| Biography | Charles Curtis (*1960), Cellist, has been associated with minimalist pioneers La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela since 1987, their intimate working relationship having yielded retroactive recalibrations of pieces like Young’s 1958 Trio for Strings, as well as the only solo composition created by Young for a performer other than himself, «Just Charles and Cello in The Romantic Chord», based on just intonation tunings from «The Well Tuned Piano». Curtis is also the first performer to collaborate with Éliane Radigue on a work for an unamplified, acoustic instrument without electronic support or accompaniment. This work, «Naldjorlak», composed in 2004 and premiered in December 2005, is an hour-long, exhaustive enquiry into the inherent resonating properties of the cello. |
|---|
