July 10, 2009, 7:30pm
Tagore Society of Houston
Aidan Soder, mezz-sop.; Paul Busselberg, bar.; Kris Becker, pno.
featuring Tagore Love Songs
Visions from Another World is featured on American Public Media’s Performance Today (includes interview).
Al-Zand featured in Houston Chronicle article about upcoming concert Damaged Romanticism.
NEW CLARINET CONSORTIUM PROJECT
Fanfare released on new CD from MSP Classics
The music of Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand (b. 1970) has been called “strong and startlingly lovely” (Boston Globe).
His compositions are wide-ranging, from settings of classical Arabic poetry to scores for dance and pieces for young audiences.
Many of his works explore connections between music and other arts, and draw inspiration from diverse sources such as 19th century graphic art, fables of the world, folksong and jazz.
Al-Zand’s music has enjoyed success in the US, Canada and abroad, and he is the recipient of several national awards, including the Sackler Composition Prize, the ArtSong Prize and the Louisville Orchestra Competition Prize.
He is currently an Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Al-Zand is a founding member and vice-president of Musiqa, Houston’s contemporary music group, which presents concerts featuring new and classic repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
karim@alzand.com
Rice University
Shepherd School of Music
MS 532
6100 Main St.
Houston TX 77005-1892
(713) 348-3740
www.alzand.com
All scores are available from www.lulu.com and amazon.com
Parts, perusal scores and recordings are available directly from the composer.
WORKS LIST
PDF
ONE-SHEET PDF
BROCHURE PDF