Catching Up with Richard Carrick

by Ted Gordon on July 27, 2021, 10:07 a.m.

PSNY recently caught up with composer Richard Carrick to discuss how he's been adapting to the changing landscape of composition, collaboration, and performance during the ongoing pandemic. Carrick has seen several ongoing projects continue, despite the challenges, to fruition—including his evening-length work for music and dance Sea, a collaboration with the choreographer Miro Magliore, which includes the premiere of Carrick's composotion The Mill along with his Piano Preludes and "in flow". Sea premiered physically on May 28th, 2021, performed by the New Chamber Ballet, and was also premiered as a dance film which can be viewed below: 

We also discussed Carrick's ongoing "Graphic Series" of scores, which Carrick conceptualizes as "lead sheets" for virtuosic improvisers. Constructed as large, physical scores with open instrumentation, these works were first workshopped with Carrick's Neither/Nor Ensemble at the Berklee School of Music in 2018, and since have been written for and performed by ensembles such as the Mivos Quartet, String Noise, Either/Or, and many others. 

Richard Carrick · Graphic Series

Catching Up with Wang Lu

by Ted Gordon on July 15, 2021, 10 a.m.

PSNY continues to catch up with our composers to explore the different pathways taken through the ever-changing new reality of music-making in the late stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. We talked with Wang Lu about new kinds of physical performances, new media, and the new compositional landscape in which she continues to work. 

Catching Up with Mary Kouyoumdjian

by Ted Gordon on July 7, 2021, 9:30 a.m.

As the world of musical performance continues to evolve to meet the new physical realities of COVID-19 and its aftermath, composers and performers have developed new strategies to continue the work of creating engaging, vital musical experience—both inside and outside the concert hall. We've been catching up remotely with our composers to ask them how they have been affected by this new reality, and what they've been working on going forward. Our first interview is with Mary Kouyoumdjian, who has continued to develop her multi-faceted projects in surprising new ways.