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The Chicago Composers Consortium returns to the Floating Lounge this March for a sneak peak at two new pieces written for us by composers Kathleen Cecilia Ginther and Timothy Dwight Edwards.
Kathleen Cecilia Ginther
Timothy Dwight Edwards
You may recall that our concert featuring the premiere of Bernard Rands’ new string quartet – and the Consortium member’s miniatures that were written in response to it – was an early casualty of the pandemic. So it is with great pleasure that we offer you these interactive listening parties during which we’ll perform excerpts of each of these new works in pairs and get a chance to look inside them with the composers.
We’ll kick things off by having Kaycee and Tim play recordings of some of their previous works, so we can all immerse ourselves in their respective sound worlds before hearing about the challenges and unexpected felicities around reacting sonically to another composer’s piece. Then, we’ll perform excerpts of both for you, giving you the opportunity to not only hear about the music, but actually hear the music.
The Floating Lounge is a community-focused, online listening party series produced by Spektral Quartet to bring curious listeners together during a time of isolation. Events feature high-quality streaming audio, special guests, and an interactive format that invites listeners to join in on the conversation.
ABOUT KATHLEEN CECILIA GINTHER
Kathleen Ginther's colorful, vibrant and immediate music has attracted growing national and international attention. Recent performances of her works have taken her to Italy, England, Scotland, Holland, China, Japan and Brazil, as well as New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles and Chicago. In Chicago her work has been widely performed for many years, in concerts at the Ravinia Festival, The Art Institute of Chicago, Symphony Center, Northwestern and DePaul Universities, the Chicago Cultural Center, and an all-Ginther Composer's Showcase concert at The Music Institute of Chicago. She has been featured live on the WFMT programs Music in Chicago, Live from Studio One and the The Studs Terkel Show as well as on the WBEZ program Metropolis. Two new CDs are due out this year, on Innova Recordings and Chicago's Northport Records. Dr. Ginther is recently retired from Southern Illinois University's School of Music, where she was the Founder/Director of the Outside the Box music festival.
ABOUT TIMOTHY DWIGHT EDWARDS
Timothy Edwards is a versatile composer both in electronic and live acoustic music. His solo, chamber and choral music combines rhythmic, avant-garde, jazz and contrapuntal elements that cross boundaries between musical genres and styles to create a highly personal expression.
His music has been performed by numerous ensembles such as Trio Solis, Dal Niente, the Lincoln Trio, Eighth Blackbird, Pinotage, New York Virtuoso Singers, Double Entendre, Quintet Attacca, Chicago Composers Orchestra, Chicago Trio, CUBE, Ahlert & Schwab, the Contemporary Chamber Players (Contempo), Chicago Chamber Collective, and has appeared at music festivals such as the Bowling Green, and FSU festivals of new music, Outside the Box festival at SIU, Sonic Impact at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Eurofest Zupfmusik in Bamberg, Germany.
His electroacoustic music has been presented at numerous concerts, festivals and conferences including the Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden, Stockholm, Outside the Box festival at SIUC, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, SEAMUS, Roosevelt University Electronic Music Festival and Electronic Music Midwest. His piece Xcymbalum for metallic percussion, flutes and live automated processing was premiered in 2013 by Due East and performed again recently. Recordings of Edwards’ music can be found on the Naxos, Navona and Albany labels.
Formerly in the department of Audio Arts and Acoustics, Timothy Edwards now teaches in the Music Department where he founded the Columbia College Chicago Laptop Ensemble in the fall of 2011. He is currently a Senior Virtual Learning Community Fellow and has been awarded the Technology Fellowship at Columbia College several times for projects in collaboration with other faculty involving the development of new learning software in areas such as music theory, aural skills, psychoacoustics and digital audio theory. He presented research on interface design at the First Symposium of Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras at LSU in 2012 and at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2013.
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