Monique Buzzarté
Monique
Buzzarté is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning
and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in
chamber ensembles. In addition to solo appearances, Ms. Buzzarté performs
in New Circle Five with Pauline Oliveros; Zanana, a collaborative duo with
Kristin Norderval performing improvised music blending acoustic sounds, electronics
and live processing; and Ekko!, a contemporary music quartet of mixed instrumentation.
Recent recordings include John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five. Zanana's debut CD Holding Patterns was released in Fall 2004; Sorrel Hays' Wake Up and Dream and John Cage's Thirteen and Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning with Essential Music are forthcoming.
Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone project has supported the expansion of the trombone repertoire with over twenty compositions in various genres. Forthcoming commissions in 2004-2005 are from Pauline Oliveros (trombone and piano), Annea Lockwood (trombone and tape) and Anne LeBaron (trombone and electronics).
As a composer, Ms. Buzzarté is primarily interested in exploring expansive musical situations, especially those which attempt to alter inner and outer perceptions of time and space. She received artist residencies for the development of a new interactive performance system for the trombone in 2003 at Create@iEAR Studios and in 2002 at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts.
An author and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté's advocacy work for women in music included coordinating efforts which led to the admission of women members into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. She has researched and compiled repertoire listings of the brass compositions of women composers which have been published in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, Vol. III. A former Vice President of the International Alliance for Women in Music, she is a contributing author to Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation practices of Deep Listening.