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David Laganella
Classical / Experimental / Electroacoustic

"loss for words..."

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
United States

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Member Since4/10/2006
Band Websitechambermusicnow.org/
InfluencesMy short list of heros:
(in no particular order)

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.
Type of LabelIndie




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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, 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 Flexible Music and Network for New Music to be premiered in the 2008 - 09 concert season and the release 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.


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jose varela





Feb 5 2008 12:47 PM

Excellent works, really interesting.
I enjoy it a lot.
Best from spain.
MAD





Oct 25 2007 12:52 AM

Let us rock tighter than 80's spandex.
Heather O'Donnell





Oct 23 2007 12:43 PM

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
Patrik Karlsson





Oct 21 2007 4:53 AM

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. :-)
Intelligent Sound Ensemble





Oct 13 2007 9:04 AM

Great music David!
Thanks for inviting!
Yours, Christiaan
Lish Lindsey-Piccoloist





Sep 1 2007 9:58 PM

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.
Patrik Karlsson





Jul 31 2007 10:26 AM

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.
Alessandro Laganella





Jul 27 2007 8:36 PM

Ciao David!!
Parli italiano?
How are you??
Vox Novus 60x60 Project (2005)





Jul 21 2007 7:58 AM

Hey David --

Thanks for visiting the new page for the 60x60 Project (2005)!

--Greg B.
electric kompany





Jul 19 2007 6:02 PM

under ethereal is amazing D - very cloudy, comlex, resonant. yay! contemporary music that sounds like contemporary music!!!!

the band on Burn sucks though....too bad

love

K
Chris





Jun 16 2007 8:15 PM

David, Happy days my friend!
gutbucket





Jun 4 2007 9:00 AM

Hey David,

Great stuff! Thanks for finding us.

Cheers,
Eric c/o gutbucket
Ensemble In Transit





Mar 19 2007 4:22 AM

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
Ensemble Coprolitic Green (ECG)





Nov 7 2006 2:00 AM

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.

Good work!!

Sean
Leafblower





Sep 20 2006 10:27 AM

David -- I thoroughly enjoyed the chamber music from this past weekend. I'm very much looking forward to seeing your piece performed in November.

_m
Now Soon Nowhere





Sep 14 2006 6:08 AM

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
www.nowsoonnowhere.com
kevin gallagher - electric guitarist





Sep 8 2006 11:42 AM

you are so cute in this pic!!!!

your girlfriend,

K
Paul J. Geissinger





Sep 5 2006 9:49 PM

listen up.
Marco Oppedisano





May 31 2006 8:03 AM

Thanks for the add David! Like your style. Drown is nice and heavy. Lamentosa is quite beautiful too.
electric kompany





Apr 30 2006 9:37 PM

love that "drown" D. looking forward to the rock band piece...... :)

Kevin

www.electrickompany.com
Patrik Karlsson





Apr 24 2006 9:09 PM

I read your comment on my little space. I didnt know you could write in Swedish.
Hejd
Patrik
Starkey





Apr 11 2006 10:12 AM

big composer pushing the new sounds out of philadelphia.

www.chambermusicnow.org

looking forward to the april 29th concert.
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