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Playing with fire, flirting with the devil - that's where we all are at this moment. Stop before literally all hell breaks free!
America the Beautiful - the melody in shards, in a fractured virtuosic toccatina. Still optimistic for an idealistic dream... Still so dangerous.
Min Kwon's pianism is truly 'suonare con fuoco'!
A native New Yorker, Justin Dello Joio is the seventh generation of composers in the Dello Joio family and has established himself as one of the most gifted contemporary composers of his day. Dello Joio’s music has been performed by leading instrumentalists and orchestras including The Boston Symphony, The Detroit Symphony The Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, The Juilliard Orchestra, The American Brass Quintet, Garrick Ohlsson, Carter Brey, Ani Kavafian, Jeremy Denk, Jay Campbell, Stephan Gosling, and William Wolfram, among many others. Dello Joio has received commissions from The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Koussevitzky Foundation, The American Brass Quintet, The Barlow Foundation, and The New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist, Carter Brey among others. His one act opera, Blue Mountain, was commissioned by Det Norske Blaseensemble and was released by Bridge Records. His Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Oceans Apart was commissioned for pianist Garrick Ohlsson by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and released on Bridge Records with Mr. Ohlsson, and Alan Gilbert conducting the BSO.
Dello Joio has received numerous awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, four from The American Academy of Arts and Letters: The Virgil Thompson Award for his opera, The Academy Award in Music, The Lakond Award, and The Charles Ives Scholarship. He received the Ettleson Award from Composers Inc., The Composer of the Year from the Classical Recording Foundation, and two honors in the same year (2017) from the The American Prize in Chamber Music and in Opera. Additionally, he has been the recipient of numerous grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, CAPS, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Presser Foundation, and three Meet the Composer Grants.
Dello Joio, who is also currently educating and mentoring the next generation of composers, is Professor of Orchestration at the Juilliard School, where he received his BM, MM, and Doctorate in Composition, and he has served as the Faculty Composer in Residence for New York University since 1986.
Dello Joio started piano at age 5, studying with Mieczylaw Munz, Constance Keene, and jazz pianist Roland Hanna; and composition starting at age 6, and he studied with composers Ellen Zwilich, Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions, and David Diamond. His works are published by E.B. Marks Music, Theodore Presser Company and G. Schirmer, and recordings are available on Bridge Records and Summit Records.
Dello Joio was described by Witold Lutoslawski as “an extremely talented and gifted composer.” John Corigliano wrote "Justin Dello Joio is a born composer—a real musician with a sparkling craft who has something urgent to say in his works, and the ability to say it. His knowledge and mastery give his work a distinction that many other writers lack...he is a wonderful composer whose music has lasting power - A real creative artist!” Ned Rorem wrote of his work, “Of the hundreds of composers I know he is perhaps the most natural. He writes what he wants, not what the current market presumably demands... His music speaks.”
As the artistic director of Center for Musical Excellence, I am always on the look out for new and undiscovered talents. They come to me, sometimes, by my colleagues’ recommendations and other times through young artists’ own research about our organization. Tyson Davis and Andrew Bambridge are currently on our roster of CME Young Artists, whom we mentor. Patricio Molina is a CME alumnus. Theo Chandler, Ji-Young Ko, and Daniel Newman-Lessler applied for our Grant program, and I got to know their work through that process. I decide on young artists when I notice a deep passion and drive within them, plus a certain kind of sparkle in the personality and lots of humility. In addition to musical talents, I believe these are the qualities that will take the young artists far. CME’s motto is "Moving Musicians Forward". I’ve chosen our Discovery Composers based on these qualities, whom we felt we could easily move forward.
- Min Kwon