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About Me

Curtis Glatter is an American composer, improviser and percussionist born on February 20, 1972. Glatter was raised in Dearborn Heights, Michigan and began performing at the age of eight. In 2000, Glatter graduated with a B.A. in Music Composition from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. In the past ten years, members of the Trummerflora Collective, Detroit Symphony, Pontiac Oakland Symphony and Camarada Ensemble have premiered his compositions. Glatter relocated to study in Vienna in 1999 and later the following year he cherished the opportunity to study at Carnegie Hall, NYC with host Pierre Boulez. He has studied composition as well as Classical and African percussion techniques at Henry Ford Community College, Interlochen Arts Academy and Oakland University thus affording him the luxury to utilize a wide variety of possibilities when composing and improvising. In the past 6 years, Glatter has been an invited guest to the 2009 Ann Arbor Mini-Makerfaire, Blank Slate Festival '09 (IND.) Earthfest09-Ann Arbor, Edgefest-Ann Arbor '08,'09 (MI.), Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (CA.), Spring Reverb 05, '08 and '09, and December Nights Concert at Balboa Park and a featured guest on WCBN, WKPBS, WHFR, KSDS as well as given lectures on music at Coronado School of the Arts and San Diego Community College. The list of collaborators and improvisers Glatter has collaborated with includes Story Teller Laura Reynor, Abby Alwin, James Cornish, The Dearborn Percussion Ensemble, Lisle Ellis, Hans Fjellestad, Marcos Fernandes, Emily Hay, Nathan Hubbard, Mike Khoury, Piotr Michalowski, James Cornish, Marko Navachcoff, Steve Goossen, Jason Robinson, Justin Grinnell, Jules Ryan, DJ Tenshun, Al Scholl, Ellen Weller, Will Sonderberg/Defenestra, Tracy McMullen, Mark Ephram (NYC Shorebirds), Detroit's Climax Divine (1995-2000) and Joscha Oetz. Glatter is currently an active member ASCAP, a member of the TRUMMERFLORA COLLECTIVE, Founder and Co-Artistic Director for the new music concert series NEW SOUNDS DOWNTOWN in San Diego, California, a composer/performer in the collaborative ensemble Glatter/Hubbard, an event coordinator for the Body/Mind/Spirit Wellness Center in Ann Arbor (MI.), a member of the James Cornish Large Ensemble, Found Object Orchestra Internationale, Nathan Hubbard Skeleton Key Orchestra and the splinter group Skeleton Key Percussion Ensemble, an affiliated member of the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers and has written for the San Diego New Music Newsletter. Recordings of Glatter can also be found on the distinguished Circumvention Music Label, Accretions Records, White Rose, Bare Wire Records, Cohort Records and the Castor And Pollux Music record labels. Glatter's list of Instructors and Advisers include percussionists Nathan Hubbard (CA.), Keith Aleo (FLA.), Dan Maslanka (MI.), Dave Taylor (MI.), Keith Claeys (MI.), Mark Stone (MI.), Eric Shea (MI.) as well as composers Karl Boelter (NY.), Lettie Alston (MI.), Stanley Hollingsworth (MI.), Zae Munn (IN.), Jerry Fenwick (CA.), Carl Hammond (CA.) and Kent Martinez (MI.) ...for more information about Glatter go to www.youtube.com/glattercurtisav

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Music:

Member Since: 13/12/2005
Band Website: http://www.castorandpolluxmusic.com/glatterhubbard
Band Members:
Influences: Albright to Zappa
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Record Label: Circumvention and Accretions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

11.27.2009 Cornish/Glatter/Prisbe Trio at BWTS-8

830pm Friday Nov. 27, 2009Bare Wire Technologies Showcase 8featuring-Adaptive Collective-Almus Magnus-Puberty-Liquid Music Ensemble-the Cornish/Glatter/Prisbe trioand Patrick ElkinsLIVE AT DREAMLAND T...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:42:00 GMT

NSDT/A2 'Season Collage Concert' Dec. 18, 2009

8PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009     NEW SOUNDS DOWNTOWN/ ANN ARBOR   Presents   Henry Feinberg composer/ Pianist Henry Feinberg, a native of Detroit , grew up liste...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:25:00 GMT

curtisglatter wants you to check out a photo on MySpace in the Others Events album

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...curtisg latter wants you to check out a photo on MySpace in the Others Events album Shared via AddThis
Posted by on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:37:00 GMT

11.11.09 VETERANS DAY SPAM:(

NOV. 11 SPAMMED! DONT RESPOND: HEY THERE ONE AND ALL!YEP ITS HAPPENED TO ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:46:00 GMT

10.30.09 Cornish/ Glatter/ Michalowski in A2

Friday, October 30th at 8pm!A BRAND NEW MUSIC SERIES BEGINS OCTOBER 30th ONLY IN ANN ARBOR!New Sounds Downtown/ Ann Arbor presentsThe Cornish/Glatter/ Michalowski Trioat the Body, Mind, Spirit Wellnes...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:06:00 GMT

10.21.09 Constellation Nero IS BACK!

THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT!10/21/2009 8:00pm Constellation Nero plays at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor (more info found at www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com) * Ken Thomas, piano * Piotr Michalowski, ree...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:23:00 GMT

October 4, 2009 LIVE AT A.J.'s!

RUSTBELT UNSEMBLELIVE AT A.J.'s in Ferndale Avant jazz and electro- ambient music by Cornish-tpt., Glatter-perc, Goossen-elect, Jackson-gtrs, Michalowski-wwds, Navachcoff-wwds & Toth-gtrs Sunday, ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:52:00 GMT

A2MMF update!

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/08/ann_arbor_mini_make r_faire_recap.html
Posted by on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:40:00 GMT

Aug. 29th, 2009 Curtis Glatter at A2MMF

A2 Mini Maker Faire: August 29th, 2009Hours: Saturday 10am  5pm at the NEUTRAL ZONE, 310 E. Washington St. in ANN ARBOR!Updates avaliable on a2makerfaire.comOrganized by a2geeks and a2mech shop with ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:59:00 GMT

Aug. 7th, 2009 MICH-IANAandback-AGAIN!

Friday Aug. 7thfrom 8pm to 10pmCanterbury Concert House presentsTHE JAMES CORNISH LARGE ENSEMBLE featuring&.KENN THOMAS-pianoMARCO NOVACHCOFF-woodwindsJOEL PETERSON-bassJAMES CORNISH-flute and trumpet...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:02:00 GMT