Elliott Grabill's music has been described as "post-romantic, full of angst, overflowing sentimentality, and polytonality-- mixed with glittering electronics." His satirical music explores the art of taking a familiar melody and turning it upside down as the piece develops. He also composes imaginative pastoral music, using electronics to take the listener to far distant lands. Though tonal, his style embraces maximalism, polyphony, and complex harmony.
Mountain Piques
This is part of a 25 minute long piece I did in collaboration with Pique Collective in 2018.
Year: 2018
The Food Chain
Year: 2020
National recording Artist Corinthia Cromwell has been known to astound audiences with her skillful and passionate performances as a gospel, jazz, and R&B saxophonist, vocalist, composer, Multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. With two internationally released CD recordings and three International single releases from her latest recordings under her belt, Corinthia has been established as one of the most anointed musicians of this era.
Joel Michael-Schwartz is an eclectic and deeply curious mandolinist, guitarist, teacher, and composer. He is based in Baltimore, and performs, collaborates, and teaches around the Mid-Atlantic. Bridging traditions and using music as a tool of cross-cultural communication is at the heart of his wide-ranging musical life. Equally at home playing Bach, flamenco, bebop, swing, and celtic, he brings expression, command, and a quirky sense of fun to all his artistic endeavors.
See more information about Be Not Afeard: Music From Prospero’s Island : Sometime a Thousand Twangling Instruments
Sometime a Thousand Twangling Instruments: movement I of Ronald Pearl's Be Not Afeard: Music From Prospero’s Island
* Written for and premiered by the Atlantic Guitar Quartet
* Written for and premiered by the Atlantic Guitar Quartet
See more information about Meltwater
Metlwater by Christopher Gainey
* Commissioned by Jonathan Zwi for the Atlantic Guitar Quartet with support from the Presser Foundation and the Peabody Conservatory.
* Commissioned by Jonathan Zwi for the Atlantic Guitar Quartet with support from the Presser Foundation and the Peabody Conservatory.
See more information about La Grande Terre: Eclosion
Eclosion: movement II of Olivier Bensa's La Grande Terre
As a leading ambassador of the American theatre song, Dr. Carolyn Black-Sotir has written and performed a repertoire of 13 original theatrical concerts. Programs include tributes to the Gershwins, Sondheim, Weill, Rodgers & Hart & Hammerstein, Porter, Bernstein, Kern, Arlen, Berlin, as well as performances focusing on the music of specific historical events or eras, such as the American Civil War and The Gilded Age.
Coming Together Mural
The artist-designer was given support and resources to explore the values and needs of citizens who visited the business owners’ restaurant as well as being aware that the pedestrian walkway was shared by an adjacent building - a seven-story mixed- residential condominium building that also supported a small art community of five art studios and gallery space. Both agreed that there was a great need to connect the neighborhood business and building art studios which were effectively invisible to the public. The design and materials chosen for this project were the direct result of this collaborative planning effort. It was important to address ways to help engage the community with the art design process and build a welcoming environment.
What was previously a dark neglected walkway is now a transformed, well-maintained, safe, and inviting environment with a landscape area and a fine art mural that exemplifies the partnership between an artist and a business owner. Residents now regularly use this area as part of their jogging traveling paths, as well as a favorite location to visit. A marriage proposal was also witnessed there last May, as reported in Arlington Magazine.
This project, entitled Coming Together, has helped with the revitalization, preservation, and redevelopment of the area. In this effort, fine art was a universal language that assembled the participants with different perspectives and ultimately birthed a space of beauty that all could be proud of for a long time. While the mural and its title were developed to convey a global feeling, its execution was truly a local one.
What was previously a dark neglected walkway is now a transformed, well-maintained, safe, and inviting environment with a landscape area and a fine art mural that exemplifies the partnership between an artist and a business owner. Residents now regularly use this area as part of their jogging traveling paths, as well as a favorite location to visit. A marriage proposal was also witnessed there last May, as reported in Arlington Magazine.
This project, entitled Coming Together, has helped with the revitalization, preservation, and redevelopment of the area. In this effort, fine art was a universal language that assembled the participants with different perspectives and ultimately birthed a space of beauty that all could be proud of for a long time. While the mural and its title were developed to convey a global feeling, its execution was truly a local one.
Medium: Acrylic on metal
Year: 2018
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