ERIC FUNK, composer, conductor, musician

Eric Funk's catalog consists of five releases: three on the MMC label and two independent releases - all in current distribution

MMC Music:
• Four orchestral works with the Prague Radio Symphony:  Symphony No. 1, the orchestral suite “Lidice,” the Cello Concerto, and the Oboe Concerto
• String Quartet No. 2 by the Moyzes String Quartet of Bratislava
• Symphonies No. 3 and 4 with the Prague Radio Symphony and the Warsaw Philharmonic

Independent releases:
• Symphony No. 5, Opus 77, "Dante Ascending" Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Latvian National Opera Chorus conducted by Terje Mikkelsen
• The Romantic Music of Eric Funk: "Rhayader" - music for the ballet, Piano Concerto Op 71, Philip Aaberg, piano, Symphony No 2 "Montana" Latvian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Terje Mikkelsen

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Notable Events in 2005:

Nov 27th, 2005, Frederick Frey (baritone)singing with the New Jersey City University Symphonic Wind Ensemble "The Seasons, Op 56"

April, 2005 - "Composer-in-residence at the British and International Double Bass Forum joint, international Bass-Fest/Violin Fest where a concert of Funk's music was presented.

Notable Performances in 2004:

February 29 - University of Montana, David Heyes (double bass)with String Orchestra of the Rockies
 - Concerto for Double Bass, Strings, Horn, & Timpani, Op 85  (world premier)

March 30, Montana State University, Johan Jonsson (violin)with Montana State University Orchestra
 - Violin Concerto, Op 70

April 18, Carnegie Hall, Belgrade & Hawthorne Children's Choirs w/New England Symphonic Ensemble
 - The Seasons, Op. 56
 - From the Dreams of Montana Children. Op 90
 - I Love Music

April 22, Montana State University, Lawrence Gwozdz (Alto Saxophone)Montana State University Orchestra

Upcoming releases include two CDs: "From the Dreams of Montana Children" and "Works for Double Bass". Please check back for further updates.

New works include Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Chamber Orchestra, Op 92 - commissioned by, written for and dedicated to Lawrence Gwozdz, and Concerto for Flute & Chamber Orchestra, Op 93 - commissioned by, written for and dedicated to Hubert Laws.

Recent premiered works include the one-act solo opera for contralto and ballet troupe “Akhmatova,” based on key texts from the Russian poet’s life, the Violin Concerto, and the song cycles “Góngora” (baritone and chamber orchestra on texts by the Spanish baroque poet) and “Sequentia” (contralto and 9-person chamber ensemble on texts by Paul Celan). 

Recent works include the massive score of "Mandelstam:  a Valediction to the 20th Century,” a work in 5 movements for large chorus, two orchestras, and amplified string quartet, based on poems by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, which was commissioned by the Gallatin Performing Arts Center for their future grand opening.

Notable performances include the Renda Theater (National Theater Workshop of the Handicapped), Carnegie Hall, Gaudeamus International Interpreters of Contemporary Musical Festival (Rotterdam), and various auditoriums in the Pacific Northwest and in Montana.  His opera “Pamelia,” commissioned to celebrate the Centennial of six northern plains states, was premiered in Billings in 1989.  In 1994, his Symphony No. 2 was performed by the Vancouver, Washington Symphony Orchestra and the Kuzbass Philharmonic in Kemerovo, Russia.  His symphonies No. 3 and No. 4 were also premiered in Prague (1995) and Warsaw (1997) on the occasion of their recording.  In 1999, ERIC FUNK conducted the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Symphony No. 4 in Riga and premiered his Piano Concerto in Helena.

Commissions are from the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphonic Choir, the Northwest Repertory Dance Company, the Composers’ Ensemble, the Imperial Brass, the Portland Ballet Company, the Portland Brass Quintet, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Metropolitan Arts Commission, the Montana Arts Council, the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra, the Gallatin Performing Arts Center, Recital Music of Great Britain, and numerous individuals. Awarded a commission from American Composers Forum/Continental Harmonies Project for "From the Dreams of Montana Children" to be premiered April 12, 2003 in Ennis, Montana as part of the Madison River Music Festival.

ERIC FUNK has won

• 13 ASCAP Standard Awards
• 2001 Governor's Award for the Arts (Montana) 
• the Northwest Repertory Dance Company Composition Competition
• the Margaret Jory Grant
• the 1986 Pacific First Federal Composition Contest
• three Arts Commission Fellowships.
• composition fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf (Brandenburg, Germany) summer 1996

• 12 works for orchestra
• 15 concertos
• 6 ballet scores
• 3 operas
• 3 large works for chorus and orchestra
• 3 works for brass ensemble
• Numerous chamber works for various ensembles and pieces for voice and for solo instruments.

ERIC FUNK's recently commissioned works, The Drums Must Never Stop (Double Bass Quartet), Sonata in the Olden Style (2 Double Basses & Piano), and Concerto, Op. 85 for Double Bass, French horn, Timpani, & Strings were recently published by Recital Music and are available at:

      Recital Music
      PO Box 151
      Aldershot
      Hants GU12 7YQ
      Great Britain

Copyright(c) 2003 Eric Funk. All rights reserved.
ericfunk@ericfunk.com