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“Fluent and creative.”
—Washington Post

"Lush vocal polyphony and his careful control of harmony enable this work to stand alongside the very best music in this vein."
—American Record Guide

Composer-in-Residence,
Aguavá New Music Studio

American Horizons: The Photography of Art Sinsabaugh (with music by Cary Boyce with Aguavá New Music Studio) is here.

The documentary was featured with the American Horizons exhibits around the country:

		6-7 to 9-7-08	Monterey Museum of Art Monterey, California
		1-26 to 4-6-08	The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, Missouri
		10-1 to 12-23-05	Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington, Indiana
		6-3 to 8- 7-05	Krannert Art Museum University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
		2-11 to 4-17-05	Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, Ohio
		10-2-04 to 1-2-05	The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois

The Beautiful Baroque Wedding CD is now available.

Aguavá New Music Studio members featured in Soundings by People to People Press.

IT'S HERE!:

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More information here.
Complete liner notes here.

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The Herald Times said Veni Veni Emmanuel was was"Masterful and stunning." Read the entire review

NEWS (updated 7-28-2010)

Cary finished the incidental music for Harp Dreams, a new PBS documentary by Susanne Schwibs about the USA International Harp Competition. Coming June 23 to a PBS television channel near you.

See the new HARP DREAMS clip posted by PBS.

Harp Dreams is among the "Programs of Note" presentations by PBS, along with Carol King & James Taylor, Diane Warren, Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris (Great Performances), and Celebrating 125 Years with the Boston Pops.

Rockefeller Chapel interior

Cary was selected as the winner of the 2010-11 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Organ and Choir Composition Contest. He will write a newly commissioned work for the Chapel to premiere this December, 2010. Read the full press release here (pdf

Cary Boyce and Steve Reich, ISU 11-22-09

Cary visited with Steve Reich in an open discussion at the 43rd Annual Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival on November 18th, 2009. The interview program will be available in August, 2010!

Cary’s work Kosmos for SATB chorus, viola, and piano won the 2010 Truman State University/MACRO Analysis Creative Research Organization Composition Competition. This will include a newly commissioned work as well as talks, concerts, and masterclasses at Truman State University in Kirkville, MO in October, and at the MACRO Workshop in Madison, Wisconsin (June, 2010)..

Cary received a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to produce a video based on the Veni Veni Emmanuel (A Christmas Prayer) motet. The work was commissioned and premiered by Nancy Menk and the South Bend Chamber Singers, and performed at Indiana University last year with conductor William Jon Gray.

Shattered Rainbows, a new work for chamber orchestra, premiered with the São Paulo (Brazil) Chamber Orchestra, September 3, 2009.

American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh has been nominated for a regional Emmy. Winners will be announced in September.

Cary is listed on the new "My Performance Today" page.

Reflections: A Lenten Special with the Dale Warland Singers played nationally on public radio earlier this spring. It featured Argento, Boyce, Lauridsen, Mahler, Muelheisen, and more.

View the Aguavá Ave Maria video:

Thanks to the Indiana Arts Commission for supporting this project.

Ave Maria is published with G. Schirmer's new Dale Warland Choral Series. Hear Dale's comments on WFIU.

The Bells of Leopardi video is also now online.

Aguavá New Music Studio played Williams College and Dartmouth in May, 2008.

Aguava at Williams College "The Box" Theater

Listen (live performance!): Flower of Departure (Boyce)