Everything about Joe Cutler totally explained
Joe Cutler (born 1968) is a British composer who studied Music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. He has taught composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire since 2000, and since 2005 he's been the Head of Composition there. He is also the co-founder of the instrumental ensemble
Noszferatu.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cutler, like many of his generation, was influenced by the minimalist music of
Louis Andriessen. Like Andriessen, Cutler rejected the
atonal inheritance of
Arnold Schoenberg in favour of the more rhythmically driving music of
Igor Stravinsky. In these early works, Cutler showed influences ranging from
Minimalism and Andriessen to 1980s
avant-garde modernism and even the rhythmic aspects of the
New Complexity movement. This is seen in such works as
Epitaph for Nebula (1989) and
Blast! (1992), where atonality and complicated driving rhythms preside.
During the 1990s, as Cutler's mature style developed, the complicated rhythms were gradually replaced with simpler, but still motoric,
jazz inspired rhythms whilst the atonal element lost ground to allusions to Eastern-European
modality and jazz. This is seen in one of his most popular works,
Sal's Sax (1996), written for the De Ereprijs Ensemble. In more recent years, Cutler has developed a more lyrical side along with his influences from
postminimalism, which led to works such as
Awakenings (1998) and
Sikorski (2005).
Selected works
- Epitaph for Nebula (1989), for Mixed Ensemble
- Blast! (1992), for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
- Shamen (1994), for Trombone solo
- Sal's Sax (1996), for Mixed Ensemble
- Awakenings (1998), for large orchestra
- Urban Myths (1999), for saxophone and piano
- Without Fear of Vertigo (2001), for Mixed Ensemble
- Sikorski (2005), for Mixed Ensemble
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