Composition

Michael Jon Fink, born 1954, has had his instrumental and electronic music presented at the Green Umbrella Series of the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, New Music L.A., Monday Evening Concerts, the SCREAM Festival, the Fringe Festival, New Music America, Festival Commune di Chiesa, the Martes Musicales, the Marquette Festival of New Music, several CalArts Contemporary Music Festivals and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. He has performed and recorded with the Negative Band (on Finnadar Records), Stillife (on Contagion Records) and is a featured composer on the Cold Blue Anthology (Cold Blue Records).

His most recent CD release is Thread of Summer (1990) for clarinet and string quartet (Raptoria Caam label). Recent works include Spring Steps Into Darkness for bass clarinet and orchestra (1992) commissioned and premiered by the Antelope Valley Symphony with Marty Walker, soloist, in May, 1992, and Mind of Winter for soprano saxophone and orchestra (1994) commissioned and premiered by the Classical Philharmonic with Douglas Masek, soloist in February, 1994. Masek performed the work again with the Santa Monica Symphony in October, 1994. Temptation To Flower for 18 players (1995) composed especially for the CalArts New Century Players was premiered in March 1995. Touchless Light Alone a concerto for cello and orchestra was premiered in May, 1998, by Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick with the Symphony of the Canyons. His latest large-scale work, Prey of Time's Passing for violin and orchestra, was premiered by David Stenske with the Santa Monica Symphony in May, 1999. Fink has also composed incidental music for two plays of William Butler Yeats: The Herne's Egg (performed in 1993) and Deirdre which was featured at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

www.michaeljonfink.com

mfink@calarts.edu