‘dreamy post-rock’ (The New York Times<\/em>)
‘never-ending, sugar-sweet’ (Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung<\/em>)
‘hauntingly beautiful’ (The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>)
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n‘The work of Thomas Meadowcroft crosses worlds, embracing notated compositions for orchestras, acoustic instruments and electronics, and music for radio and theater. His music\u2019s surface beauty is ambiguous, even ambivalent. Its ideas are provocative, but the music can be laugh-out-loud funny. It tells stories that are personal, but these stories are distanced \u2014 meaning can be made only by the listener. And, at times we just simply drift, unmoored, his slowly changing harmonies living in the fuzzy middle between tension and resolution. Perhaps we might give up some measure of control, some of our insistence on \u201cwhere is this going?\u201d This music isn\u2019t in a hurry, so perhaps we shouldn\u2019t be either.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tim Munro — Chicago, April 2022
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Thomas Meadowcroft composes music for the concert hall, theater and radio. He has worked with a variety of orchestras and ensembles, including: Basel Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, ensemble recherche, the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg, Les Percussion de Strasbourg, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, M\u00e4dchenchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, members of the South West German Radio Big Band and Symphony Orchestra. In particular, he shares long standing collaborations with Australia’s ‘Speak Percussion’, and the New York ensemble \u2018Yarn\/Wire\u2019. Thomas’ chamber music has been presented at various international festivals and concert series including Miller Theater and Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center (NYC), Lucerne Festival, Maerzmusik (Berlin), and Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles).\u2028\u2028 In 2023, he arranged the music of Herbert Gr\u00f6nemeyer for orchestra, as part of the Theater Basel and Komische Oper Berlin co-production of Pferd frisst Hut<\/em>, directed by Herbert Fritsch. In 2015, he arranged the music of Dirk von Lowtzow for orchestra, as part of the Volksb\u00fchne Berlin production, Von einem der auszog, weil er sich die Miete nicht mehr leisten konnte<\/em>, directed by Ren\u00e9 Pollesch.\u2028\u2028 Thomas has undertaken artist residencies at the Villa Aurora Los Angeles (courtesy of the German Foreign Office), Cit\u00e9 des arts Paris (courtesy of the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs), the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers\u2019 House Sydney, and the Golden Vale residence (courtesy of the National Trust of Australia NSW, and the Bundanon Trust). With the assistance of a William Penn Fellowship, Thomas completed postgraduate studies in composition with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Thomas\u2019 music is released on Mode Records, New York. He has lived in Berlin since 1998. About ‘reaching an inexpressible purity’ (Le Monde)‘dreamy post-rock’ (The New York Times)‘never-ending, sugar-sweet’ (Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung)‘hauntingly beautiful’ (The Sydney Morning Herald) ‘The work of Thomas Meadowcroft crosses worlds, embracing notated compositions for orchestras, acoustic instruments and electronics, and music for radio and theater. His music\u2019s surface beauty is ambiguous, even ambivalent. Its ideas are provocative, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1021","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1021\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasmeadowcroft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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