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Pathological teenage angst, six-string revolvers, and institutional learning facilities, followed by travels in Europe busking the streets and tubes of London, Amsterdam, and West Berlin, form the early musical training of Chris Arrell (1970- ). A return to the states and the adoption of paper, pencil, and big eraser led to an undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon, and graduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University. Additional study includes selection for the Cornell/Columbia Exchange Scholar Program, the Aspen Festival of Music, the Stockhausen Summer Courses, and the Oregon Bach and Ernest Bloch Music festivals. Arrell's teachers include Tristan Murail, Roberto Sierra, Steven Stucky, and Dan Welcher.
Arrell’s honors include commissions from the Fromm Foundation, Music at the Anthology, and Spivey Hall; prizes from the Salvatore Martirano Competition, the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music, the Society of Composers, ASCAP, Cornell, and the University of Oregon; a Fulbright-Hays grant; residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and fellowships from the University of Texas and Cornell.
Live performances of Arrell's music include those given by Sonic Generator, Bent Frequency, Sospeso, Thamyris, saxophonist Rhonda Taylor, pianist Lisa Leong, mezzo Maya Hoover, the Admony-Kanazawa Piano Duo, members of the California E.A.R. Unit, Ensemble Green, newear, Neophonia, the Cornell Festival Orchestra, the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, the University of Texas New Music Ensemble, and the Aura New Music Ensemble, at venues such as Spivey Hall (Atlanta), the 4th Annual Contemporary Music Festival (Oakland, California), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Music at the Anthology (New York), CalArts, Bowling Green, multiple SCI conferences, New Music Café (Bloomington, Illinois), the International Electroacoustic Music Festival (Portland, Oregon), the Aspen Festival of Music, the Pacific Contemporary Music Center New Music Festival (Los Angeles), the Ernest Bloch Music Festival (Newport, Oregon), the University of Oregon Music Today Festival, Acousmania (Romania), the Goethe Institute of Rome, En Red O Soundscapes Symposium (Barcelona), and the 14th World Saxophone Congress (Slovenia).
Arrell’s electroacoustic pieces, “A is for Andiamo” and “Reel”, are included on volumes eight and two, respectively, of the Electroshock Presents Electroacoustic Music CD series (Russia), and have received broadcasts in North and South America, Europe, and Australia. |
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