Houston Composer Judges Inaugural Astor Piazzolla Music Contest
Originally Published By: The Houston Chronicle In the centenary year of Astor Piazzolla’s birth - and nearly three decades since his passing - a new international online music competition will celebrate the composer’s rich legacy and shine light [...]
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) Presents Perpetual Light in Review
Originally Published By: New York Concert Review Inc. Music of Gottschalk came next, but not Louis Moreau Gottschalk (as one assumed on first glance at the DCINY website) but Arthur Gottschalk (b. 1952). We heard Tebe Boga, a solemn religious work [...]
Duo Dramatique celebrates big D (not Dallas)
Originally Published By: The Houston Chronicle Alliteration is in full force for the dynamic Duo Dramatique, formerly known as the Dancewicz-Doucet Duo, and fittingly so, as it consists of violinist Dominika Dancewicz and pianist Donald Doucet. The letter [...]
Cadence Magazine Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Cadence Magazine Arthur Gottschalk's creative compositions for two and three instruments, with a 16-piece choir added on one selection, are presented on (1). The opening "Benny, Zoot, and Teddy," begins in a spritely manner, [...]
New Release: MODERN MUSIC FOR PIANO 2
Originally Published By: RMN Music For immediate release: October 9, 2019 – RMN Classical RMN Classical is excited to announce the release of a new album titled Modern Music for Piano 2. This album, the second of [...]
Camerino Music Festival 2019: the emotions of the boys of the “Nelio Biondi” Institute
Giulia Brutti, Micaela Mancinelli and Gianluca Aureli, students of the "Nelio Biondi" music institute in Camerino, sent an article to our editorial that testifies to the emotions experienced at the Camerino Music Festival: On 13 August at the Benedetto [...]
FINALISTS: composers (instrumental chamber music), 2018-19
The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David (Volosin) Katz, founder and chief judge, is pleased to announce FINALIST composers of instrumental chamber music for 2018-19 in both student and professional divisions. Congratulations! NATIONAL FINALISTS: The [...]
The SCI Newsletter Issue 1 Member News & Announcements From Arthur Gottschalk
Since my last report, I have returned to teaching from my sabbatical leave, but not before a residency at The MacDowell Colony in October and November, where I wrote Tebe Boga, a work in Old Slavonic commissioned by Vladimir [...]
Outside the Box to bring internationally known musicians and composers to campus
Originally Published By: SIU Carbondale CARBONDALE, Ill. — For the 13th year, the Outside The Box new music festival will live up to its name with an assortment of concerts, seminars and virtual reality experiences. Open to [...]
A Cuban Panoply
Originally Published By: All About The Arts My father (may he rest in peace) never stopped telling me how much he disliked an arrangement of Ernesto Lecuona’s Siboney that the late great René Touzet wrote for my [...]
Fanfare Magazine Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine Although I enjoyed Arthur Gottschalk’s Requiem: For the Living (Fanfare 39:3), I am aware his music has received a mixed reception, specifically via my colleague Ronald E. Grames’ review of the self-same [...]
David DeBoor Canfield Review: ART FOR TWO
Arthur Gottschalk is one of those composers who make me feel a bit guilty—guilty, because his music and reputation is such that I feel that I somehow ought to have encountered it before now. Fanfare readers may be ahead [...]
Fanfare Magazine Review: ART FOR TWO
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine Contemporary music is a borderless country, which leaves few –isms to follow and all of music history to serve as inspiration. You’d think we’d be swamped with diversity, but almost the opposite [...]
ART FOR TWO: Ciaccio and Berti play Gottschalk
Originally Published By: Fanfare Magazine “Art for Two” is the title of a new Navona CD containing performances of the music by Amercan composer Arthur Gottschalk by Italian saxophonist Mario Ciaccio and his compatriot, clarinetist Sauro Berti. [...]
ART FOR TWO: Music of Arthur Gottschalk
Originally Published By: Cinemusical Arthur Gottschalk teaches at Rice University. His composition teachers include William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett. Over the past few years his music has been widely performed and recorded and he [...]
Keyboard And More
Originally Published By: Infodad.com The piano is largely relegated to a supporting role in the music of Arthur Gottschalk on another (++++) Navona release. Saxophone and clarinet, individually and together, are the focus here, making the CD [...]