As the year comes to a close, we begin to look ahead at the unknown, the unfamiliar, and the new. Leap into something you've never heard this year with music from Ansonica Records, a member of the PARMA family of labels showcasing the best of music around the globe. DECEMBER RELEASES OUT NOW ESPONTÁNEO Maykel... 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 →
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Chamber Trio consists of Dr. Denise Gainey on clarinet, Dr. James Zingara on trumpet, and Dr. Christopher Steele on piano. The group was established in 2012 and has performed throughout Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, including appearances at the Alabama Music Educators Conference, the College Music Society... 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 →
Ted Coffey makes acoustic and electronic music, sound installations, and songs. His work has been presented in concerts and festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia, at such venues as Judson Church, The Knitting Factory, Roulette, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center (NYC), The Lab, New Langton Arts, Zellerbach Hall, and The Yerba Buena Center for... Continue Reading →
Praised for her “dazzling technique and soulful expressiveness,” (Rocky Mountain News), and a musical approach that’s “distinctly sensual…pliant, warm, and sweet,” (New York Times), Debra Nagy is one of North America’s leading performers on the Baroque oboe. A dedicated chamber musician, Debra is the founder of Les Délices and indulges her love of late-medieval music... Continue Reading →
