Louis Karchin
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Louis Karchin is an American composer, conductor and educator. He co-founded the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, the Orchestra of the League of Composers, and the Harvard Group for New Music.
Karchin was born in Philadelphia and now lives in Short Hills, New Jersey. He is Professor of Music at New York University. Karchin received his B.M. from the Eastman School and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His opera ROMULUS, a setting the Dumas play, was premiered at Works & Process
at the Guggenheim in May 2007 "
Karchin was born in Philadelphia and now lives in Short Hills, New Jersey. He is Professor of Music at New York University. Karchin received his B.M. from the Eastman School and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His opera ROMULUS, a setting the Dumas play, was premiered at Works & Process
Works & Process
Works & Process at the Guggenheim is a performing-arts series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Works & Process informs artistic creation through conversation and performance, and is presented in the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Peter B...
at the Guggenheim in May 2007 "
Selected compositions
- Karchin's music is published by C.F. PetersEdition PetersEdition Peters, also known as C.F.Peters Musikverlag, is a German music publishing house, founded in Leipzig in 1800.From the 1860s it was largely run by members the Hinrichsen family, who were Jewish. The company was confiscated by the Nazis and administered by the "Trustee of Jewish Property"....
and the American Composers AllianceAmerican Composers AllianceThe American Composers Alliance is an American membership organization dedicated to the publishing and promoting of American contemporary classical music. Founded in 1937 by Aaron Copland, Milton Adolphus and others, it is the oldest national organization of its kind, and represents over 200...
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- Evocations (2010) clarinet and percussion
- Chamber Symphony (2009)
- Three Epigrams for piano (2008) compilation of Celebration, Expressions, and Upheavals
- The Gods of Winter (2006) Poetry by Dana GioiaDana Gioia-Poetry:It was as a poet that Gioia first began to attract widespread attention in the early 1980s, with frequent appearances in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. In the same period, he published a number of essays and book reviews...
for baritone and chamber ensemble - Chesapeake Festival Overture (2006) for orchestra. Commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard for the Chesapeake Symphony and the Alba Music Festival (Italy).
- Rhapsody (2005) for violin and piano
- Orpheus (2003) A masque for baritone, chamber ensemble and dancers. Poetry by Stanley KunitzStanley KunitzStanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.-Biography:...
- Quartet for Percussion (2000) Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation of the Library of Congress for the Talujon Percussion Quartet
- American Visions: Two Songs on Poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1998) Heckscher Foundation Award, 1999
- String Quartet No. 2 (1995)
- Rustic Dances (1995) violin, clarinet and marimba
- Sonata da Camera (1995) for violin and piano
- Ricercare (1992) violin, unaccompanied
- Galactic Folds (1992) for chamber ensemble
- String Quartet (1991)
- Romulus, an opera in one act, based on a play by Alexander Dumas (1990, rev. 2005) Prizewinner, National Opera Association, 1990 Chamber Opera Competition
- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1990)
- Songs of Distance and Light (1988) for soprano and chamber ensemble. Poetry by Elizabeth BishopElizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...
and Jennifer Rose - Five Songs on Poems of Sue Standing (1985)
- Songs of John Keats (1984) for soprano and chamber ensemble
- Viola Variations for viola and piano (1981)
- Capriccio (1977) for violin and seven instruments. First prize winner, New Music Consort Competition, 1981
- Fantasy for violin or viola solo (1972)
Selected Recordings
- Romulus an opera in one act. (Naxos 8.669030) Katrina Thurman, Steven Ebel, Thomas Meglioranza, Wilbur Pauley, Washington Square Ensemble, Karchin conducting.
- Matrix: Music of Louis Karchin. Albany Records (Troy 895); Roethke Songs, Fanfare/Pavane, Fanfare for Marty, Voyages, Quartet for Percussion, Plaint, Matrix and Dream - poem of Paul AusterPaul AusterPaul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
- Orpheus and Other Vocal Works. Albany Records (Troy 770)
- American Visions New World Records (NW-80583) Rustic Dances, American Visions: Two Songs on Poems of Yevgeny YevtushenkoYevgeny YevtushenkoYevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.-Early life:...
, Cascades, Sonata da camera, A Way Separate…, String Quartet #2 - Music of Louis Karchin New World/CRI (NWCR739) Galactic Folds, Songs of Distance and Light, Ricercare, Sonata for Violoncello and Piano
Sources
External Links
- Official Louis Karchin website
- Louis Karchin at the American Composers Alliance
- Louis Karchin at Edition PetersEdition PetersEdition Peters, also known as C.F.Peters Musikverlag, is a German music publishing house, founded in Leipzig in 1800.From the 1860s it was largely run by members the Hinrichsen family, who were Jewish. The company was confiscated by the Nazis and administered by the "Trustee of Jewish Property"....