PARTCH

PARTCH, the Grammy winning & twice Grammy nominated new music ensemble, specializes in the music & instruments of the iconoclastic American Maverick composer Harry Partch, who created some of the most alluring and emotionally powerful music of the 20th century. He composed music for drama, dance-theater, multi-media, vocals and chamber music—all to be performed on the extraordinary orchestra of instruments that he designed and built himself.

PARTCH has performed for the LA County Museum of Art, UCLA’s Partch Centennial Celebration, Sacramento’s Festival of New American Music, Minnesota Public Radio’s American Mavericks, Mills College, UNM Albuquerque, the Getty Center, Repertory Dance Theatre RDT Salt Lake City, Carlsbad Music Festival, Jacaranda Music, Guadalajara International Book Fair, Grand Performances, Brooklyn’s Roulette, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and the San Francisco Symphony. In 2004, they made their REDCAT debut premiering Harry Partch’s Bitter Music, and have returned every year since. Their recent collaboration with Philadelphia’s Prism Saxophone Quartet include Lisa Bielawa’s Emmy-Nominated 12-episode opera for TV/Internet VIREO: The Autobiography of a Witches Accuser, and the just released CD of newly commissioned works Color Theory (XAS Records). Volume 3 of their award-winning Bridge Records “Music of Harry Partch” series is on its way.