【Derek Bermel單簧管作品&
單簧管大師班】
主講人：
Aaron Copland:
concerto for clarinet and string orchestra, with piano and harp
Clarinet:潘薇
Elliott Carter Gra for Clarinet solo
Clarinet:林彥良
日期:2016年10月20日(四)
時間:19:50~21:30
地點:音樂系一館M102
※北藝大管樂組、作曲組必到
※歡迎有興趣者前往聆聽
Grammy-nominated
composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel has been widely hailed for his
creativity, theatricality, and virtuosity. An "eclectic with wide
open ears" (Toronto Star), Bermel is acclaimed for music that is
“intricate, witty, clear-spoken, tender, and extraordinarily beautiful [and]
covers an amazing amount of ground, from the West African rhythms of Dust
Dances to the Bulgarian folk strains of Thracian Echoes, to the shimmering
harmonic splendor of Elixir. In the hands of a composer less assured, all that
globe-trotting would seem like affectation; Bermel makes it an artistic
imperative." (San Francisco Chronicle).
Bermel’s studies of
ethnomusicology and orchestration with Andre Hajdu in Jerusalem heralded his
immersion in music of the world -- traveling to Bulgaria to study the Thracian
folk style; to Dublin, to study uillean pipes; to Ghana, to study the Lobi
xylophone; and to Brazil, to learn caxixi – while adding the study of
Dutch, Portuguese, French and Italian along the way. Inevitably, Bermel’s
engagement with other musical cultures has become part of the fabric and force
of his compositional language, in which the human voice and its myriad
inflections play a leading role. Bermel’s commissioners have included the
Pittsburgh, National, Boston, Saint Louis, New Jersey, and Pacific Symphonies;
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, WNYC Radio,
and eighth blackbird; the Guarneri and JACK String Quartets, Music from China,
Copland House; violinist Midori, New Century and River Oaks Chamber Orchestras,
electric guitarist WiekHijmans, Schoenberg
Ensemble/Veenfabriek(Netherlands), Jazz Xchange (U.K.), La Jolla Music Society,
Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and Figura (Denmark).
Bermel's clarinet
playing has been hailed by The New York Times as "brilliant,"
"rhythmically fluid, rich-hued" and "first rate." The
Boston Globe wrote, "There doesn't seem to be anything that Bermel can't
do with the clarinet." As a performer he has worked with a diverse array
of musicians including PaquitoD'Rivera, Luciana Souza, Tan Dun and John Adams.
In recent seasons he performed as soloist alongside Wynton Marsalis in his own
Migration Series, commissioned by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and
American Composers Orchestra (ACO). ACO had earlier commissioned Bermel's
clarinet concerto Voices which premiered in Carnegie Hall, with the composer as
soloist. Bermel has since performed that critically acclaimed work with more
than a dozen festivals. His performance of Voices with the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project led to a Grammy nominated recording (2010) for Best Soloist
with Orchestra. He has also appeared with the Lexington (KY) and Westchester
(NY) Philharmonics, Greensboro (NC) Symphony, and many others, in concerto
repertoire ranging widely from Mozart and Copland to Bolcom and Adams. Founding
Clarinetist of the acclaimed Music from Copland House ensemble, Bermel's
chamber music appearances also include performances with the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center; Borromeo, Pacifica, and JACK string quartets;
Festivals including Moab, Fontana, Cape Cod, and Salt Bay; the Cliburn Series
at the Modern, Carmel and Albuquerque Chamber Music Series, Garth Newel Center,
Seattle Town Hall, and Louisville Chamber Music Society.
Bermel has brought his “staggering eclecticism”
(Gramophone Magazine) to an array of collaborations, residencies, and
groundbreaking educational roles. His passion for collaboration has led to
several film scores, and his work with artists such as playwright Will Eno,
installation artist Shimon Attie, choreographer Sheron Wray, poets Wendy S.
Walters, Nicole Krauss, Mark Halliday, and Naomi Shihab. His recent
collaboration with hip hop legend YasiinBey (MosDef) for the Brooklyn
Philharmonic received raves.
Artistic Director of the
American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Bermel is also Director of
Copland House's emerging composers institute Cultivate, served as
Composer-in-Residence at the Mannes College of Music, and enjoyed a four-year
tenure as artist-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in
Princeton. Bermel has become recognized as a dynamic and unconventional curator
of concert series that offer a new take on a venerated tradition: the composer
as performer. In addition to programming the Edward T. Cone series at the IAS
and the 2013 Gamper Music Festival in Bowdoin, Maine, he helped found and shape
the ACO’s Jazz Composers Orchestral Institute, and co-curated the ten-day 2011
SONiC Festival in New York, featuring music by over 120 young composers at
venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Joe's Pub.
An innovative educator,
Bermel was the Founding Director of the New York Youth Symphony’s Making Score
program, an intensive composition seminar exploring composition and
orchestration. In addition to his work as Institute Director of CULTIVATE, he
also mentors young composers in the ACO’s Underwood Readings, Playing it UNsafe
and CoLABoratory programs. He has led master classes and held residencies at
Yale University, University of Michigan, Longy School of Music, Peabody
Institute, Faculdade de Santa Marcelina, Beijing Central, Shanghai, and New
England Conservatories, Columbia University, Juilliard School, Manhattan School
of Music, Rhode Island School of Design, Rotterdam Conservatorium, University
of Cardiff, USC, Curtis School of Music, University of Chicago, Universita
Federal da Bahia, UCLA, Adolf FredriksMusikklasse, Northwestern University,
Aspen School of Music, Bowdoin Festival of Music, Cal Arts, Tanglewood Music
Center, and many more.
Bermel's discography
features an all-Bermel orchestra recording (BMOP/sound) which includes his
clarinet concerto Voices; Soul Garden, a disc of his small ensemble/solo music
(New World); and his most recent critically acclaimed disc, CanzonasAmericanas,
with Alarm Will Sound (Cantaloupe).
Among Bermel’s many
awards are the Alpert Award in the Arts, Rome Prize, Guggenheim and Fulbright
Fellowships, the Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center, and an award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; commissions from the
Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations; and residencies at Yaddo, Tanglewood,
Aspen, Banff, Bellagio, Copland House, Sacatar, and CivitellaRanieri. Bermel
holds B.A. and D.M.A. degrees from Yale University and the University of
Michigan. Notable among his composition teachers are William Albright, Louis
Andriessen, William Bolcom, Henri Dutilleux, André Hajdu, and Michael Tenzer.
His music is published by Peermusic Classical.