Kyle Gann

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Kyle Eugene Gann (born November 21, 1955 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American composer , music critic and music educator .

Life

Gann moved to New York at an early age and studied composition there with Ben Johnston , Morton Feldman and Peter Gena . From 1986 to 2005 he was a music critic for the New York city magazine The Village Voice . Since 1997 he has been teaching music theory, music history and composition at Bard College in Red Hook near New York.

Kyle Gann is one of the few musicians who wrote original compositions for the Disklavier .

Fonts

  • The Music of Conlon Nancarrow , Cambridge University Press, 1995
  • American Music in the 20th Century , Schirmer Books, 1997
  • Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice , University of California Press, 2006
  • No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage ’s 4'33 " , Yale University Press, 2010
  • Robert Ashley , University of Illinois Press, 2012

Discography (selection)

  • 1999 - Custer's Ghost ; Monroe Street Music
  • 2005 - Long Night for three pianos, with Sarah Cahill (piano); Cold Blue
  • 2005 - Nude Rolling Down an Escalator: Studies for Disklavier ; New World Records
  • 2007 - Private Dances , with Sarah Cahill (piano); New Albion Records
  • 2018 - Hyperchromatica ; Other Minds (Naxos)
  • 2018 - Custer and Sitting Bull , with Martha Herr (soprano), Kenneth Patchen (voice) and Kyle Gann (voice, sampling keyboard and electronics); New World Records (Klassik Center Kassel)
    • Custer and Sitting Bull (1995-1999)
    • Scenario (2003/2004) for soprano and virtual orchestra
    • So Many Little Dyings (1994)

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personal data
SURNAME Gann, Kyle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gann, Kyle Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, music critic, and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas