travelling to richmond
richmond international airport serves the metropolitan area, and is the most accessible
airport to the UR campus. daily flights in and out of RIC can be found on AirTran, JetBlue, American, Continental, Delta, United, and USAir.
the city is also home to greyhound and amtrak stations.
third practice accomodations
A block of rooms at has been reserved at the Richmond Crown Plaza West (note: be
careful, there are two Crown Plazas in Richmond. The festival hotel is the one located at 6531 W. Broad Street). The
conference rate is $84.
To book a room on the web, visit Crowne Plaza Richmond-UR Music. Festival attendees must book their rooms by October 21, 2010, though
earlier is better.
Click here for Google Maps directions from the Crowne Plaza to Campus.
Once you reach campus, use the University of Richmond
Campus Map to navigate to the Modlin Center for the Arts. The campus is well-marked with signs. Camp Concert Hall is in the
Booker Hall of Music, Building #38 on the map.
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eighth blackbird, ensemble-in-residence
Described by The New Yorker as "friendly, unpretentious,
idealistic and highly skilled", eighth blackbird promises
its ever-increasing audiences provocative and engaging performances.
It is widely lauded for its performing style: often playing
from memory with virtuosic and theatrical flair and its
efforts to make new music accessible to wide audiences. A New
York Times reviewer raved, "eighth blackbird's performances
are the picture of polish and precision, and they seem to be thoroughly
engaged by music in a broad range of contemporary styles." The
sextet has been the subject of profiles in the New York Times and
on NPR's All Things Considered; it has also been
featured on CBS's Sunday Morning, St. Paul Sunday, Weekend
America and The Next Big Thing, among others. The
ensemble is in residence at the University of Richmond in Virginia
and at the University of Chicago. Visit eigthblackbird.com
for more information on 3p's ensemble-in-residence.
odd appetite
Based in New York City, Odd Appetite is the duo of performers/composers Ha-Yang Kim (cello) and Nathan Davis (percussion). Both
classically trained in American and European conservatories, Odd Appetite composes, collaborates, and performs its own music written
for this unique instrumentation as well as performing commissioned works by select composers. Their programs defy what the typical new
music concert experience is - and defines what it can be - by offering music that is both subtle and visceral, complex yet unified by
narrative and gesture. Critic Kyle Gann praised Odd Appetite in the Village Voice as "Expert virtuoso players", and David Cleary raved
in 21st Century Music "The splendid duo Odd Appetite displayed careful chamber music interaction, a well-tuned ear for ensemble
balance, and technical dexterity to burn."
In addition to performing music from the West they have dedicated themselves to studying and performing music of Bali and of South
India (Karnatic music), and use electronics to extend and exaggerate the acoustic properties of their instruments. Giant Balinese
gongs, microtonal glockenspiel, drums, cowbells, tuned aluminum pipes, and hammered dulcimer are played alongside a de-tuned and
amplified cello with stomp boxes and electronic effects, all played with dazzling virtuosity, passion and spirit. Odd Appetite has
traveled the world in search of new sounds and languages, and their music is a manifestation of the zeal that they have for the music
of today and this world.
susan fancher
Susan Fancher is known for her deep and poetic musical interpretations. A much sought after performer of new music, she
has inspired dozens of commissions and has published arrangements of music by composers as diverse as Josquin Desprez, Ben Johnston
and Steve Reich. Her career has featured hundreds of concerts internationally as a soloist and as the member of chamber music
ensembles, including the Red Clay, Amherst, Vienna and Rollin Phones saxophone quartets. She has worked with a multitude of composers
including Terry Riley, Charles Wuorinen, Philip Glass, Hilary Tann, Friedrich Cerha, Ben Johnston, Mark Engebretson, M. William
Karlins, Stuart Saunders Smith, Perry Goldstein, Olga Neuwirth, Judith Shatin, James Paul Sain, David Stock, Ed Campion and Robert
Carl, and has performed in many of the worlds leading concert venues and contemporary music festivals. Susan Fancher is a regularly
featured columnist for the nationally distributed Saxophone Journal and an artist for the Selmer and Vandoren companies. She is on
the faculty of Duke University.
daniel koppelman
Born in New York and raised in California, Daniel Koppelman has gained experience with many different musical traditions --
classical and popular, composed and improvised, acoustic and electronicwhich has led him to explore their intersections in
search of new possibilities for performing, teaching, and creating music. Koppelman's current performance interests include
various real-time controllers in conjunction with Cycling '74's Max/MSP and STEIM's LiSa (live sampling) software, digital
signal processing of acoustic piano, and the multiple keyboard ensemble duo runedako (with Ruth Neville). He has recorded for
CRI, New World Records, Neuma Records, Capstone, SEAMUS and C74; he recently released Escapement, a 2-disc CD/DVD set of 21st
Century music for piano and electronics, which Keyboard Magazine called "engaging, intelligent, and unpretentious." Koppelman
holds degrees from San Francisco State University (B.M.), Indiana University (M.M.), and the University of California at San
Diego (Ph.D.), where he was a Regents Fellow; his piano teachers have included Wayne Peterson, James Tocco, Cecil Lytle and
Aleck Karis. Currently Associate Professor and Director of Music Technology at Furman University in Greenville, South
Carolina, Koppelman has been a resident artist at STEIM in Amsterdam, the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, and the Center
for Research in Computing and the Arts in La Jolla, CA. In 2008 he will be lecturing and performing in and around Odessa,
Ukraine on a Fulbright Scholarship.
susan tomkiewicz
Dr. Susan Hatch Tomkiewicz is the Assistant Professor of Oboe at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University.
Previous appointments include the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Bowling Green State University, Luther College and Texas Lutheran
University. An active proponent of new music, she has commissioned and premiered many new solo, electronic and chamber works for oboe
and English horn by such composers as Brooke Joyce, Bruce Pennycook, Jeremy Baguyos and Nancy Galbraith. As a performing artist, Susan
has been a recitalist at the International Double Reed Society, SEAMUS, Electronic Music Midwest and the College Music Society. She
has also performed with a number of ensembles and productions across the country including the Omaha Symphony, Wicked, the Austin
Symphony, the Maine Chamber Ensemble and the Bangor Symphony. Susan has participated on numerous recording projects including Bells
for Stokowski, Fandango, and the PBS Texas Parks & Wildlife theme show music. She holds degrees from the University of Texas at
Austin, where she graduated summa cum laude, the University of New Mexico and the University of New Hampshire. Her primary teachers
include Rebecca Henderson and Kevin Vigneau.
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commissions and recordings
new works commissioned by third practice
- 2008 Ken Ueno One by one, I collect the fragments of my song from harmonies which abound in the air unheard
- 2008 Toivo Tulev Above*
- 2007 Frances White the ocean inside*
- 2006 Michael Barnhart Blue Mess*
- 2006 Ashley Fure Susurrus*
- 2005 Benjamin Broening like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment*
- 2005 Stephen Vitiello Rush and Lullaby*
- 2005 Paul Rudy for whom...*
- 2005 Evan Chambers longing for peace in the garden of lost children*
- 2005 Paul Lansky Ancient Echoes*
- 2003 Peter Gilbert Blow, Bugle, Blow
- 2002 Natasha Barrett Prince Prospero's Party
* commissioned by Third Practice for Eighth Blackbird
[re]
Purchase [re] from amazon.com
In 2005, Third Practice commissioned 13 artists to create new works for release on [re], a surround-sound DVD-Audio disc:
These artists were asked to consider the relationship between contemporary electroacoustic music and the musical past. To
what degree does new technology suggests new modes of musical expression? To what extent do new techniques of music production
and dissemination represent a break with received notions of musical composition and consumption? Or is it perhaps more
accurate to think of electroacoustic music as a continuation of a shared musical heritage?
That there is no simple answer to these questions reflects the richness and diversity of technical and aesthetic
approaches to electroacoustic music. These brief pieces reflect, reinterpret, comment, recompose or reconsider past
musical compositional techniques, practices, specific works, genres, styles, forms, practices, concerns in light of
electroacoustic music. The works were premiered at the 2006 Festival and are available on the Everglade label.
commissions and premieres CD
In 2001, Third Practice released Third
Practice: Commissions and Premieres on CD, available from Centaur Records.
Composers featured on the CD are Benjamin Broening, Matthew McCabe, Russell Pinkston, Natasha Barrett, Peter Gilbert, and
Mindy Christensen.
Commissions and Premieres can be purchased from amazon or directly from Centaur Records.
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