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Toby Twining
New York-based composer and recording artist Toby Twining has received critical acclaim for music that brings together a new choral sound with hi-resolution/microtonal harmonies and innovative instrumental techniques. His ensemble, Toby Twining Music, has recorded two CDs: Shaman (BMG Classics, 1993) and Chrysalid Requiem (Cantaloupe Music, 2002). The ensemble also accompanied Garrison Keillor in the award-winning Little Match Girl on A Prairie Home Companion's 20th Anniversary Album (Highbridge, 1994). Twining's instrumental works have been recorded by the avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan——Satie Blues and Nightmare Rag (The Art of Toy Piano: Uni/Point, 1997), and An American in Buenos Aires (Mode Records, 2010)——and cellist Matt Haimovitz——9:11 Blues (Anthem, Oxingale/Artemis 2002). Eurydice, Toby Twining Music's third CD, is due for release on Cantaloupe in January 2011.
Eric Brenner
American countertenor/soprano Eric S. Brenner’s voice has been described as “dazzling,” “startlingly true,” and “arrestingly beautiful.” A Long Island, New York native, Eric began his training on violin and viola before beginning to sing — as a tenor — in high school. Several years later, he discovered his countertenor/soprano voice, and all of the remarkable repertoire (both very old, and very new) available to him.
Eric’s diverse resume includes a one-on-a-part performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers, with New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott, Jonathan Miller’s semi-staged production of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the BAM Baroque Ensemble, and solo work with Early Music New York (Fred Renz, Director), Voices of Ascension (Dennis Keene, Director), and the Choir of St. Thomas Church (John Scott, Director). Eric made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 1999 singing Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. Eric has also been a soloist and guest clinician with Studio Arsis Vocal Workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
A fervent lover of ensemble music, Eric co-founded and sang soprano on repertoire ranging from medieval chant to the Beatles with all male vocal quartet Consensus. Eric also spent three seasons with the Grammy award winning ensemble Chanticleer. During that time, Eric sang dozens of premieres, taught master classes to individual singers, choirs, and conductors, and traveled all over the world, performing in major halls throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Eric also appears on three Chanticleer recordings — Sound and Spirit; And on Earth Peace — A Chanticleer Mass; and Let It Snow.
On the avant garde side, Eric is proud to have been part of the recording and world premiere (at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam) of PEW fellowship-winning composer Toby Twining’s Chrysalid Requiem. More recently Eric teamed up with Mr. Twining again as soprano and Assistant Conductor on Twining’s original music for Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Eurydice at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (recording to come in 2009). Other unusual projects include the roles of Singer/Death in Wolfgang Thompson’s adaptation of Moliere’s Don Juan, with the Pangs Theater Ensemble, and Erica/Valkyrie/Zombie in Rob Reese’s Survivor: Vietnam, with Amnesia Wars, NYC.
http://www.cantaloupemusic.com/mp3/ca21007.mp3
New York-based composer and recording artist Toby Twining has received critical acclaim for music that brings together a new choral sound with hi-resolution/microtonal harmonies and innovative instrumental techniques. His ensemble, Toby Twining Music, has recorded two CDs: Shaman (BMG Classics, 1993) and Chrysalid Requiem (Cantaloupe Music, 2002). The ensemble also accompanied Garrison Keillor in the award-winning Little Match Girl on A Prairie Home Companion's 20th Anniversary Album (Highbridge, 1994). Twining's instrumental works have been recorded by the avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan——Satie Blues and Nightmare Rag (The Art of Toy Piano: Uni/Point, 1997), and An American in Buenos Aires (Mode Records, 2010)——and cellist Matt Haimovitz——9:11 Blues (Anthem, Oxingale/Artemis 2002). Eurydice, Toby Twining Music's third CD, is due for release on Cantaloupe in January 2011.
Eric Brenner
American countertenor/soprano Eric S. Brenner’s voice has been described as “dazzling,” “startlingly true,” and “arrestingly beautiful.” A Long Island, New York native, Eric began his training on violin and viola before beginning to sing — as a tenor — in high school. Several years later, he discovered his countertenor/soprano voice, and all of the remarkable repertoire (both very old, and very new) available to him.
Eric’s diverse resume includes a one-on-a-part performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers, with New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott, Jonathan Miller’s semi-staged production of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the BAM Baroque Ensemble, and solo work with Early Music New York (Fred Renz, Director), Voices of Ascension (Dennis Keene, Director), and the Choir of St. Thomas Church (John Scott, Director). Eric made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in 1999 singing Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. Eric has also been a soloist and guest clinician with Studio Arsis Vocal Workshop in Tokyo, Japan.
A fervent lover of ensemble music, Eric co-founded and sang soprano on repertoire ranging from medieval chant to the Beatles with all male vocal quartet Consensus. Eric also spent three seasons with the Grammy award winning ensemble Chanticleer. During that time, Eric sang dozens of premieres, taught master classes to individual singers, choirs, and conductors, and traveled all over the world, performing in major halls throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Eric also appears on three Chanticleer recordings — Sound and Spirit; And on Earth Peace — A Chanticleer Mass; and Let It Snow.
On the avant garde side, Eric is proud to have been part of the recording and world premiere (at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam) of PEW fellowship-winning composer Toby Twining’s Chrysalid Requiem. More recently Eric teamed up with Mr. Twining again as soprano and Assistant Conductor on Twining’s original music for Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Eurydice at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (recording to come in 2009). Other unusual projects include the roles of Singer/Death in Wolfgang Thompson’s adaptation of Moliere’s Don Juan, with the Pangs Theater Ensemble, and Erica/Valkyrie/Zombie in Rob Reese’s Survivor: Vietnam, with Amnesia Wars, NYC.
http://www.cantaloupemusic.com/mp3/ca21007.mp3