PARMA is no stranger to unique projects, from quick timelines to unusual instrumentation. So in mid-October, when accomplished film score composer Zak Engel reached out to PARMA to discuss a particularly powerful and moving project with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, we were more than happy to take part in the effort. Engel... Continue Reading →
Each month, PARMA has the great pleasure of not only releasing powerful works by our artists, but also seeing the positive impact that these works have on listeners. Read on to hear a selection of what the press had to say this month about releases from Navona and Ravello Records. [Above: Performers on TWO CELLS... Continue Reading →
Clarinetist Mark Lieb is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Phoenix Ensemble. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and The Juilliard School, where he studied clarinet performance with Robert Marcellus, former Principal clarinet with the Cleveland Orchestra, and David Shifrin, clarinet soloist and former Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln... Continue Reading →
Connecticut native Scott Perkins enjoys a multifaceted career as an international prize-winning composer, a versatile performer, an award-winning scholar, and a music professor at California State University, Sacramento. Praised by critics from publications including the Washington Post (“dramatic,” “colorful”) and the Washington Times (“perfectly orchestrated,” “haunting,” “a remarkable and welcome musical surprise”), his work has been commissioned... Continue Reading →
For many, the word "fall" is synonymous with chilly temperatures, sitting by the fireplace under warm blankets with a cup of tea or cocoa, and the foliage transforming into vibrant shades. Here at PARMA’s headquarters in New England, fall is an especially beautiful, albeit dark and cold, time of year, and we got into the... Continue Reading →
A champion of women's music, composer Elizabeth Vercoe has been hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most inventive composers working in America today” and by Gardner Read as “an exceptionally gifted composer with a fine technical command and a keen sensitivity to sound materials.” Active as a composer in the United States... Continue Reading →
Samuel A. "Skip" Livingston was born in Chicago in 1942 and grew up in the Pittsburgh area. During 1966 and 1967, he was a member of the U.S. 4th Armored Division Band; other than that, he has never been a professional musician. Since 1974 he has lived in central New Jersey, where he plays the clarinet... Continue Reading →
With the arrival of September comes the welcoming in of crisper temperatures, colorful foliage – and here at PARMA, an array of captivating new music. From the second installment in our electro-acoustic series to a Spanish and Portuguese-inspired duet, our September releases are as vibrant and stirring as the beginning of autumn itself. Read on… Continue Reading →
Kenneth "Ken" Kuhn is an electrical engineer specializing in electronic circuit design who had the privilege of growing up with a great appreciation of classical music. His favorite composers include Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler. Over the years, classical music enhanced mental skills valuable for his engineering career. He found that composing music and designing... Continue Reading →
