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| Craig Sylvern is Assistant Professor of Music at Keene State College where he teaches saxophone, composition, music technology, and arranging. As a saxophonist he has performed with symphony orchestras as well as big bands in New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, South Carolina, and Ohio. He has also performed in Off-Broadway productions and for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and has recorded with the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, The New Sousa Band, and the Ohio State University Concert Band. He has been a member of Keith Brion's New Sousa Band for over a decade and has toured extensively throughout the United States and Japan. He has performed the world premiers of several pieces written for him including Jouissance by John Armstrong, Dance Suite by Allen Molineux, and Nocturne, Metamorphosis by Rohan DeLivera. Dr. Sylvern’s compositions have been performed by The New Hudson Saxopohone Quartet, the New Jersey Saxophone Ensemble, the Ohio State Percussion Ensemble, as well as other groups throughout the United States.
Craig received his doctorate in music composition from The Ohio State University in 1996. He earned masters degree in performance and bachelors degrees in music composition and music education from The Florida State University. A versatile percussionist, Nathan Davis expresses his musical vision through artistic initiatives and teaching. His theatric percussion trio, Rrrr..., recently debuted at the FringeNYC festival. He is the percussionist for Non sequitur, a mixed sextet whose varied repertoire ranges from Boulez to Zappa. He has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician with a number of other new music ensembles, festivals, and concert series across the U.S. He has been featured as a concertino soloist with the Yale Philharmonia and with the Aspen Chamber Orchestra. Solo engagements this Spring lead him to Houston and to Havana, Cuba, where he will be performing in an electro-acoustic festival. Nathan earned Bachelors degrees in both composition and percussion at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He was then awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Rotterdams Conservatorium in Holland with marimba soloist Robert van Sice, receiving an Artist diploma in marimba performance. He recently completed a Masters degree in percussion at Yale University. Nathan currently lives in Vermont and is adjunct professor of percussion at Keene State College, Dartmouth College, and Franklin Pierce College. |
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| "I have long been interested in incorporating both spatial and ritualistic elements into my work. These elements are important aspects of Rituale, but are not intended to recreate any specific ritual practices. Rather, they are meant to evoke the feeling of observing some sort of unnamed ritual. i thus view them as simply being additional elements applied with the overall design of the piece. Working in conjunction with abstract, purely musical ideas. Rituale was commissioned in 1991 by saxophonist Charles Young and is dedicated to Charlie Johnson, who hates boring music by dead composers."
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