"Philadelphia. Curley developed his performance style in the manner of Virgil Fox, with respect to popularising classical organ music popular to a wider audience, which included his arrangements and transcriptions of pieces from other classical genres. He was the resident organist at the Alexandra Palace in the 1970s and was the first classical organist to perform a solo organ recital at the White House for President Jimmy Carter. He also played before several European heads of state and toured extensively throughout the world, earning the marketing nickname ""the Pavarotti of the Organ"". He was one of only a few concert"
"and ‘Eternal Father Strong to Save’. A life-long bachelor, Curley died on 11 August 2012 aged 59 in Melton Mowbray, England. His ashes are interred in the grounds of Pershore Abbey in the UK. Carlo Curley Carlo James Curley (August 24, 1952 – August 11, 2012) was an American classical concert organist who lived much of his later life in Great Britain. Curley was born into a musical family in Monroe, North Carolina, USA, and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and by the age of 15 was organist at a large Baptist church in Atlanta, Georgia. He"
"Carlo Curley Carlo James Curley (August 24, 1952 – August 11, 2012) was an American classical concert organist who lived much of his later life in Great Britain. Curley was born into a musical family in Monroe, North Carolina, USA, and attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and by the age of 15 was organist at a large Baptist church in Atlanta, Georgia. He subsequently studied with Virgil Fox, Robert Elmore, George Thalben-Ball and Arthur Poister. His long-time friend and confidant Robert Noehren was another noted influence. At 18 he was director of music at Girard College in"
"Guy Whatley Guy Richard Whatley (born 1975) is an American organist and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in medieval keyboards, sixteenth and seventieth century European music, and nineteenth century German organ music. He is widely known as a continuo player, and as an accompanist. He has performed on historic organs all over Europe and the Americas, and has performed at prestigious venues all across the world. He has performed at such venues as the Arizona Bach Festival, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, and the Costa Rica International Festival of Music. He has performed the complete keyboard works of William Byrd,"
"and his doctoral dissertation is ""Toward a Performance Practice for Tudor Organ Music."" He has also published a number of editions of music for trumpet and organ. He has released three commercially available CD recordings with trumpeter Jean-Christophe Dobrzelewski including: ""Triptyque, Trumpets and Organs"" and ""Triptyque Renewal"" and ""Eternal Source of Light Divine"". They have played all across Europe and the United States. Guy Whatley Guy Richard Whatley (born 1975) is an American organist and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in medieval keyboards, sixteenth and seventieth century European music, and nineteenth century German organ music. He is widely known as"
"he used a custom Allen electronic organ. Carlo Curley toured with a substantial Allen Organ in the US and with an Allen in the UK. Organist Hector Olivera has toured with a custom Rodgers instrument named ""The King,"" and Cameron Carpenter has recently begun touring with a custom 5-manual digital organ by Marshall & Ogletree. Electronic organs are still made for the home market, but they have been largely replaced by the digital keyboard or synthesizer which is smaller and cheaper than typical electronic organs or traditional pianos. Modern digital organs offer features not found in traditional pipe organs, such"
"bow. This has not stopped Sollee from bringing into his cello playing the plucking styles and techniques that have been associated with these other instruments. The bow itself he uses not only for its steady tone but also to create the percussive sound of the ""chop"" by digging into the strings vertically. To these techniques are added the full panoply of classical practices that give the cello its distinctive facility as a musical instrument. Double and triple stops, aggressive downstrokes with the bow, vibrato, trills, ostinatos, arpeggios, glissandi, harmonics, slides, and various brushing techniques all expand the palate of sound"
"with many of the world's greatest orchestras. He continues his association with the Marlboro Music Festival, dating from 1971. He has also been a faculty artist at Caramoor's ""Rising Stars"" program and has taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Mannes College of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. He is currently on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. He is a member of the Guarneri Quartet and is one of the founders of the Opus One Piano Quartet. He plays a Venetian cello by Matteo Goffriller. Peter Wiley Peter Wiley"
"""I respect Muhly's industry in all its forms, but the Cello Concerto is the type of Muhly piece that I will most look forward to."" Cello Concerto (Muhly) The Cello Concerto is a concerto for solo cello and orchestra by the American composer Nico Muhly. The work was commissioned by the Barbican Centre for the Britten Sinfonia and cellist Oliver Coates, to whom Muhly dedicated the piece. It was first performed on March 16, 2012 at the Barbican Centre by Coates and the Britten Sinfonia under conductor André de Ridder. The Cello Concerto has a duration of roughly 18 minutes"
"Carlo Curti Carlo Curti (May 6, 1859 – 1926), also known as Carlos Curti, was an Italian musician and bandleader. He moved to the United States whose most lasting contribution to American society was popularizing the mandolin in American music by starting a national ""grass-roots mandolin orchestra craze"" (that lasted from 1880 until the 1920s). He also contributed to Mexican society in 1884 by creating one of Mexico's oldest orchestras, the ""Mexican Typical Orchestra"". The orchestra under his leadership represented Mexico at the New Orleans Cotton Exhibition. As with his Spanish Students, Curti dressed his Mexican band in costumes, choosing"
"and ""John Martyn"". September 1, 2018 saw the release of Culley's 5th album ""'Last!""'. Karl Culley Karl Culley is an English fingerstyle guitarist, songwriter, singer and poet currently living in Krakow. His percussive guitar style has drawn comparison to John Martyn, José González and Bert Jansch. Culley recorded his debut album with the British musician and producer Giles Perring, ""Bundle of Nerves"", in an old school classroom on the Scottish Isle of Jura. Incorporating Perring's multi-instrumental abilities and the bass playing of Simon Edwards (Fairground Attraction, David Gray, Billy Bragg), the album was released to critical acclaim in 2010, ""MOJO"""
"Luigi Morleo Luigi Morleo (born 16 November 1970 in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi) is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory. He uses varied musical and artistic styles like minimalism, rock-cross-over, folk-Pop, jazz, electronica and DJ. Many of his works have been played by the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra, Rome and the Lazio Orchestra, Clermont-Ferrand Conservatoire Orchestre, Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, Orchestra del Conservatorio di Monopoli, Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce e del Salento, Halleiner KammerOrchester, Federation Bells of Melbourne, and at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival"
"organists worldwide who supported themselves exclusively by giving recitals, concerts and master classes, without any supplement from teaching or church position. Curley used a substantial Allen touring organ where the venue lacked an instrument of sufficient scope to support his repertoire. He recorded commercially for various labels such as RCA, ProArte, Rediffusion and Decca International. He participated in several 'Battle of the Organs' concerts, and his final such concert was in June 2012 at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral with his friend Ian Tracey using a Copeman Hart instrument. He served as patron for numerous music societies as well as for the"
"the Curtis Institute of Music. Emmanuel Feldman Emmanuel Feldman (born 1965) is an American classical cellist and teacher based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the co-founder of the cello-double bass duo Cello e Basso, and a member of the Aurea Ensemble. Feldman was born and raised in New York City. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and at the Conservatoire de Paris. As part of completing his studies in Paris, Feldman joined l'Orchestre des Prix, and was the first American ever in the orchestra. After his time in France, he moved to Boston, where he became"
"Kreisler Bergonzi The Kreisler Bergonzi is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Carlo Bergonzi (1683–1747) from Cremona in 1740. The violin is named after violinist Fritz Kreisler. After being forced to donate his Guarnerius to the Library of Congress to settle a tax debt with the United States Internal Revenue Service, Kreisler used the Bergonzi violin as his primary performance instrument for more than ten years near the end of his career. Several recordings were made by Kreisler with the Bergonzi which can be seen on the album covers on which he is holding it. Fritz Kreisler passed"
"Karl Culley Karl Culley is an English fingerstyle guitarist, songwriter, singer and poet currently living in Krakow. His percussive guitar style has drawn comparison to John Martyn, José González and Bert Jansch. Culley recorded his debut album with the British musician and producer Giles Perring, ""Bundle of Nerves"", in an old school classroom on the Scottish Isle of Jura. Incorporating Perring's multi-instrumental abilities and the bass playing of Simon Edwards (Fairground Attraction, David Gray, Billy Bragg), the album was released to critical acclaim in 2010, ""MOJO"" magazine referring to it as an 'impressive début' and awarding it four stars. His"
"Matthew Barley Matthew Barley (born 2 May 1965) is an English cellist. He is best known for his performances of core classical music, improvisation, and contemporary music including electronics. Matthew Barley was born in London and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Moscow Conservatoire. He made his London concerto debut playing the Shostakovich cello concerto in the Barbican Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, as finalist of the LSO-Shell competition. His first CD, in 2003, was The Silver Swan for Black Box was a compilation of pieces for multitracked cellos, all of which"
"and Festival MUSLAB. Mexico. Luigi Morleo Luigi Morleo (born 16 November 1970 in Mesagne, Province of Brindisi) is an Italian percussionist and composer of contemporary music, who lives in Bari and teaches at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory. He uses varied musical and artistic styles like minimalism, rock-cross-over, folk-Pop, jazz, electronica and DJ. Many of his works have been played by the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra, Rome and the Lazio Orchestra, Clermont-Ferrand Conservatoire Orchestre, Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, Orchestra del Conservatorio di Monopoli, Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce e del Salento, Halleiner KammerOrchester, Federation Bells of Melbourne, and at the New York"
"doubling piccolo), two oboes (2nd doubling English horn), two clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon), two horns, two trumpets, two trombones, tuba, timpani, three percussionists, piano (doubling celesta), harp, and strings. The concerto has been praised by music critics. Reviewing the world premiere, Mark Stryker of the ""Detroit Free Press"" said the piece ""proved to be a corker"" and wrote, ""The concerto was more abstract, with more dissonance and density than much of Kernis' music, which tends to traffic in lush melody and easily digestible harmony. Here the dominant feeling was one of mercurial mood swings,"
"attempt to recreate that initial response I had received to the sound of the piano as heard via the medium of the piano roll."" He has said that the concerto is his view on ""the whole past century of piano music"". In addition to the temporal element (""Century""), the title refers to old piano rolls. Solo piano, 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, cor Anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, three horns, three trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, percussion (2 players: vibraphone, xylophone, wood block, marimba, high bongo, glockenspiel), harp, celesta, and strings. The concerto is in three movements. The opening"
"Peter Wiley. She teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School and the Bard College Conservatory of Music. She plays a J. B. Guadagnini violin made in Milan in 1751, and a Moes and Moes viola, made in 1987. Kavafian's repertory includes classical and early romantic works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, as well as 20th century works of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Charles Wuorinen, and Toru Takemitsu. Takemitsu has composed a concerto for Kavafian. She is also the founder of two prestigious music festivals: the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and the Music from Angel Fire. With Chick"
"play with the resident orchestra of Paramount Pictures. Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music was established in 1924. Torello joined the faculty as its first double bass professor in 1926. Part of his legacy was in introducing the over-handed style of bowing (French bow) to America. A number of Torello's students at Curtis went on to become important figures in double bass in America. Notable students include: Torello performed solo recitals, chamber works and appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra on 27 and 28 February 1920, performing Lorenziti's concerto for viola d'amore and double bass with Thaddeus Rich. In"
"newly formed British Academy of Music. He was involved in organ design and construction and served as advisor to numerous clients, including Melbourne City Council (Australia), and The Cube, Shiroishi (Japan). His autobiography ""In The Pipeline"" was published by HarperCollins in 1998. One of his Allen organs is now used in the Cathedral of St Michael and St George in Aldershot in the UK. The sheet organ music 'Carlo Curley Collection' is available from ChurchOrganWorld and consists of three pieces he often opened his recitals with; his unique arrangements of Largo from the ‘New World Symphony’, ‘Ar Hyd y Nos’"
"Carillon A carillon ( or ; ) is a musical instrument that is typically housed in the bell tower (belfry) of a church or municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to produce a melody, or sounded together to play a chord. A traditional manual carillon is played by striking a keyboard – the stick-like keys of which are called batons – with the fists, and by pressing the keys of a pedal keyboard with the feet. The keys mechanically activate levers and wires that connect to metal clappers that"
"Cello Concerto (Muhly) The Cello Concerto is a concerto for solo cello and orchestra by the American composer Nico Muhly. The work was commissioned by the Barbican Centre for the Britten Sinfonia and cellist Oliver Coates, to whom Muhly dedicated the piece. It was first performed on March 16, 2012 at the Barbican Centre by Coates and the Britten Sinfonia under conductor André de Ridder. The Cello Concerto has a duration of roughly 18 minutes and is composed in three numbered movements. The first movement quotes the texture from the opening bar of composer Henri Dutilleux's 1965 orchestral piece ""Métaboles""."
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"bridge allows for the playing of chords of between three and five notes. The ""lirone"" was primarily used in Italy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries (and particularly in the time of Claudio Monteverdi) to provide continuo, or harmony for the accompaniment of vocal music. It was frequently used in Catholic churches, particularly by Jesuits. Despite the resurgence in Baroque instrument performance during the 20th century, only a handful of musicians play the ""lirone"". Notable performers on the instrument include Erin Headley of England, Hille Perl and Claas Harders of Germany, Annalisa Pappano of the United States, Laura"
"and 3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling 2nd English horn), English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, tamtam, celesta, harp, organ, and strings (violins, violas, cellos, and double basses). The reduced-orchestra version is scored for 3 trumpets, timpani, harp, organ, and strings (violins, violas, cellos, and double basses). The organ part used in the reduced version is different from the organ part used in the version for choir and organ. Requiem (Duruflé) The Requiem, Op.9, is a setting of the Latin Requiem by Maurice Duruflé for"
"With The American Circus 1890 (2000) Banjo Music For Funerals (2002) Taking Up Serpents Again (2004) Wirewalkers & Assassins (2008) 1890 (2011 Remix) Saving My Heart for the Butcherman (2012) How to Make It in Hollywood (2014) How to Make It in Hollywood (vinyl) (2014) Baudelaire in a Box: Songs of Anguish (2015) Henry Kissinger's Dance Party (2016) With The Bipeds 54 Strange Words (2018) Curtis Eller Curtis Paul Eller (born 1970, Detroit, Michigan) is a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer based in Durham, NC. Eller's work draws on an abundance of direct or indirect influences from"
"clarinets (2nd doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet (doubling contrabass clarinet), two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, trombone, bass trombone, timpani, three percussionists, harp, piano (doubling celesta), and strings. Reviewing the world premiere in Chicago, John von Rhein of the ""Chicago Tribune"" wrote, ""The 2017 work [...] plays loosely with traditional concerto form but fills that free-form structure with the kinds of things the CSO's invaluable creative consultant does better than any cellist around. It is as much a showpiece for his stupendous instrumental gift as it is a study in opposing forces — think quiescent clouds of lyricism giving"
"Keyboard instrument A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings. Today, the term ""keyboard"" often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Under the fingers of a sensitive performer, the keyboard may also be used to control dynamics, phrasing, shading, articulation, and other"
"as his replacement his former cello student Peter Wiley, also a Curtis graduate, who had for many years been the cellist with the Beaux Arts Trio. When the Guarneri Quartet was disbanded in 2009, it had been on a continuous concert circuit for forty-five years. According to its members, the longevity of Guarneri was due to several factors. One was playing music that they loved as well as playing compositions that presented musical and performance challenges. These kept boredom away and performances fresh. Although the four performed together in concert, and they practiced together for three hours a day, ""on"
"United States."" Curtis produces elite, finely polished musicians who will enter their future musician's world imbued with musical excellence. Lifelong friends are made. After graduation from Curtis, Dalley joined the faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and played second violin in the resident string quartet, while performing regularly in recital and as soloist with orchestra. Eventually he moved to New York City where he free-lanced, then joined the short-lived American String Quartet with the cellist David Soyer."" Dalley began playing the violin when he was three years old with his father as his first teacher. His early studies were"