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new CD "AllSteel" out now on Tzadik |
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| Location: | NEW YORK, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Apr 25, 2008 (583 days back) |
About Me |
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| JOHN KING, composer and guitarist, has had his music presented in many major festivals, including the Fronteras Festival (London); Next Wave Festival (NY); Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival (Hamburg); Intermedium 1 Festival (Berlin); Creative Time's "Music in the Anchorage" (NY); Warsaw Autumn and Bang On A Can (NY). Mr. Kings experimental opera, la belle captive, based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, was premiered in Buenos Aires at the Centro Experimental de Teatro Colon in April 2003, receiving further performances at the Fronteras Festival (London, Sept. 2004) and The Kitchen, NYC in Jan. 2005.His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra}, Ethel; the Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; the Royal Danish Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; SüdWestRundfunk (Baden-Baden), Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Childrens Theater Company (Mpls., MN).He has received grants from the NEA/Music in Motion, New York State Council on the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Meet The Composer/Readers Digest Dance Commissioning Program, Minnesota Composers Forum, the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals, and New York Foundation for the Arts.Mr. King curated the music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Companys EVENTS at the Joyce Theater and at The Barbican Center in London. He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC.His radioplay TORN/zerrisen was commissioned by SüdWestRundfunk radio, Baden-Baden, Germany and has been broadcast throughout Germany as well as being performed live in Berlin's Kunstler Theater. His first opera Herzstuck/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller, was premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn Festival and presented at the Kitchen in 2000. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 ! |
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Music:Member Since: 12/11/2005Band Website: johnkingmusic.com Band Members: guitars, violins, computers Influences: jimi, miles, wolfgang, ludwig, johannes, anton von, mr. ives, mr. cage, mr. buddha, karlheinz, johngeogepaulringo, mickkeith, muddy, buddy, leadbelly, mr. zimmerman, eric, blind willie, son (house, seals), lightnin', james (skip and brown), john lee and earl, elmore and like that Record Label: john king music Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Experimental/Experimental/Experiment |
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new CD release |
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| my new CD "AllSteel" on Tzadik Records (Koch International, distributor) is now available, CD- stores and will soon be up on itunes. Ethel is the featured group, string quartet that i've written many... Posted by john king music on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:32:00 PST |
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just getting started... |
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| just getting started, working on a new opera, a new dance score, reading the NYTimes, USA torturecentral.com, USA militarydisinformationiniraq.com; USA liestotheworld.com, all this will cast a long LO... Posted by john king music on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 04:57:00 PST |
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