Ross Feller
photo by Megan Nadolski
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.'"
Upcoming Events
Sfumato will be performed in April 13, 2010 by the Nova Ensemble, directed by Elizabeth McNutt, at the University of North Texas, Denton.
Ross will be in residence at the Ragdale Foundation during February of 2010.
Performances at the Elastic Arts Foundation, and other Chicago locations. More details to follow.
Guest Composer lecture/presentation at DePaul University, Friday, February 12th.
Performance of Glossolalia by Franklin Cox at the Ball State New Music Festival, Sursa Hall, Muncie, Indiana, Saturday, February 13th.
Premiere performance of Side Effects for double bass and piano, for the 50th Anniversary benefit for the Cleveland Composers Guild. The event - "Baguettes and Bagatelles: Fifty Firsts in Fifty Seconds" will take place on Friday, April 23, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights. Side Effects will be performed by Scott Haigh, First Assistant Principal Double Bassist for the Cleveland Orchestra.
News
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, Glossolalia for solo cello, a new piece for double bass and piano commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Cleveland Composers Guild, and others. See UPCOMING EVENTS for details.
Ross was awarded the 2009 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
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.
