Monique Buzzarté
Monique Buzzarté (born in San Pedro, California, United States on August 26, 1960) is a composer, trombonist, and activist who coordinated a worldwide effort on behalf of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM), leading to the admission of women as members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1997.
Specializing in contemporary music, she has commissioned works for trombone in many genres from composers such as Pauline Oliveros, Alice Shields, and Anne LeBaron. Her electroacoustic works are characterized by gradually shifting layers of live processing.
Buzzarté studied with Stuart Dempster and Ned Meredith, and is certified to teach Pauline Oliveros's deep listening practices. She holds a B.A. and B.Mus. from the University of Washington and a M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music.
She has recorded with the Arditti Quartet, New Circle Five, and Zanana. Commissioned works from Pauline Oliveros, Frances White, Alice Shields, Al Margolis, Anne LeBaron, and Noah Creshevsky.
She was awarded a 2009 MAP Fund grant for a collaboration with Frances White for a composition exploring the relationships between the trombone and the shakuhachi, two ancient micro-tonal wind instruments that both transcend the notion of fixed temperament.
Monique Buzzarté is the editor of the Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening (forthcoming May 2012 from Deep Listening Institute).
[edit] Discography
- 16 LIVE/CICADA #3, If, Bwana (Monique Buzzarté and Al Margolis) (2011, Bastet's Kitten BK001)
- "Assemble. Age", If, Bwana with Monique Buzzarté and others (2010, Mutable Music 17540-2)
- Keep Going: The Music of Elias Tanenbaum with Monique Buzzarté, Ensemble π, and others (2010, Ravello Records RAEL 7807)
- Fluctuations with Ellen Fullman (2007, Deep Listening 38)
- Noah Creshevsky: To Know and Not to Know, (2007, Tzadik 8036)
- Holding Patterns, Zanana (2004, Deep Listening 30)
- Wake Up and Dream, New Circle Five (2003, Deep Listening 20)
- John Cage: The Number Pieces 2, Arditti Quartart (1991, Mode 75)
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