Please see blog for info about the performers on this CD. I compose music for a variety of classical symphony orchestras and chamber-music ensembles of all types. Please visit my main composer site and get a free download (near the bottom of the homepage) of an entire 15-minute movement by clicking on the "band website" link above. I am hoping to share my music with a wider audience here on MySpace, perhaps some people who mostly listen to non-classical music. I have a background playing all kinds of music myself, and I think many kinds of styles can exhibit genius and transport us to a wonderful place. I hope you enjoy my work! By the way, I understand that some people are on MySpace to network socially, but please understand that I'm only here to share my music, not to meet or correspond socially. I do hope you will buy the download and enjoy it! There are only about eight minutes of excerpts on my site from a 70-minute CD! -- So please get THE WHOLE THING at one of the download sites listed here! Many thanks! You can download it to your computer and burn a CD, if you wish.
All the best, Michael
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CLICK ON THE CD ICON FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NEW MICHAEL KUREK CD. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VIRTUAL CD, ONLY AVAILABLE AS A DOWNLOAD, BUT THEN YOU CAN BURN CD COPIES OF YOUR OWN ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER.
Hi, everyone! Welcome to my site! I am honored that you are here and hope you like the music! The bits above are just very short clips from a 70-minute CD. People who have purchased the whole download say they are not disappointed! Just click above to get to any of the download sites. Below is the "official" bio used on concert programs (okay, it's a little stuffy, ha ha). Best wishes, Michael
American composer Michael Kurek has steadily earned international recognition through important awards and through the performance, publication, and recording of his works for the concert hall. In recent years he has become known for the evolution of his style from academic modernism to a lush, tonal melodicism, powerfully making the case for greater aesthetic pluralism in the contemporary concert hall. His music has been performed and broadcast as widely as France, England, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Japan, Korea, Czech Republic, and Russia. In the U.S., it has had broadcasts on NPR and its affiliates, also commissioned and performed by many professional symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles, and at important venues, such as the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington. A frequent guest composer and speaker at universities around the country, he has been profiled in several national music magazines and journals, and is an active member of the Recording Academy (NARAS). He has received numerous national composition awards and fellowships, including the highest annual award for lifetime achievement in composition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, their Academy Award in Music. Michael Kurek studied with European composers Hanz Werner Henze and Eugene Kurtz, and with American Pulitzer Prize-winners Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom at the University of Michigan, where he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition. Professor Kurek currently serves at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His music is recorded on New World Records (New York) and published by International Music Service (New York), Lyon and Healy (Chicago), and Spectrum Music Press (Los Angeles). For more information, go to Michael Kurek's website at www.michaelkurek.com
