John Link (composer) explained

John Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New Music.[1]

Link received a Ph.D. in music from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a master's degree from The Ohio State University, and B.M. and B.A. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He studied composition with David Olan, Thomas Wells, and Randall Snyder.[2]

In 1989 he and a group of composers – Tom Cipullo,[3] [4] Nancy Gunn,[5] Cynthia Miller, Gregory W. Pinney, and Ben Yarmolinsky[6] — formed Friends & Enemies of New Music, a composers group that put on a series of contemporary music concerts in New York City and sponsored an annual competition.[7]

In 2007 his composition For Irving Lippel, performed by Jeffrey Irving and Daniel Lippel appeared on the album Sustenance (New Focus Recordings)[8] and in 2008 an excerpt of his work Life Studies was included on the compilation album (Bridge Records) produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike.[9]

In 2009 his composition Around the Bend appeared on the album FM by Flexible Music (New Focus Recordings).[10]

He is currently a Professor of Music at William Paterson University directing the Center for Electroacoustic Music.[11]

Link has also published several articles and two books on the music of the American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). In 2000, his book Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research was published by Garland Press (now Taylor and Francis).[12] In 2012 his essay Elliott Carter's Late Music was published in the collection Elliott Carter Studies, which he co-edited with Marguerite Boland, published by Cambridge University Press.[13]

He also participated in several events surrounding the Elliott Carter centenary in 2008, including panel discussion at the Tanglewood Music Center[14] and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.[15] In 2011 Link was invited to present an international workshop: "Elliott Carter’s Tempo e tempi," at the University of Slovenia in Ljubljana, as part of the 2011 Festival Slowind.[16]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Friends & Enemies of New Music . 2007-08-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070911142653/http://www.wpunj.edu/coac/music/link/fandebios.html . 2007-09-11.
  2. Web site: John Link - Bio. John Link. johnlinkmusic.com.
  3. Web site: Tom Cipullo - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2012-11-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121113173350/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17176-tom-cipullo . 2012-11-13 .
  4. Web site: Friends & Enemies of New Music - Bios. John Link. johnlinkmusic.com.
  5. Web site: Nancy Gunn at Pytheas ~ Contemporary, Modern, New, Non-Pop Art Music Composers, Ensembles & Resources. pytheasmusic.org.
  6. Web site: Friends & Enemies of New Music - Bios. John Link. johnlinkmusic.com.
  7. Web site: Friends & Enemies of New Music. John Link. johnlinkmusic.com.
  8. Web site: Art of the States: For Irving Lippel . 2012-11-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120617165259/http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=365 . 2012-06-17 .
  9. Review by John Brackett, Journal of the Society for American Music 3, no. 4 (November, 2009): 511-513.
  10. Web site: Sounds Heard: Flexible Music. NewMusicBox. 20 July 2009 .
  11. http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/bio.htm John Link's Biography
  12. Review by Carl RahkonenNotes 58, no. 2 (December 2001): 344-345
  13. Web site: Elliott Carter Studies | Twentieth-century and contemporary music.
  14. Web site: Tanglewood Contemporary Festival: Return to an Abandoned Style?. 23 July 2008.
  15. Web site: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Annual Report 2008, p. 12. . 2012-11-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120713190134/http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/images/uploads/support/CMSAnnualReport08.pdf . 2012-07-13 . dead .
  16. Web site: 13th FESTIVAL SLOWIND 2011. Teja Kralj. slowind.org.
  17. Web site: Flexible Music: FM. Louis Andriessen (b. 1939). New Focus Recordings.
  18. Web site: Bridge Records, Inc . 2012-11-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029234622/http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9285 . 2013-10-29 .
  19. Web site: Daniel Lippel: Sustenance. Vineet Shende (b. 1973). New Focus Recordings.
  20. Web site: 60x60 - 2004-2005 - CD Baby Music Store. cdbaby.com.

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