DESCRIPTION:
Lynn Klock, baritone saxophone
Susan Nowicki, piano

from Albany TROY1317

http://www.albanyrecords.com

Jan Krzywicki (b. 1948) is active as a composer, conductor and educator. He has been com¬missioned by prestigious performers, and organizations such as the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, the Chestnut Brass Company, and performed across the United States by ensembles such as the Colorado Quartet, the Network for New Music, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Alea III, and others. He is the recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation residency (Bellagio, Italy), a Bogliasco Foundation residency (Bogliasco, Italy), ASCAP and Meet the Composer awards, and has been a Fellow at the MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts artist colonies. As a conductor he has led chamber and orchestral groups in literature from the middle ages to the present, including a large number of premieres. Since 1990 he has been conductor of the contemporary ensemble Network for New Music. Krzywicki is a professor of music theory at Temple University. All the compositions on this recording were composed in 2000 or later and complement his first disc of chamber works on Albany Records (TROY337).

Contents:
Jan Krzywicki, composer
Fable
Lynn Klock, baritone saxophone, Susan Nowicki, piano

Jan Krzywicki, composer
Partita
Fredric T Cohen, oboe, Susan Nowicki, piano

Jan Krzywicki, composer
Alchemy
Matthew Bengtson, piano

Jan Krzywicki, composer
Five Lyrics
Jeffrey Khaner, flute, Charles Abramovic, piano

Jan Krzywicki, composer
In Evening's Shadow
Susan Narucki, soprano, Jason Vieaux, guitar, Hirono Oka, violin, Rachel Ku, viola, Yumi Kendall, cello