Composer
Posted in: Cali News
本学年，卡利学校的学生将有机会与国际知名作曲家和演奏家Elizabeth Brown合作。 她将成功的作曲事业与极其多样化的表演生活结合起来，在各种音乐圈子中演奏长笛，尺八（日本传统竹笛）和特雷门。 Her music, shaped by this unique group of instruments and experiences, has been called luminous, dreamlike and hallucinatory.
Brown’s music has been heard in Japan, the Soviet Union, Colombia, Australia, South Africa and Vietnam as well as across the US and Europe. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she has received grants, awards and commissions from Orpheus, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Newband, the Asian Cultural Council, the Japan/US Friendship Commission, Meet the Composer, the Electronic Music Foundation, the Cary Trust, and NYFA. She has been Artist-in-Residence in locations from the Hanoi National Conservatory to Grand Canyon National Park. She has two solo CDs: Elizabeth Brown: Mirage (New World) and Blue Minor: Chamber Music by Elizabeth Brown (Albany).
Kyle Gann wrote in Chamber Music Magazine: "Elizabeth Brown writes the only music I know of in which the flute might be playing ‘London Bridge is Falling down’ while the cello is sliding through a long glissando underneath, yet nothing feels incongruous. There’s a kind of imaginary quality to her music. It’s as if not only each piece but each passage is based on some strange conceit: a bird sings while a pianist plays Mozart and a cellist shakes like a bowl full of Jell-O. Each conceit morphs into the next in a stream of non-sequiturs, and yet every juncture is smoothly blended, no seam visible. It’s elegant, quiet, thoughtful, well-crafted music, and as bizarre as hell. Imagine walking into a Magritte painting: fish protrude from the vase instead of flowers, the chairs are bolted to the ceiling, but the wallpaper is lovely and the furnishings tasteful. That’s a little what listening to Elizabeth Brown is like."
This season includes numerous performances of ‘A Bookmobile for Dreamers’ for live theremin, recorded soundscape and video, Brown’s fourth collaboration with artist Lothar Osterburg. She will appear as flutist with the American Symphony and the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and often performs both traditional and contemporary music for shakuhachi.