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collection of solo piano pieces and
light verse, premiered at Riverside
Church in Manhattan in 2004. His
music-theater work The Elementary
Principles (Colorized Version),
for which he wrote the libretto and
music, received its first full
performance at HERE Arts Center in
Soho in October 2002. In 1998
Kosch’s music-theater work Eight
Great Lives, for tenor,
narrator, and pianist, opened at the
Linhart Theater in Greenwich
Village, NYC.
Kosch’s instrumental music has been
playd by the Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet,
Zeitgeist, Giverny, Harmonia Mundi,
the Northstar Brass Quintet, and the
Buffalo New Music Ensemble, and has
been programmed in New York at the
92nd Street Y, the
Kitchen, Roulette, the Dia Center,
the Alternative Museum, Dance
Theater Works, New York Theatre
Ballet and the Stephen Gang Gallery.
In other cities, his work has been
featured at the Walker Art Center
(Minneapolis), DiverseWorks
(Houston), MoMing Dance and Arts
Center (Chicago), the Bowdoin
Festival of Contemporary Choral
Music (Maine), The Charles Ives
Center (Danbury, Connecticut), The
Composers Conference (Wellesley,
Massachusetts), and the Humboldt
State Arts Festival (California).
He has
received two commissions for dance
works from the American Dance
Festival, in addition to commission
from the Maelstrom Percussion
Ensemble, the Bach Society Chorus,
singer/actor Thomas Devaney, and the
University of Illinois Experimental
Music Studios. Mr. Kosch’s awards
include a Bush Foundation Artists
Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship in
Music Composition, a Rockefeller
Foundation /Intermedia Arts
Interdisciplinary Grant, a Minnesota
State Arts Board Grant, and numerous
grants from Meet the Composer,
ASCAP, and the American Composers
Forum. He has collaborated with the
choreographers Pooh Kaye, Stephen
Koester, Julie Hall, Cynthia
Stevens, and Rachael Kosch, and with
the New York-based theatre companies
Ridge Theater and the Metropolitan
Playhouse.
Kosch’s timpani solo, Hand Held
Shots, is published by Ludwig
Music Publishers. His recordings
include Highland Dances for
piano on the CD Building Higher
Nests (INNOVA), and Glimpses
for electro-acoustic tape on the
collection In Celebration
(University ofIllinos). His work
Colatudes, for Coke bottles and
cans, was released on the CD
Sonic Circuits VIII (INNOVA).
Michael Kosch was born in Paterson,
New Jersey. He earned degrees in
music from the Univeristy of Miami
and the University of Illinois,
studying composition with Ben
Johnston, Salvatore Martirano,
Morgan Powell, and Dennis Kam. He
lives in New York City.
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