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.'"
News
Ross was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Composition for 2009. Stay tuned for more information about an upcoming cd release of his chamber music.
Ross has accepted a position at Kenyon College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, for the spring 2009 semester.
Upcoming Events
Nomadology will appear on the next cd by the Prism Saxophone Quartet of New York City, in 2009 on New Dynamic Records.
Nomadology was premiered by Prism at Symphony Space. Click HERE to hear that performance.
Recent Events
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.
