's work. Scientist and improvising composer David Wessel will give a hands-on tutorial on the Ondes Martenot, a rare instrument that is key to Messiaen's
VOA.GOV performances in VOAs Noontime Concert Series will include the Paraguayanbornclassical guitarist, Berta Rojas on April 10; the pianist stephen drury on May http://www.voa.gov/index.cfm?tableName=tblPressReleases&articleID=10048§iont
VOA.GOV the Chin KimDavid Oei Violin-Piano Duo on March 27; the Paraguayan-born classicalguitarist, Berta Rojas on April 10; and the pianist stephen drury on May 10. http://www.voa.gov/index.cfm?tableName=tblPressReleases&articleID=10040§iont
LINKS TO MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS, ETC....... Tenor Graham Clark Tenor Nicholas Cleobury Conductor stephen drury PianoKallen Baritone Ben Heppner Tenor David Holzman pianist Steve Honigberg http://my.voyager.net/~duffie/links.html
Callithumpian Consort Dutch composer/pianist Guus Janssen. Venus (John Coltrane) Eric Hewitt, tenor saxophone;Sam Solomon, percussion. Amour Fou (John Zorn) stephen drury, piano http://www.callithumpian.org/html/news.htm
Callithumpian Consort - About Us Founded by pianist and conductor stephen drury sometime in the1990 s, we are anensemble producing concerts of contemporary music at the highest standard. http://www.callithumpian.org/html/about.htm
Extractions: For member bios, please select here: CC Soloists Stephen Drury Michael Norsworthy Yukiko Takagi Stephen Banzaert Christopher Bush Gabriela Diaz Robert Dillon Elizabeth England Timothy Feeney Evan Halloin Eric Hewitt Roslyn Black Jamie Kember Adda Kridler Jing Li Wendy Richman Benjamin Schwartz Courtney Secoy Adam Smith Sarah Tiedemann Aaron Watson The CALLITHUMPIAN CONSORT is dedicated to the proposition that music is an experience. Founded by pianist and conductor Stephen Drury sometime in the1990's, we are an ensemble producing concerts of contemporary music at the highest standard. The Callithumpian Consort was created in the belief that new music should be an exciting adventure shared by performers and listeners alike, and that brand new masterpieces of our day are beautiful, sensuous, challenging, delightful, provocative, and a unique joy. Our audiences bring fresh ears to sounds never heard before; they bring their experiences from rock stadiums, jazz clubs, and internet electronica to the concert hall. They hunger for the new. The Consort is flexible in size and makeup, in some cases performing as a full chamber orchestra. Its members pursue parallel solo and orchestral careers as well. Each musician is a soloist, enabling the group to tackle unusual repertoire in non-standard ensembles, or to take part in experimental projects.
John Zorn: Angelus Novus chamber symphony For Your Eyes Only and Carny, a virtuosic solo piece that receivesan impassioned and breathtaking performance by pianist stephen drury. http://www.tzadik.com/CDSections/ComposerSeries/angelus.html
Extractions: 9. pardes John Zorn has shown us many sides of his eclectic musical vision (some may think too many), but here is a side of Zorn's work that has pretty much remained hidden - his compositions for classical chamber ensembles. This CD marks the first in a series documenting these pieces, commissioned by some of the world's leading ensembles and appearing on CD for the first time. The works here span over twenty years, and include Christabel, a student piece written in 1972 inspired by the romantic mystic poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the wind octet Angelus Novus composed for the world-renown Netherland's Wind Ensemble and dedicated to the Jewish cultural theorist Walter Benjamin, the dynamic chamber symphony For Your Eyes Only and Carny, a virtuosic solo piece that receives an impassioned and breathtaking performance by pianist Stephen Drury. The Callithumpian Consort of the New England Conservatory (conducted by Stephen Drury) perform this challenging music with startling clarity and intensity on this CD that will surprise and delight Zorn fans and detractors alike.
