A Web Nexus for Contemporary Art Music
The Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music is a wide ranging web nexus for contemporary concert music. Our mission is to promote contemporary composers and their music through information, understanding and performances.
Contemporary classical/art/concert music is a living art form, fed by the creativity of composers across the country and around the globe. Finding inspiration from a multitude of sources, this music springs from a well-known and beloved past, yet travels new avenues and explores amazingly diverse sound worlds. There are more composers writing music now than there ever have been in the history of the world, and our goal is to help you connect with them and enjoy their art.
Featured Items and Upcoming Events
Jean Françaix
Double Concerto for Fl, Cl & Orch (1991)
Linda Kelder (flute); Helena Tuuling (clarinet) ~ ~ check out our video archive post your comments at PytheasTalk
Ensemble Resonance
Calgary, Canada
Ensemble Resonance consists of accomplished Canadian performers Stan Climie (clarinet), Michelle Todd (voice), Steven Lubiarz (violin) and Colleen Athparia (piano). This Calgary based Canadian contemporary music ensemble, specializes in music composed in the 20th and 21st century. They present an eclectic mix of works, featuring world premières by Calgary composer, as well as "classics" of the modern era . . .Learn More
Stella
Sung
Composer Portrait
As a national and international
award-winning composer, Stella
Sung's
compositions are performed throughout the United States and abroad. She
is Composer-in-Residence for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and
Dance Alive National Ballet. Since 2003, Sung has been using digital
and multi-media applications in her concert and symphonic compositions,
as well as in music for dance and ballet. As a collaborative artist,
her most recent large-scale work, The
Circle Closes,
calls for the use of digital lighting design which is synchronized with
the music. Additionally, the unique and pioneering use of "singing"
crystal bowls as part of the instrumentation for The Circle Closes,
is perhaps the first ever, serious concert work to use these bowls
within the fabric of an orchestral composition. Sung
is the recipient of the 2007-2010 Phi Kappa Phi National Artist’s
Award, as well as a 2009-10 Meet the Composer award . Her composition,
Rockwell Reflections, was featured in a short documentary film that
received the iSung isnternational 2009 MOFILM film festival "Cultural
Arts" award (Barcelona, Spain). Her works have been premiered at
Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall in Boston, Sydney Opera House,the
Schauspielhaus in Berlin, and many other famous concert halls and
performing arts centers around the world
. .
.
Learn
More
visit Stella Sung at Pytheas ...
The Southwest Festival of New Music
Sante Fe, NM, USA - June 21-23, 2012
Sante Fe New Music (SFNM)
is excited to announce the programs for their, Southwest Festival of
New Music.
The 3-day event examines the theme of “Music as Environmental
Consciousness,” conceived in homage to the 2012 centenary of John Cage.
According to SFNM’s
Artistic Director John Kennedy, “Cage opened our ears and minds to the
possibility of hearing all the world as music, and our festival will
focus on the younger generation of composers and practitioners who have
carried the spirit of his work forward into today." Highlights
of
the festival’s concerts include commissions from Christian Wolff, as
well as music from Lisa Coons, Nathan Davis, and Christopher
Marianetti. The festival will also present a special conception of a
new work by composer and acoustic ecologist David Dunn, which will be
presented as an evolving work over the three evenings of the
festival . . .
Learn More
Sergei Prokofiev
The Ugly Duckling (1914)
Elena Petrova (soprano) ~ ~ check out our video archive post your comments at PytheasTalk
5 Questions to Lynn Bechtold (violinist, member of Zentripetal Duo)
Thomas Deneuville, I Care If You Listen
Thomas Deneuville:
Sometimes,
musicians fall in love with the geometry of a piece and decide to start
an ensemble (I believe something similar happened between Janus Trio
and Debussy’s sonata). Did such a thing happen with Zentripetal Duo? Lynn Bechtold:
No, just tired playing traditional violin/piano, cello/ piano rep and
there are some great duos for vln/cel by Ravel, Kodaly, Schulhoff,
Handel-Halvorsen. We liked the combo and then started getting other
composers to write for us. TD:
Why use the German word for Centripetal? Wouldn’t Zentrifugal be more
musical :) ? LB:
Just aesthetically we liked the word better… pulling inwards, and
includes the English words “zen” and “trip” . . .
Learn
More
visit I Care If You Listen at Pytheas ...
Composers of the Month
Sound Advice
Featured Recording
Albany Records

Gernot Wolfgang
Common Ground
and subtle in its appeal.
- Walter Simmons, Fanfare Magazine
Learn More
... see the Featured Recordings Archive
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Pytheas EarfulsEach week we recommend
listening experiences made
possible by the web's
many streaming audio sites.
Click, listen, explore, and enjoy...
This week's featured pieces:
Henri Tomasi
Requiem pour la paix (1944)
Clermont Pépin
Symphony No. 2 (1957)
John Psathas
Summary of the
Human Presence (2011)
Streaming Audio? click Listen
Pytheas Sightings
New Music on Film
Kristin Norderval's score for
Papoose (2011)
Danses Pytheuses
New Music for Dance
Exaucé/Salt (1998)
Choreography by
Édouard Lock
Music by
David Lang
Sound Art
Electroacoustic Music
François Bayle
Morceaux de Ciels (1996)
Bang, Clang and Beat
New Music for Percussion
Inhyun Kim
When insight comes in a dream (2011)
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Contemporary Composers
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Composer Collectives
Film Composers
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New Music for Theater and Stage
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Composers Speak on the Web
New Music Ensembles
New Music Festivals
Contemporary Music Centers
Contemporary Music Venues
New Music Websites
Publishers
Award Winning Music
New Music Resources
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Streaming Audio Archive
New Music Recordings Archive
New Music Video Archive
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New Music Dance Archive
New Music Thoughts & Ideas
New Music Concepts & Terms
New Music for Kids
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