Eve Beglarian
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Eve Beglarian is a contemporary American composer
, performer and audio producer of Armenian
descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist.
Her chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by The Los Angeles Master Chorale
, the Bang on a Can
All-Stars, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The California EAR Unit
, The Orchestra of St. Luke's
, Relâche, The Paul Dresher
Ensemble, Sequitur, and The American Composers Orchestra
, among many others.
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, performer and audio producer of Armenian
Armenians
Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist.
Her chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by The Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Master Chorale
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional chorus in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1964 by Roger Wagner to be one of the three original resident companies of the Music Center of Los Angeles County...
, the Bang on a Can
Bang on a Can
Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted classical music organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon...
All-Stars, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The California EAR Unit
The California EAR Unit
The California EAR Unit is an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. The group was founded in March 1981 and is based in Los Angeles, California....
, The Orchestra of St. Luke's
Orchestra of St. Luke's
The Orchestra of St. Luke's is an American chamber orchestra based in New York City.It was founded in the summer of 1979 at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah, New York....
, Relâche, The Paul Dresher
Paul Dresher
Paul Joseph Dresher is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Bernard Rands.He also...
Ensemble, Sequitur, and The American Composers Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra
The American Composers Orchestra is an American orchestra based in New York City. It is the only orchestra in the world dedicated solely to the creation, performance, preservation, and promulgation of music by American composers...
, among many others.
Collaborations
- Almost Human (Beiser)Almost Human (Beiser)Almost Human is a 2006 album by cellist Maya Beiser. The album features composer Eve Beglarian's setting of Henri Michaux's prose poem "I am writing to you from a far-off country" and Joby Talbot's Motion Detector and Falling-Eve Beglarian:...
- Maya Beiser (2007) - Dancing in Place - Elizabeth Panzer (1999)
- Play NicePlay Nice (album)Play Nice is the 1999 album from Twisted Tutu: composer/vocalist/performance artist Eve Beglarian and pianist/keyboardist Kathleen Supové.-Track listing:#Boytoy / Toyboy #Touchtone Tony...
- Twisted Tutu (1999) - Dream Cum Go Down - Eve Beglarian and Juliana Luecking (1995)
Compilations
- To Have and to Hold (2007)
- 60x6060x6060x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...
(2004-2005) (2007) - Messiah Remix (2004)
- Lesbian American Composers (1998)
- Emergency Music (1998)
External links
- Composer Finds a Muse in the Mississippi (The New York Times)
- EVBVD Music: Eve Beglarian
- oodiscs.com
- Recommended composers: Eve Beglarian by Kyle GannKyle GannKyle Eugene Gann is an American professor of music, critic and composer born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for The Village Voice and other publications he has been a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism.- As composer :As a composer his...
- Podcast interview on MikeyPod