Michael Byron (composer)
Michael Byron (born September 7, 1953) is an American composer and editor of contemporary music anthologies. "Blue" Gene Tyranny described Byron as, "Influential as a writer and commentator on new music, and an editor of new music anthologies while living in NYC."[1]
His music has been released on Cold Blue Music, Meridian Records, Koch Records and New World Records. He was the publisher and editor of the journal Pieces, and is published by Frog Peak Music. Michael Byron studied composition with trumpet with Mario Guarneri[2] and composition with James Tenney and Richard Teitelbaum,[3][4] at CalArts and was also influenced by Lou Harrison.[2] "Often described as an 'early minimalist'," whose successive compositions progress, "upward [in a] spiral of complexity,"[4] "Michael Byron's music...tends to be harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and virtuosic. It is often praised for its ability to create uniquely dense constructions out of relatively limited means: 'Byron creates maximalist effects out of minimalist means.' (ClassicalNet)"[5] "The body of music he has composed over the past thirty years has been harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and increasingly virtuosic,"[3] and he, "has long been committed to writing virtuosic instrumental music of contrapuntal complexity and perpetual variation."[6] "Byron's early music included minimalist pieces...Byron's later music explores greater rhythmic complexity and richer modal and contrapuntal techniques."[2]
Albums
- Michael Byron: Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl (Cold Blue: 2000)
- Michael Byron: Awakening at the Inn of the Birds (Cold Blue: 2003)[7][8]
- Joseph Kubera and Marilyn Nonken, live: The Ultra Violet of Many Parallel Paths (Independent: 2018)
- Thomas Buckner, FLUX Quartet, and Joseph Kubera: Michael Byron: The Celebration, lyrics by Byron's wife Anne Tardos (New World Records: 2017)
- Joseph Kubera: Michael Byron: Dreamers of Pearl (New World Records: 2008)
- Tasha Smith Godínez: Michael Byron: In the Village of Hope (Cold Blue: 2015)
- James Bergman/String Noise: Michael Byron: Fabric for String Noise (Cold Blue Music: 2019)
Anthologies
References
- ↑ Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. Michael Byron at AllMusic. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gagné, Nicole V. (2019). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, p.65. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538122983 Search this book on
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/michael-byron-dreamers-of-pearl
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Byron-Dreamers-Pearl/dp/B001CRMHVK?tag=everybodywikien-20
- ↑ http://coldbluemusic.com/cb0043/
- ↑ https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8287016--byron-m-the-celebration
- ↑ "Cold Blue Music page on Awakening at the inn of the birds CB0012, accessed 5 February 2010". Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ↑ Dusted magazine review of Awakening at the inn of the birds CB0012, accessed 5 February 2010[dead link]
External links
- Frogpeak Music page at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 April 2019)
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