‘Contorted Motion’ (2011) - solo horn in F with pre-recorded electronics, for Kyle Hayes
I am currently writing a piece of music for a new-found friend, Kyle Hayes. He is a fabulous horn player that has offered to commission and record a composition. I’ve decided to take my early sketches and resurrect my old ideas, creating something fresh and new with a flowing, dance-like, yet contorted quality. -CR
About the performer:
From 2007-2011, he was actively freelancing in Memphis. Before that, in 2006, he played productions of West Side Story with Siegel High School, recorded new works by local composers, and performed the First Horn Concerto by Richard Strauss with the Murfreesboro Youth Orchestra.
I have done performances of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2007), Mozart's The Magic Flute (2008), Handel's Partenope (2009), Menotti’s The Medium (2010) and The Old Maid and the Thief (2010), The Crucible (2010), Oliver! (2010) at Playhouse on The Square, and The Sound of Music (2011) with the Desoto Family Theatre. In November of 2008, along with UofM doctoral student Rinaldo Fonseca, I performed Telemann’s Suite for Two Horns and Strings with the UofM Chamber Orchestra, on natural horns with a baroque style orchestra.
Recording projects have included the debut CD of The Magic Kids, a local band in Memphis, titledMEMPHIS, as well as a CD of music for Wind Ensemble by Eric Ewazen, produced by Albany Records.
He has played principal horn in the Memphis Summer Music Festival Chamber Orchestra (summers 2007 and 2008), as well as performed Beethoven’s Octet for Winds in E-flat with the PRIZM Ensemble. In addition to this, he played principal horn of the Wolf River Chamber Orchestra, guest principal for the Corinth Symphony Orchestra, as well as second horn of the Delta Symphony Orchestra, performing programs of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 7, the Octet for Winds in E-flat, and Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds.
For more info on the performer, check out Kyle’s website here:
http://kylehayeshorn.com/Performer/Projects.html
I have done performances of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2007), Mozart's The Magic Flute (2008), Handel's Partenope (2009), Menotti’s The Medium (2010) and The Old Maid and the Thief (2010), The Crucible (2010), Oliver! (2010) at Playhouse on The Square, and The Sound of Music (2011) with the Desoto Family Theatre. In November of 2008, along with UofM doctoral student Rinaldo Fonseca, I performed Telemann’s Suite for Two Horns and Strings with the UofM Chamber Orchestra, on natural horns with a baroque style orchestra.
Recording projects have included the debut CD of The Magic Kids, a local band in Memphis, titledMEMPHIS, as well as a CD of music for Wind Ensemble by Eric Ewazen, produced by Albany Records.
He has played principal horn in the Memphis Summer Music Festival Chamber Orchestra (summers 2007 and 2008), as well as performed Beethoven’s Octet for Winds in E-flat with the PRIZM Ensemble. In addition to this, he played principal horn of the Wolf River Chamber Orchestra, guest principal for the Corinth Symphony Orchestra, as well as second horn of the Delta Symphony Orchestra, performing programs of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 7, the Octet for Winds in E-flat, and Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds.
For more info on the performer, check out Kyle’s website here:
http://kylehayeshorn.com/Performer/Projects.html
Modish Dance/Doleful Drone
for string quartet and loops (2011) - in eight movements
Spirited, lively, hip dances…Dark, foreboding, melancholy drones. A mixture of Dances and Drones in eight movements that flow into each other quite gracefully. Each movement based on a modern american poem from the collection, “The Voice that is Great Within Us"