Tyondai Braxton — Mills Music Now

Presented by the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College at Northeastern

This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for this solo performance by 2024 David Tudor Composer-in-Residence, Tyondai Braxton.

Tyondai Braxton is an American composer of electronic and notated music. He studied music composition at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut with Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall. His work ranges from solo pieces to music for large orchestra and electronics.

Braxton has been commissioned for compositions by ensembles and organizations such as The BBC Concert Orchestra, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Bang on a Can All Stars, Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Yarn/Wire, Carnegie Hall, Black Mountain College and many more. His critically acclaimed work, Central Market, has been performed by world renowned orchestras such as The LA Philharmonic, The Wordless Music Orchestra, and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Notable collaborations include performing as a duo with Philip Glass for the festival All Tomorrow’s Parties, collaborating visual artist Thomas Demand presenting work at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Prada Foundation at Venice Biennale, His multimedia project HIVE for 3 percussionists and 2 modular synth performers was commissioned by and premiered at the Guggenheim NYC in 2014 followed by the recording released in 2015 HIVE1 on Nonesuch Records.

In 2018 Braxton premiered Telekinesis for large orchestra, choir and electronics at The Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performed the piece in February 2019 in Helsinki, Finland as apart of the Music Nova Festival.

As a solo performer of electronic music he has performed all over the world, most notably at The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Big Ears Festival in Knoxville,Tennessee, The Broad in Los Angeles California, and Sonar Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

He has given lectures at universities / organizations such as Princeton University, Columbia University, Copenhagen Rhythmic Conservatory, Modular Workshop Tokyo Japan and currently works as the Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University Music Department. 

www.tyondaibraxton.com

The David Tudor Endowment was established as a growing endowment by composer Gordon Mumma. The endowment provides a residency for composers and creative performing artists who exemplify the model of David Tudor's life and work.

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