Here's the latest installment of Fellows Notes, the current news of past fellows/finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. From the looks of it, the new year will be rich with great art! Peter Brown (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '06) reads from his new short story collection A Bright Soothing Noise at Brookline Booksmith, on Tuesday, January 11, 7 PM. The … [Read more...]
Gallery Glimpse: Ralf Yusuf Gawlick
Your browser does not support the audio element. Today's glimpse from our gallery of past MCC fellows/finalists features Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (Music Composition Fellow '09) and an excerpt of Glocken-Spiel for piano quartet. In his notes on the piece, Gawlick discusses how he was guided by the sound of the bell - simultaneously representing a call to the living and a … [Read more...]
Composing crusades for the extraordinary
Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (Music Composition Fellow '09) was born in Germany, of Turkish-Kurdish descent. He's lived and worked in the United States and Europe, and through his wife, has become particularly connected to Poland (his "adopted country"). With that breadth of personal experience, perhaps it should come as no surprise that his musical compositions seem to move with the … [Read more...]