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John Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New Music.[1]

Link received a Ph.D. in music from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a master's degree from The Ohio State University, and B.M. and B.A. degrees from the University of Nebraska. He studied composition with David Olan, Thomas Wells, and Randall Snyder.[2]

In 1989 he and a group of composers – Tom Cipullo,[3][4] Nancy Gunn,[5] Cynthia Miller, Gregory W. Pinney, and Ben Yarmolinsky[6] — formed Friends & Enemies of New Music, a composers group that put on a series of contemporary music concerts in New York City and sponsored an annual competition.[7]

In 2007 his composition For Irving Lippel, performed by Jeffrey Irving and Daniel Lippel appeared on the album Sustenance (New Focus Recordings)[8] and in 2008 an excerpt of his work Life Studies was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music (Bridge Records) produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike.[9]

In 2009 his composition Around the Bend appeared on the album FM by Flexible Music (New Focus Recordings).[10]

He is currently a Professor of Music at William Paterson University directing the Center for Electroacoustic Music.[11]

Link has also published several articles and two books on the music of the American composer Elliott Carter (1908-2012). In 2000, his book Elliott Carter: A Guide to Research was published by Garland Press (now Taylor and Francis).[12] In 2012 his essay Elliott Carter's Late Music was published in the collection Elliott Carter Studies, which he co-edited with Marguerite Boland, published by Cambridge University Press.[13]

He also participated in several events surrounding the Elliott Carter centenary in 2008, including panel discussion at the Tanglewood Music Center[14] and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.[15] In 2011 Link was invited to present an international workshop: "Elliott Carter’s Tempo e tempi," at the University of Slovenia in Ljubljana, as part of the 2011 Festival Slowind.[16]

Discography

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  • Around the Bend on the album Flexible Music[17]
  • Life Studies, movement 1 on the album Crosstalk[18] presented by Mendi + Keith Obadike
  • For Irving Lippel on the album Sustenance[19]
  • Clarinet Fantasy on the album 60x60 2004-2005[20]

References

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  1. ^ "Friends & Enemies of New Music". Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2007-08-09.
  2. ^ John Link. "John Link - Bio". johnlinkmusic.com.
  3. ^ "Tom Cipullo - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-11-13. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  4. ^ John Link. "Friends & Enemies of New Music - Bios". johnlinkmusic.com.
  5. ^ "Nancy Gunn at Pytheas ~ Contemporary, Modern, New, Non-Pop Art Music Composers, Ensembles & Resources". pytheasmusic.org.
  6. ^ John Link. "Friends & Enemies of New Music - Bios". johnlinkmusic.com.
  7. ^ John Link. "Friends & Enemies of New Music". johnlinkmusic.com.
  8. ^ "Art of the States: For Irving Lippel". Archived from the original on 2012-06-17. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  9. ^ Review by John Brackett, Journal of the Society for American Music 3, no. 4 (November, 2009): 511-513.
  10. ^ "Sounds Heard: Flexible Music". NewMusicBox. 20 July 2009.
  11. ^ http://www.johnlinkmusic.com/bio.htm John Link's Biography
  12. ^ Review by Carl RahkonenNotes 58, no. 2 (December 2001): 344-345
  13. ^ "Elliott Carter Studies | Twentieth-century and contemporary music".
  14. ^ "Tanglewood Contemporary Festival: Return to an Abandoned Style?". 23 July 2008.
  15. ^ "Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Annual Report 2008, p. 12" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  16. ^ Teja Kralj. "13th FESTIVAL SLOWIND 2011". slowind.org.
  17. ^ Louis Andriessen (b. 1939). "Flexible Music: FM". New Focus Recordings.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ "Bridge Records, Inc". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  19. ^ Vineet Shende (b. 1973). "Daniel Lippel: Sustenance". New Focus Recordings.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  20. ^ "60x60 - 2004-2005 - CD Baby Music Store". cdbaby.com.
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