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text-decoration: underline;" class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline;">Festivals and Conferences:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.matafestival.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">MATA Festival</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.borealisfestival.no/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Borealis Festival</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.musicanova.fi/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Musica Nova Helsinki</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.imd.darmstadt.de/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Darmstadt Summer Courses</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://www.royaumont.com/fondation_abbaye/Session_de_composition.1619.0.html" target="_blank">Royaumont Session de Composition</a></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/sonorities/" target="_blank">Sonorities Festival</a></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.musiquesdemesurees.net/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Musiques Démesurées</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.composersconference.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Wellesley Composers Conference</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.aspencomposersconference.webs.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Aspen Composers Conference</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.acanthes.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Centre Acanthes</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>I</strong><a href="http://www.impuls.cc/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><strong>mpuls Akademie</strong></a>(Klangforum Wien) </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">SoundLAB</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.in-sonora.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; 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font-weight: bold;">Scheltema Complex Leiden</a>, Netherlands </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Le Poisson Rouge,</a> <a href="http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">NY</a> </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.thestonenyc.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">The Stone,</a> <a href="http://www.thestonenyc.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">NY</a> </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://%20www.acfny.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Austrian Cultural Forum,</a> <a href="http://%20www.acfny.org" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">NY</a> </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><a href="http://thecenteratma.org/" target="_blank">Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center</a></strong>, CA </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px; text-decoration: underline;">Institutions, Conservatories, etc.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.maacmusic.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Menlo-Atherton Academy of Contemporary Music (MAACM)</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://music.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Stanford University Music Dept</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">CCRMA, Stanford University</a></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.koncon.nl/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Royal Conservatoire</a>, The Hague, Netherlands </p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.sonology.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; 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font-family: Georgia;" class="Apple-style-span"><strong>2012:</strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>May 2012:</strong> new work: <strong><a href="http://www.lucyshelton.com/" target="_blank">Matteo Cesari</a></strong>, flute; UC San Diego, CA<br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Spring 2012:</strong> new work: <strong><a href="http://ensemblepamplemousse.org/" target="_blank">Ensemble Pamplemousse</a></strong>, New York (dates and locations TBA) <br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>March/April 2012: <em>the shining pillar of anti-beauty (int-0), version II</em>, <span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">for amplified viola</span><em>; VURTRUVURT</em> <span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">for violin and electronics; </span></strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">new works for ensemble, electronics,  and video: </span><strong><a href="http://www.mirandacuckson.com/" target="_blank">Miranda Cuckson</a></strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">, violin and viola;</span> <strong><a href="http://www.ensemblepamplemousse.org/" target="_blank">Ensemble Pamplemousse</a><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">: </span></strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.stepgaard.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Stepgaard</strong></a> concert series, NY </span><br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Winter  2012: </strong><span style="font-style: italic;" class="Apple-style-span"><strong>l'écume des jours (int-1): </strong></span><span style="font-style: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">UC San Diego, CA</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="Apple-style-span"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia;" class="Apple-style-span">2011: </span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>17 November 2011, 8 PM: <em>the shining pillar of anti-beauty (int-0), version II</em></strong>, for amplified viola: <strong><a href="http://www.mirandacuckson.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Miranda Cuckson</a></strong><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">, viola:</span> <strong><a href="http://www.bargemusic.org/" target="_blank">Bargemusic</a></strong>, Brooklyn, NY <br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span">09 September-09 October 2011: <em>The Moon Shall Never Take My Voice</em>:</span> <em>On Ulterior Scale</em> exhibition, <a href="http://www.xn--kunsthalle-dsseldorf-0ec.de/index.php?id=284" target="_blank">Kunsthalle Düsseldorf</a>, Germany<br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>12-31 August 2011: <em>detritus II</em>: <a href="http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/news/JCUPRD1_073576.html" target="_blank">2011 ScreenGrab Media Arts Award</a>, <a href="http://www.jcu.edu.au/soca/JCUPRD_044204.html" target="_blank">eMerge Media Space</a></strong>, Townsville, Queensland, Australia<br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>05 June 2011: </strong><em><strong>Nominal/Noumenal <span style="font-style: normal;" class="Apple-style-span">portrait concert:</span></strong></em> <a href="http://www.ensemble-surplus.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Ensemble SurPlus,</a> <a href="http://www.akademie-solitude.de/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Akademie Schloss Solitude</a>, Stuttgart, Germany<br /> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>12 May 2011: </strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong><em>Lucky Duck</em>: </strong></span><strong><a href="http://www.millertheatre.com/" target="_blank">Miller Theatre</a>, <a href="http://www.cufilmfest.com/" target="_blank">Columbia University Film Festival</a>,</strong> NY<br /> </p></div> Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:16:33 -0700 http://www.lxsigman.com/recent-and-upcoming.html http://www.lxsigman.com/bio.html <div class="article-summary"> <div class="first graphic-container wide center ImageElement"> <div class="graphic"> <div class="figure-content"><!-- sandvox.ImageElement --><img width="121" height="181" src="http://www.lxsigman.com/_Media/155038_535423830004_8130169_med.jpeg" alt="155038 535423830004 81301693 31414474 1442209 n" /><!-- /sandvox.ImageElement --></div> </div> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><strong>Alexander Sigman </strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">(b. 1980) completed his doctorate in Music Composition at Stanford University in 2010, having studied primarily with Brian Ferneyhough.  He pursued further postgraduate study with Chaya Czernowin at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and attended the one-year intensive course of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Netherlands) during 2007-2008. Prior to Stanford, Sigman obtained a BM in Music Composition and a BA in Cognitive Sciences from Rice University.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He has received performances at major international venues and festivals, including Centre Acanthes, June in Buffalo, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Abbaye de Royaumont, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the MATA Festival, the Klangraum Festival (Stuttgart), and Musica Nova Helsinki. His music has been performed throughout Europe and the US by such renowned ensembles as the Arditti Quartet, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the New York New Music Ensemble, Apartment House, Ensemble SurPlus, and Ensemble Ascolta, as well as soloists such as Magnus Andersson, Eliot Gattegno, Miranda Cuckson, and ELISION Ensemble cellist Séverine Ballon. A recording of his <em>Nominal</em> and <em>Noumenal</em> cycles will be released on Carrier Records in March 2012. </span></p> </div> Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:05:18 -0700 http://www.lxsigman.com/bio.html