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A concert featuring piano works, vocal canons, and other songs by the maverick
composer Moondog performed by trimbist/vocalist Julian Calv, pianist Alex Stewart, and
vocalist/percussionist Sarah Penna. Louis Hardin AKA Moondog composed music creating an
unexpected link between the resurgent science of counterpoint, Arapaho, Navajo, Blackfoot,
and Sioux rhythms and song forms, the art of jazz improvisation, and the beginnings of a
repetitive and minimalist aesthetic. The concert spans Moondog’s career with selections from
The Last Concert, Moondog: Piano Trimba, In Europe, A New Sound Of An Old Instrument,
Moondog (1956); and includes comments about the music from Julian- who studied with
Moondog’s only student, Stefan Lakatos.
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Julian Calv Biography
Julian Calv is an American composer, singer, and trimbist. Born February 18 1999 in New Brunswick, NJ, Julian grew up in Bethlehem Township, NJ. He graduated from Moravian University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Music focusing on composition, education, and classical piano. While there he studied piano with Barbara Thompson and Dan DeChellis and composition with Larry Lipkis and Scott Watson. In 2021 he completed an independent study of 20th c. American composer Louis T. Hardin, AKA Moondog's, creative life. Throughout the course of this impactful project he established an apprenticeship with Stefan Lakatos.
Self proclaimed as Moondog’s grand-student, Julian is the sole prodigy of Stefan Lakatos– who, to quote Moondog himself, is “the leading [and only] exponent of the Moondog method of drumming.”1 Through both this mentorship and dedicated study of Moondog's creative life, he upholds his grand-teacher's dying wish to “please take care of my music.” Learning to build and play the trimba and oo, two of Moondog's invented instruments, Julian has sculpted a unique soundscape, preserving the sonic tradition of his mentors. He re-imagines that same tradition in his original compositions.
Read MoreSelf proclaimed as Moondog’s grand-student, Julian is the sole prodigy of Stefan Lakatos– who, to quote Moondog himself, is “the leading [and only] exponent of the Moondog method of drumming.”1 Through both this mentorship and dedicated study of Moondog's creative life, he upholds his grand-teacher's dying wish to “please take care of my music.” Learning to build and play the trimba and oo, two of Moondog's invented instruments, Julian has sculpted a unique soundscape, preserving the sonic tradition of his mentors. He re-imagines that same tradition in his original compositions.
Classical
Minimalism
Neo-classical
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