With the arrival of September comes the welcoming in of crisper temperatures, colorful foliage – and here at PARMA, an array of captivating new music. From the second installment in our electro-acoustic series to a Spanish and Portuguese-inspired duet, our September releases are as vibrant and stirring as the beginning of autumn itself. Read on… Continue Reading →
Guitarist Alan Rinehart has over 45 years of experience as a professional classical guitarist and has made many contributions to the guitar world as a performer, teacher, and music editor. Completing studies at Western Michigan University [...]
An etude (French for ‘study’) is a fairly short composition intended for practice sessions that focuses on a certain technique, such as trilling or dynamic expression. Etudes gained popularity in the early 19th Century alongside [...]
Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz is a composer, pianist, and violist whose diverse inspirations have included liturgical chant, basketball games, the growth patterns of plants, and frog calls. Her piece on Ravello Records' MIND & MACHINE VOL. 2, Les [...]
Originally from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Joshua Tomlinson is a composer, sound artist, and teacher specializing in electroacoustic music and technology. His background is in rock music with subsequent classical training in voice and [...]
Corey Fant is an American composer, producer, recording engineer, and performer, and is currently studying composition at the University of Alabama under Dr. Amir Zaheri. Compositionally, Corey is engaged in numerous collaborations with his colleagues ranging [...]
Richard Brooks is a native of upstate New York and holds a B.S. degree in Music Education from the Crane School of Music, a M.A. in Composition from Binghamton University, and a Ph.D. in Composition from New [...]
Michael Wittgraf is an electronic music composer whose recent work explores live manipulation of feedback, interactive improvisation, and time as data. His music has been performed in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. He has [...]
Composer and performer Jim Schliestett has a long history of adding - and sometimes discarding - new instruments, technologies, disciplines, and genres to his musical toolkit. French horn, electric guitar, voice, analog synthesis, orchestration, composition, analog [...]
Herbert Deutsch has had an eclectic career as a composer, author, educator, and music marketing consultant. Professor Emeritus of Music and former Chairman of the Music Department at Hofstra University, he directed the Music Business Program, [...]
