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Douglas Detrick

Douglas Detrick is a composer, trumpeter and writer interested in the intersection of arts and culture with a special focus on music and the people who make it. In addition to The Curator, he has written for New Music Box, Jazz.About.com and for the blog at FONTmusic.org in addition to grant proposals for several arts organizations. Read more of his writing and hear his music at DouglasDetrick.com. As the leader of and composer for his improvising chamber group Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble, Detrick was awarded a 2011 New Jazz Works and Presenting Jazz grants from Chamber Music America and the Festival of New Trumpet Music with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He and the quintet will perform the concert-length suite commissioned by this program in 2012 at FONT and throughout the US in the group’s 2012-13 season. Detrick resides in New Rochelle, New York and was raised in Portland, Oregon.

What Will We Do without the Avant-garde?

I recently had the distinct pleasure and honor of performing a new piece of music with composer Christian Wolff and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the final performances of its Legacy Tour. This groundbreaking dance company served as a vital space for cross-fertilization between dance, music and visual art for what became a legendary generation of New York artists. According to the final wishes of the choreogr...

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