Paul Lansky Colloquium
The McIntire Department of Music presents a colloqium by Paul Lansky on Friday, September 12th, 2014 at 3:30pm in 107 Old Cabell Hall. This event is free and open to the public
Paul Lansky (1944) is one of the pioneers of computer music but in recent years he has been turning his attention to instrumental music. Recent works include Ricercare Plus for string quartet, written for the Brentano Quartet, With the Grain, a guitar concerto written for David Starobin, Shapeshifters, for two pianos and orchestra (for Quattro Mani), Etudes and Parodies (horn violin and piano) for Bill Purvis (winner of the 2005 International Horn Society competition) Threads, written for Sō Percussion, and Travel Diary, commissioned by the Meehan/Perkins Duo. He has recently been writing orchestral music and was composer in residence with the Alabama Symphony in 2009-10. His orchestral work Imaginary Islands, commissioned by that group was premiered in May 2010. A CD of his orchestral music was released on Bridge Records in 2012.
He was on the faculty at Princeton University where he is now William Shubael Conant Professor of Music Emeritus