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If you’ve ever stopped to enjoy the music drifting from a painted piano near the Pearl Street Cheesecake Factory, then you’ve been exposed to the many talents of first-year composition student Jack Gaffney . Gaffney not only writes the tunes he taps out but also covers the piano in his...

the distance of the moon (2015) Duration: 7:00 minutes Instrumentation: solo piano Premiere: Texas State International Piano Festival (June 1-4, 2015) by finalists Inyoung Kim, Nathan Ryland, Soyeon An, Sung-Soo Cho, Hyeinn Jun, and Jeremy Hassell Click to Listen To purchase the score, click here Notes: This piece was inspired...

When the atmosphere around a light source contains a haze of ice particles, the reflected light can cause an optical phenomenon where tall luminous bands project up into the sky. These bands, known as light pillars , rise out of the textures created in a new work by composer John...

Faculty Dan Kellogg presents a world premiere this weekend with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic . Faculty Carter Pann presents a new brass work next week in Delaware. UROP undergrad project grants deadline is 2/17. Local Artists Feature - Our Pendulum poster artwork features art and photography of people within our...

Bill Elliott, CoM advisory board member and former theory professor, will premiere his chamber ensemble work this Wednesday, with Carter Pann conducting an all-star faculty and student ensemble. Bill shares some thoughts... "Sonata for Winds and Strings, for flute, clarinet, Fr. horn, bassoon, and string quartet, was written as my...

The other day I sat down with composer Egemen Kesikli to ask him about his piece The Logical Conclusion , which is being performed on the November 30 th Pendulum concert. The piece, for solo violin, begins with brash chords contrasted by ghostly sliding wisps. Occasionally, ferocious rhythmic passages drive...

Before tonight's Pendulum concert, there was a buzz in the air. New music was about to happen. The concert opened with the intriguingly titled “For the Eastern Elk,” an elegy to a subspecies of elk that diseappeared in 1877 in Pennsylvania. “It's a meditation on extinction; a commentary on the...

Last Sunday, at the kid-friendly hour of 2pm, Pendulum took over the Boulder Public Library and presented music ranging from recorded sounds at the TANK to Riley's historic "In C" to our P-rade through the entire building. Where else can you find composers Jack and Egemen marching side by side,...

Ten musicians take to the stage. The air in the room begins to vibrate: sounds, unmoored from a beat, swirl out of instruments and mingle like colorful smoke above the audience. A thick purple cloud of consonance is emerging from a piano; an oud deliciously bends an emerald-colored wisp; a...

Pendulum New Music is proud to announce that select scores of student works will be included at CU Scholar. Our first work is Anasi by Kevin Michael Olson . This score combines traditional notation with graphic notation and uses color to suggest timres and shapes to the performers.