Christine Southworth

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Full Name	Christine Southworth
Occupation	American Composer
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1978(1978-01-02)
Age	46
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Christine Southworth Biography

Christine Southworth is one of the most popular and richest American composer who was born on January 2, 1978 in United States. Christine Southworth (b. Boston, Massachusetts, 2 January 1978) is an American composer of postminimal music . She composes with a variety from Western ensembles, electronic as well as world-music ensembles that include Balinese gamelans and bagpipes. She plays Balinese gamelan and gender-based wayang in the Cambridge Massachusetts-based Gamelan Galak Tika, as in addition to Galician Gaita and Great Highland Bagpipes. She was co-founder of Ensemble Robot, a cooperative comprised of engineers, artists, and musicians who work together to create robotic instruments for music. She also served as the general director for Gamelan Galak Tika from 2004 until 2013. Her music is influenced by her involvement with Balinese gamelan, as well as electronic technology in addition to reaching beyond these influences by offering an expansive selection of contemporary jazz, classical and rock, and also world musical styles that comes from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Southworth releases four albums via Airplane Ears Music: Zap! Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices (2008), Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age (2009), Christine Southworth: String Quartets (2013). And The In My Mind and In My Car (2013). Southworth’s music has been performed across in the U.S., Europe, and Indonesia by ensembles such as Kronos Quartet, Gamelan Galak Tika, Calder Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Gamelan Semara Ratih, California EAR Unit, Andrew W.K. as well as Ensemble Robot. Southworth has received distinctions for her work from American Music Center, LEF Foundation, American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and The MIT Eloranta Fellowship, and fellowships from Bang on a Can (2009), UCross Foundation (2012) as well as The Hermitage Artist Retreat (2014).

In 2009, Southworth was the first composer to be commissioned by The Explorers Club in New York, which commissioned “Volcano” for the Calder Quartet, and was awarded the Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund commission for “Concerning the Doodle” for the Bang on a Can All-Stars which was premiered on February 24, 2010 at Merkin Hall at the Kauffman Center in New York, NY. Allan Kozinn from the New York Times described the performance “Christine Southworth’s “Concerning the Doodle” accompanies a film (about the adventures and fantasies of a dog) by the Clever Girls Collaborative. It is straightforward, texturally and harmonically: the piece begins as an assertive blast of hard rock, driven by David Cossin’s drumming, the guitarist Mark Stewart’s power chords and Robert Black’s solid bass. But Ms. Southworth soon moves the players through a parade of quirkier, bright-hued pop styles in an appealingly unpredictable structure driven by the film.”

Yo-yo Ma’s Silk Road Project commissioned Southworth to compose La Fée Verte for Galician gaita, string quartet and percussion in 2012, and in 2013 she began collaborating with Evan Ziporyn on an evening length work for solo bass clarinet and electronics, called In My Mind and In My Car, released as a digital album in fall 2013 by Airplane Ears Music.

In 2007 Southworth was approached to compose a piece for the Carlsbad Music Festival to compose “Honey Flyers” for the Calder Quartet. “Honey Flyers” received wide praise following shows in Le Poisson Rouge located in New York, The Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, MA, Lakeshore Theater in Chicago and The Swedish American Theater in San Francisco The song is which was described by the press by the press as ” an absolutely beautiful track that is reminiscent of a mix of God is An Astronaut mixed with the Tosca Tango Orchestra’s Waking Life soundtrack, with massive dramatic breaks and patterns that brought out the beauty of “Honey Flyers” by Joe Dahlstrom of JamBase The Chicago performance was evaluated by Laurie Rojas of Time Out Chicago: “Clapping didn’t have to wait until the end of the work; head banging was never like it was painless, and foot stomping was never so enjoyable. String quartets have rarely been as loose. The band members can’t keep themselves from swaying around and smiling and banging their heads to their own tunes.”

Christine Southworth Net Worth

Christine Southworth is one of the richest American Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christine Southworth 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Southworth’s musical career started in 1999 when she took an excursion to Bali, Indonesia, where she began her studies in Gender Wayang along with the I Wayan Locceng from the town of Sukawati. When she returned back to America, she was able to compose a piece. United States, Arnold Dreyblatt’s Orchestra of Excited Strings premiered her piece Timor Cotton at MIT Kresge Auditorium and was inspired by the styles she learned in Bali. In 2002 she participated as a guest in the inaugural Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at Mass MOCA.

She was a student in at the Computer Music and Multimedia Composition (MEME) program at Brown University from 2004 to 2006] when she performed her hour- long piece Zap! Music for Van De Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices at the Boston Museum of Science’s Theater of Electricity. The premiere concert of Zap! in February 2004, was a huge success, filling the Museum of Science’s Theater of Electricity with energized crowds of professors, students and artists, as well as children and even adults. The Boston Phoenix called the performance “truly electrifying,” describing the show as “Ever from Bob Dylan, ‘going electric has been associated with a variety of meanings however, this was quite different. Although Zap! employed the talent of a flutist the two musicians, cellist an electric guitarist, a bassist and drummer, a vocalist, a double-helix robotic xylophone and sound engineers Computer programmers and sound engineers, the defining element of Southworth’s show was the electricity that was the entire show in the form of millions of volts that were squealed, flitted and then exploded into the ear- splitting cracks that were a part of their songs.” (Will Spitz. Boston Phoenix) In 2008 she released a live recording that included “Zap!” featuring Robert Black (bass), David Cossin (percussion), Felix Fan (cello), Philippa Thompson (voice), Charles Whalen (guitar), and Evan Ziporyn (clarinet/keyboards). The album was praised by critics, including WNYC’s John Schaefer, “Classical music certainly not in danger of becoming a museum piece” and was designated “Pick of the Week” on WNYC on July 30, 2008.

Also in 2009, she was commissioned by Performing Arts Center for a work for Balinese Gamelan Selonding with electronics, which was premiered at the International Gamelan Festival Amsterdam at the Lichthal Tropenmuseum by Gamelan Semara Ratih on September 10, 2010, and she was commissioned by the National Film Preservation Foundation to accompany historical films for the collection Treasures V: The American West. On August 13, 2010, she premiered “Supercollider,” for the Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Elektrika, at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival to an audience of approximately 5000. A subsequent performance at MIT’s Festival of Arts, Science and Technology was hailed by the Boston Globe’s Jeremy Eichler as “coolly exhilarating”, “courted both common ground and the energy of culture clash by pitting the Kronos Quartet in traditional and avant-gardish sonorities against the interlaced rhythmic complexities of the gamelan.”

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