Program - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

THE COMPOSERSPerry Goldstein (born 1952 in New York City, New York) studied at the University of Illinois,UCLA, and Columbia University, from which he received a doctorate in music composition in 1986.His principal composition teachers at Illinois were Herbert Brün, Ben Johnston, and Paul Zonn; atColumbia, Chou Wen-Chung and Mario Davidovsky.A composer of vivid, high-intensity music, Goldstein’s various works have been called “an I-dareyou-contraption”(Total Absorption by Fanfare Magazine), “kinetic, percussive [and] pummeling” (OfPoints Fixed and Fluid by The New York Times), “a raw-boned tour-de-force” (Blow! by the BuffaloNews), and demonstrating “consummate structural artistry” (Motherless Child Variations by MusicVision CD Spotlight).He has written works for such notable performers as Juilliard Quartet cellist Joel Krosnick andpianist Gilbert Kalish, Emerson String Quartet violinist Phillip Setzer, pianist Eliza Garth, theAurelia, Prism, and Capitol Saxophone Quartets, bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern, saxophonistsCory Barnfield, Arno Bornkamp, Joseph Lulloff, and Kenneth Tse, the Escher String Quartet, and theUnited States Military Academy Band. His works appear on 17 compact discs, on the Albany,Bridge, Centaur, Challenge, Crystal, Innova, Mark Masters, New Dynamic, New World, UnitedStates Military, and Vanguard labels. He is published by Reed Music and Global Music FacilitiesPublications.Since 1992, he has been a member of the music faculty of the Stony Brook where he was theinaugural Director of the College of Arts, Culture, and Humanities and serves as Chairman of theDepartment of Music. He teaches music theory, analysis, musicianship, and composition.Stephen Andrew Taylor is currently Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Illinois.His music often explores boundaries between art and science. His first orchestra commission,Unapproachable Light, inspired by images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Testament,was premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 1996 in Carnegie Hall. Other worksinclude the chamber quartet Quark Shadows, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony andpremiered in 2001; and Seven Memorials, a 32-minute cycle for piano inspired by the work of MayaLin and premiered by Gloria Cheng in Los Angeles, 2004; she also performed the work atTanglewood in 2006. The Machine Awakes, a CD of his orchestra, chamber and electronic music wasreleased in 2010 on Albany Records; and Paradises Lost, a new opera based on a novella by Ursula K.Le Guin, was premiered in Portland, Oregon and at the University of Illinois in 2012.Besides composing for traditional instruments, Taylor also works with live electronics in pieces suchas Agoraphobia for flute, harp and electronics, premiered by Jonathan Keeble and Ann Yeung inMontreal in 2009. He is also active as a conductor with the Illinois Modern Ensemble, and as a