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Carl Schimmel
9+ albums
contemporary classicalClassicalchamber musicamericanus
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Carl Schimmel is a composer based in Iowa and Illinois. Praised by The New York Times as “vivid and dramatic,” his recent music is dense with literary and musical references, often humorous, and combines intensity of expression with a structural rigor which draws upon his mathematics background. In infusing his music with extra-musical influences such as poetry, art, and even unusual words, he strives to construct nexuses of experience which reflect both the inner life of emotions and the outer physical world which shapes us and is shaped by us. Winner of Columbia University’s Joseph Bearns Prize and the Lee Ettelson Award, Schimmel has received honors and awards from many organizations, including the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Copland House, New Music USA, and ASCAP. His works have been performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Merkin Hall in New York, Severance Hall in Cleveland, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, and at other venues throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has received performances and commissions from the California EAR Unit, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, North/South Consonance, saxophonist Taimur Sullivan, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Lucy Shelton, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Illinois State University in Normal, IL. User-contributed text is available
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Snood the Poultroon
142Roadshow for Otto: II. The Clown Mandeville
73Into Xylonia: IV. Ligneous tendrils bear fattening spindle tips, shooting about dowelsprout
64Into Xylonia: II. Bubinga buttons and ash pegs bubble in clumps
65Roadshow for Otto: III. Pedaling the Spirit of America
66The Alphabet Turn'd Posture Master, or The Comical Hotch Potch
67Into Xylonia: I. Gleaming teak parquet, boundless, oceanic
68Roadshow for Thora: II. The Ives Trotter
594 Nocturnes from "The Oblivion Ha-Ha": IV. Coda
510String Quartet No. 2 "Six Faces": Prelude
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