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Monique Buzzarté, trombonist/composer, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles in addition to her own compositions of solo, chamber, and electronic works for a variety of forces.
Ms. Buzzarté's recent recordings include Fluctuations (Deep Listening 38) with Ellen Fullman, Noah Creshevsky's To Know and Not to Know (Tzadik 8036); Zanana's Holding Patterns (Deep Listening 30), Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20); John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode 75: John CAGE: Vol. 19 - The Number Pieces 2), and, on forthcoming releases Sorrel Hays' Wake Up and Dream (Townhall Records) and John Cage's Thirteen and Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning with Essential Music (Mode).
In 2007 Ms. Buzzarté was selected by Meet the Composer as one of eight "soloist champions" in honor of her long and distinguished record of commissioning and performing new works, will premiere the composition by Alice Shields in March, 2008. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire with over twenty compositions in various genres from composers such as Pauline Oliveros, Alice Shields, Al Margolis, Sorrel Hays, Noah Creshevsky, and Anne LeBaron.
As a composer, Ms. Buzzarté is primarily interested in exploring expansive musical situations, especially those which attempt to alter inner and outer perceptions of time and space. She has developed several interactive performance systems for the trombone, supported in part through artist residencies in 2007 and 2002 at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, 2006 at Jack Straw Productions, and 2003 at Create@iEAR Studios.
An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté's advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. She has researched and compiled repertoire listings of the brass compositions of women composers which have been published in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, Vol. III (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991). A former Vice President of the International Alliance for Women in Music, she is a contributing author to Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2002). Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices of Deep Listening.
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