LOIS V VIERK

'Lois V Vierk' (born August 4, 1951, Hammond, Indiana) is a "post-minimalist" or "totalist" composer who lives in New York City.
She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1974. She then attended Cal Arts, studying composition with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick, receiving her M.F.A. in 1978. She has conducted extensive study of ''gagaku'' music, studying for ten years with Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years in Tokyo with Sukeyasu Shiba (the lead ''ryūteki'' player in Japan's Imperial Court Orchestra). She has written many chamber works for different ensembles which are multiples of the same instrument. Her work uses glissando prominently and builds exponentially in level of activity. More recently she has exampled to mixed instrument ensembles, such as in her piece ''Timberline (music)'' commissioned by the Relâche Ensemble, and ''Red Shift'' which has been performed on Bang on a Can Live Vol. 2.

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Film

External links

Listening

Film

★ ''New York Composers: Searching for a New Music'' (1997). Directed by Michael Blackwood. Produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, in association with Westdeutscher Rundfunk. New York, New York: Michael Blackwood Productions.

External links

★ The Noise Bar: Lois V Vierk by Jim Pugliese

★ Living Composers Project: Lois Vierk

★ recording of Blue Jets Red Sprites

Listening

★ Lois V Vierk interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian at the Exploratorium's ''Speaking of Music'' series in San Francisco, 23 April 1987)