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Thank you for visiting DanCampolieta.com!
This is your source for information and booking of one of Connecticut's finest musicians, Dan Campolieta. Dan is a pianist, organist, composer, and conductor based in Hartford and there are many aspects of his musical life which you can explore on this website!
Due to some issues that arose in early July, this website is being rebuilt - so there is a lot more to come. Thank you for visiting, and expect the website to be back in full swing by the end of August, 2010.
photo by Peter Bagley
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Connecticut's premier chamber choir, Voce, Inc. recorded a CD full of compositions by Morten Lauridsen over Memorial Day weekend with the composer himself in residence. As a member of Voce and the Voce Chamber Artists, I am proud to have been a part of this recording as a singer, and pianist. The CD is both cutting edge, and a retrospective of sorts, featuring selections from each and every choral and song cycle written by the composer, and also including a handful of works never before recorded. Dr. Lauridsen collaborated in concert with Voce in 2008 and after spending just days with the choir decided his next CD had to be recorded by Voce, a young choir which he believed had potential to become a representative East Coast chamber choir to interpret his music.
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Let's all be honest - in today's competitive musical climate the boundaries between musical styles, and the labels that we put on certain musicians are becoming more and more blurry. Very few musicians can make a living doing just "one thing", and almost no one is able to make it on pure creative output anymore. However, the term "selling out" becomes more and more derogatory to me every day, because in all honesty, musicians need to be versatile to survive in this climate and if you can't read, improvise, and even in some cases, write music, in at least the two general musical fields of common practice period classical music and creative improvised music (whether jazz, or R&B, or funk or whatever) then you are severely disadvantaged. There's nothing negative about playing in front of a crowd that loves your music, even if what your playing is not your best creative work.
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