Gillespie / Barkado Saxophone Quartet / Miller: Chamber Music of Amos Gillespie

Gillespie / Barkado Saxophone Quartet / Miller: Chamber Music of Amos Gillespie - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Chamber Music of Amos Gillespie

Artist:

Gillespie / Barkado Saxophone Quartet / Miller

Label:

Centaur

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

044747366920

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2018-10-05

Number of Discs:

1

The music in this new album is characterized by modern jazz inflections within a neoclassical framework and with a hint of contemporary classical influences. Amos Gillespie's music has been heard on WFMT in Chicago, WQXR in New York City and PBS. His music spans a wide range of genres including chamber and orchestra concert music, jazz, as well as music for film, theater and dance. His music has been commissioned and performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, Third Millennium Ensemble, Eclipse Theater, Barkada Saxophone Quartet, Chicago Q Ensemble, Access Contemporary Music (ACM) and the Chicago Composers Orchestra among many others. Amos has received special recognition and finalist awards from ASCAP, League of Composers (ISCM), American Prize, Columbia Orchestra, the Macarthur Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council, and has won numerous grants including the 2013 IAS professional development grant through the Illinois Arts Council, a Lucerne fellowship through the Chicago sister cities program and the Swiss benevolent society, as well as the 2008 Evanston Cultural Arts Grant and several Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grants (CAAP).

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