Gloria Coates: At Midnight

Personnel:

Cambridge University Orchestra
Ruth Fischer: Guitar
Morgan Goff: Viola
Neil Heyde: Cello
Christine Hoock: Double Bass
Peter Sheppard Skaerved: Violin
Stephen Stiens: Guitar
Alessandro Taverna: Piano
Neil Thomson: Conductor
Mihailo Trandafilovski: Violin

Born in Wisconsin and a resident of Germany since 1969, Gloria Coates has been composing for over fifty years. Her work is complex, filled with canons, palindromes, polyrhythms, dissonances, glissandi and is distinguished by a wide expressive and emotional range. Her first CD on Tzadik presents a varied program of music for solo piano, a string quartet, her exciting violin concerto, a piece for bass and piano and a fabulous piece for two tuning guitars. An historic release by one of the world’s most courageous and original musical pioneers!

Tzadik 8096 © 2013