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First name: Hugh
Last name: Levick
Dates: 1943
Category: Quintet
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Opus name: Island & Exile : Piano Quintet In Four Movements (2011-2012)
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Peculiarities: http://www.tfront.com/p-434663-island-exile-piano-quintet-in-four-movements-2011-2012.aspx#434663
Information: Composer Website: www.hughlevick.com/ Graduating cum laude from Yale University, and with an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Hugh Levick set off for Paris to write a novel. In Paris he returned to his musical beginnings and the saxophone, studying and playing with Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy and the Chicago Art Ensemble, amongst others. Later in NYC he studied composition at Julliard with Stanley Wolfe and David Diamond, and privately with John Cage and Vinko Globokar. During the 1980's and 1990's in both the US and France, Levick composed , directed and performed the music for over two dozen stage productions. Levick’s solo performance piece, KID COPY, for a musician and his pre-recorded video double, was produced by the EDAC of Poitiers, France and toured in both France and the US. It was performed in the Bing Theatre at LACMA where two concert readings of his chamber opera , THE EMBRACE OF REASONABLE TERROR, were also given. For the Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Celebration Levick was awarded grants by the NEA and the NY State Council for the Arts to create the Imago Ensemble, a combination of live and video-taped musicians. He also received an Artist-in - Residence award from PASS in NYC, and was awarded a studio in the Cite International des Arts in Paris.