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Christian Kriegeskotte

Christian Kriegeskotte (he/him) is a composer, writer and budding audiophile who has worked professionally in feature film music production, artist management and the mainstream record industry. He received his BFA and Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman Conjure Old New York at Danspace

On Friday, December 18, 2015, Danspace Project — a forum for experimentation in choreography — prese...
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Momenta Quartet Festival Struts Its Stuff

As the old saying goes, “if you want something done right, do it yourself.” From Septemb...
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Margaret Brouwer’s Blue Streak Ensemble at The National Opera Center

On Monday, July 13, 2015 the National Opera Center hosted Margaret Brouwer’s Blue Streak Ensem...
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Alarm Will Sound Breathes Life Into The Player Piano

On Friday, June 26, 2015 preeminent chamber band Alarm Will Sound descended upon the Whitney Museum...
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5 Questions to Gregg Kallor (composer, pianist)

Composer-pianist Gregg Kallor is completing the first of a two-season residency at New York CityR...
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2015 Look and Listen Festival Opens at BRIC Arts Media

Friday, May 1, 2015 marked the opening of the fourteenth annual Look and Listen Festival, a series d...
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Talea Ensemble--Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Three Nights at MATA Keeps Your Ear on its Toes

As Executive Director Todd Tarantino impressively boasted during his remarks at MATA‘s opening...
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Supko & Seaman’s s_traits: Man + Man + Machine

When discussing arts and culture, one often hears the phrase "the work speaks for itself" thrown aro...
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Avant Media presents Cage’s “Song Books (1970)”

On September 5, 2014, John Cage, the preeminent composer of ‘chance music,’ who brought the tenets o...
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HK Gruber's Gloria – A Pig Tale, led by Alan Gilbert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photo by Chris Lee)

HK Gruber’s Appealing “Gloria — A Pig Tale” Opens NY Phil Biennial

On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Alan Gilbert, the young and enterprising maestro of the New York Philharm...
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Roulette offers a glimpse at the now and future of opera

From April 17 through April 22, 2014, Brooklyn’s progressive new music venue Roulette presented thre...
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(post)folk: David Lang’s collected stories at Carnegie Hall

As holder of the 2013-2014 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, David Lang ha...
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Marcos Balter premiere at ACO’s Border Vanguards in Zankel Hall

Friday, April 4, 2014, was another rainy day. While many of the folks scurrying down Seventh Avenue...
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American Composers Orchestra’s Lines on a Point at Carnegie Hall

While the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (or ASCAP to its friends), has been...
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