New Index Stephen Drury. Bio Discography EMail Links Performance Schedule Rogue's Gallery Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance Writings http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
NEC Pianist Stephen Drury Runs The Gamut From Beethoven To Zorn Pianist Stephen Drury will mix it up in a faculty recital that juxtaposes music from many periods and styles, Wednesday May 4 at 8 p.m. in NEC's http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Alumni Profile Stephen Drury '85 A.D. Alumni Profile Stephen Drury '85 A.D. Piano Performance. Pianist Stephen Drury has performed in recital around the world and has earned major http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Stephen Drury Artists Page Home STEPHEN DRURY, pianist. Named Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Stephen Drury Music Page Stephen Drury, pianist excerpt from "The People United " F. Rzewski New Albion CD - NA063 back to artist's page http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Stephen Drury Stephen Drury Named 1989 Musician of the Year by the "Boston Globe", pianist Stephen Drury has concertized throughout the United States and the http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Stephen Drury who betrays his background as a pianist in his thorough use of the instrument, and also for the performer, pianist Stephen Drury, who plays http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Classical Piano Links Oliver Drechsel Pianist (DE) Stephen Drury Pianist/Conductor Hans Eijsackers Pianist (NL) Wolfgang Ellenberger Pianist (DE) http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Stephen Drury Profile Wellknown as a champion of twentieth-century music, stephen drury s repertoire As pianist PIANO WORKS I - Music for Two; One; One5; Music Walk. http://www.mode.com/profiles/stephendrury.html
Extractions: Well-known as a champion of twentieth-century music, Stephen Drury's repertoire extends from Bach, Schubert, and Liszt to the complete piano sonatas of Ives and music by Cage, Carter, Rzewski, Zorn, Feldman, Ligeti, and Berio. He has performed throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia, taking the sound of dissonance into remote corners of Pakistan, Greenland and Montana. He was a prize-winner in the Carnegie Hall/ Rockefeller Foundation Competitions in American Music, and the United States Information Agency selected him twice for its Artistic Ambassador program. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Meet the Composer, Drury has commissioned new works from Zorn, Cage, Riley, Hyla and Ung. Drury teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music. He has recorded for Mode, Tzadik, New Albion, Catalyst, MusicMasters and Neuma.
John Cage - The Piano Concertos stephen drury, piano bowed piano Callithumpian Consort The pianist swimsin the same sort of musical aquarium as the orchestra, not only producing http://www.mode.com/catalog/057cage.html
Extractions: This major release marks the first time that all of John Cage's Piano Concertos have been collected on one disc. It is especially valuable because it brings together two of Cage's favorite pianists the legendary David Tudor and renowned new-music champion Stephen Drury. Here Tudor makes a rare appearance as piano soloist with Germany's acclaimed Ensemble Modern for the Concert for Piano and Orchestra. This is the last performance of David Tudor at the piano, recorded at 1992's Cage Festival in Frankfurt (which sadly became a memorial as Cage passed away shortly before the performances). The Concert for Piano and Orchestra is an ever-expanding galaxy of sonic possibilities with the principle of independence. With no master score; orchestral players may start anywhere in his or her part according to their independently derived timetable. The pianist swims in the same sort of musical aquarium as the orchestra, not only producing traditional sounds on the keyboard, but also playing inside the instrument, along with unspecified auxiliary noise sources. Cage's comment on the expansive and contradictory nature of this sound universe is telling: "The only thing I was being consistent to in this piece was that I did not need to be consistent."
Stephen Drury Named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe , pianist stephen drury hasconcertized throughout the United States and the world. http://www.newalbion.com/artists/drurys/
Extractions: Named 1989 Musician of the Year by the "Boston Globe", pianist Stephen Drury has concertized throughout the United States and the world. He made a very successful New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1984 as the winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and has since given solo performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, New York's Symphony Space and many other widely varied venues. A champion of twentieth-century music, Stephen Drury's performances of music ranging from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by John Cage and the music of John Zorn have received the highest critical acclaim. He has appeared at the Subtropics Festival in Miami and the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento as well as at Roulette and The Knitting Factory in New York. He directed the world premiere of George Russell's "Time Line" for orchestra, chorus, jazz band and soloists in 1992. In 1988-89 he organized a year-long festival of the music of John Cage and, at the composer's request, played the premiere of Cage's "101" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April, 1989. In 1991 he commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage and John Zorn with funding provided by Meet The Composer and performed the works in Paris and at the Walker Center in Minneapolis. In March 1995, he performed the world premiere of John Zorn's concerto "Piano Requia" with the Cologne Radio Orchestra and conductor Dennis Russell Davies. Mr. Drury was selected by the United States Information Agency for its Artistic Ambassador Program, which led to a 1986 European recital tour. A second tour in the autumn of 1988 took him to Pakistan, Hong Kong and Japan. He gave the first piano recitals ever heard in Julianehaab, Greenland, and Quetta, Pakistan. In 1989 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Mr. Drury a Solo Recitalist Fellowship which enabled him to give residencies and recitals of American music for two years. On tour in the 1992-93 season, he gave the Latin American premieres of works by Gyorgi Ligeti, John Zorn and
Extractions: April 22, 2005 Pianist Stephen Drury Valses nobles et sentimentales , Beethoven's Eroica Variations Carny, a phantasmagoria of musical quotations and references that was composed for Drury and two other pianists, Yvar Mikhashoff, and Anthony deMare under a grant from Meet the Composer. A long time champion of Zorn, Drury has written about Carny in Perspectives of New Music Carny cannibalizes mouthfuls of previously existing piano music. In turn, the introduction to Carny Night Fantasies The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the NEC Concert Line at (617) 585-1122 or visit NEC on the web at www.newenglandconservatory.edu/concerts ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty. Contact: Ellen Pfeifer
NEC Faculty: Stephen Drury stephen drury Piano, Chamber Music, Music History and Musicology; He hasappeared as conductor and pianist at the Angelica Festival in Italy, http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/faculty/druryS.html
Extractions: Piano, Chamber Music, Music History and Musicology; Director of NEC Avant Garde Ensemble; Director of Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance A.B. Harvard College; Artist Diploma New England Conservatory. Piano with Claudio Arrau, Patricia Zander, Margaret Ott, William Masselos, Theodore Lettvin. Recordings on Tzadik, Mode, New Albion, MusicMasters, Catalyst, Avant, Neuma, Carlton Classics. Related links:
Bios2003 He has appeared as conductor and pianist at the Angelica Festival in Italy While a student of stephen drury, Ms. Wettstein earned a Master of Music from http://www.stephendrury.com/SICPP/2005biosSICPP.html
Extractions: The Callithumpian Consort is based at New England Conservatory, and was founded by Stephen Drury sometime in the 1990's. Dedicated to the proposition that music is an experience, the Consort has performed music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacinto Scelsi, Ivan Tcherepnin, Iannis Xenakis, Lee Hyla, David Shea, Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Paul Elwood, John Heiss, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, Lukas Foss, and others. Recordings on Tzadik and Mode Records. John Mark Harris has given solo piano recitals in Boston, New York, and Poznan, Poland, where he presented two recitals of American Music in concerts sponsored by the Polish-American Embassy. His performance of the "Concord" Sonata of Charles Ives was hailed by the Edinburgh, Scotland Scottsman as "a stunning performance." Awards include sponsorship from the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music; the Abby Whiteside Foundation; the Hillsborough County Arts Council; and the Lord Mayor of Darmstadt. His repertoire includes solo and chamber works by many twentieth-century composers, including Scelsi, Ives, Feldman, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Nono, Messiaen, Berio and Clementi.
Bio pianist stephen drury, named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe, hasconcertized throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach http://www.stephendrury.com/bio/bio.htm
Extractions: return to home page Pianist STEPHEN DRURY named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe, has concertized throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has given solo performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C., New York's Symphony Space, and from Arkansas to California to Hong Kong to Paris. Time Line for orchestra, chorus, jazz band and soloists. In 1988 - 1989 he organized a year-long festival of the music of John Cage which led to a request from the composer to perform the solo piano part in Cage's , premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April, 1989. Drury has commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, Terry Riley, and Chinary Ung with funding provided by Meet The Composer. In March of 1995 he gave the first performance of John Zorn's concerto for piano and orchestra Aporias with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Later that same season he gave the premiere of Basic Training for solo piano, written for him by Lee Hyla.
Welcome To Piano.com drury, stephen offers information on the American pianist whose repertoireincludes Cage, Carter, Bach and Liszt. http://www.piano.com/pianist/pianist_classical.cfm
REVIEW: `People United' Performance Brings Down The House pianist stephen drury, assisted by Sons of Orpheus, performed yesterday s The superhuman pianist was stephen drury, a celebrated contemporary music http://arizonachambermusic.org/Druryreview.htm
Extractions: Nobody who attended yesterday's Piano and Friends recital will ever forget it. The superhuman pianist was Stephen Drury, a celebrated contemporary music interpreter who teaches at Boston's New England Conservatory. He conquered, from memory, a nearly unconquerable creation: American Frederic Rzewski's 36 variations on ``The People United Will Never Be Defeated,'' a song by Chilean Sergio Ortega. The now-exiled Ortega wrote ``People United'' in 1973, months before Gen. Agusto Pinochet's coup. Before Drury's performance, Tucson's Sons of Orpheus sang this moving leftist anthem in Spanish and with the zeal of revolutionaries. Grayson Hirst directed forcefully. Structurally, Rzewski's ``People United'' variations first quote the Ortega song. Six sets of variations follow, with some variations summarizing earlier material. The result is ``an aural image of `the people united' - individuals in all their diversity coming together bit by bit to form a union,'' said Drury.
Callithumpian Consort Founded by pianist and conductor stephen drury sometime in the1990 s, they arean ensemble producing concerts of contemporary music at the highest standard. http://www.callithumpian.org/html/news/sicpp04.htm
Extractions: June 21 - 26, 2004 New England Conservatory School for Continuing Education will present a six-evening concert series of new music as part of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance (known by its acronym SICPP and pronounced, as always, "sick puppy"). This annual concert series, which has become known as Boston's most concentrated, extensive, and adventurous new music event, will feature international performers of new music as well as local champions of dissonance. Special guests will include pianist Ursula Oppens and composer-in-residence Christian Wolff. Also, for the first time on one Boston stage, the Callithumpian Consort presents Peter Maxwell Davies masterpiece 8 Songs for a Mad King along with its sister piece Miss Donnithorne's Maggot Concerts will take place at New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. every evening from Monday, June 21 to Saturday, June 26 at 8PM. All concerts are free and open to the public.
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Extractions: scott@improvisedcommunications.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 5TH, 2004 BOSTON, MA The Callithumpian Consort Experimental Music Series, a new concert series produced by improvising multi-instrumentalist Jorrit Dijkstra in collaboration with the Callithumpian Consort and its artistic director Stephen Drury, is proud to announce its inaugural Spring 2004 performance schedule. Funded by the Massachusetts Cultural and Cambridge Arts Councils, this series was established to present programs that explore the crossroads between composition and improvisation in an informal atmosphere conducive to the enjoyment of both aficionados and new listeners alike. Concerts will be held on the first Fridays of the month from March through June at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge (Inman Square) for a suggested donation of $7. More information about the series is available at http://www.callithumpian.org
