Artburst: music, dance, theater, etc

Longevity II was specially composed for Hultgren as a birthday present. It is a transliteration of the human gene sequence known as APOC3 that has been linked to longevity.

Cellist Craig Hultgren is a long-time activist for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde.  This year he has performed solo concerts and chamber music in St, Louis, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Memphis and Bowling Green, Ohio.  A recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he is a member of Thámyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta.  A cellist in the Alabama Symphony, he also plays in the Chagall Trio and Luna Nova, a new music ensemble with a large repertoire of performances available as podcast downloads on iTunes.  Hultgren is featured in three solo CD recordings including The Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist Recordings.  In 2004, the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival 48-Hour Scramble cited him for the best soundtrack creation for the film The Silent Treatment.  Every other year, he produces the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international competition that highlights the best new compositions for the instrument.  He teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Birmingham-Southern College where he directs the BSC New Music Ensemble.

Recent Works for Cello
Craig Hultgren - cello

Program

Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 7 pm Unitarian Universalist Church

Longevity II for solo cello (2007) Glenn Engstrand

Bare ruin’d choirs… for cello alone (2001) James A. Jensen

Quiet Music for solo violoncello (2008) Andrew Rindfliesch

• Waltz Music
  
• Fast Music
  
• Slow Music

Elegy for cello (2001) Amy Canada

* Intermission *

Chiaroscuro for cello & electroacoustic music (2006) Mikel Kuehn

Sans Titre V for amplified cello (2006) William Price

Analogies of Control for cello, sound files & aural score (2005) Richard Nance

• The First Minute
  
• Bell Crawler
  
• 999 Parables
  
• Skimming
  
• Slipping
  
• The Last 3 Minutes

Combustion for solo cello (2007) Mary Elizabeth Neal

• Incomplete
  
• Respiration I
  
• Turbulent
  
• Respiration II
  
• Rapid

Artburst Performances Include: An Evening of Kurt Weill Called by Marilyn Horne, "a pioneer for his age," Thomas Bagwell served as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera from 1997-2006. Other long term opera house affiliations include the Washington National Opera and the Santa Fe opera. He has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and has collaborated in recital with such luminaries as Midori, Marilyn Horne, Susan Graham, Frederica von Stade, Denyce Graves and James Morris. His career has taken him to such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein, the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall and many others.

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DAVID A. JAFFE (b. 1955, New Jersey) has an international reputation as a composer, computer music researcher and music software developer. His composition "Silicon Valley Breakdown for synthesized plucked strings" has been acclaimed as a landmark of computer music by sources as diverse as Le Monde, Newsweek and Smithsonian Magazine, and has been performed in over twenty-five countries. He designed the pioneering Music Kit software at NeXT Computer and was a founder of Staccato Systems, where he created VisualAudio and the SoundMAX sound engine, used on millions of PCs worldwide. He has taught composition at Princeton University, Stanford University, Melbourne University, and the University of California at San Diego.

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