May 29 2012 Andres, an American not long out of the Yale School of Music, is both an engaging composer of post-minimalist music and a sensitive pianist.
The orchestra comes to the Lincoln Center Festival this summer, performing a program of prime Danish music: pieces by Carl Nielsen, an instantly engaging composer.
The engaging Composer Portraits series at the Miller Theater has highlighted the work of a wide range of composers, from the up and coming to the legendary.
Horvitz, however, is a terrifically engaging composer, and his themes and arrangements were particularly inspiring to the reed player, Marty Ehrlich.
June 4 at 8: The young soprano Jody Sheinbaum offers a concert of contemporary art songs by such engaging composers as Lowell Liebermann, John Musto, Ben Moore, and Tom Cipullo.
| Nov. 1 at 8: The Neolit Ensemble — a young clarinet-violin-piano trio that plays regularly here — offers trios from the past four decades by such engaging composers as Katherine Hoover, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Schoenfield, and John Harbison.
To those who know his music, he's someone whose unstoppable musical creativity, whose tumult of pieces for orchestras, opera houses, string quartets, for the familiar forms of musical institutions, and for famous soloists such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, makes him one of the most approachable, engaging and profound composers writing music today.
This is simply the ambitious work of a supremely confident 53-year-old composer, open, engaging and inventive yet full of dark turns, intense episodes and, in the fleet finale, wry humor.
Attempts to flesh out his gallery of personae sometimes fell flat — at the beginning, he mysteriously moved a figurine around a model of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel — but the cluttered, allusion-rich environment honored the engaging density of the composer's vision.
Attempts to flesh out his gallery of personae sometimes fell flat at the beginning, he mysteriously moved a figurine around a model of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel but the cluttered, allusion-rich environment honored the engaging density of the composer's vision.
Where the first half of the program showed Mozart and Haydn at their most engaging, the second half highlighted each composer's ingenuity.
