John Link

For other people named John Link, see John Link (disambiguation).

John Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New Music[1]

Link received a Ph.D. in music from the City University of New York, a Master's degree from The Ohio State University, and B.M. and B.A. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He studied composition with David Olan, Thomas Wells, and Randall Snyder.[2]

In 1989 he and a group of composers— Tom Cipullo,[3][4] Nancy Gunn,[5] Cynthia Miller, Gregory W. Pinney, and Ben Yarmolinsky[6] — formed Friends & Enemies of New Music, a composers group that put on a series of contemporary music concerts in New York City and sponsored an annual competition.[7]

In 2007 his composition For Irving Lippel, performed by Jeffrey Irving and Daniel Lippel appeared on the album Sustenance (New Focus Recordings) [8] and in 2008 an excerpt of his work Life Studies was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music (Bridge Records) produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike.[9]

In 2009 his composition Around the Bend appeared on the album FM by Flexible Music (New Focus Recordings).[10]

He is currently a Professor of Music at William Paterson University directing the Center for Electroacoustic Music.[11]

Link has also published several articles and two books on the music of the American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). In 2000, his book Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research was published by Garland Press (now Taylor and Francis).[12] In 2012 his essay "Elliott Carter's Late Music" was published in the collection Elliott Carter Studies, which he co-edited with Marguerite Boland, published by Cambridge University Press.[13]

He also participated in several events surrounding the Elliott Carter centenary in 2008, including panel discussion at the Tanglewood Music Center [14] and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.[15] In 2011 Link was invited to present an international workshop: “Elliott Carter’s Tempo e tempi,” at the University of Slovenia in Ljubljana, as part of the 2011 Festival Slowind.[16]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wpunj.edu/coac/music/link/fandebios.html Founders of Friends and Enemies of New Music
  2. ↑ http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/bio.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17176-tom-cipullo
  4. ↑ http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/fande/biosTom.html
  5. ↑ http://www.pytheasmusic.org/gunn_nancy.html
  6. ↑ http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/fande/biosBen.html
  7. ↑ http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/fande/competition.html
  8. ↑ http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=365
  9. ↑ Review by John Brackett, Journal of the Society for American Music 3, no. 4 (November, 2009): 511-513.
  10. ↑ http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Sounds-Heard-Flexible-Music/
  11. ↑ http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/bio.htm John Link's Biography
  12. ↑ Review by Carl RahkonenNotes 58, no. 2 (December 2001): 344-345
  13. ↑ http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6662953/?site_locale=en_GB.
  14. ↑ http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/tanglewood-contemporary-festival-return-to-an-abandoned-style/
  15. ↑ Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Annual Report 2008, p. 12.
  16. ↑ http://www.slowind.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109&catid=54&Itemid=&lang=en

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