Mellits, Marc

Groove Machine - Works for saxophone quartet by Mellits, Williams, Escaich, Gross, Barrios / h2 Quartet

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2012-06-12

Works: Marc Mellits: Revolution, for 4 saxophones; Amy Williams: Univocity, for 4 saxophones; Thierry Escaich: Tango Virtuoso, for ensemble; Murray Gross: The Wild, Wild West, for 4 saxophones; Victor M...
Performers: Kvitko, Sergei
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Ensemble: H2 Quartet

The saxophone is an instrument that firmly established the concept of groove in jazz and popular music in the twentieth century. With the collection of...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio The Ballroom....continue...

Serendipity

2 CD / Innova / 2010-05-25

Works: Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez: ...[and of course Henry the Horse], for ensemble; Edward Ruchalski: Winter Light, for ensemble; Marc Mellits: Platter of Discontent, for ensemble; Nicolas Scherzin...
Performers: Buciu, Cristina; Heyman, Steven; LeDoux, David; Macero, George
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Ensemble: Society for New Music

'Serendipity: Music from the Heart of New York' is a 2-CD set of world premiere recordings by seven Society for New Music commissioned composers. Serendipity...continue...
Recording information: Setnor Auditorium, Crous College, Syracuse University (09/2008-06/2009)....continue...

Melville's Dozen / Nicola Melville

1 CD / Innova / 2008-08-05

Works: Carter Pann: Soirée Macabre (With Demons on the Dance Floor), for piano; Stacy Garrop: Tango Gardél, for piano; Mark Olivieri: Hommage à trois, for piano; Philip Rhodes: Appalachian Br...
Performers: Melville, Nicola

Mellits: Parranoid Cheese / Meltis Consort

1 CD / Black Box / 2007-07-17

Works: Marc Mellits: Opening, for ensemble; Broken Glass; Paranoid Cheese; The Misadventures of Soup; Fruity Pebbles, for ensemble; Machines (5); Srecan Rodendan Marija; Troica; Dreadlocked
Performers: Buciu, Cristina; Frasca, Dominic; Mellits, Marc; Simkin, Elizabeth; Tunick, Danny
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Ensemble: Mellits Consort

Influenced as much by rock and dance music as by his predecessors in the 'classical' minimalist movement such as Steve Reich, with whom he studied,...continue...

Dirty Little Secret / Andrew Russo

1 CD / Endeavour Classics / 2007-03-13

Works: Jacob Ter Veldhuis: The body of your dreams; Gerard Beljon: Beat; Derek Bermel: Carnaval Noir; Jaunt; Lullaby; Daniel Felsenfeld: A dirty little secret; Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag; Morton Gould: Bo...
Performers: Russo, Andrew

Andrew Russo is a 2006 Grammy nominee for his Black Box recording of the music of popular American composer John Corigliano! A number of records...continue...

TIC - Common Sense Composers' Collective - Mellits, et al

1 CD / Albany Records / 2007-02-01

Works: Marc Mellits: Spam; Belinda Reynolds: coming around...; Edward Harsh: not a single night's sky; Randall Woolf: Alternative Music, for chamber ensemble; Dan Becker: S.T.I.C.; Carolyn Yarnell: Lapis la...
Performers: Ferrari, John; Gythfeldt, Marianne; Hesselink, Greg; Kampmeier, Margaret A.; Lim, Sunghae Anna; O'Connor, Tara Helen
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Ensemble: New Millennium Ensemble; The Millennium

It's been nearly a decade since the music of the Common Sense Composers' Collective first surfaced on CD. Their first disc challenged the rarified asceticism...continue...
Personnel: Anna Lim (violin); Tara Helen O'Connor (flute); Marianne Gythfeldt (clarinet); John Ferrari (percussion).

Recording information: Perfoming Arts Center, Recital Hall C, SUNY Purchase,...continue...

Reich: Different Trains, etc; Mellits: String Quartet no 2

1 CD / Black Box / 2006-11-07

Works: Steve Reich: Different Trains, for double string quartet & tape; Piano Phase; Marc Mellits: Quartet for Strings no 2
Performers: Mellits, Marc; Russo, Andrew

Black Box presents a recording of two seminal works by Steve Reich, one of the most influential composers of our time, as well as a...continue...

Mellits: Tight Sweater, etc / Real Quiet

1 CD / Endeavour Classics / 2006-08-08

Works: Marc Mellits: Tight Sweater, for cello, piano & percussion; Agu; Fruity Pebbles, for ensemble; Disciples of Gouda
Performers: Buciu, Cristina; Cossin, David; Fan, Felix; Kolor, Thomas; Kolor, Tom; Meyer, Chuck; Meyer, Chuck [Cello]; Quiet, Real; Russo, Andrew
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Ensemble: Real Quiet

"MINIMALISM is so 1960's. True, the genre came of age in the 70's and 80's. But in its purest form Minimalism was conceived by and...continue...
Personnel: Cristina Buciu (violin); Chuck Meyer (cello); David Cossin (percussion).

Recording information: De Angelis Studios, Manlius, NY (05/09/2005/05/10/2005)....continue...