Brendan Faegre

composer, percussionist

News

• I have been selected to participate in the European Composers' Professional Development Programme, which will culminate in a new work for Icarus Ensemble, to be premiered at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.


• I will be the 2012 Composer-in-residence at the Lake George Music Festival this August, where they will premiere the full 4-movement version of Four Koans, and perform The Circular Ruins.


• World-renowned percussionists Gert Mortensen and Jia Jia Qiao (together, Duo Cross-Fire) gave a stunning performance of 4-3-5: Can You Hear It? at the Young Nordic Music Festival in Copenhagen. It has been such a gift to work with them!


• Violinist Pasha Tseitlin and violist Meredith Treaster gave a compelling premiere of movements I and III from Four Koans at the Aspen Music Festival. Garrett Schumann did a nice review of the concert on Sequenza 21 here.


• I'm relocating to The Hague, the Netherlands this Fall where I will form an improvisatory ensemble to compose for in which I play drum set. More information and some website remodeling to follow soon.