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Louis
Karchin
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Professor
of
Music
Ph.D. 1978; M.A. 1975, Harvard
B.M. 1973,
Eastman
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Louis
Karchin's music has been performed worldwide. He is the composer of
over 60
works, including an opera, Romulus, four
vocal instrumental song cycles, orchestral and chamber music. His music
has been noted for
its "fearless eloquence" (Andrew Porter, the New Yorker), and
"coruscating beauty"
(San Francisco Chronicle). Honors include the Goddard Lieberson and
Walter N. Hinrichsen Awards from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters; Koussevitzky, Fromm and Barlow Foundation Commissions; as well
as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey State
Council on the Arts, Argosy, Copland and Ditson Foundations, and the
Mary Flagler Cary Trust. Performances include his Sonata da camera, presented at
Alice Tully Hall by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, his
opera, Romulus, presented by
the Guggenheim Museum at its Peter B. Lewis Theatre, and American Visions, performed on
tour in Moscow and St. Petersburg by the Da Capo Chamber Players. As a
conductor, Mr. Karchin is Director of the Washington Square Ensemble,
regularly conducts the Chamber Players of the League-ISCM, and is the
co-founder and conductor of the Orchestra of the League of Composers.
Mr. Karchin's works may be heard on New World, CRI, and Albany labels,
and are published by C.F. Peters Corporation and the American Composers
Alliance. Mr. Karchin is also Co-director of the Washington
Square Contemporary Music Society.
e-mail: lsk1@nyu.edu
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