David Crowell (PhD Candidate, Composition) Premiere of NYSCA Commission

David Crowell, PhD candidate in composition, has the premiere of a new work titled Memories of the Imagined with Tribeca New Music at the DiMenna Center in Manhattan on March 2nd, 7:30pm. Memories of the Imagined was commissioned through support from a highly competitive New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Support for Artists Grant and performed by Unheard-of Ensemble, a group formed at Stony Brook University with performance program alumni Daniel Anastasio, Matheus Souza, and Iva Casian-Lakos.

David Crowell is a composer and instrumentalist (saxophones, guitar) based in New York City. His work crosses stylistic boundaries, encompassing contemporary classical composition, improvisation, jazz, and experimental rock and pop. Commissioning ensembles and institutions have included A Far Cry, Argus Quartet, JACK Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, New Morse Code, NOW Ensemble, icarus Quartet, Ensemble Illyrica, Dumbarton Oaks, Da Camera Los Angeles. He has presented numerous lectures on his work, including at Dumbarton Oaks, Manhattan School of Music, Duquesne University and California State University (Sacramento) where he was the featured composer at the Festival of New American Music.

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