Patrick Zimmerli
2011-2012 Composer-in-Residence at Music in the Loft
Music in the Loft is committed to new music and has commissioned a new work by Patrick Zimmerli to be performed by the Belsky/Maxwell piano duo in January 2012.
MITL commissions young composers with the ongoing support of the NIB Foundation and the Irving Harris Foundation.
About Patrick Zimmerli
Composer Patrick Zimmerli writes a sophisticated yet approachable hybrid of jazz and classical music. He was recently declared winner of the first annual CLICK People’s Commission from the Colorado Music Festival. He has released 6 CDs of his music on the Arabesque and Songlines labels. Zimmerli’s Modern Music for two pianos was premiered at Carnegie Hall in March 2011 by Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays; A CD of that and other compositions, written, arranged, and produced by Zimmerli, is scheduled for summer release on Nonesuch Records.
A prolific composer, Zimmerli has written two Piano Concertos, two Piano Trios, numerous solo, chamber, and vocal pieces, and over 40 pieces for his ensemble Emergence, featuring jazz saxophone, string quartet, world percussion, and electronics. In 2009 he completed a large-scale Chamber Symphony for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and a multimedia orchestral piece with video inspired by architecture for the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. Other commissions have come from the Ying String Quartet, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Belgian ensemble Octurn. His violin piece The Light Guitar has been recorded by Tim Fain for the Naxos label. Zimmerli has been performed at MoMA’s Summergarden series and the Guggenheim Museum, on NPR’s Fresh Sounds, and recorded on Arabesque, Blue Note, Songlines, and Koch labels. Awards include the BMI/Thelonious Monk Institute Composers’ Award, Gil Evans Fellowship and the Downbeat Jazz Awards. He teaches at Columbia University.
His website can be found at www.patrickzimmerli.com.