Patrick Zimmerli

Patrick Zimmerli is an American composer, arranger, producer and saxophonist^[1] currently living and working in Paris and New York City.

His work has been performed at Carnegie Hall^[2] and Town Hall^[3] in New York, Wigmore Hall in London^[4] and Salle Pleyel in Paris,^[5] as well as at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.^[6] His pieces have been featured in the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, California.^[7] Notable musicians and ensembles who have commissioned or performed his music include violinist Tim Fain, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, cellists Kristina Reiko Cooper and Brian Thornton, the Ying and Escher string quartets and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

In addition to his work in the classical realm, Zimmerli has collaborated with dozens of jazz musicians over the course of his career, including Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade, Ben Monder, Larry Grenadier, John Hollenbeck, Jeff Williams and Tom Rainey, as well as Ethan Iverson and Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus. In 1993, he won first prize in the first annual BMI/Thelonious Monk Composer's Competition,^[8] adjudicated by Herbie Hancock. Zimmerli's music has been recorded on the Naxos, Nonesuch, Blue Note, Arabesque, Antilles and Naïve record labels.^[9][10][11]

Selected works

• Concerto No. 1 for piano, strings and percussion (1998–99)
• Suite for solo saxophone (1999)
• Concerto No. 2 for piano, strings and percussion (2001–02)
• Piano Trio No. 1 for violin, cello and piano (2001–02)
• Piano Trio No. 2 for violin, cello and piano (2003)
• New York Overture for chamber orchestra (2003)
• The Chase for soprano saxophone, string quartet, piano, bass and jazz percussion (2005)
• The Call for viola, two violins, cello, piano, bass and jazz percussion (2005–06)
• American Spiritual for string quartet (2005–06)
• The Light Guitar for solo violin (2006)
• Narratives for solo piano (2004–07)
• Stone and Steel for cello, piano and jazz percussion (2007)
• Three Romances for violin and piano (2008)
• Spectres for solo viola (2008)
• Chamber Symphony for chamber orchestra (2008)
• Light, Color, Line, Symbol for orchestra and video (2009)
• Trio for flute, viola and harp (2009)
• Introduction and Allegro for piano four-hands (2010)
• Festival Overture for orchestra (2011)
• Quintet for violin, viola, cello, piano and jazz percussion (2011)
• Sonata for solo cello (2012)
• Parisian Memories/Parisian Dreams for saxophone, viola, violin, cello and piano (2012)
• Aspects of Darkness and Light for tenor saxophone, string quartet, bass and percussion (2012)

Discography

• Walking Shadows, Joshua Redman (Arranger) (2013, Nonesuch)
• River of Light, Tim Fain (2011, Naxos)
• Modern Music, Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays (2011, Nonesuch)
• Stone and Steel, Kristina Reiko Cooper (2008, Koch)
• Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2, (2004, Arabesque)
• Phoenix, (2003, Songlines)
• Book of Hours, Octurn (2002, Songlines)
• Expansion, (2000, Songlines)
• Twelve Sacred Dances, (1998, Arabesque)
• Explosion, (1995, Songlines)
• Jazz Ambassadors, (1995, Jazz City)

References

External links

Official website