UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | SEASON IV | #6
Tom Johnson
UNDERSTAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IV | #6
Joan Cerveró, Director & Conductor
CONCERT & LECTURE | WAYS OF LISTENING
THE NUMBERS | Tom Johnson
Friday 27 | May 2011 | 20:00 H | Institut Français de Valencia |
Program
John Cage Amores (1943)
for prepared piano and percussion
Tom Johnson Same or diifferent (2004)
for piano
Morton Feldman The King of Denmark (1964)
for percussion
Tom Johnson Mocking (2009)
for percussion
Manuel Gasent, Percussion
Lluis Marzal, Percussion
Carles Salvador, Percussion
Carlos Apellániz, piano
Joan Cerveró, Conductor
Tom Johnson (1939 in Greeley, Colorado, USA), is an American minimalist composer, a former student of Morton Feldman.
He earned his Bachelors and master's degree from Yale University. His pieces are most often based simply on mathematical and logical processes, such as tiling, which he attempts to make as clear as possible. His works include: The Four Note Opera, An Hour for Piano, Rational Melodies, the Bonhoeffer Oratorio, Organ and Silence, Riemannoper, and Galileo.
He has also composed a considerable amount of music for the guitar including Alexandrins pour guitare (1989), Canon for Six Guitars (1998), Arpeggios for Guitar (2002), and Tinkelenberg Rhythms (2014).
Johnson received the French "Victoires de la Musique" prize for contemporary composition (the French equivalent of the "Grammies") in 2001 for "Kientzy Loops".
He lived 15 years in New York, but in 1983 settled in Paris, where he lives with his wife, the artist Esther Ferrer.