duo runedako -- Keyboards in Concert
Ruth Neville and Daniel Koppelman
About the duo Audio clips Recent and upcoming performances
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.
Enquiries:
runedako AT mindspring.com