The Accidental Music Festival is a marathon festival of concerts and educational programming sponsored by the Timucua Arts Foundation 501(c)3. The festival is primarily dedicated to presenting modern and contemporary music of high artistic quality by living composers and engaging the community in a dialogue about the value of artistic, creative, and avant-garde music.

In its first year, AMF presented the world premieres of several new works, performances by international musicians, and educational activities for all ages. Every event was free and open to the public.  

Mission: 

1) to enrich the community by presenting music of high artistic quality, regardless of genre or commercialness

2) to educate people of all ages about the expressive power of music and the role musicians play in society

3) to increase the economic and artistic opportunities of professional musicians as a means of fulfilling the above goals

Accidental Music Festival would like to thank the 2011 sponsors:

The Mexican Consulate of Orlando

The Swiss Arts Council

Timucua Arts Foundation

Urban Think! Foundation

Embassy Suites Hotel

The Guitar Series at UCF

The Civic Minded Five

Beltran Periodontics

Accent Orthodontics

Bikes, Beans and Bordeaux

Accidental Music Festival and the Guitar Series at UCF Present

A Night of Chamber Music

September 8, 2011

 

 

Trio, “How it Is, How it Was”                                                                                                                 Phil Swasey

Chris Belt (guitar), Brandon Clinton (piano), Eric Smith (violin)

 

Trio is a process.

Trio is a trail of breadcrumbs.

Trio was a process.

 

El Cucuy                                                                                                                                                   Joshua Keeling

Daniel Shearouse, solo guitar

 

Duérmete mi niño, duérmete ya...

Que viene el Coco y te comerá.

~Juan Caxés - 17th century

 

El Cucuy is a legendary Latin-American ghost-monster that children sometimes fear when falling asleep. According to the myth, when the cucuy spies a disobediant child, he will kidnap and eat the child in the middle of the night. This piece depicts an interaction between innocent child and dreadful monster. When one confronts deeply ingrained fears, the unexpected may happen!

 

 

Concertante                                                                                                                                          Thad Anderson

Thad Anderson, multi-percussion and electronics

 

The work is titled Concertante, which is classical period terminology that refers to the melding of the concerto and symphonic formulas.  Imagine a multi-percussion soloist with an orchestra of electronics; at times the soloist blends with the electronics and at other moments, there is clearly a featured performer (including cadenzas and such).  From a multi-percussion standpoint, there is no denying the Xenakis influence, which includes an opening Rebonds-like statement and instrumentation similarities to the Peaux movements of Pleiades.

 

 

Jarcias                                                                                                                                               Antonio Ruiz-Pipo

Eladio Scharrón (guitar) and Carrie Wiesinger (Flute)

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Inner Rails                                                                                                                                              Joshua Keeling

for computer playback

 

This acousmatic piece transports the listener into secret spaces where sound takes on new dimensions. Here, extremely slow gestures combine with various granular textures to create environments of gradual but constantly fluctuating motion. This piece was created using Jean-Francois Charles' Spectral Processing Tools and Adrian Gierakowski's ag.granular suite in Max/MSP.

 

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Full composer and performer notes available at www.accidentalmusicfestival.com
Active as a solo, orchestral, and chamber musician, some of Dr. Anderson’s performance credits include Days of Percussion in Florida, Texas, Idaho, and Oklahoma, the Texas and Florida Music Educators Association convention, Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Victoria Bach Festival, Austin Chamber Music Center, Round Top Festival-Institute, Austin, Waco, and Brevard Symphony Orchestras, and as a guest soloist with Conspirare and the Monroe Symphony Orchestra.

 

Dr. Anderson specializes in the creation and performance of new music through commissioning and collaborating with composers. Some of these projects have produced new works by Paul Lansky, Zack Browning, Jonathan Kolm, John Serry, Martin Bresnick, Halim El-Dabh, and Travis Jeffords. Also active as a composer, Dr. Anderson wrote and recorded the soundtrack for the award winning documentary film Standard Deviation. Universal Edition, +Two Media, Santa Barbara Music, Alfred, and C.F. Peters are currently publishing some of his compositions and adaptations.

 

Joshua Keeling is a highly versatile composer of musical projects including chamber, electroacoustic, orchestral, and wind ensemble compositions, as well as a number of collaborations with filmmakers, dancers, and playwrights. His music ranges from intricate experimental soundscapes to sophisticated concert works, jazz-influenced, groove-based compositions, and adventurous interactive electroacoustics. He has studied at Belmont University, UT Austin and the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, Germany. He is currently in doctoral studies at Florida State University, where he also teaches theory, composition, and electronic music.

 

Phil Swasey is an active American composer/performer/educator with a diverse background in music and technology. With experience in common practice, popular, and contemporary art music, he finds comfort in a wide range of musical situations.  Born in Florida [1982], Phil Swasey is a graduate of the University of Central Florida [2005], where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Music with a minor in Classical Guitar performance, and the University of Florida [2008], where he received a Masters of Music in Composition.  Now living in Austin, TX with his wife, he is enjoying his new career teaching middle school Orchestra, Guitar, and Mariachi Band. 

 

Chris Belt received his Master's degree in guitar and conducting from the University of Central Florida, where he studied with Dr. Eladio Scharrón and Dr. Laszlo Marosi, respectively. He has performed with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the UCF Orchestra, and the UCF and UF New Music Ensembles. He has performed in the masterclasses of Paul Galbraith, David Starobin, Denis Azabagic, Claudio Marcotulli and Ana Vidovic, and at chamber music festivals in New York, Paris and Les Arc's. He makes his living as a guitarist, conductor and educator. He is the instructor of classical guitar at Saint Andrew's Conservatory in Sanford, Fl.

 

Eladio Scharrón was born in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico into a family of guitarists well known in the island. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico where he studied with guitarist-composer Ernesto Cordero. After obtaining the B.A. in music, he went to Paris to continue graduate studies in guitar under the direction of the renowned master Alberto Ponce. In 1981 he obtained the prestigious Diplôme de Concertiste at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Dr. Scharrón has won numerous awards and competitions, among them, the Concurso de Guitarra de la Casa the España in Puerto Rico, the International Guitar Competition of Sable Sur Sarthe in France, and the Reynolds Musical Award. He has also been invited to prestigious guitar festivals like the Brussels Guitar Festival, the International Guitar Festival of Puerto Rico and New York's Música de Cámara among others. Eladio Scharrón has premiered and is the dedicatee of many new works for guitar. During his long stay in Paris, he won accolades from music critics as a concert artist and taught at the Paris Municipal Conservatory in France. In 1992 he became a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and in 1994 the University gave Dr. Scharrón a full scholarship to realize doctoral studies at the prestigious Eastman School of Music In Rochester. Dr. Nicholas Goluses supervised his guitar work at Eastman. In 1996 he obtained the prestigious Performer's Certificate from Eastman School of Music. The degree of Doctor of Musical Arts was awarded in 1997. Since August 1998, Eladio Scharrón has been part of the faculty in the Department of Music at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

 

 

Carrie Wiesinger was born in 1977 in Pullman, Washington. Upon moving to Michigan she began studying piano at age 8 and flute at age 10. After graduating high school, Carrie began her undergraduate studies at Eastern Michigan University under the direction of Dr. Julie Stone. Carrie was a two time concerto winner, MTNA winner and she also held the principal flute position with the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra for four years.

 

In 2001, Carrie moved to New York City and began her graduate studies with Linda Chesis at the Manhattan School of Music. Carrie held the position of principal flute with the Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Sinfonia, and performed with the DiCapo Opera Company, NYC. Carries public master class performances have included those for, Carol Wincenc, William Bennett, Julius Baker, Jeffrey Khaner, Sebastian Bell, Jim Walker, Brad Garner, Jeff Zook and Sharon Sparrow. Carrie currently holds the position of Second Flute with the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Flint Symphony, Plymouth Symphony, Midland Symphony and the Michigan Sinfonietta. Carrie regularly performs at the Detroit Institute of Arts and tours with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the Hollywood Concert Orchestra. Carrie currently resides in Winter Park, Florida.