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David Plylar is a composer and a pianist currently residing in the Los Angeles area. He is nearing the completion of his PhD in music composition at the Eastman School of Music. In Los Angeles, David will be working on his dissertation and performing with his new music group Out of Context, co-founded with oboist Alison Lowell.
The dissertation consists of two parts:
- A paper, entitled "The Dynamic Contextual Nexus and the Composition of Self; Franz Liszt's Trois odes funebres: A Case Study in Intertextuality." The first draft is finished!
- A 40' composition for piano and large orchestra, entitled "Reliquary."
Other projects on the horizon include the score for an independently produced feature-length film, a new work for piano solo, a new piece for solo contrabass and a new work for percussion duet.
NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
July 22-25, 2008
Attending the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) conference in Provo, UT
Plylar Music Publishing will be offering for sale a dozen new compositions and transcriptions for oboe, oboe & piano, English horn & piano, wind quintet and small chamber ensembles which include oboe. For a list of what will be available at the conference, click here. Limited quantities will be available, so please contact me in advance if you would like to reserve any music.
RECENT EVENTS
June 7, 2008
Ladies Musical Club of Seattle
Performance Competition
Competing with Alison Lowell, oboe.
Winners of the competition--the prize includes a tour of Washington state in September 2008.
June 1, 2008 ~ 7:30pm
Out of Context
Concert featuring the music of David Plylar
First Congregation Church of Ashland
Ashland, Oregon
May 30, 2008 ~ 11am
Out of Context
Composition Studio Masterclass
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, Oregon
May 24, 2008 ~ 7:30pm
Out of Context
Concert featuring the music of David Plylar
Brand Recital Hall
Glendale Public Library
Glendale, California
5-11-2008 ~ 8pm
Young Artists International presents:
Midnight Winds
Greystone Estate
Beverly Hills, CA
Program: Includes David Plylar's new Ligeti transcriptions, "Forgotten Bagatelles"
5-10-2008 ~ 8pm
Young Artists International presents:
Midnight Winds
Trinity Lutheran Church
Manhattan Beach, CA
Program: Includes David Plylar's new Ligeti transcriptions, "Forgotten Bagatelles"
4-5-2008 ~ 4pm
Oboe and Piano Recital
Featuring Alison Lowell, oboe
Program:
Brahms/Plylar - Intermezzo, Op.119, No.1
Plylar - Nachtstücke
Prokofiev/Plylar - The Young Juliet; The Montagues and the Capulets
Schumann - Romances
McDonald Recital Hall, USC
January 2008
Another batch of transcriptions has been completed! These will all be premiered this Spring:
- Prokofiev - The Montagues and the Capulets, which will be paired with another as-yet-unperformed Prokofiev transcription, The Young Juliet (Both from his Romeo and Juliet). These transcriptions are for oboe and piano
- Brahms - Intermezzo, Op.119 No.1, transcribed for oboe and piano
- Plylar - Nachtstücke; three songs after Rilke, transcribed for English horn and piano. These are transcriptions of some of my earliest pieces, back when I was exploring Ply-tonality...
- Ligeti - Five movements from Musica Ricercata, transcribed for wind quintet. Ligeti's 6 Bagatelles are transcriptions of the other six pieces from this set; my transcriptions of his "Forgotten Bagatelles" complete the set.
11/29/07 ~ 3:30pm
Gave a presentation to the Eastman Composition Department
Discussion of the role of memory and series in my recent work;
Examples drawn from String Quartet, Guitar Quartet, Reliquary & Duel Intentions
Rochester, NY
May 2007
David was awarded a Raymond N. Ball Dissertation Year Fellowship (Eastman, 2007-2008)
July 2007
Moved to Los Angeles
Current Composition Projects
Reliquary
Piano and Orchestra
Duration: c.40’