Michael McCurdy performs nationally and internationally with Hi Red Center, Mantra Percussion, and Skogensemble, and at festivals including the Society of Composers, SEAMUS, the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, the Sparks Festival of Electronic Music, the Bang on a Can Marathon and the Festival of New American Music. In New York, Michael collaborates with many musicians, including Ricardo Gallo, Peter Evans, Tom Blancarte, Dither, Erin Hall, and Vintage Fire.
Michael is a champion of new music - commissioning, premiering and recording works by established composers such as Michael Gordon, Gavin Bryars, Richard Felciano, Michael Fiday, Annie Gosfield, Karen Tanaka, and Ushio Torikai. Michael has also developed relationships with many young composers to commission and perform new works. Most of these collaborations have blended music with dance, and music with text and theatre - many of these efforts have combined music with electronics or interactive computer.
Along with renowned percussion ensemble Slagwerkgroep Den Haag and dance ensemble Club Guy & Roni in the Netherlands, Michael, with Mantra Percussion, is currently commissioning an evening-length work for percussion sextet from composer Michael Gordon. Stay tuned for more information.
Michael completed a doctorate in percussion performance at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2006. His teachers over his career have included Nick Petrella, Steve Schick, Dan Kennedy, Raymond DesRoches, and Eduardo Leandro. Michael is endorsed by Sabian cymbals.
Pogo in Togo hosts a party at the Cakeshop tonight! Love Like Deloreans joins the bill with some amazing bands including The Magick Report, Willy Weird, Omega Jarden, and a very special guest who's name starts with an A and ends with a K. hmmmm...
So come and get wet with LLD, because Tuesday night is the night to party hard!
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I'm enjoying listening to your music. Xenakis is one of my favourites, such intensity. And teh virtuosity of that Marimba duo is gripping.
Hey McMikey. I'm watching the Aperghis video and wondering a) what's the text? Is it an invented language? and b) is it standard notation? I think I remember CVA saying something about Aperghis having his own system of notation. Nice playing. I dig.
sorry as well to have missed you. i'm always one step away from the big apple, and the question is always, when...small chance i might dip down in october, or perhaps in december, gigs depending. there is a crazy piece by jean-pierre drouet for four percussionists that you should check out. i can't remember the name, but if you email aiyun at mcgill, she could probably hook you up.
Mike, you either left a message that was genius in it's crypticness (my new word of the day - feel free to use it) on my myspace page, or you left it on the wrong page. Either way, I enjoyed it.
