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Alex Burtzos (born 1985 in Denver, Colorado, United States) is an American composer based in New York City and Orlando, Florida.
Life and career
Alex Burtzos was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in nearby Colorado Springs. He studied music at Loyola University New Orleans before moving to New York City in 2010, where he earned his doctorate in composition from Manhattan School of Music in 2016. His primary teachers include James Paton Walsh, J. Mark Stambaugh, and Reiko Fueting. Burtzos' music has been performed across four continents, and has received awards from numerous organizations within the United States. He has received particular attention for his compositions for authentic baroque-era instruments. Other of Burtzos' compositions utilize rappers, metal guitar, and other sounds drawn from popular music.
Burtzos is the founder of ICEBERG New Music, a composers collective based in New York City. In 2018, he was named the Endowed Chair of Composition Studies at The University of Central Florida.
Compositions
= Solo
=pWr (2021) for Cello Solo
Perforation (2018) for Piano Solo
Should the Wide World Roll Away (2018) for Piano Solo
Wilfred Owen at the Gates (2015) for Piano Solo
He Never Heard That Fleshless Chant (2011) for Oboe Solo
Football in Marja (2011) for Piano Solo
Baroque Fantasy on 'Go Down, Moses' (2008) for Organ Solo
= Chamber
=Sin City (2023) for big band
What We Wish to Remember of Ourselves (2021) for woodwind quartet and piano
Relativity (2020) for three bassoons
SEA (2020) for two vibraphonists
Atoms (2020) for electric guitar and drum kit
PIPES (2020) for 10 flutes
King | Cawdor (2019) for violin, bass clarinet, cello, and piano
Māyā (2019) for woodwind quintet
R A G E (2018) for ensemble
pOwer trIo (2018) for saxophone, piano, percussion
The Birth of Dangun (2018) for piano trio
we ain't got no $$$ honey but DAMN we got _____ (2017) for percussion quartet
Megalopolis (2017) for saxophone ensemble
The Hourglass Equation (2017) for flute, violin, bassoon, and harpsichord
The F Word (2016) for amplified ensemble with MC
SONATA/SONARE (2016) for trio sonata
The Rembrandt of Avenue A (2015) for amplified ensemble with MC
X Codes (2015) for violin, clarinet, and piano
Alice and Zoltan 4ever (2014) for saxophone, bass trombone, and piano
One Final Gyre (2014) for two saxophones
OMAHA (all the things you could be you are you were) (2014) for string quartet
The Impossible Object (2014) for violin and piano
SXTG >;-) (2013) for clarinet, cello, and guitar
Teach the Torches to Burn Bright (2013) for violin, clarinet, and piano
12.14.12 (2013) for ensembles
Prince Prospero (2013) for soprano, flute, oboe, saxophone, guitar, piano, and percussion
A Country of Vast Designs (2012) for string quartet
The Revivalist (2012) for saxophone quartet
March the Twenty-Fifth (2011) for woodwind quartet
The Outlaw in the Gilded Age (2010) for violin, clarinet, saxophone, horn and piano
= Choral and Vocal
=Sky (2022) for soprano, baritone, and piano
Five Arias from 'HE Who Gets Slapped' (2022) for five vocal soloists with piano
Wooden Woman (2020) for singing cellist with chamber orchestra
MIRABILIS (2018) for SSAATTBB chorus with string sextet
Many Worlds I (2016) for baritone, trumpet, bass clarinet, and trombone
The Explosion, and Other Tales (2016) for mezzo-soprano and piano
Gursky Songs (2015) for baritone and piano trio
Love and Loss and Loathing and Lizards (2015) for soprano, MC, and amplified ensemble
Come Away Death (2012) for Countertenor and Harp with SATB chorus
The Hill Wife (2012) for mezzo-soprano with ensemble
Days Into Days (2011) for soprano with large ensemble
= Electronic and Mixed Media
=The Turing Test (2019) for two guitars and fixed media
LEGION (2017) for flute, piano, and fixed media
When He First Appears (2017) for soprano, viola, harp, and fixed media
MASKS (2016) for baritone, guitar, piano, and tape
In a Cool, Green Hall (2010) for mixed media
= Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
=d[RAM]edy (2023), concerto for piano and wind ensemble
Arias and Interludes from 'HE Who Gets Slapped' (2022) for five vocal soloists and orchestra
Echo Chamber (2019) for wind ensemble
Pulse (2019) for orchestra
The Black Riders (2013) for orchestra
Sky Above Clouds (2011) for orchestra
In Search of a Bird (2011) for chamber orchestra
The Conqueror (2009) for wind ensemble
Psyche (2009) for wind ensemble
Colorado (2008) arranged for wind ensemble
Colorado (2007) for orchestra
= Opera
=HE Who Gets Slapped (2022), opera in two acts
