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Jean Kopperud, clarinet
Stephen Gosling, piano

from Albany TROY1217/18

http://www.albanyrecords.com

The spectacular clarinetist Jean Kopperud performs seven cutting edge works.
Extreme Measures is the first project in clarinetist Jean Kopperud's Rated X series. It is seven clarinet and piano works written for Kopperud asking composers to dare to stretch the medium. The Winnipeg Free Press reviewed a past project that Kopperud toured, which might best describe Rated X. "You can expect to have your head bent a little. You will stay awake. You will be fascinated and infuriated . . . and exhilarated by what you have heard." Rated X ("Extreme Measures") premiered in the fall of 2008 on the West Coast and was recorded in the spring of 2009. A graduate of Juilliard and former student of Nadia Boulanger, Kopperud has toured the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, China, the Caribbean and Australia as a concert soloist and chamber musician. She performs with the New York New Music Ensemble and is a professor of music at the University of Buffalo.

Contents:
David Felder, composer
Rare Air
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano

Eric Moe, composer
Grand Prismatic
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano

Paolo Cavallone, composer
(Dis)tensioni
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano

Steven Ricks, composer
Amygdala
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano

James Primosch, composer
Times Like These
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano

Jason Eckhardt, computer
Rendition
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano

Harvey Sollberger, composer
Nemesis
Jean Kopperud, clarinet, Stephen Gosling, piano