Carl Schimmel

Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bearns Prize, the Lee Ettelson Award, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Carl Schimmel has received honors and awards from many organizations, including the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Copland House, New Music USA, and ASCAP. His works have been performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Merkin Hall in New York, Severance Hall in Cleveland, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, and at other venues throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He has received performances and commissions from the California EAR Unit, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Lucy Shelton, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. A graduate of the Yale School of Music (MM) and Duke University (PhD), he is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Illinois State University.

String Quartet No. 2 “Six Faces”

Like the movements of my first string quartet, “Ars Mathematica,” the six movements of this work are inspired in part by paintings. The six paintings are Georges Braque’s "Girl with [...]

2019-06-13T03:31:39-04:00Instrumentation String Quartet|Work Type

There Was, and There Was Not

The Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp published his celebrated work Morphology of the Folktale in 1928. In the book, he presented a structural analysis of the Russian folktale, arguing that representatives [...]

2019-06-13T03:31:02-04:00Instrumentation Cello and Full Orchestra|Work Type

Soe

"Soe" is titled after one of the Maenads of Greek mythology, the wild women who were followers of the god of wine, Bacchus. The work uses three harmonic/melodic ideas, each [...]

2019-06-13T03:39:47-04:00Instrumentation Solo cello|Work Type
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