Joseph Celli
Joseph Celli is a composer and performer of instrumental and electronic music and multimedia works.
His range of musical creativity has included solo acoustic music, works with live electronics, interactive computer performances, live satellite performances, mixed and multimedia events and site-specific, environmentally responsive works. He has developed a completely new instrumental syntax and new performance repertoire for his instruments, the oboe and English horn, and introduced non-Western double reed instruments to contemporary Western performance. He has premiered more than 35 intermedia works created for him, and he has worked with John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Jerry Hunt, Phill Niblock, Malcolm Goldstein and the Kronos Quartet ...
Celli has toured extensively through performances, workshops, radio and television broadcasts and residencies in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Australia. He was Music Director of the Ornette Coleman Chamber Music Festival at Weill (Carnegie Recital) Hall and the Smithsonian ComputerWorld Awards, and founder of O.O. Discs ...
Celli lives in Connecticut, travels widely as a performer, and produces arts events.
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