The Bowed Piano Ensemble
Stephen Scott, Composer & Director

CC's internationally recognized Bowed Piano Ensemble is an elite group of ten student, faculty and staff musicians exploring the leading edge of performance with sounds made directly on the strings of one grand piano which result in an orchestral array of tone colors, harmonies and rhythms.

The Bowed Piano Ensemble has made six European tours and two to Australia.  We have performed at world-renowned venues like the Sydney Opera House, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the medieval Town Hall in Tallinn, Estonia and Jameos del Agua, a volcanic lava-tube-become-concert-hall in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. 

We have made four well-reviewed recordings with the prestigious new-music label New Albion Records and one with the classical label Albany Records.  We have appeared numerous times on network and cable television in the U.S., Europe and Australia and are frequently heard on live and recorded national radio broadcasts such as NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition” and “New Sounds.”  Film credits include Traffic (DVD version) and Beyond the Keyboard, a recently released documentary on the group by London filmmaker Peter Savage.

On the first and fifth anniversaries of the September 11 attacks, we were

featured on National Public Radio's "Sonic Memorial Project" commemorating the people and neighborhoods of the World Trade Center, where we had performed shortly before the attacks. Recent appearances have been at the prestigious Spoleto Festival USA and the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

The Ensemble's 1996 recording of Scott’s Vikings of the Sunrise for New Albion Records has been the subject of several other recent programs on National Public Radio, including “All Things Considered,” “Weekend Edition,” and “Art Beat.” Vikings of the Sunrise was hailed by Gramophone Magazine as one of "50 recordings that are among the finest ever made..." Billboard Magazine called it “...the first truly provocative work of new music for the ‘90s.” Keyboard Magazine cited it as “...vividly evocative.” Tom Manoff of “All Things Considered” called the work “...brilliant...if you can sail these mythic waters, you’re in for quite a journey.” Among the Ensemble's most recent recordings are a compact disc re-issue of Scott’s post-minimalist classic New Music for Bowed Piano, favorably reviewed by The American Record Guide (“...intensely resourceful music”), Wired Magazine and other publications, and The Deep Spaces with soprano soloist and CC faculty member Victoria Hansen.

Two major campus concerts and national/international touring.
By audition only.

For additional information:

http://www.newalbion.com/NA_Artists/Scott_S/Scott_S.htm

Contact: Stephen Scott - Packard 111; ext. 6557,
sscott@ColoradoCollege.edu