August 2019 Album Reviews
Each month, PARMA has the pleasure of not only releasing powerful works by our artists, but also seeing the positive impact that these works have on listeners. Read on for a selection of what the press [...]
The Inside Story: Craig Peaslee and WINDSWEPT
Twice the recipient of the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network's Music Award (2013 & 2016), Craig Peaslee's music has been described as bold, crass, and unapologetic. His compositions can be traditional, multifaceted, dissonant, genre-bending, and have been [...]
The Inside Story: David MacDonald and WINDSWEPT
Composer David MacDonald writes music that is serious and clever, expressing a fondness for groovy rhythms and delightful surprises. He simultaneously embraces and pokes fun at expectations, like smashing the formality of concert traditions through the [...]
August 23, 2019: New Releases from Navona and Ravello Records
Just like that, late summer has arrived, Labor Day is poking its head over the horizon, and those final warm beach days are calling. Combine that with some bold new music from Navona and Ravello Records, [...]
In Memory: Dwight Beckham
Dwight Beckham grew up in the countryside of Lamont OK, and spent his 64-year career as a trumpeter, band director, and composer in Hesston KS, another small town barely more than 100 miles from his birthplace. [...]
The Inside Story: Ken Kuhn and WINDSWEPT
Kenneth A. "Ken" Kuhn is an electrical engineer specializing in electronic circuit design who had the privilege of growing up with a great appreciation of classical music. His favorite composers include Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler. [...]
The Inside Story: Santiago Kodela and PATTERNS
Santiago Kodela is an Argentinean composer and classical guitarist. He began his guitar studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel de Falla" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) under the tutelage of María Catalina Bello. After years of [...]
The Inside Story: Bunny Beck and PATTERNS
As a composer, Bunny composes contemporary classical music as well as jazz and ballads. Her most recent works include Breathe for jazz ensemble, Suite for Sarro for string trio (featured on PATTERNS), Fantasy for Saxophones, (quartet), [...]
The Inside Story: James Stamm and PATTERNS
James William Stamm completed his classical guitar and theory/composition B.F.A. at Marshall University in Huntington WV. As of the release of PATTERNS, he is completing an M.F.A. in film music composition at UNC School of the [...]
The Inside Story: Georges Raillard and PATTERNS
Georges Raillard was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1957. There he completed primary and secondary studies and studied foreign languages at the university level. From 1983 to 2001 he lived in Madrid as a teacher, translator, [...]