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ブルース・スタークの作品 Ode To "Ode To Joy" と Fugue が演奏され、またスタークのジャズ演奏もお楽しみ。
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German pianist Kai Schumacher will give the European premiere of Bruce Stark's Ode To 'Ode To Joy' and selections from Five Preludes on May 18, 2008 at Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg.
Pianist Tatjana Rankovich will play Stark's Fugue, Interlude and Finale on March 27, 2008 as part of the Keys To The Future contemporary piano music series in New York City.
2007 HIGHLIGHTS
Pianist Matthew McCright included Stark's Ode To "Ode To Joy" in his recitals on September 22 at Thiel College, Pennsylvania, October 13 at University of Minnesota and on October 16 at Lewis University Theatre in Chicago.
Pianist Lisa Moore included Ode To "Ode To Joy" in her recitals in Australia on May 5 (The Priority Bingie Gallery), May 12 (Canberra International Chamber Music Festival) and May 17 (Melbourne Town Hall).
Trombonist Florian Juncker and pianist Jens Barnieck gave performances of Stark's Gospel Song Fantasy in Germany: on March 3 at the Pfalzakademie Lambrecht; on June 16 at the Theodor Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, and in the Theatre of the City of Idal-Oberstein on June 27 (or 28).
Pianist Anthony DeMare gave the U.S. premiere of Stark's Fugue, Interlude and Finale on June 13 at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
Bruce Stark's Bone Tones for trombone and piano is the title cut (and opening track) of trombonist HIroyuki Odagiri's CD released from Meister Records. (photo on right)
RECENT RELEASES
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U.S. record label Centaur Records was awarded a grant from the Alice M. Ditson fund in support of the recording of a CD of Stark's American Suite for flute and piano and several of his solo piano works. The new release, entitled Muse, is available online at Centaur Records.
Colorado-based a capella vocal group Ars Nova Singers new release, Blue True Dream contains Bruce Stark's Wind Song. The CD is available on-line through their website.
British pianist Seann Alderking's new release, Vivid, from Red Kite Records (U.K.) is an entire CD of Stark's compositions, including Suite For Piano which was commissioned by him for the recording. Sound samples and purchasing available through their website.
Clarinetist Kazuo Fujii's new CD from ALM Records (Japan) includes a recording of Stark's Takumi's Boogie for clarinet octet.
2006 HIGHLIGHTS
As part of the "Keys To The Future" series of contemporary piano music at Greenwich House's Renee Weiler Concert Hall in New York City, the U.S. premiere of three of Bruce Stark's solo piano works (Five Preludes, Ode To "Ode To Joy," and Winged) were included in the program on November 7, 8 and 9, performed by pianists Lisa Moore, Joe Rubenstein and Tatjana Rankovich.
On September 10 American contemporary music champion Anthony DeMare performed Bruce Stark's Fugue for piano at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Provincetown, New Jersey.
On September 8 Stark's jazz trio performed standards in a concert at Nogata ku-min Hall.
Japanese pianist Yuki Homma performed Stark's Fugue, Interlude and Finale on July 22 in her recital at Kanagawaken-min Hall.
On June 17 Stark joined Kaori (flute) and Yuko Fujii (piano) and Christopher Hardy for a concert at Sweet Basil in Roppongi. Yuko Fujii performed selections from Stark's Songs Of Innocence with the composer as poetry narrator, and she also performed his Five Preludes. The Fujii sisters also performed his Serenade To A Son and several of Stark's arrangements.
On May 3 pianist Seann Alderking performed a piano concert in Steinway Hall (London) featuring Bruce Stark's piano works
Bruce Stark appeared as pianist with flutiist Kaori Fujii's trio for a concert at Kennedy Center in Washington DC on March 25. The program featured Stark's arrangements of Bach, Bizet, Japanese songs, jazz and more.
French flutist Julien Beaudiment performed the Korean premiere of Stark's Kaori's Song for flute and piano on April 27 in Ceramic Palace Hall, Seoul.
On March 25 pianist Yuko Mifune performed Stark's Takumi's Boogie at Amiyu Tachikawa Hall, Tokyo.
On March 11 American pianist Anthony DeMare gave the U.S. premiere of Stark's Fugue from Fugue, Interlude and Finale during the American Piano Festival in Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at College Park, Maryland.
pianist Chika Nagisa gave two performances of Stark's Ode To "Ode To Joy" in February, at her recitals in Shizuoka and Kyoto.
On February 25 Stark's jazz trio performed a concert at Aimu Hall in Tachikawa
Takumi's Boogie, in an arrangement by the composer for 8 clarinets, was performed by five ensembles at the All Japan Ensemble competition in January, and by a clarinet orchestra directed by Kazuo Fujii on February 24th.