Michael Miller
Michael Miller is a composer and performer who currently resides in the Kansas City area. As a bass clarinetist, he has performed with ensembles and as a soloist throughout The United States, Europe, and South America. As a result, his compositions are strongly informed by a performative perspective. Michael strongly believes in the aesthetic of the composer-performer; a synergy equally evident in jazz, rock, Persian dastgāh, contemporary concert, death metal, hip hop, and every fusional suggenre in between. One of his ensembles, The Socially Awkward Composers, was featured on Barry Nolan’s Night Beat, and was proclaimed “the wave of music to come” by The Big Screen at Boston’s Fenway Park.
More information can be found at: http://www.michaelmillercomposer.com
Most recently:
As a performer he played at Electronic Music Midwest (EMM).
As a composer his piece Nicodemus: The Beds are Burning Again was premiered by soloist Keith Kirchoff and the Midwest Chamber Ensemble on November 1st. Also his string Trio Copper Birds was performed on Charlotte Street's The Beautiful Noises.
More information can be found at: http://www.michaelmillercomposer.com
Most recently:
As a performer he played at Electronic Music Midwest (EMM).
As a composer his piece Nicodemus: The Beds are Burning Again was premiered by soloist Keith Kirchoff and the Midwest Chamber Ensemble on November 1st. Also his string Trio Copper Birds was performed on Charlotte Street's The Beautiful Noises.
Eli Hougland
Elizabeth (Eli) Hougland is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, violinist, and violist residing in Kansas City. Initially she was trained as a classical violinist, but has shifted her primary focus to composing. Her creative output is split between interactive installation work and concert pieces. Hougland creates site-specific interactive sound environments that either augment or reconstruct the space and the artwork present. Most notably, she designed sound for a gallery in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. She first got started creating installations through participating in several ArtSounds events– a “cross-media expression through creative concert-making.” In contrast, her concert music explores her influences of ambient techno, sample-driven glitch and classical symphonic literature. She has had works recorded by Quadrivium and NewEar.
More information can be found at: http://www.composerhougland.com
Most recently:
Eli had her Viola and Electronics Battle Reactor: Of Guilt And Harmony piece premiered by Hillary Sametz on Charlotte Street's The Beautiful Noises.
More information can be found at: http://www.composerhougland.com
Most recently:
Eli had her Viola and Electronics Battle Reactor: Of Guilt And Harmony piece premiered by Hillary Sametz on Charlotte Street's The Beautiful Noises.
Russell Thorpe
Russell Thorpe has lived and worked in KC since 2005. He has been involved with a number of bands and project throughout his years here, most notably the Black House Collective and his band, the Phonologotronic. He writes and produces music for a wide variety of ensembles and instrumentations, from small combo to full orchestra. Among his most recent performances are the premiere of his chamber opera Dark Price, written as part of Black House Collective’s Rites of Being project, and a night of all original music as part of the Black Lab New Music Festival. He plays saxophones and bass clarinet.
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Ted King-Smith
Ted King-Smith is a composer, educator, performer, and arranger currently based in Kansas City, Missouri. Described as “off-beat, jazzy, and… convincing,” Ted strives to synthesize aural, visual, kinesthetic, and/or conceptual influences into engaging musical works that emphasize variety and virtuosity. Recent awards for his music include 3rd place in the 2014 American Prize and the 2012 Washington-Idaho Symphony Young Artist Award. His music has been performed across the United States and Canada, at Helzberg Hall in the Kauffman Performing Arts Center, several College Music Society and Society of Composers Inc. conferences, the Root Signals Electronic Music Festival, and the Florida State University New Music Festival. He has been commissioned by Steve Davis and the UMKC Wind Symphony, Bill Perconti and the Lewis and Clark State College Saxophone Quartet, Zach Shemon and the UMKC Saxophone Ensemble, and a growing list of performers. His teachers include Chen Yi, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Scott Blasco, Stephen Gryc, and Ryan Hare.
http://www.tedkingsmith.com/
http://www.tedkingsmith.com/