duo runedako -- Keyboards in Concert

Ruth Neville and Daniel Koppelman

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duo runedako is dedicated to exploring and expanding the repertoire for multiple keyboard instruments.  From traditional literature for two pianos and piano four-hands, to interactive works for electronics and computer, the duo presents a wide spectrum of concert music.  Performances are of the highest artistic integrity and versatility, featuring programs designed to entertain and educate.  Lauded for their interpretation of Debussy's En Blanc et Noir, the duo was awarded first prize at the 1993 Grossmont, California Duo Piano Competition.  duo runedako has toured extensively throughout the United States and in Europe, with recent engagements in Detroit, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, and Amsterdam, and educational workshops in Finland. Neville's chamber music activities have included residencies at the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt and the Bayerische Musikakademie, Marktoberdorf; Koppelman's research on the development of a new tactile performance system for electroacoustic music has led to residencies at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam and the Center for Research in Computing in the Arts (CRCA) in La Jolla, California.  In Prague, duo runedako premiered and recorded David Gillingham's Interplay: A Concerto for Piano Four Hands and Orchestra with Vladimir Valek conducting the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.  Other orchestral highlights have included guest appearances with the Greenville, Grosse Pointe, Birmingham-Bloomfield and Furman Symphony Orchestras.  In addition to their duo compact disc, Neville and Koppelman have recorded with the SONOR Ensemble for CRI, with George Lewis for New World Records, and for Celestial Harmonies, Neuma Records, Capstone and C74.

Ruth Neville has appeared as concerto soloist with the Pontiac Symphony Orchestra and on several occasions with the Grosse Pointe Symphony.  Neville's performance with SONOR of Messiaen's staggering and complex Oiseaux Exotiques was deemed, "easily the best work on the program for its artistic quality and performance standard" by The San Diego Union.  In her performances as guest pianist with the Heritage Woodwind Quintet, The Greenville News described Neville as "a deft, sensitive chamber music player whose idiomatic playing is remarkable for color and control."  Recording credits include Celestial Harmonies and Neuma Records.  In addition to performance degrees from the University of Michigan and Oakland University, Neville holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. Currently, she is a member of the piano faculty at Furman University.

Born in New York, raised in California and educated in Indiana, Daniel Koppelman has gained experience with many different musical traditions - classical and popular, composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic - which has led him to explore their intersections in search of new possibilities for performing, teaching, and creating music.  Koppelman's current performance interests include a variety of controllers in conjunction with STEIM's LiSa and Cycling '74's Max/MSP software, and real-time digital signal processing of acoustic piano.  Currently Associate Professor and director of music technology at Furman University, Koppelman received an M.M. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego, where he was a Regents Fellow; his piano teachers have included James Tocco, Aleck Karis, Cecil Lytle, and Wayne Peterson.  An experienced international performer specializing in twentieth-century music, he has recorded for CRI, New World Records, Neuma Records, Capstone and C74; he also released a disc of original electroacoustic compositions, distributed by CDeMusic.  Koppelman's research on the development of a new tactile performance system for electroacoustic music has led to residencies at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam, the Center for Research in Computing in the Arts (CRCA) in La Jolla, California, and the Institute of Sonology in The Hague.


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