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Drawing from a seemingly bottomless pool of wide-ranging styles and influences, Doug Opel creates a strange and wonderfully eclectic sort of musical stew for the concert stage that is at once dark and humorous, controlled and chaotic, reflective and passionate, traditional and contemporary. Opel’s music has been performed around the world through such notable music organizations, programs, venues and artists as New York City’s 60x60, Keys to the Future and MATA Festival, upstate New York’s Vision of Sound, Chicago's Pianoforte Salon Series, Minneapolis’ MacPhail Center for Music, the Duquesne Contemporary Ensemble, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Aldeburgh Festival at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Music Studies in Aldeburgh/Snape, Suffolk, England and the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Radio appearances include broadcasts by the CBC, WKCR’s “Afternoon New Music” in New York City, WCNY’s “Fresh Ink” in Syracuse, on WMBC’s "art@radio" in Baltimore, WFMT/Chicago and on WRTI’s “Now is the Time” in Philadelphia. His work has been commissioned by MATA, the Fort Wayne Alumni Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, and bass-baritone Timothy Jones. Among Opel's most recent works, "3 preludes to missing the point" (underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation) was recently released on the Innova label as part of “Melville’s Dozen”, a larger collection of piano works commissioned, performed and recorded by pianist Nicola Melville. In 2003, he became one of seven composers to receive the Aaron Copland Award, a residency that allows composers to work uninterrupted and in privacy at Copland House - the last home of Aaron Copland located in the Peekskills of New York. He was recently selected as the 2009 C3 (Composer Commission Competition) winner, awared by The Definiens Project. The resulting piece for chamber ensemble will be premiered in 2010. He is also currently honoring a commission from pianist Robert Satterlee. Opel holds a B.S. in music education from Ball State University (1990), an M.M. in composition from the University of Michigan (1993) and a D.M. in composition from Indiana University (2002). He has studied piano with Pia Sebastiani and Dickran Atamian. His primary composition mentors were Ernesto Pellegrini, David Foley, Kamran Ince, George B. Wilson, William Albright, Don Freund, Jeff Hass, Eugene O’Brien and Claude Baker. He has also studied with U.K. composers Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews.


Remembering William Albright In memory of the great American composer William Albright, pianist Robert Satterlee has commissioned piano works from Albright’s colleagues and former students. He will premiere these pieces in a program including Albright’s Five Chromati	3/20/2011 04:00 PM Kerrytown Concert House 415 North Fourth Avenue Ann Arbor MI 48104 us	Phone:734-769-2999 Email:kch@kerrytown.com Web:www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/index.php/events/event/robert_satterlee_piano/
Powerhouse Pianists II Powerhouse Pianists II will feature pianists Stephen Gosling and Blair McMillen performing works for two pianos.	6/24/2010 08:00 PM Faust Harrison Pianos 205 West 58th Street New York City New York us	Phone:1-800-838-3006 Email: Web:http://www.americanmodernensemble.org/index.htm
360 degrees of 60x60 At this conference all 6 mixes will be performed as a 6 hour installation each day of the conference. My latest piece of electronica, “The Unbearable Being of Likeness” will appear on the Sanguine Mix.	6/5/2010 10:00 AM Wang Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY us	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.icmc2010.org/
360 degrees of 60x60 At this conference all 6 mixes will be performed as a 6 hour installation each day of the conference. My latest piece of electronica, “The Unbearable Being of Likeness” will appear on the Sanguine Mix.	6/4/2010 10:00 AM Wang Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY us	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.icmc2010.org/
360 degrees of 60x60 At this conference all 6 mixes will be performed as a 6 hour installation each day of the conference. My latest piece of electronica, “The Unbearable Being of Likeness” will appear on the Sanguine Mix.	6/3/2010 10:00 AM Wang Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY us	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.icmc2010.org/
360 degrees of 60x60 At this conference all 6 mixes will be performed as a 6 hour installation each day of the conference. My latest piece of electronica, “The Unbearable Being of Likeness” will appear on the Sanguine Mix.	6/2/2010 01:00 PM Electronic Music Foundation 307 7th Ave Suite 1402 New York NY us	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.icmc2010.org/
360 degrees of 60x60 At this conference all 6 mixes will be performed as a 6 hour installation each day of the conference. My latest piece of electronica, “The Unbearable Being of Likeness” will appear on the Sanguine Mix.	6/1/2010 01:00 PM Electronic Music Foundation 307 7th Ave Suite 1402 New York NY us	Phone: Email: Web:
60x60 Dance (Order of Magnitude Mix) Involving 600 composers and 40 dancers in 10 continuous hours of dance, music and video, this project brings together artists of different practices, media, styles and experience in collaborative contemporary art-making.	5/30/2010 11:00 AM FoFa Gallery Concordia College Montreal Quebec ca	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.concordia.ca/congress2010/fofa-gallery-programming.php#topcontent
LOOP Videoarte Festival 60x60 makes a stellar debut in Spain with three 60x60 video mixes inking the sky! Presenting more than 150 composers and the video work of 3 different video artists!	5/22/2010 07:00 PM Estudio Nomada Carrer de la Palma de Sant Just, 7 Barcelona 08002 es	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.inkthesky.com/
New York Dance Parade and Festival 60×60 joins the New York Dance Parade and Festival for an exciting extravaganza of 60 one-minute dance performances to be choreographed to 60 one-minute electronic audio works and performed on stage in Tompkins Square Park.	5/22/2010 01:00 PM Tompkins Square Park New York City New York us	Phone: Email: Web:http://www.danceparade.org/EE/index.php/about/parade_route/

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
3 preludes to missing the point	Keyboard	2006	00:08:30
Drive!	Orchestra	2005	00:11:00
Episodica	Orchestra	2002	00:15:00
Patchwork	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1998	00:10:00
Ferlinghetti	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1996	00:20:00
Dilukkenjon	Keyboard	1996	08:30:00

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