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John Aylward
Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts - Clark University Boston
'Brilliant energetic rhythmic figures…imaginative sonorities and harmonies that always move, always inflect'. -- American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Composer and pianist John Aylward grew up in the Sonoran Desert, on the border of Arizona and Mexico, a child of an immigrant mother from Germany (herself a World War II refugee) and in circumstances of both tremendous diversity and economic instability. His music processes the impacts of that earlier life, filled with a deep sense of community, rich expressions of converging cultural histories, and the otherworldly landscapes of the desert. His work is influenced by a wide ranging love of literature, from Sartre and Jung to Calvino, Melville and contemporary poets Louise Gluck, Robert Lowell and Dean Young, and like the poets and philosophers who inspire him, his music questions our fundamental personal and worldly relationships.
John is a John S. Guggenheim Foundation fellowship recipient, and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He has been twice awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has also been awarded residencies at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and other artist spaces. He is the recipient of commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard and the Koussevitzky Commission at the Library of Congress. Early in his career, he won First Prize from the International Society for Contemporary Music.
John is also an active teacher, scholar and performer, and a co-director of Ecce Arts, a non profit performance art group. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Degrees
Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory, Brandeis University, 2008
M.F.A. in Music Composition, Brandeis University, 2005
B.M. in Piano Performance, University of Arizona, 2003
Laszlo Hudacsek
Percussionist Laszlo Hudacsek was born in Hungary. He has been a soloist with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under conductors James Conlon, Heinz Holliger, Péter Eötvös, Mauricio Kagel, Roland Kluttig, Zsolt Nagy, Karlheinz Stockhausen...
He completed his Concert Exam with honors, and subsequently studied percussion in Debrecen with József Vrana and in Karlsruhe with Professor Isao Nakamura and Prof. Péter Eötvös in his ensemble for new music. From 1990-93 he was percussionist with the Pécser Symphony. From 1994-2000 he was an assistant and musical partner to professor Nakamura.
He has played with the Saarland Radio Orchestra, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Ensemble recherche (Freiburg), Ensemble Muskfabrik (Cologne), Ensemble Cologne, Stockhausen Ensemble, Israeli Contemporary Players, Klangforum Vienna, etc.
Laszlo Hudacsek received top honors at various competitions and foundations, e.g.- 1994/96/98- Darmstadt Summer Courses; 1995-97- for the project "percussion and electronics -new media", the graduation scholarship of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg; 1996- price winner of the "13th Japan wind and Percussion Competition - Tokyo; and 2003- guest artist at ZKM, for the realization of the vibraphone solo piece "RAYS "of Karl Heinz Stockhausen.
Hudacsek was guest artist at several music festivals, including "Berliner Festwochen", "Music Biennale" and "Maerz Music" (Berlin), "Ars Musica" (Brussels), "Eclat Festival" (Stuttgart), Melos-Ethos Festival (Bratislava), "Music Triennale" (Cologne), "Ars Electronica" (Linz), "Prague Spring", Schleswig-Holstein, Tel Aviv Biannale, "Warsaw Autumn", "Wien Modern" (Vienna), Festival d´Autumne à Paris.
He has appeared in prestigous concert halls across Europe, America and Asia, among others the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), "Konzerthaus" as well as the chamber music hall of the "Philharmonie" (Berlin), Philharmonic Concert Hall and WDR (Cologne), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), I.C.A. (London), Radio France: Messiaen Hall (Paris), Spanish Hall (Prague), Mozarteum (Salzburg), "Liederhalle" (Stuttgart), "Konzerthaus"(Vienna), Music Centre (Jerusalem), "Museum of Art" (Tel Aviv), Sala Cecilia Meirelles (Rio de Janeiro), Bario Hall (Tokyo), Alti Hall (Kyoto)...
Premieres (selection): Valerio Sannicandro's Births for percussion solo and ensemble (Darmstadt Summer Courses), Jörg Mainka's Mitschnitt at the South German Radio Karlsruhe, Mauricio Kagel's L ' Art Bruit as Isao Nakamura's assistant in the Cologne Philharmonic Concert Hall, Robert HP Platz's Andere Räume at WDR Cologne, Wolfgang Rihm's Séraphin-Sphäre with Ensemble Recherche in the Philharmonie Brüssel, Shida Shoko's Rashomon at the Japanese Culture Institute Deutschlandfunk Cologne, Karlheinz Stockhausen: STRAHLEN/RAYS for one percussionist and 10-channel electronics in the ZKM Karlsruhe.
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