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MILLS COLLEGE PROFESSOR ALVIN CURRAN NAMED A “BEST COMPOSER OF 2005” Oakland, CA - Alvin Curran, Milhaud Professor of Composition at Mills College, has been named a “Best Composer of 2005” by The Wire*, an international music magazine published in London. A faculty member in Mills’ highly respected Music Department since 1990, Curran published four new works in 2005: Canti Illuminati, Maritime Rites, Toto Angelica, and Inner Cities. He also began working on his monumental “The Alvin Curran Fake Book.” Curran’s more than 100 musical compositions include an extraordinary range: solo performances, chamber music, experimental radio works, and large-scale sound environments for theater, dance, film, video and visual arts. His compositions feature natural sounds, piano, synthesizers, computers, violin, percussion, shofar, ship horns, accordions, and chorus. A leading figure in making music both in and outside of concert halls throughout Europe and the U.S., Curran has performed with dozens of major artists including John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Margy Jenkins, Anthony Braxton, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, and Giacinto Scelsi, among many others. In 2004, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an honorary mention in digital music from Prix Ars Electronica. In 1965, he co-founded the radical music collective Musica Elettronica Viva based in Rome, and traveled throughout Europe performing with them through the early 1970s. *The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of progressive, adventurous, non-mainstream music. Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently ranked among the top 75 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills is also recognized as one of the country’s 20 most diverse liberal arts colleges. The Princeton Review selected Mills as one of 11 colleges for first-time inclusion in its Best 361 Colleges - 2005. Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity. PRESS CONTACT: |
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