Member Since: 11/7/2006
Band Members: JEFFREY MILARSKY, Music Director
JUSTIN BROWN, Director
VIOLIN: David Fulmer, Mae Lin, Catherine Miller, Keats Dieffenbach, SoJin Kim, Paladio Garcia, Erik Carlson, Clara Lyon, Ann Miller, Noah Geller, Minyoung Baik, Patrick Doane, Yvonne Lam, Arthur Moeller, Clara Lyon
VIOLA: Nadia Sirota, Gareth Zehngut, Laura Seay, David Lau, Erin Wight
CELLO: Christopher Gross, Claire Bryant, Jihyun Kim, Victoria Bass, Mike Nicolas, Laura Usiskin, Grace Kwon, Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir
BASS: Brendan Kane, Philip Kuehn, Genna Spinks, Michah Schub
FLUTE: Alexandra Sopp, Jessi Han, David Buck, Emi Ferguson
OBOE: Arthur Sato, Toni Marie Marchioni, Scott Bartucca, Yousun Chung, Andrea Overturf, Anna Steltenpohl
CLARINET: James Shields, Robert Walker Lacomba, Sean Rice, Daniel Goldman, Hideaki Aomori, Nicholas Gallas, Steven Zielinski
BASSOON: Evan Kuhlmann, Laura Wenninger, Oleksiy Zakharov
FRENCH HORN: David Byrd-Marrow, Danielle Kuhlmann, Sydney Braunfeld
TRUMPET: Gareth Flowers, Michael Blutman, Jeff Missal, Rachel Simon, Kathryn Miller, Alexander White, William Day, Caleb Hudson
TROMBONE: Marques Young, Kyle Covington, Nicole Abissi, Nicolas Schwartz, Anthony Barfield, Nicholas Hagen, Robert Gorbet
TUBA: Michael Roest, Robinson Love
HARP: Allegra Lilly, Michelle Gott, Sivan Magen
KEYBOARD: Alicia Gabriela Martinez, Aaron Wunsch, Steven Beck, Vicky Chow, Conor Hanick, Alexandra Snyder, James Wetzel
PERCUSSION: Alex Lipowski, Luke Rinderknecht, Chris Thompson, Jared Soldiviero, Chihiro Shibayama, Zach Knight, Michael Caterisano, Jacob Nissly, Brian Flescher, Kyle Brightwell, Trent Leasure, Eric Roberts, Joseph Nola,
JEFFREY MILARSKY is the leading conductor of contemporary music in New York City. In the United States and abroad, he has premiered and recorded works of many contemporary composers, including Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Lasse Thoresen, Gerard Grisey, Jonathan Dawe, Tristan Murail, Ralph Shapey, Luigi Nono, Mario Davidovsky, and Wolfgang Rihm. His wide-ranging repertoire, which spans Bach to Xenakis, has enabled him to lead such accomplished groups as the American Composers Orchestra (which has just named him assistant conductor), the New York New Music Ensemble, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Columbia Sinfonietta, Speculum Musicae, Cygnus Ensemble, the Fromm Players at Harvard University, the Composers’ Ensemble at Princeton University, and the New York Philharmonic chamber music series. Most recently, he has joined the faculty of Manhattan School of Music as artistic director and conductor of the Percussion Ensemble.
A much-in-demand percussionist who has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic among many ensembles, Mr. Milarsky is professor of music at Columbia University, where he is the music director/conductor of the Columbia University Orchestra.
Mr. Milarsky made his European debut conducting the BIT20 Ensemble in a tour of Norway and the Baltic states. Other recent highlights include conducting the Cygnus Ensemble in the world premiere of Milton Babbitt’s Swansong, conducting the world premiere and recording Mario Davidovsky’s Flashbacks, and several area premieres of the music of Gerard Grisey: Les Espaces acoustiques (New York premiere) for Columbia University’s “Music for a New Century†series and Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (American premiere) with Speculum Musicae. And with the Ensemble Sospeso, he has conducted three United States premieres by Wolfgang Rihm and two by Tristan Murail.
Mr. Milarsky received his bachelor and master of music degrees from The Juilliard School. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding leadership and achievement in the arts. He regularly conducts the Juilliard Orchestra, with whom he has premiered over 70 works of Juilliard student composers over the past fifteen years. He is also on the Pre-College Percussion Faculty at Juilliard, and has been, until recently, director of the Composition Forum. He has recorded extensively for Angel, Bridge, Teldec, Telarc, New World, CRI, MusicMasters, EMI, Koch, and London records.
Influences: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Arnold Schoenberg, Steve Reich, Harrison Birtwistle, Brian Ferneyhough, David Lang, John Adams, Toru Takemitsu, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Frederic Rzewski, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, Christopher Rouse, Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Philip Glass, Joseph Schwantner, Luigi Nono, Paul Hindemith, Mark-Anthony Turnage, George Antheil, Heinz Holliger, Krzysztof Penderecki, Kurt Weill, Henri Dutilleux, Toshio Hosokawa, Lukas Foss, Karl Husa, Luigi Dallapiccola, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Hans Werner Henze, Conlon Nancarrow, Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, George Crumb, Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Henry Cowell, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Paul Creston, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Witold Lutoslawski, Eric Satie, Edgar Varese, Frank Zappa, Benjamin Britten, Thomas Ades, John Zorn, La Monte Young, Stefan Wolpe, Kevin Volans, Michael Torke, Augusta Read Thomas, Steven Stucky, Morton Subotnick, Gunther Schuller, Alfred Schnittke, Giacinto Scelsi, Laurie Anderson, Louis Andriessen, Feruccio Busoni, John Cale, John Corigliano, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Peter Maxwell Davies, Edison Denisov, Tan Dun, Ned Rorem, George Rochberg, Wolfgang Rihm, Astor Piazzolla, Harry Partch, Pauline Oliveros, Tristan Murail, Meredith Monk, Donald Martino, Magnus Lindberg, Helmut Lachenmann, Oliver Knussen, Aaron Jay Kernis, Mauricio Kagel, John Harbison, Gerard Grisey, Sofia Gubaidulina, Morton Gould, Osvaldo Golijov...
Sounds Like: MySpace Layouts Ensemble InterContemporain, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, ASKO Ensemble, California EAR Unit, Bang on a can, Kronos Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, So Percussion, Steve Reich Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound...
Record Label: unsigned
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