Evan Ziporyn

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Full Name	Evan Ziporyn
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Dec 14, 1959(1959-12-14)
Age	65
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Evan Ziporyn Biography

Evan Ziporyn is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on December 14, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist compositions that has a cross-cultural focus and a fusion of traditional music and avant-garde, musical traditions from around the world and jazz. Ziporyn composes for a range of ensembles, such as wind ensembles, symphony orchestras as well as various types of chamber groups, as well as solo compositions, often involving electronic. Balinese gamelan that he has composed a variety of pieces, includes compositions. He is well-known for his solo performance on clarinets and bass clarinets as well as his other instruments. Ziporyn performs gender wayang as well as various Balinese instruments, saxophones keyboards and pianos EWI as well as Shona mbira.

In 1992, Ziporyn created The Bang on a Can All Stars and performed with them until 2012. recorded and performed up to 2012. He was also a part of Steve Reich and Musicians, together with whom he won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. The guitarist is currently part of the Eviyan Trio, with Czech violinist/vocalist, Iva Bittova, and American guitar player Gyan Riley.

As a clarinetist, Ziporyn recorded the definitive version of Steve Reich’s multi-clarinet New York Counterpoint in 1996, sharing in that ensemble’s Grammy Award in 1998. In 2001 his solo clarinet CD, This is Not A Clarinet, made Top Ten lists across the country. His compositions have been commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, American Composers Orchestra, Maya Beiser, So Percussion, Wu Man, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, with whom he recorded two CDs, Frog’s Eye (2006) and Big Grenadilla/Mumbai (2012). His honors include awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2011), The Herb Alpert Foundation (2011), USA Artists Walker Fellowship (2007), MIT’s Kepes Prize (2006), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship (2004), as well as commissions from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA and the Rockefeller MAP Fund. Recordings of his works have been released on Cantaloupe, Sony Classical, New Albion, New World, Koch, Naxos, Innova, and CRI.

The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute (2005) 15′ – for solo soprano and wind ensemble

The same year, he gave an instrumental clarinet at The First Bang on a Can Marathon in New York. His association with BOAC continued for a period of 25 years. In 1992, he was a co-founder of The Bang on a Can All-stars (Musical America’s 2005 Ensemble of the Year), together with whom he traveled across the globe, and premiered more than 100 commissions, working together with Nik Bartsch, Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Ornette Coleman, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Thurston Moore, Terry Riley and Tan Dun. He produced their iconic recording in 1996 of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, as along with their 2012 Big Beautiful Dark & Scary (2012). The group disbanded in the autumn of the year, to create Eviyan together with Iva Bittova as well as Gyan Riley and with whom he performs and records frequently. In the fall of 2013 he founded the www.criticalband.org, a group devoted to the music of the late British composer Steve Martland.

Evan Ziporyn Net Worth

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

Ziporyn was a student in Eastman, Yale & UC Berkeley alongside Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick and Gerard Grisey. He first visited Bali in 1981, where he studied in the company of Made Lebah, Colin McPhee’s 1930s musical informant. He returned to Bali on an Fulbright in 1987.

Ziporyn began his career on his MIT faculty in 1990. She was responsible for creating the Gamelan Galak Tika there in 1993. Then, he began with a number of groundbreaking compositions for western and gamelan instruments. The works include three that run for an entire evening that include 2001’s ShadowBang and 2004, Oedipus Rex performed by the American Repertory Theater (Robert Woodruff director) and the 2009 production A House in Bali, an opera that brings western performers with Balinese classical performers as well as the All-Stars in a full gamelan. It premiered in the world in Bali in the summer of 2009, and then it had its New York premiere at BAM Next Wave in October of 2010.

Ziporyn is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as director of MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). At MIT he directs Gamelan Galak Tika, an ensemble he founded in 1993, a group of 30 MIT students, staff and community members, devoted to the study and performance of new works for Balinese Gamelan.

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Top Facts about Evan Ziporyn

1. Evan Ziporyn is an American composer and clarinetist.
2. He was born on December 14, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois.
3. Ziporyn studied at Yale University and UC Berkeley.
4. He co-founded the Bang on a Can All-Stars in 1992.
5. Ziporyn has composed for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble.
6. His music blends Western classical with non-Western traditions.
7. Ziporyn has received numerous awards and commissions for his work.
8. He is currently a professor of music at MIT.
9. Ziporyn’s compositions have been performed worldwide by various ensembles.
10. He has collaborated with artists such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich.