Ross Feller
Ross Feller is a composer, theorist, saxophonist, and educator currently residing in Ohio. Over the past twenty years he has developed a musical vocabulary that features raw, ecstatic layers of material that seethe with refined, virtuosic gestures, the movements for which are often explicitly choreographed. John von Rhein (Chicago Tribune) characterized Feller’s work as “an elaborate show.” Mary Lee Roberts, former Technical Director of Princeton University’s electronic music studios found Feller’s work to exhibit “a finely defined and personal musical style.” Stanford University composer Brian Ferneyhough has said that, "it is not the tired inherited rhetoric of the Postmodern that fuels (Feller's) music, but a lively and irreverent sense of the positive power of structural plurality - a constantly re-enunciated and celebrated 'rigorous informality.'"
photo by Megan Nadolski
Upcoming Events
Performance of "Sound Mirrors" with vocalist Rebecca Cross at the Cleveland Public Theatre's Pandemonium Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, at 7 pm
Performance with Double-Edge Dance at Ingenuity 11: Cleveland's Festival of the Arts, Music, and Technology at space #25 on the Veterans Memorial (Detroit Superior) Bridge. See Ingenuity website for performance times, September 16 -18, 2011
An Open Performance of a new piece inspired by the work of saxophonist Albert Ayler, with Double-Edge Dance co-director Kora Radella at Movement Research, October 5, 2011 at 8 pm, 138 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, New York.
News
Ross has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He will begin teaching in this position at the end of August 2011. Kenyon College is one of the finest private liberal arts colleges in the USA. It is a place where craft and intellect meet within a healthy environment that prizes interdisciplinary pursuits of knowledge.
CLICK HERE to view InnerArbor, a new collaborative video work with Claudia Esslinger
CLICK HERE to see "Compiled for Randy" a poem in C
CONCERT AT THE DOUGLASS STREET MUSIC COLLECTIVE, BROOKLYN, NY
Saturday, October 9th @ 8pm
Ross Feller & The RR Big Band
Featuring bassist Aryeh Kobrinsky, saxophonists Johnny Butler, Matt Silberman, and Adam Schneit, trumpeter Stephanie Richards, trombonist Ryan Snow, euphoniumist Adam Dotson, guitarist Ryan Ferreira, and drummers/percussionists Jason Nazary and Patrick Barter performing original tunes in addition to works by Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Charles Mingus, and Eric Dolphy, some free and conducted improvisations, and klezmer tunes.
CD RELEASE
Nomadology has been released by New Dynamic Records, on "Breath Beneath" by the Prism Saxophone Quartet. For more information click HERE.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES of Sfumato for violin, double bass, and electroacoustic accompaniment at the annual ectroacoustic concert of the Cleveland Composers Guild, See UPCOMING EVENTS for details.
Ross was awarded the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Composition. Stay tuned for more information about an upcoming cd release of his chamber music.
ROSS INTERVIEWED ON TELEVISION
Interview about Double-Edge Dance's feature presentation at Ingenuity 09: Cleveland's Festival of the Arts, Technology, and Music, on Cleveland's WKYC.
Recent Events
Sfumato was performed in April by the Nova Ensemble, directed by Elizabeth McNutt, at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Double-Edge Dance at Pandemonium 2010, Cleveland Public Theatre, September.
Premiere performance of Side Effects for double bass and piano, at the 50th Anniversary benefit for the Cleveland Composers Guild, April 2010, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland. Performed by Scott Haigh, First Assistant Principal Double Bassist for the Cleveland Orchestra.
Residency at the Ragdale Foundation, February 2010.
Performances at the Elastic Arts Foundation, and DePaul University, Chicago.
Guest Composer lecture/presentation at DePaul University, February 12, 2010.
Performance of Glossolalia by Franklin Cox at the Ball State New Music Festival, Sursa Hall, Muncie, Indiana, February 13, 2010.
Double-Edge Dance was featured at Ingenuity 09 in Cleveland. Performances of Shimmer were at The Idea Center, and reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in The Plain Dealer. Click HERE to read it.
Double-Edge Dance performed a new piece for six dancers and electroacoustic accompaniment at the Kenyon College Fall Dance Concert in Gambier, Ohio in December 2008.
On November 3, 2008 scholar/composer Michael Edgerton presented a guest lecture at the Music Institute in Alajarvi, Finland, that included a discussion about Micromegas.
Kora Radella premiered Laden on September 27th, with an electroacoustic score by Feller for the Inaugural Benefit "Asemblage" at the Collinwood Arts Center in Cleveland.
Click Laden to hear it.
Double-Edge Dance performed Some Nerve at the Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square on September 12th. Danced by Kimberly Karpanty and Kora Radella. Electroacoustic score by Ross Feller.
Kora Radella and Ross Feller performed an improvised duet, with costumes by textile artist Rebecca Cross, at Pandemonium 08 at the Cleveland Public Theatre, on September 13th.
Ross has accepted a position at Kenyon College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, for the spring 2009 semester. He also serves as the staff accompanist of the dance department.
