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Present Music Features Gabriel Prokofiev in Season Opener

Sep. 07, 2010

While orchestras across the country open their seasons with Mozart and Mahler, Milwaukee new music staple Present Music will begin their 2010/11 with a concert of Prokofiev. Gabriel Prokofiev, that is.

Sergei’s grandson, now a groundbreaking composer, producer, and label-owner residing in London, presents his first two string quartets as well as his heavily-praised Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra at a September 18 concert in Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Ballroom. Known for combining elements of electronic and club music with classical forms and instrumentation, the 29-year-old composer has been hailed as a “visionary, experimentalist, and all "round clever bloke" by Fly Global Music; nowhere is his penchant for sonic experimentation more evident than in his revolutionary concerto. Described as “a future classic” and a work of “sheer originality,” the concerto features a DJ “scribbling,” “crabbing,” “cutting,” and “scratching” alongside a full orchestra. The recording of the work, featuring DJ Yoda and the Heritage Orchestra and including the five-movement concerto alongside eleven remixes by various well-known DJs, was named the best Contemporary Classical CD of 2010 at the Independent Music Awards and was given a five-star review by Musical Opinion’s Robert Matthew-Walker.

Read more about Present Music at www.presentmusic.org

For more on Gabriel Prokofiev, visit www.fabermusic.com and learn more about the record label Nonclassical here.

Gabriel Prokofiev
Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra (2007)
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