Evan Ziporyn

Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. He has composed for a wide range of ensembles, including symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, many types of chamber groups, and solo works, sometimes involving electronics. He has a particular interest in music for Balinese gamelan, for which he has composed numerous works, often combined with western instruments. He is also well known for his solo performances on clarinet and bass clarinet; additionally, he plays gender wayang and other Balinese instruments, saxophones, piano & keyboards, EWI, and Shona mbira. He is Faculty Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Art, Science & Technology, as well as Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT. There he directs Gamelan Galak Tika, an ensemble he founded in 1993, a group of 30 MIT students, staff and community members, devoted to the study and performance of new works for Balinese Gamelan. In 1992 he founded the Bang on a Can All-stars, with whom he performed and recorded until 2012. He also was a member of Steve Reich and Musicians, with whom he shared a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. He is currently a member of the Eviyan Trio, with Czech violinist/vocalist Iva Bittovà and American guitarist Gyan Riley.

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