J. S. Bach, The Beatles, Alban Berg, Björk, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, Miles Davis, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Gil Evans, Gentle Giant, Guided by Voices, Keith Jarrett, Led Zeppelin, Gustav Mahler, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus, Pink Floyd, Queen, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, U2, Edgard Varèse, Caetano Veloso, Frank Zappa
Chappell Kingsland was born in 1980. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Composition and Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music in 2002. He is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Composition at Indiana University. He has worked as a freelance composer/arranger, church musician, private teacher, and accompanist.
Chappell has written over 60 compositions and 500 arrangements, ranging from works for solo instruments, to song cycles, to chamber music, to cantatas, to electronic music, to rock songs, to works for large ensembles.
Selected works: Meong Yuda (Warrior Cat) for four Japanese kotos and Balinese gamelan angklung (14 players) — a truly cross-cultural work, combining my understanding of Asian musics with my love for rock and funk.
Come Picnic On Mars for baritone voice and piano — a fun and lively setting of a delightful poem by Diane Ackerman, sung here by Oliver Henderson.
Metamorphose for string orchestra — the music flows from delicacy to aggression, each section blending into the next. This excerpt is the first 8 minutes of the piece.
"THE BEAST WITH NINE HEADS" from SUPER-FUN-PAK — performed by Musica Nova, conducted by Brad Lubman. Thrills! Chills! The soundtrack to an imaginary monster movie.
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