about carlton vickers

Carlton Vickers is widely regarded as one of today's most important performers
of avant-garde flute music, specialising in the most demanding works of the contemporary and electro-acoustic repertoire. In addition to his recent appointment as flute soloist with the Cleveland based NO EXIT New Music Ensemble, Vickers has remained a ubiquitous presence for over two decades as flute soloist with the acclaimed Canyonlands New Music Ensemble and the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series. Carlton Vickers has worked in conjunction with, and has won the admiration of such prominent composers as Milton Babbitt, Harrison Birtwistle, Martin Boykan, John Cage, Chen Yi, John Corigliano, Mario Davidovsky, Stephen Dembski, Richard Festinger, John Harbison, Jonathan Harvey, Jörg Herchet, Andrew Imbrie, Louis Karchin, Arthur Kreiger, Stan Link, Steven Mackey, Donald Martino, Tristan Murail, Shulamit Ran, Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Frederic Rzewski, Joseph Schwantner, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Harvey Sollberger, George Tsontakis, Scott Wheeler, Charles Wuorinen and Yehudi Wyner.

Mr. Vickers has appeared in recital, concerts and master classes spanning three continents. Invitations include the Dresdener Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Musik, DIEM (Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music), SEAMUS, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival and the Cleveland Contemporary Players.

With numerous premiere recordings to his credit, Carlton Vickers is highly sought after as a recording artist. He routinely pairs his efforts as session artist with an extensive background in audio engineering, synthesis and sound design, appearing on numerous major label CD releases as both performer, and engineer.

Active beyond the scope of traditional performance, Vickers utilizes various audio developement platforms, including Max/MSP/Jitter and SuperCollider, designing interactive and generative audio/visual systems for live performance, improvisation and installation.

His performances are featured on Albany, Bridge, CRI, Capstone, Centaur and contextrecords.

Now available from contextrecords:

BOULEZ/CAGE

This unique pairing features the epic Boulez Sonatine for Flute and Piano, as well as a digital realization of John Cage's massive Atlas Eclipticalis for 3 Flutes (dedicated to Masayuki Koga). Available as download here.

over from silence

Featuring premiere recordings of works by Davidovsky, Herchet, Kreiger, Martino, Saariaho and Schenker. Available as download here.