Title: All Kinds of Time
Commission: 1997
Completed: 2001
Instrumentation: chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Sonic Boom Festival, NYC
Premiere Ensemble: New York New Music Ensemble
Notes:

The highly innovative and conjured world of composer Jonathan Dawe joins Baroque imagery with a modernist mix, cast with dynamic dramatic flair. Cited for his “quirky, fascinating modernist variations on earlier styles” (Time Out) his music involves the recasting of energies and sounds of the past into decisively new expressions, through compositional workings based upon fractal geometry. Recent pieces and productions have been described as “music of such vitality and drama” (New York Times) “a brake-squealing collision of influence” (Boston Globe) and “bound to be provocative” (Time Out).  Described as “one of our most talented and distinctive—yet little-known—contemporary composers” (Seen and Heard International). The Flowering Arts, a bold fractured transformation of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Les arts florissants, comissioned by the Boston Symphony, was hailed in 2005 as a “Powerful Premiere” (Boston Globe).