Artist description Lansing D. McLoskey has received numerous national and international awards for his compositions. His music has been performed across the United States and in Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and South Africa. He has written works for some of the premier performers and ensembles in the country, and has received grants and commissions from The Barlow Endowment, ASCAP, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. McLoskey studied music at U.C. Santa Barbara, U.S.C. School of Music, and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University.

Music Style Modern classical. Neither "minimalism," "serialism," "neo-Romanticism" or any other "-ism," it has an emotional intensity that appeals to academic and amateur alike, defying traditional stylistic-pigeonholes

Musical Influences Messiaen, Machaut, Bartok, Josquin, Lutoslawski, King Crimson, Stravinsky, Black Flag, etc.

Artist History McLoskey came to the world of composition via a rather unorthodox route. The proverbial "Three B's" for him were not Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, but rather The Beatles, Bauhaus and Black Flag. His first experiences at writing music were not exercises in counterpoint, but as the guitarist and songwriter for punk rock bands in San Francisco in the early 1980's. It was actually through these years in the visceral world of punk that he first developed a love for classical music (but that's another story).

Instruments Composer

Albums "Prex Penitentialis and other works", "Fifth Species"

Press Reviews "...the composer immediately grabs hold of the listener's attention with as commanding a statement as found in any other work." (The Times Herald Record)"...expressive, lyrical and highly energetic. [Though] deeply grounded in tradition, freshness, discovery and adventure seem always present."

Location Quincy, MA - USA

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