Matthew Van Brink - Tritone Press & Tenuto Publications

MATTHEW VAN BRINK is an American composer and pianist born in 1978 and currently living in Boston, completing a DMA in composition at Boston University. He has studied composition with Bruce Adolphe at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with David Dzubay, Samuel Adler, and Don Freund at Indiana University, and with John Harbison and Lukas Foss at Boston University. Piano studies were with Jeremy Denk and Evelyn Brancart at Indiana University.

As a performer, Van Brink is foremost a pianist, and he has also played accordion in opera and chamber music and has conducted performances of his own and his colleagues' compositions. Van Brink instructs undergraduate ear training courses at Boston University, teaches keyboard harmony at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and serves this year as Composer-in-Residence for Collage New Music Ensemble.

Van Brink's recent compositions include music for dance and film as well as chamber music for the concert setting. Van Brink composed music for "Running at the Sunshine," a unique work for dance and spoken word, in collaboration with choreographer Judith Chaffee and writer Jesse Jarnow. In his jazz score to Patrick Ford's short film "Francine St Claire's Mail," influences from Van Brink's jazz compositions and jazz piano playing, usually embedded or just hinted-at in his concert music, are manifest in full force. Other recent pieces include the trio Control Room, commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony; Up, Up, and Up commissioned by FleetBoston Celebrity Series and premiered by violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist David Deveau; and Dal Dosai, a flute sonata commissioned by Thomas Robertello. ASCAP awarded the latter two pieces with Young Composer Awards in 2002 and 2003. Van Brink curently serves at composer-in-residence for Boston's Collage New Music Ensemble.

For further information about the composer, visit www.matthewvanbrink.com

Music by Matthew Van Brink available from TENUTO PUBLICATIONS:
494-02755 DAL DOSAI: Sonata for Flute and Piano ... 24.95 new!
494-02815 SHABU SHABU for 2 Flutes ... coming in 2008
494-02816 SHABU SHABU for Flute and Clarinet ... coming in 2008

Here are audio clips of Thomas Robertello's performance on Crystal Records CD712 (used by permission).
                               The work's main title and movement titles refer to Indian cuisine.
                                   beginning of Mvt. 1, "Garam Masala" 36-second mp3 (555k)
                                   beginning of Mvt. 2, "Asafoetida"   31-second mp3 (489k)
                                   from Mvt. 3, "Tarka"   35-second mp3 (561k)

New -- also recorded by Paul Lustig Dunkel, on Walking Frog Records, WFR 829.