BRYAN JOHANSON, composer and guitarist, is a Professor of Music at Portland State University, where he has taught since 1978. His compositions have won awards from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Kennedy Center, the Aspen Music Festival, the Esztergom International Guitar Festival in Hungary, the Festival of August in Venezuela; multiple awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and most recently, from the Rodger Wagner Center for Choral Studies. His music has been performed, published and recorded nationally and internationally. His catalogue of works includes three symphonies; concertos for violin, viola, cello, and piano; song cycles, choral music, opera and numerous chamber and solo compositions.

THE THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Ron Blessinger, Artistic Director

The premiere contemporary chamber ensemble in the Pacific Northwest, the Third Angle New Music Ensemble of Portland, Oregon is dedicated to the presentation of 20th century chamber music, with an emphasis on programming music by American composers. Since its inception in 1985 the ensemble has presented seventy-three programs of contemporary music and has commissioned fifteen new works, firmly establishing the ensemble’s place as one of the nation’s foremost presenters of contemporary music.

For more information, please write to:

Third Angle New Music Ensemble
P.O. Box 1594
Portland, Oregon 97207-1594
tel: 503.331.0301
thirdangle@watership.net


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