Carlton Vickers is widely regarded as one of today's most important performers
of contemporary and electro-acoustic flute music. A long standing performer with the
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Vickers has been a ubiquitous presence for over
18 years as flute soloist with the acclaimed Canyonlands New Music Ensemble
and The Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composers Series.
He 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, John Harbison, Jonathan Harvey, Jörg Herchet, 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, Charles Wuorinen and Yehudi Wyner.

Current recording projects include this upcoming release for contextrecords.

isolations in free sonics The much anticipated follow-up to over from silence features seminal works for flute by Pierre Boulez, Chris Dench, Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Finnissy.

CAGE/ATLAS ECLIPTICALIS This unique release features the completion of a project spanning 15 years in preparation; a full microtonal realization of John Cage's massive Atlas Eclipticalis for 3 Flutes (dedicated to Masayuki Koga).

Also available on contextrecords is the acclaimed over from silence, featuring premiere recordings of works by Davidovsky, Herchet, Kreiger, Martino, Saariaho and Schenker. This solo release features the only available recording of the historic Synchronisms #1 for flute and electronic sounds, by Mario Davidovsky. Also featured, Quodlibets II for flute solo by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Donald Martino. The sessions also feature the American Premiere of two works by the reknown East German composer, Jörg Herchet, Komposition I für flöte solo, and Komposition II für flöte solo, dedicated to Eckart Haupt, Principal Flute, Staatskappelle Dresden. Mr. Vickers work closely with Prof. Haupt and Prof. Herchet in Boston (U.S.A.) and Dresden (Germany) in preparation for the recording of these works.

Most recently, Mr. Vickers appears as soloist in premiere recordings of music by Morris Rosenzweig. The acclaimed What Follows is a Song From the Same Fragmented Masque for flute solo (dedicated to Carlton Vickers), and the evocative Melpomene, performed with the Canyonlands New Music Ensemble for Albany Records. As well, he is a featured soloist on the recent Centaur Records release, Music of Miguel Chuaqui,featuring music of the Chilean composer.

Concert invitations include the Dresdener Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Musik,
DIEM (Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music), SEAMUS, and the Third Practice
Electroacoustic Music Festival.

He has recorded for Albany, Bridge, CRI, Centaur and context records respectively.

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