SOCAL • CELLO • CENTRIC June 2025: Composer Highlight #1
I’m participating in a concert series of new music this June! We’ll be performing all-original, string-centric music on three dates (see photo below for info).
To help promote this collaboration, I’ll be sharing features on the composers involved!
Today, say hi to Alex Bozman — we’ll be performing his work “Love Ye The Stranger” for Bass Viol and String Quartet.
Alex Bozman works in multiple disciplines. As a professional musician, he composes, arranges, plays different instruments (cello, violoncello piccolo, fretless bass, fretted strings both bowed and plucked, vocals, and more), and teaches many talented students. The genres he practices and performs the most are Classical Music, Avant Garde Music, Early Music, Latin Music, and Hindustani Classical Music.
Alex holds an MFA (Performer/Composer) from CalArts and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Music from UC Berkeley. His main composition teachers were Mel Powell, Daniel Rothman, Peter Otto, and Lucky Mosko; he also enjoyed lessons from Lou Harrison, Chen Yi, Mort Subotnick, and others. He has studied cello with Erika Duke, Cesare Pascarella, and Bonnie Hampton. He studies Hindustani (North Indian) classical music with Pt. Partha Chatterjee and previously the late Dr. Rajeev Taranath. Alex places high value on both his own continuing development as an artist and his duty as a teacher to subsequent generations.
In his musical compositions, he seeks the fascinating rather than alignment with any particular niche or ideology. Although obviously at home with the strings he has been called “a percussion composer,” and a “winds composer.” Recent compositions have employed a musical language that involves complex invented modes, an emphasis on colors, a breadth of compositional techniques, and often, extra-musical underpinnings.
Keep following for more updates as the concert dates draw near!
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