Nick Sibicky, Composer

4-27-08

John Adams

"Life and Afterlife" will be presented this week at a master class with John Adams. The master class is open to the public and starts at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, April 30 in room 2.634 of the University of Texas Butler School of Music building. The piece will be performed live by the Tipping Point Saxophone Quartet and is currently slated for the 3:30 slot.

4-11-08

The Tipping Point Saxophone Quartet has been hitting the concerts pretty hard these past few weeks. I've been fortunate enough to have my piece, "Life and Afterlife" performed by them at three different venues during the last eight days. A new recording of this piece can be now found on the "My Music" page or by clicking here.

Wish the quartet luck as they head off to South Carolina to participate and perform "Life and Afterlife" in the biennial North American Saxophone Alliance Conference later this week.

3-29-08

Nick Sibicky, Wesley Schulz and the UT NME

Thanks to all of you who attended the premiere of Orion's Nebula at this past Tuesday's New Music Ensemble concert. I have uploaded the score as well an mp3 of the performance to the "My Music" page. A direct link to the mp3 can be found here.

3-23-08

Orion's Nebula will be premiered as on this Tuesday, March 25th at the University of Texas at Austin. The concert is being webcast live at 8pm CST. Orion's Nebula is scored for eight players plus live laptop processing. I will be performing the laptop part under the conducting of Wesley Schulz with this fantastic ensemble. Read more about this concert or listen live here.

3-21-08
I was recently able to upload a selection of videos from last month's concert. Directly below is the premiere of, Life and Afterlife, the finale from that concert. You can also watch performances of Pianazzolla, Four Figment Fragments, and Coniferous Carnivorous at dailymotion.com.

3-18-08
This website is undergoing some major additions. I am now including some full scores as well as sheet music examples for download online and adding a Links section. Please peruse at your leisure.

2-22-08

Special thanks to all of the performers at last night's concert! All of the instrumentalists truly played fantastically; I am very fortunate to be able to work with such great musicians. Thanks to everyone in the audience as well. Without such a huge crowd, I don't think it would have been quite the same experience. I have uploaded some of the music from last night's concert online in mp3 form on the My Music page. I included a 192k-bitrate version of one of my own most personal favorite pieces of music that I have ever written, Fireflies.

2-07-08

In two weeks, I will be giving a recital of all original music at the University of Texas at Austin. It will be held at the School of Music in Recital Studio. The majority of the program will feature electroacoustic works, including the premiere of Life and Afterlife for saxophone quartet and electronics. Featured performers include:

Franklin Gross, piano
Joshua Bennetch, piano
Kevin Berg, oboe
Jennifer Bernard, oboe
Nick Sibicky, piano
The Tipping Point Saxophone Quartet:
Djamel Mami, sop sax
Sunil Gadgil, alto sax
Rami El-Farrah, tenor sax
Erik Steighner, bari sax
There will be a reception to follow.

12-15-07

I am pleased to announce that all three of my commercially available CDs are now also available for download from iTunes.

11-11-07
I'd like to offer a special congratulations to colleague and friend Gregory Cornelius for winning a Bourges Residency Prize in Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France for his incredible work, Earth and Green. Congrats, Greg!