upcoming events
July 10, 2009, 7:30pm
Tagore Society of Houston
Aidan Soder, mezz-sop.; Paul Busselberg, bar.; Kris Becker, pno.
featuring Tagore Love Songs
news
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
CD RELEASE Karim Al-Zand: Chamber Music on Albany Records. more info
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.
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.
The themes of many of his pieces speak to his middle-eastern heritage as well.
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 holds degrees from Harvard and McGill Universities and is currently on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) in Houston.
Al-Zand is also a founding member of Musiqa, Houston’s premiere 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
purchase
All scores are available from www.lulu.com and amazon.com
Parts, perusal scores and recordings are available directly from the composer.
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WORKS LIST
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BROCHURE PDF
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