Sa, 14.03.2009, 16:00
Essl Museum

Eric Honour (USA): Saxophone & Live-Elektronik

Programm

Eric HONOUR (USA): Phantasm

D. Edward DAVIS (USA): sugar baby

Lou BUNK (USA): Luna

Zachary CROCKETT (USA): Fight to Flow Between

Karlheinz ESSL (Austria): Sequitur VII

Scott MCLAUGHLIN (UK): Whitewater

Christopher BIGGS (USA): Exterminate All The Brutes

Luigi CECCARELLI (Italy): Neuromante

In 2009, composer/saxophonist Eric Honour is touring Europe and the USA with a challenging program of new music for saxophone and electronics. The works explore the outer edges of saxophone performance technique, from the exquisitely quiet microtones of Lou Bunk's Luna and graceful lyricism of Ed Martin's Apparitions to the screams of Chris Biggs's Exterminate All the Brutes and virtuosic demands of Luigi Ceccarelli's Neuromante and Zacahary Crockett's Fight to Flow Between.

As well, the program features a variety of compositional approaches, from the chance-infused canons of Karlheinz Essl's Sequitur to the improvisation of Scott McLaughlin's Whitewater and the folk-music inspiration of D. Edward Davis's sugar baby. Jazz and popular music inspire Massimo Biasioni's Il Cortile di Charlie and Eric Honour's own composition Phantasm.

Eric Honour

Eric Honour (b. 1970) is an associate professor of music and director of the Center for Music Technology at the University of Central Missouri. His compositions have been performed across the United States, in Greece, Belgium, England, Northern Ireland, Hungary, and Italy, including performances at many national and international festivals and conferences.

His music has been published by Roncorp, Inc. and Northeastern Music Publishing, and recorded on Capstone Records. He has won widespread recognition in competitions for both composition and performance, including the SCI National Composition Competition, the MTNA Collegiate Artist (both woodwind & composition) competitions, and the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards to Young Composers competitions. His music has been performed by such notable artists as Quintet Attacca, Q-02, Quintet of the Americas, Winston Choi, the Thelema Trio, and Quartetto Musicattuale.

He is a member of the Athens Saxophone Quartet and a saxophone soloist, especially known for performance of music for saxophone and electronics. His composition teachers included M. William Karlins, Stephen Syverud, John Anthony Lennon, Jay Alan Yim, and Budd Udell. He completed the Doctor of Music degree in composition and a Master's degree in saxophone and composition at Northwestern University, studying saxophone with Frederick Hemke and Jonathan Helton. He was awarded a bachelor's degree in saxophone and composition with highest honors as well as the Performer's Certificate by the University of Florida.