Joseph Celli
Joseph Celli (born March 19, 1944 ) is an American composer and oboist.
Celli attended Hartt College of Music from 1962 to 1965 . After private Oboestudium with Ray Still ( Chicago Symphony Orchestra ), Albert Goltzer ( New York Symphony Orchestra ), Wayne Rapier ( Boston Symphony Orchestra ) and John Mack ( Cleveland Symphony Orchestra ), he studied from 1970 to 1972 oboe and composition at the Northwestern University in Chicago. He later learned to play Asian oboe instruments such as the piri in South Korea and the hichiriki in Japan from 1991 to 1993 . In 1993 he founded the Korean Performing Arts Institute .
Celli has given live, radio and television concerts and workshops in Asia, Europe, North and South America and Australia. In more than 3000 concerts he played about fifty works composed for him, along with others. He has worked with musicians such as John Cage , Ornette Coleman , Pauline Oliveros , David Behrman , Alvin Lucier , Jerry Hunt , Phill Niblock , Malcolm Goldstein and the Kronos Quartet and was Artistic Director of the Ornette Coleman Chamber Music Festival and the New Music America Festivals in Hartford and Miami.
Works
- … In the bag… for dancers and live electronics
- Ringing for cymbals
- Sky: S for J for five English horns
- Windbag. Sound installation
- Improvisation for oboe solo
- Solo improvisations for English horn
- Snare Drum for Camus for two to four percussionists on one drum
- To Be Announced for 32 voices and tape
- Improvisations for oboe, cor anglais and violin
- Star Island for oboe and tape
- Trio improvisations for oboe, violin and percussion
- Mukha Veena for Mukha Veena (Indian oboes, usually meant Shehnai ) and two to four percussionists
- Yellowsprings collaboration for musicians and dancers
- New Orleans for Mukha Veena and tape
- Painted Bride for chamber ensemble
- Escalator for 200 musicians, 1983
- Hip-Hop: A Performance Lecture with slides. 1985
- Hands, Reeds & Video for solo performers and video. 1985
- Totem for bass clarinet and video. 1986
- 8 Mallets Four Brian for solo oxylophone and video. 1986
- Violin & video. 1988
- Andes. 1990
- Drum hands. Video installation. 1990
- Drum hands for four drummers from Africa, Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico and video. 1991
- Quartet set. Structures for double reed instruments , komungo (Korean vaulted board zither), African drums and didgeridoo . 1992
- 36 strings for Komungo and Video, 1992
- Kwangju for kiri, komungo, oboe and Korean percussion. 1992
- Video sax for sopranino saxophone and video. 1993
- Reeds for San Francisco. 1993
- World Soundprint: Asia for radio (with Jin Hi Kim ). 1993
- Pink pelvis. Music for double reed instrument, Korean zither ( Ajeng ) and Brazilian percussion. 1994
- Sunny's Piece. Dance music for double reed instrument, komungo and percussion. 1994
- Quintet for Kayagûm , WX 7 and three Kalimbas . 1995
Discography
- Organic oboe. Works by Karlheinz Stockhausen , Joseph Celli, Malcolm Goldstein and Stephen Schwartz
- Celli Plays Niblock / Niblock for Celli. Works by Phill Niblock
- No World Improvisations. Improvisations by Joseph Celli and Jin Hi Kim
- Vermont the Seasons. Music by Malcolm Goldstein
- La Belleza del Silencio. Music by Orlando Jacinto Garcia
- No World (Trio) Improvisations with Jin Hi Kim, Alvin Curran , Shelley Hirsch , Malcolm Goldstein, Mor Thiam , Adam Plack
- Resolver. Music by David First , Joseph Celli on the Yamaha WX-7 midi breath controller
- Video Ears - Music Eyes. Video music by Joseph Celli with Malcolm Goldstein, Ulrich Krieger, Brian Johnson , Jin Hi Kim and the Grupo de Musica Folklorica del Peru
- Living Tones. Music by Jin Hi Kim
- Inori: A Prostituta Sagrada. Music by Jocy de Oliveira
- Masters. Improvisation duets by Joseph Celli and Hwang Byungki , Kazue Sawai , Ornette Coleman , Foday Musa Suso
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Celli, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and oboist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1944 |