Gyorgy Ligeti, Sophia Gubaidulina, Giantino Scelsi, Witold Lutoslawski, George Crumb, Philip Glass, Tristan Murail, Henri Dutilleux, Toru Takemitsu, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Alban Berg, Helmut Lachenmann, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, John Luther Adams.
Hello All, thanks for checking out my corner of myspace. Please check back every now and again to learn more about my upcoming performances and hear new audio clips.
cheers, DL
BIOGRAPHY:
Composer / electric guitarist David Laganella was born in 1974 in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He composes music that contrasts transparency and mass in a very resonant and purely chromatic harmonic language. Laganella's music has been performed by many leading ensembles, recent performances include The American Composers Orchestra, Da Capo Chamber Players, Network for New Music, Symphony in C (winner of their annual composer competition), Flexible Music, Electric Kompany, Avian Music and by new music pianist Marilyn Nonken. His music has been featured at diverse venues, from Tonic & Galapagos to Carnegie Hall and has been featured at John Zorn's New Rock Complexity Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and with the Bergslagen Chamber Symphony Festival (Sweden) where he served as the Composer in Residence.
Current projects include new works for The Prism Saxophone Quartet and for the Network for New Music 25th anniversary concert to be premiered in 2009 - 2010 concert season as well the completion of a CD of his recent chamber music.
Laganella has received honors from numerous organizations including ASCAP, Meet the Composer Fund, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, The Society of Composers, and The American Composers Forum. He holds degrees in music composition from New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. Laganella also holds a Performance Certificate in electric guitar from Berklee College of Music. He is the author of the ground breaking book, The Composers Guide to the Electric Guitar (available from Mel Bay Publications), which is a manual addressing all performance practices and notational issues for the instrument.
David Laganella is the Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Now Annual Concert Series in Philadelphia and is Assistant Professor of Music at Wesley College.
"Laganella (with "Afraid to be Still"), stretches tonal exploration in this
combination of electric guitar, piano, saxophone and percussion. With the
musicians holding and sustaining single tones like elastic bands, pulsing out
quadruple fortes, unanimously intent and intense, the playing had the effect of
an eight-minute cyclone, or siren."
- The Philadelphia
Inquirer.... “David Laganella's The Schuylkill at Night is built from a repeated note idea. Formal considerations stay firmly in focus here, and the clangorous sound world is expertly handled in this enjoyable opus.”
- David Cleary, New Music Connoisseur
“David Laganella's "Burn" displayed the extremes of what the electric guitar can do.
- The Philliest
Wow David! Under Ethereal is one great piece. I had to listen to it several times, very nice piece of work. Is that from the new album? I hope all is well in Philadelphia. Patrik
Hi David- thanks for your comment. I like your music very much, especially burn and schuykill. I also like philly, most of my family's from there, and I love it even though some stupid magazine voted it least attractive city in the world today. Philly rocks. all the best from Berlin, Heather
Yo, when I move too stockholm it would be pretty cheap to travel between Philly and Stockholm. It was a long time ago you visited, so bring Hillary and party with me. I..ll promise to take to lunch at McDonalds. :-)
Hi Dave! Wait, do you only go by David these days? Anyway, I went to high school with you. Very weird. Your bro and I were in the same grade. Nice to see you have an excellent career. Sweeet.
Hey David Thanks, you really are my favorite imperialist. Plese send me some of your old clothes,like you did last year. Winter is coming and my polar bear ate my shorts.
Hi David,
I see you're a Grisey fan.
'Swells' actually made me think
of Tristan Murail a bit.
Felt in a similar vein to
'Gondwana' maybe?
Anyhow, lovely stuff.
Best wishes.
E_I_T
Hey thanks for the request. Ya know, I am very selective about my space friend requests. But I liked you music from the first note...I am serious the first damn note...lol. Very creative stuff man! Its also very obvious that you can work across genres very easily.
Hey David, thanks for checking us out. By the way, your stuff sounds great, and your bio was quite interesting. I'd love to talk to you about classical composition sometime (when I think of some good questions). I was a music comp major at Temple from 97-2002, were you around then...? Your name sounds awfully familiar.
If you're free, come check us out at the Khyber on the 24th -- we can talk 'shop'. Take care.
Scott
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