Beth Custer

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Clarinet Thing Update! My clarinet quartet Clarinet Thing (Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Harvey Wainapel, and myself) just recorded a brand new CD. There's a glimpse of a few unmixed tracks here. Jeff Cressman recorded us in just two days at my house using our nice large wooden room. We included four arrangements that Sheldon Brown created off of Jimmy Giuffre's Fusion record from 1961 including the intimate tune by Carla Bley In The Mornings Out There and Giuffre's Cry, Want. We'll be mixing in early February and hope to be touring the universe from then on out! This is such a hot group if I don't say so myself!CHECK OUT THE REVIEW IN THE NEW YORK TIMES!!!
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/travel/07prague.html
About Beth Custer
A woman for all seasons, hers is a big musical personality — versatile, adaptable, and very individual. – John L. Walters, London Guardian
BETH CUSTER is a San Francisco based composer, performer, bandleader, clarinet teacher, and the proprietress of BC Records.
Beth is a founding member of the notorious silent film soundtrack purveyors the Club Foot Orchestra, 4th world ambient ensemble Trance Mission, the quintet of esteemed clarinetists Clarinet Thing, the trip-hop duo Eighty Mile Beach, and the Latin-jazz-rock influenced Doña Luz 30 Besos. She now leads The Beth Custer Ensemble.
She composes for film, television, installations and the concert stage. Recent commissions include A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005, a live outdoor cinema event by Melinda Stone produced by the Exploratorium; The Ballad of Pancho & Lucy musical for Campo Santo Theatre; and Bernal Heights Suite for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
Recent awards include a Meet The Composer New Residency grant; two residencies at the Marin Headlands Art Center; a Phyllis Wattis Residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; a Mcknight Fellowship; two San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grants; a Gerbode Award; an Argosy Foundation recording grant; and an Aaron Copland Recording fund award.
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