CHARLOTTE, NC, July 14, 2021 /MARBLE ARCH PR/ – Phoenix Down Trio will premiere a new work by NC composer, Marc Hoffman on their Saturday, July 24th virtual concert at 1:00 PM. The performance is part of the Charlotte New Music Festival 2021. A preview performance of the piece will take place at Art Sanctuary in Louisville, KY on Friday, July 16th at 8:00 PM
. This will be a live performance and will also stream live on YouTube.
This is the 10th annual Charlotte New Music Festival. As the leading new music organization and contemporary music festival in the Southeastern United States, we serve artists at the local, national, and international level. Over the last decade, The Charlotte New Music Festival has presented over 110 concert experiences full of world-premieres composed by up-and-coming and renowned composers. Composers and performers have come from every continent (except Antartica) to collaborate and be a part of the programs. CNM’s offerings include concerts, cross-disciplinary performances, and educational events for musicians of all ages.
The piece Hoffman has written for this year’s festival, Telegraph was inspired by the Morse Code. “The motif of the piece is based on the letters A, E, A in Morse Code, or . – . . -,” Hoffman said. “It was a lot of fun weaving the motif in and out of the three instrumental parts which are oboe, clarinet and bassoon. I wanted to score specifically for woodwind trio as it lends itself so well to these sorts of rhythms and a bit of whimsy, as well!,” he added.
Marc is a composer of classical, choral, jazz, film, theatre, and pop music. As a jazz pianist and vocalist, Marc performs over 150 dates a year as a soloist and with his trio at concerts, festivals, clubs, and otherevents. Marc’s concert, jazz, choral and popular music has been performed and broadcast across the US and in the UK and Europe. His music can be heard on all streaming sites.
For more information about the concerts: https://charlottenewmusic.org/, www.facebook.com/PhoenixDownRPG,
www.art-sanctuary.org
ABOUT MARC HOFFMAN
Marc Hoffman was born in NC, received a degree in composition from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and completed additional study in film composition at the University of Southern California. He also studied at The Dartington International Summer School of Music in Devon, England. His composition teachers included David Ott, Leo Arnaud, Neil Hefti, and Sherwood Shaffer. Marc is founder and Artistic Director of the Salisbury School of Music and lives in Salisbury, NC with his wife, Anne and daughter, August.
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CONTACTS
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” ‘Hefti’ [from the CD Curioso) makes you smile with its delicate riffs and uplifting swing.”
– DJ Jelly Roll Justice, WWOZ-FM, New Orleans, LA
“… listeners are likely to be delighted by Late September. – Gary Dalkin, UK music writer and editor
“…the Hollywood impressions of Marc Hoffman’s, “Middle Earth” made some pieces on the program seem stale and derivative. – London Guardian review of U.K. premiere at the Wilde Festival
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