jimi, miles, wolfgang, ludwig, johannes, anton von, mr. ives, mr. cage, mr. buddha, karlheinz, johngeogepaulringo, mickkeith, muddy, buddy, leadbelly, mr. zimmerman, eric, blind willie, son (house, seals), lightnin', james (skip and brown), john lee and earl, elmore and like that
JOHN KING, composer and guitarist, has had his music presented in many major festivals, including the Fronteras Festival (London); Next Wave Festival (NY); Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival (Hamburg); Intermedium 1 Festival (Berlin); Creative Time's "Music in the Anchorage" (NY); Warsaw Autumn and Bang On A Can (NY). Mr. Kings experimental opera, la belle captive, based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, was premiered in Buenos Aires at the Centro Experimental de Teatro Colon in April 2003, receiving further performances at the Fronteras Festival (London, Sept. 2004) and The Kitchen, NYC in Jan. 2005.
His commissions and collaborations include those for the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra}, Ethel; the Albany Symphony/Dogs of Desire, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; the Royal Danish Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; SüdWestRundfunk (Baden-Baden), Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Merce Cunningham Dance Company and the Childrens Theater Company (Mpls., MN).
He has received grants from the NEA/Music in Motion, New York State Council on the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Meet The Composer/Readers Digest Dance Commissioning Program, Minnesota Composers Forum, the Fund for US Artists at International Festivals, and New York Foundation for the Arts.
Mr. King curated the music for the Merce Cunningham Dance Companys EVENTS at the Joyce Theater and at The Barbican Center in London. He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and is currently a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC.
His radioplay TORN/zerrisen was commissioned by SüdWestRundfunk radio, Baden-Baden, Germany and has been broadcast throughout Germany as well as being performed live in Berlin's Kunstler Theater. His first opera Herzstuck/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller, was premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn Festival and presented at the Kitchen in 2000.
Will Scott's new album, GNAWBONE is here!!! The CD is available at CDBaby and other online retailers.
Over three years in the making, GNAWBONE is Scott's fully-produced studio debut and features a crack team of hand-picked musicians as well as guest performances by Jan Bell, Jolie Holland, Samantha Parton, and Preacher Boy (the album's producer).
Hello! John; Thanks for the cyber-friendship. Glad to hear a bit of your splendid recent work in this venue. I enjoyed your vigor & sense of humor at ADF a little over thirty years ago. Hoping all goes well for you - gil.
Salut!!
Thanks for the add and for taking a listen....any comment or feedback would be great!..much appreciated!..i'm loving this time of year, returned home from Pattaya beach last night. It was the King's Birthday!! Big holiday yesterday here in Thailand!! :)
Youna
they're coming...we have yet to see the video. it was great though! can't wait for you to see/hear--i wrote harmonics into one song all due to you JK, remember before the EGO i couldn't do it?!?!
I SURE AM! everything is packed, sealed, and ready to move! I'm very excited! everything here is AWESOME! I'm so happy! I start school up again on the 18th, annnnd curves is...well...curves, but im also working for Dain's Dad's business with Dain, and at a catering place on the weekends! So im busy busy busy!
hows evrything with you guys?!
oh yeah! and the weather went from 90 degrees to about 30 in a week, but supposidly its supposed to get back up to 80 next week...whoi knows with the MN eh?
i'm kinda bored but actually, its a relief. haha. just say NO to in-house weddings for a while... in true nerd fashion i've been out star-gazing pretty much every night. other than that we've been doing a whole lotta nothing. i start online classes next week though. =) WOOOO!
yes! also, i'll mail you a copy of our record when it comes out...we are recording it tomorrow and monday! much love to you John King. you are a great inspiration.
