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Istvan Peter B'Racz's Interests
General
interests besides music: racing, sailing, cooking, reading, films, photography, Apple, gear-lust, biking, tennis, PS2, drawing, ceramics, all other forms of ART!!!, hating the Bush administration, building a nice fire on a crisp New England evening, anything HUNGARIAN, Hungary, different cultures around the world, never stop being a student, NOT being an "expert", a 4-year-old child is our greatest teacher, tibet, climbing, underwater, a good wine and a beautiful sunset...and Springtime when the "flowers" are a bloomin'...
Music
my current loves (NOT in any particular order): Bartok, Butthole surfers, Beethoven, The Residents, Brahms, Aphex Twin, Ligeti, Dj Spooky, Morton Feldman, Pixies, John Cage, The Doors, Arvo Part, Pink Floyd, Olivier Messiaen, Led Zep, Miles, Stravinsky, Bill Evans, Edgar Varese, Bjork, Webern, RadioHead, Orff, Soul Coughing, Scriabine, Zappa, Satie, Neil Young, Lutoslawski, Getz+Gilberto, Blondie, Louis Armstrong, Beatles, Ink Spots, Hendrix, Anthony Braxton, Steppenwolf, George Crumb, King Crimson, Gorecki, Grassy Knoll, Kenneth Gaburo, Crystal Method, Penderecki, Gesualdo, Glass, Reich, Adams, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Prokoviev, PUNK!!!! (in EVERY genre), avant garde, serialism, minimalism, electronic music, computer music, electronica, dance music, hard-core, renaissance music, folk music, Hungarian culture, Asian culture, piano music, rock of the 60's and early 70's, improvisation, jazz, aleatoric music, pythagoras, music history, music theory (i.e. "musical scatology"), fibonacci series, golden ratio, structure, apple computers, anime, surreal, dada, impressionism, primitivism, technology, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Poulenc, Arnold Scheonberg, Berg, Anton von Webern, Echo and the Bunnymen, Plasmatics, Severed Heads, Dead Milkmen, Black Flag, FEAR, Talvin Singh, Robert Carl, David Macbride, James Sellars, Steven Gryc, Ingram Marshall, Gesualdo, Allegri, Palestrina, Frescobaldi, Buxtehude, J. S. Bach, Franz Liszt, Schubert, Berlioz, Gustav Mahler, Frederic Chopin, A.+D. Scarlatti, Alfred Schnittke, Dimitri Shostokovich, Robert Nasta, Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Richard D. James, Cecil Taylor, Morton Subotnick, Wendy Carlos, Paul Hindemith, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, John Adams, Vladimir Horowitz, Steve Mackey, Burning Sensations, Magyar Gregorianum, Hungarian Culture, Philipino Culture, Thelonius Monk, Balazs Szokolay, Alphonse Izzo, Kubrick, Danny Kaye, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Cream, early Scorpions, Muppet Show and Sesame Street, toy piano, Mr. Forbes (who made me believe that I COULD play music at an early age), my first piece- my very first kiss...
Movies
The Shining, Jan Svenkmejer's "Faust", Nosferatu, Metropolis, anything Hitchcock, a lot of old-fart b+w films, independant films, "Never cry wolf", Matrix series, Rings, this is a huge list, I'll add to it later. Meanwhile feel free to check out some of the funny vids in my blog>>>
Television
I try not to watch the damed thing...I'll tape John Stewart, Good Eats, and some fun Adult Swim stuff...TV = EVIL
Books
Currently on my reading shelf: "The Rest is Noise" by Alex Roos, "Sensitive Chaos" Schwenk, Ligeti biography by Toop, Sibelius program manual, Suzuki "Zen Mind Beginner's Mind", "History of Orchestration" Carse, "Film Music" Prenergast, "Anatomy of an Orchestra" Del Mar, "The Orchestra" Peyser, "The Artist's Way" Cameron, "Dreams" Rain, "Materials and Techniques of 20th C Music" Kostka, Wourinen's "Simple Composition", Gauldin's "A Practical Approach to 16th C Counterpoint", "Jitterbug Perfume" Robbins, "Tibetan Book of the Dead" Evans-Wentz, "Essential Rumi" Barks, "The World is Sound: Nada Brahma" Berendt, "Circumscribing the Open Universe" Delio, "Every Tree is the Forest" by Emoke B'Racz
Heroes
My Mother and Father, my darling sisters, my nephew, and lovely Lydia.
University Of Hartford
West Hartford,Connecticut
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Music Composition
Minor: conducting
Clubs: Its the Hartt School of Music that I attended, really, not the stupid Universtiy of Hartford...
this dumb web-template-system set-up doesn't allow any other choices...
1995 to 1999
Yale University
New Haven,Connecticut
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Piano Performance
Minor: Conducting
Clubs: New Music New Haven series
1990 to 1992
Oberlin College
Oberlin,Ohio
Graduated: 1987
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Music Performance, piano
Minor: Music Composition
I like to perform works written after 1900 (as well as the classics). I've premiered many works for piano and keyboard (Solo and Chamber settings). I'm good at improvising in a modern style, and working with other musicians of that "ilk".
Solo instruments, Chamber Ensembles, Orchestras, electronic music, computer music, soundtracks, sound design, games, film, outdoor spectacles, electronica, ambient, working with musicians who are open-minded + have hard-core chops!
Who I'd like to meet: serious performers, composers, classical musicians interested in 20th and 21st C music, folks who like new music, like to stretch their ears, and are interested in performing new works. I have a concert series called SOUNDunderGROUND in the New Haven, CT area that regularily showcases new works. Drop me a line if you're interested. Also, there is a fun SOUNDunderGROUND FORUM on MySpace. Chime-in on some discussions if you feel so inclined.
Hey there, me...
its ME.
If you want to listen to my music
click on ME...
its, OK...really.
Go ahead...it doesn't hurt, I promise
(well, I'm used to it by now).
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Have fun!
