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WILLIAM ZUCKERMAN (US) Brief artistic statement: Though my music aims to work within diatonic, scale-like pitch collections, I tend not to differentiate between the “atonal” and “tonal” trends; I’ll utilize in my music things as disparate as a dissonant twelve-tone row in mixed meters to consonant popular music chord progressions in simple time if there is a certain emotion I need to convey at a specific moment. If that makes my music an eclectic mess, then I suppose my work is a testament to the power of variety, the great entertainer of the human spirit. Biography: Born in Boston in 1988, William Zuckerman is pursuing a degree in music composition from the University of Michigan, studying with Bright Sheng and Michael Daugherty. In the summer of 2008, William studied composition at the Freie Universität of Berlin with Juilliard Professor Samuel Adler. In February of 2009, William gained national exposure winning the 2009 New York Art Ensemble Young Composer Competition. Other awards and honors have come from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ youngARTS program, the New England Conservatory, and ASCAP, who has named William twice a finalist for their international Morton Gould Prize. Recent projects include scoring the music to documentary film The Last Wilderness: Journey to the Western Arctic Reserve, a work about corporate destruction of beautiful lands in Northern Africa, to be publicly broadcast in 2009-2010. He has recently also written a work for composer Matthew Cmiel’s Philadelphia based new music ensemble, which will go on tour with William’s piece in early 2010 across the East Coast. In March of 2008, Eighth Blackbird gave a private performance of a recent work at the University of Michigan. Other notable performances have been staged at the Berkshires’ historic Tanglewood, the New Synagogue Concert Hall of Berlin, Germany, and the Midwest Composer’s Symposium. This upcoming summer, William will be a Fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, working with Martin Bresnick and the New Music Workshop in residence. Other upcoming activities include performances at the Aspen Music Festival and the Tribeca New Music Festival, as well as the US release of his saxophone quartet Current, Deep, and Cool on the Block M Records label, to be distributed on the iTunes music store in late 2009. More info: www.williamzuckerman.net http://www.myspace.com/williamzuckerman. |
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