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| | | | Composer/Clarinetist, Burton Beerman, has been hailed by audiences as one of the leading clarinetists of contemporary and avant-garde music whose virtuosity and technical control of the instrument establish him as an extraordinary and compelling performer. He has widely concertized in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Performances of his works have taken place at New York's Carnegie Concert and CAMI Halls, Piccolo Spoleto, the American Cultural Centre in Paris, Town Hall in Brussels, Japan, Peru, Budapest, Praque, and the Chopin Hall in Mexico City. New York City's The Village Voice has said that "There is a remarkable clarity in the way Burton Beerman carries out the logic of his materials and he has an excellent ear for sound color the composer displays an acute sensitivity to the differences between live sound and electronic sound the music contains extraordinary moments when the sound seems to belong to both worlds." He has been a recipient of numerous commissions and awards, among his honors are awards from the International Society of Bassists for Voices for soprano voice and contra-bass, the Martha K. Cooper Orchestra Prize for Moments, and a Lipscomb prize for Romance for piano and tape. He has recorded on the Capstone label, Electric Clarinet with clarinetist F. Gerard Errante is available through Albany Music (CPS-8607CD). Most recently the Warsaw Philharmonia recorded for compact disc Morning Calls for B-flat clarinet and orchestra with Richard Stoltzman as clarinetist. This work was performed in 1998 by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra with the composer as soloist and Vincent Danner as conductor. CNNI(Turner Broadcasting) CNN-FutureWatch, CNN-The World Today and Headline News aired a feature story on his intermedia dance-opera Jesus' Daughter in February of 1996. The video version of the extended dramatic work was selected as a group of 20 works to be presented at a series of venues in Switzerland and Italy, supported by UNESCO and the GEM-1997 festival featured him as both a composer and performer (sponsored by the Viennese Electronic = Music Studios and National Hungarian radio. In the summer of 1998 he will be in residence for three weeks at STEIM research center and featured at the Festival Elektrokomplex/European Conference on Electoacoustic Music in Vienna. |
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