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Lee Actor - Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 2 and Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra
Albany Records TROY 1017
Lee Actor’s career as a software engineer and a musician began in Albany, New York. For several years he was a violinist in the Albany Symphony Orchestra while completing an advanced engineering degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in nearby Troy. After moving to California in the late 1970s, he studied with Brent Heisinger,
Charles Jones and the late Andrew Imbrie.
Actor’s music is filled with rhythmic drive and shows a superb ear for orchestral color. Often he builds up a work by emphasizing one or another of the instrumental families – woodwinds, brass and strings – then mixes them in a rich impasto of orchestral color. In the process he creates music that catches the ear and draws the listener into a world of emotion and drama. All of these recent works are a perfect showcase of his distinct range and style.
Check the Albany Records website for more information
Lee Actor - Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 2 and Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra
Albany Records TROY 1017
Lee Actor’s career as a software engineer and a musician began in Albany, New York. For several years he was a violinist in the Albany Symphony Orchestra while completing an advanced engineering degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in nearby Troy. After moving to California in the late 1970s, he studied with Brent Heisinger,
Charles Jones and the late Andrew Imbrie.
Actor’s music is filled with rhythmic drive and shows a superb ear for orchestral color. Often he builds up a work by emphasizing one or another of the instrumental families – woodwinds, brass and strings – then mixes them in a rich impasto of orchestral color. In the process he creates music that catches the ear and draws the listener into a world of emotion and drama. All of these recent works are a perfect showcase of his distinct range and style.
Check the Albany Records website for more information
Here are some
of the many record labels that feature contemporary art music.
Tell us about any others you know of - we'd love to add them to our growing list.
Tell us about any others you know of - we'd love to add them to our growing list.
Contemporary Music Recordings
Albany Records
Atopos
Bridge Records
Cedille Records - contemporary
Innova Recordings (The Label of the American Composers Forum)
Komplott
Mode Records
MSR Classics - contemporary
Musica Omnia - 20th century
musicnow
Naxos
New Albion Records
New Music from Indiana University: Volumes 1 and 2
New World Records
numusic.org
Zimbel Records
In addition
to individual record labels, contemporary recordings can be
searched
by the composer's name at such sites as:
by the composer's name at such sites as:
Amazon.com
ArkivMusic.com
CD Baby: Music Now
Classicsonline: 20th Century or Contemporary or By Composer
e classical: Contemporary
ArkivMusic.com
CD Baby: Music Now
Classicsonline: 20th Century or Contemporary or By Composer
e classical: Contemporary
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