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Dmitri Tymoczko (1969-     )

Dmitri Tymoczko is a composer and music theorist who is an Associate Professor at Princeton University. He studied music and philosophy at Harvard University, where his primary teachers were Milton Babbitt, Leon Kirchner, Bernard Rands, Stanley Cavell, and Hilary Putnam. Tymoczko’s music has won numerous prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Hugh F. MacColl Prizes from Harvard University, and the Eisner and DeLorenzo prizes from the University of California, Berkeley.  He has received fellowships from Tanglewood, the Ernest Bloch festival, the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, and has been the composer in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was awarded the Arthur Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship from Princeton University.  His music has been performed and by the Brentano Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet, Ursula Oppens, the Network for New Music, the Synergy Vocal Ensemble, the Gregg Smith Singers, the Janus Trio, the Cleveland Contemporary Youth Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Players, and others.

COMPOSITIONS                                           Tymoczko Links     ~ ~ ~     Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Tymoczko on Tymoczko
Duo for Cello and Piano (????)
Dream Diary, percussion, saxophone and keyboards (????)
Five Cummings Songs, soprano and piano (1994) [text: e. e. cummings]
This Picture Seems to Move, string quartet (1999)
Piano Games (4 mvts), piano (2001-02)
Echo Code, string quartet (2003)
Cathedral, flute, viola and harp (2004)
Fools & Angels (5 songs), 4 voices and electronics (2004) [text: Jeff Dolven]
Beat Therapy, jazz/funk ensemble (2005)
The Agony of Modern Music, secular cantata, 4 soloists, chorus, 2 pianos, synth and 2 percussionists (2005)
The Eggman Variations, piano quintet (piano and string quartet) (2005)
Four Dreams, sax, piano and percussion (2006)
Power Chords, orchestra and solo string quartet (2006)
The Story of Jazz, piano (2008)
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor, singer, recorded voice and amplified chamber-music ensemble (2009)
Waltzing With Wolfgang While Conlon Looks On, electronics (2010)
Typecase Treasury, string quartet and double bass (2010)


WORKS BY GENRE                                           Tymoczko Links     ~ top of page ~    ~ ~ ~    Tymoczko on Tymoczko
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Power Chords, orchestra and solo string quartet (2006)
    - Broken Record
    - Settlement
    - Louis Armstrong, in Heaven, Performs a Funeral March for György Ligeti

Chorus w/Orchestra
The Agony of Modern Music, secular cantata, 4 soloists, chorus, 2 pianos, synth and 2 percussionists (2005)
    - Polemic
    - Parable
    - Prophesy
    - Prayer

Chamber
Duo for Cello and Piano (????)
Dream Diary, percussion, saxophone and keyboards (????)
This Picture Seems to Move, string quartet (1999)
    - Twittering Machine
    - Those Who Go
Echo Code, string quartet (2003)
    - Hocket
    - Adagio Fourths
    - Arachnid Espresso
Cathedral, flute, viola and harp (2004)
    - Prologue
    - Figures
    - Song
Beat Therapy, jazz/funk ensemble (2005)
    - Loop & Swing
    - Kachunk
    - Katrina Stomp
    - Sweet Nothings
    - The Mysterious Stranger
    - Earthquake
    - Dreams May Come
    - Sayonara
The Eggman Variations, piano quintet (piano and string quartet) (2005)
    - Pentatonia
    - Bent
    - A Roiling Worm of Sound
Four Dreams, sax, piano and percussion (2006)
    - Intro
    - First Dream: I'm the Queen of England
    - Intro (Reprise)
    - Second Dream: I'm uh, ... I've got this really long beard
    - Third Dream: the language of thought
    - Fourth Dream: This dream starts with a sound
Typecase Treasury, string quartet and double bass (2010)
    - Where We Begin
    - Hurdy Gurdy
    - Crackpot Hymnal
    - This One Was Supposed to Be Atonal
    - Russian Metal
    - Intermezzo
    - Anthem

Piano
Piano Games (4 mvts), piano (2001-02)
The Story of Jazz, piano (2008)
    - Technicolor Introduction
    - Prehistory
    - Learning to Walk
    - Our Story So Far
    - And Now, Bebop

Vocal
Five Cummings Songs, soprano and piano (1994) [text: e. e. cummings]
    - l(a/le/af/fa/ll/s/)/one/li/ness
    - nonsun blob
    - annie died
    - ta/ppin/g
    - mOOn Over tOwns mOOn
Fools & Angels (5 songs), 4 voices and electronics (2004) [text: Jeff Dolven]
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor, singer, recorded voice and amplified chamber-music ensemble (2009)

Electronic
Fools & Angels (5 songs), 4 voices and electronics (2004) [text: Jeff Dolven]
Waltzing With Wolfgang While Conlon Looks On, electronics (2010)


TYMOCZKO  LINKS                                    Works by Genre      ~ top of page ~    ~ ~ ~    Tymoczko on Tymoczko
Composer Reveals Musical Chords' Hidden Geometry (Chad Boutin, EurekAlert!)
Dmitri Tymoczko Interview (composition:today)
The Geometry of Music (Michael Lemonick, Time Magazine)
The Geometry of Musical Chords (Dmitri Tymoczko, Science Magazine)
Mapping Music (Elizabeth Gudrais, Harvard Magazine)
Mapping the Math in Music (Scientific Computing)
Mathematically Mapping Music (Liz Tay, COSMOS Magazine)
The Moduli Space of Chords: Dmitri Tymoczko on Geometry and Music (Quomodocumque)
Power Chords - for String Quartet and Orchestra (Contemporary Youth Orchestra)
The Shape of Music (Dmitri Tymoczko, SEED Magazine)
The Sublime Beethoven (Dmitri Tymoczko, Boston Review)
The Unforgiving Minute (Paul Currion, currion.net)

Composer's website  . . .   contact Dmitri Tymoczko:  here

Tymoczko @ Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Tymoczko @ Bridge Records
Tymoczko @ Facebook
Tymoczko @ Forms Most Beautiful
Tymoczko @ InstantEncore
Tymoczko @ ISMIR 2008
Tymoczko @ Lewis Center for the Arts/Princeton University
Tymoczko @ LinkedIn
Tymoczko @ Oxford University Press
Tymoczko @ Princeton University
Tymoczko @ Radcliffe Institute/Harvard University
Tymoczko @ San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Tymoczko @ Squidoo

Publisher
Tymoczko @ Composer's website

Streaming Audio
Tymoczko @ composer's website  -  check under individual work listings
Tymoczko @ last.fm
Tymoczko @ SoundCloud
Tymoczko @ Squidoo

Recordings
Tymoczko @ Amazon.com
Tymoczko @ ArkivMusic
Tymoczko @ Bridge Records
Tymoczko @ CD Universe

Video
Tymoczko @ YouTube
Tymoczko @ Google Video
Tymoczko @ Vimeo
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Tymoczko on Tymoczko: Interview/WFHB (streaming audio)
Composers Speak on the Web at Pytheas
                            ~ click on composer picture to listen ~