On Wednesday, Sept. 27, Hartt Composition welcomes LJ White into Composers' Seminar. Composers' Seminar takes place in Bliss Music Room, in the Fuller building, from 5 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.
LJ White's music serves ideals of direct, focused, and socially relevant expression, assimilating an unrestricted array of influences through strange and evocative sonorities and rhythms, concise gestures, and apposite forms. He is strongly interested in the physical voice (spoken, sung, emulated, and as metaphor,) popular culture, issues of gender identity and queerness, and sociopolitical conditions. LJ has worked with many of the leading performers in contemporary classical music, including Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble SIGNAL, Ensemble Dal Niente, the JACK Quartet, the Spektral Quartet, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Third Angle Ensemble, Third Coast Percussion, Lucy Dhegrae, Transient Canvas, and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, the Talea Ensemble, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. White’s recent projects include collaborations with the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra under Steven Schick, The Crossing, the Breckenridge Music Festival, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Music NOW series, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony’s SFSymphony+ media channel, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s “Live at the Pulitzer” series.