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About Me

I'm a composer living in New York and a founding member of
Friends & Enemies of New Music I've written a book and several articles on the music of the American composer Elliott Carter and was a co-editor (with Nicholas Hopkins) of Carter's Harmony Book. You can find out more about me and check out some of my music at my web site .

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Music:

Member Since: 7/19/2006
Band Website: wpunj.edu/coac/music/link/
Influences: Elliott Carter, The Del McCoury Band, Hamza El Din, W. A. Mozart, Doc Watson, Charles Wuorinen, Steve Earle, Morton Feldman, Ali Farka TourÃ©, The Louvin Brothers, ...
Sounds Like: A lyrical modernist
Record Label: Focus Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Recording: For Irving Lippel

The Irving Lippel Project--Jeffrey Irving (percussion) and Daniel Lippel (guitar)--has recorded a piece I wrote for them for vibraphone and guitar called... wait for it... "For Irving Lippel." The rec...
Posted by John Link on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:55:00 PST

String Trio world premiere - The Athabasca Trio

The Athabasca Trio (Jane Chung, vn; Tawnya Popoff, va; Caroline Stinson, vc) will be giving the world premiere of my new String Trio on a concert of Friends & Enemies of New Music in NYC on Sat. Octob...
Posted by John Link on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:41:00 PST

Some notes on the recordings

Around the Bend was commissioned for a great group called Flexible Music: Haruka Fujii, percussion; Eric Huebner, piano; Daniel Lippel, guitar; and Tim Ruedeman, saxophones. They played the premiere ...
Posted by John Link on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:13:00 PST