Toby Twining, Composer

"What's startling is that Toby Twining's music ...is a synthesis of elements unlike anything heard outside cutting-edge downtown Manhattan art circles. Maybe not even there."
- David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Classical Music Critic

 

New York-based composer and recording artist Toby Twining has received critical acclaim for music that brings together a new choral sound with hi-resolution/microtonal harmonies and innovative instrumental techniques. His ensemble, Toby Twining Music, has recorded two CDs: Shaman (BMG Classics, 1993) and Chrysalid Requiem (Cantaloupe Music, 2002). The ensemble also accompanied Garrison Keillor in the award-winning Little Match Girl on A Prairie Home Companion's 20th Anniversary Album (Highbridge, 1994). Twining's instrumental works have been recorded by the avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan——Satie Blues and Nightmare Rag (The Art of Toy Piano: Uni/Point, 1997), and An American in Buenos Aires (Mode Records, 2010)——and cellist Matt Haimovitz——9:11 Blues (Anthem, Oxingale/Artemis 2002). Eurydice, Toby Twining Music's third CD, is due for release on Cantaloupe in January 2011.

To hear samples of Chrysalid Requiem and the upcoming CD Eurydice, click here.

 

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