ROSCOE MITCHELL (solo saxophones)
Sunday October 9th @ 8pm and 9.30pm
An die Musik Live
409 N.Charles St Baltimore MD
Tel 410 385 2638
Tickets $18 / &15 seniors and students
Since the early 1960's composer Roscoe Mitchell remains a vital force in American msic. An acclaimed saxophonist, Mitchell tours regularly throughout the United States and overseas. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a founder of the Art Enesmble of Chicago. Mitchell has held teaching positions at the University of Illinois, the California Institute of the Arts, and the AACM school. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mitchell has received grants and awards from the Comnicut Foundation (Composition), Wisconsin Arts Board, Minnesota Composers Forum, IRCAM (Paris), Foundation For Contemporary Performance Arts, and the National Endowment For the Arts, among others. Recently he appeared to great critical acclaim with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and The Orchestra of the S.E.M Ensemble as soloist and composer on tours in the United States and Europe.
Recent compositions include Variations and Sketches From The Bamboo Terrace for chamber orchestra (1988), Contacts, Turbulents (1986), Memoirs of A Dying Parachutist for chamber orchestra with poetry by Daniel Moore(1995), Fallen Heroes for baritone and orchestra(1998), The Bells of FiftyNinth Street for alto saxophone and Gamelan Orchestra (2000), 59A for solo soprano saxophone (2000), and Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City (2002) with text by Joseph Jarman.
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