After a successful premiere at the Dances With Films Festival on June 4, the short film Hold the Mayo will screen at 7PM in Theatre 3 on Saturday, June 25, as part of the 4th Annual Detroit Windsor International Film Festival.
WRITER/DIR/PROD: Jeffrey Williams
CAST: Saul Herckis, [...]
Click on the blue VOTE button to support my entry in this unique Remix competition hosted by Indaba Music. This embedded player features both my remix and the original track by the Early Music male vocal quartet New York Polyphony. The challenging aspect of a lot of Remix competitions [...]
Dances with Films Festival
Saturday, June 4 · 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Laemmle Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90046
WRITER/DIR/PROD: Jeffrey Williams
CAST: Saul Herckis, Damian Samuels
ORIGINAL SCORE: Charles Griffin
Sam is a beleaguered sandwich store clerk who is having a very bad [...]
My multimedia piece, Emergence, for Flute Quartet, Electronics and Video Projection will receive its Lithuanian premiere on June 2 at 8PM, at the Arts Printing House, Black Hall (Šiltadaržio st. 6), in Vilnius, the capitol city of Lithuiania. This concert, called Spheres, will be the closing concert of the Festivalis Druskomanija.
The [...]
for four flutists, prerecorded audio and video projection (2010) ca. 28′
Commissioned by the Latvian Culture Capital Fund for the Riga-based Flute Quartet 4-tune. Premiered at the Ave Sol Concert Hall in Riga, Latvia, on April 7, 2010.
Flutes: Dace Bičkovska, Lolita Oša, Anna Petraškeviča, Daina Treimane
Video Projection: Uģis Brikmanis [...]
The Quintet of the Americas will perform my Three Miniatures for Wind Quintet, which was inspired by the poetry of Juan Ramon Jiménez on:
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Princeton Public Library
Admission FREE
See the Princeton Library magazine article here.
Pre-concert talk [...]
My Weaving Olden Dances: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra will be given its North Carolina Premiere performance by the Western Piedmont Symphony, John Gordon Ross, Music Director and Conductor, on Saturday, April 9 – 8 PM at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University, 625 7th Avenue NE in Hickory, North [...]
Pianist and staunch new music advocate Teresa McCollough will include the finale from my Vernacular Dances on her “Music for Hammers and Sticks II” concert at Santa Clara University’s Center of Performing Arts in Santa Clara, California on Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 8PM.
Teresa recorded the entire work for [...]
I composed Weaving Olden Dances in 2007 as a finale piece for a small concert tour I did in Latvia with my own ensemble. Originally scored for clarinet, string quartet, piano 4-hands and bodhrán, I later orchestrated the piece as part of a multi-movement Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. At the [...]
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Charles Griffin recently returned to the U.S. after spending 5 years living and working in Latvia. His compositions and arrangements have been performed at festivals and concert halls throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Recent projects include commissions from pianist Ana Cervantes and the Colorado State University Percussion Ensemble.
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