Alvin Singleton to Play Vital Role in Innovative Columbia University Workshop

Alvin Singleton takes a leading role at the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute at Columbia University in July. The workshop, held from July 20-24, is designed to offer 34 composers with jazz backgrounds the opportunity to dig deeper into orchestral composition for symphony orchestras, with contemporary composition techniques and notation at the forefront of its curriculum. The four-day event culminates with concerts at Columbia’s Miller Theater on July 23 and 24, featuring Wet Ink, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute’s resident chamber ensemble, as well as the American Composers Orchestra.

Singleton’s works, which draw from his “rich stew of influences—from Mahler to Monk, Bird to Bernstein, James Baldwin to Bach, Santana to Prince,” according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, have enjoyed numerous recent performances surrounding the composer’s 70th birthday celebration. His work for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Brooklyn Bones, was presented at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in April by American Opera Projects and Cantori New York and his chamber work Almost a Boogie was premiered in Brookline, Massachusetts in March by the Walden Chamber Players.

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Alvin Singleton
Brooklyn Bones (2008)
for tenor, SATB chorus and orchestra
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18'

Alvin Singleton
Almost A Boogie (2010)
for bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano
10'