This concert will feature music by Baltimore composer Will Redman, performed by twelve of this city’s most creative improvising chamber musicians. Although Will’s music does not necessarily involve free improvisation, his hand-drawn graphic scores are well suited to musicians who think like improvisers. The composer is presenting this concert partly as a 20th birthday celebration of his 98-page graphic score Book, but also as a way to bring together a group of musical friends who have been meaningful to his life and work in Baltimore.
Will Redman is a composer, percussionist, and educator based in Baltimore, MD. He is a minimal maximalist who embraces functional mistakes in both his notated and improvised music. Much of Will’s music features hand-drawn unsystematic notation that invites the performer to solve their own questions of interpretation. His music has appeared in books on modern music, such as Notations 21 (cover image), Music After the Fall, and A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations, as well as music and poetry journals, doctoral theses, and grade school arts textbooks in Brazil and Lithuania. Will’s notation has been used for t-shirts, posters, album covers, synthesizer faceplates, tattoos, and as public art on the facade of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental Paris-Saclay. He plays in Microkingdom, The Compositions, and Umbilicus, and teaches music technology and composition at Towson University.
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The program:
Scar Not, O Crises (2019)
Ruth Lacey - piano
Ian Hoke - guitar/flute
Scroll (2010)
Sam Burt - clarinets
Rose Burt - baritone sax
Sarah Manley - trombone
Five Pieces for John Dierker (2013)
John Dierker - bass clarinet
Ida Dierker - piano
One Thousand One Plateaus (2026)
Shelly Purdy - vibraphone/percussion
-Intermission-
Compound Model Groups (2017)
Ruby Fulton - violin
Liz Meredith - viola
Daniel Lin - cello
Robin Rhodes - bass
Lee (2026)
full ensemble
Book (2006)
full ensemble