Charles B. Griffin

Emergence at the Orlando White House with CF2, April 29

Charles — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:00:18 +0000

A lot of work is coming to fruition at the Orlando White House on April 29. The Central Florida Composers Forum, now nearly a year old, is getting its land legs. In late January, CF2 member works were included in UCF’s percussion-focused Collide Festival with great success, and the [...]

Heart! We Will Forget Him anthologized by Inside View Press

Charles — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:10 +0000

Sing Into Your Sixties… And Beyond!

Soprano Sangeetha Rayapati has included my setting of Emily Dickinson’s Heart! We will forget him! for soprano and piano as part of her vocal pedagogy textbook recently made available by Inside View Press.

Here is the description of the textbook from their web site:

A manual [...]

El Paso de la Siguiriya at Boston Conservatory, April 13

Charles — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:33:13 +0000

The Boston Conservatory Women’s Chorus, directed by Beth Willer, will perform my El Paso de la Siguiriya, a flamenco-inflected setting for women’s voices of the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca.

The concert will take place on Friday, April 13, at 8:00pm in Boston Conservatory’s Seully Hall.

The Women’s Chorus will join the Conservatory Chorale, [...]

Twisting Magnetic Spins at Furman University, February 29

Charles — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:35:00 +0000

On Wednesday,February 29, 2012 at 7:00 p.m, the Furman University Percussion Ensemble (Omar Carmenates, Director), will reprise their performance of my
Twisting Magnetic Spins (percussion quartet: vibraphone, timpani, brake drums, gongs, cymbals, etc.) The ensemble gave an excellent performance of the piece last month as part of UCF and [...]

Collide Festival and CF2 composers come together, January 28 at UCF

Charles — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:43:15 +0000

On January 28, 2012 at 8:00 p.m, the Central Florida Composers Forum (CF2), together with Furman University Percussion Ensemble (Omar Carmenates, Director), UCF Percussion Ensemble (Thad Anderson, Director) and KnightWinds Ensemble (Dr. Nora Lee Garcia-Valazquez, Director) will come together to perform an array of works by Central Florida [...]

Riga Saxophone Quartet tours with Panta Rei in November

Charles — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:34:40 +0000

The Riga Saxophone Quartet, comprised of Artis Sīmanis, Ainārs Šablovskis, Arvīds Kazlausks, and Gints Pabērzs, is including my Panta Rei in performances in Italy, the Netherlands and Latvia in November, along with works by J.S. Bach, Rihards Dubra, Nick Gotham, György Ligeti, Russell Peck, Antonio Vivaldi and [...]

Presentation at ATMI Conference in Richmond, VA on October 20

Charles — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:33:14 +0000

Open publication - Free publishing - More atmi

I gave an hour-long presentation at the 2011 National Conference of the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI) yesterday in Richmond, Virginia. The title of my presentation was Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Interaction and Teaching Music Online. I [...]

4 Screenings of Hold the Mayo in October & November: Santa Fe, Knoxville, New Orleans and Sherman Oaks

Charles — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:10:21 +0000

The short film Hold the Mayo is enjoying a flurry of screenings at U.S. & International film festivals, and now is enjoying screenings at 4 festivals in a 3 week period.

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
October 22: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Warehouse 21
1614 Paseo [...]

Flute quartet Forty Fingers gives Swedish premiere of Emergence in Mariestad, October 15

Charles — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:20:27 +0000

My multimedia piece, Emergence, for Flute Quartet, Electronics and Video Projection will receive its Swedish premiere on October 15 at 6PM, at Mariestads stadsbibliotek,
Drottninggatan 12, in Mariestad, Western Sweden. The concert will be preceded by a workshop using two of the movements from the piece to teach [...]

Persistence of Past Chemistries performed by UCF Percussion Ensemble October 15

Charles — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:35:03 +0000

The University of Central Florida Percussion Ensemble, directed by Thad Anderson, will perform my quartet, The Persistence of Past Chemistries on their Fall Concert, on October 15 at 8PM.

On October 10 I will visit UCF and give a talk to the composition students there.