Joe Nickerson is an award-winning American composer and performer living in Switzerland who works in a number of styles and genres. Composing music that ranges from solo instrumentals like classical guitar to tracks featuring full symphony orchestra, he favors chamber music most of all. Joe has won a number of awards for his outstanding compositions, and has had several tracks published by Berben, Italy, and several have been recorded. He is also a jazz musician who excels at the guitar, bass, and tenor and soprano saxophones.
The finale to my Klangfarben I - V Chamber Symphony.. the five pieces now total 18:10.. in the finale i was interested in the canonic, polyphonic, contrapuntal and fugal aspects of the structure as well as the timbral, dynamic, syntactical and temporal dimensions. Instrumental, Classical Music, 21st Century
This modern piano piece is dynamically and technically brilliant. Elloquently speaking the language of our time. Abstract but with the classical contrasts in expression from lyrically sublime to violently explosive. For any medium needing exciting virtuosic challenging music. Instrumental, Classical Music, 21st Century
Part 1 of Klangfarben I - V, a chamber symphony. In German Klangfarben translates literally as "sound colors", an apt description of these pieces which employ a vast array of colors through harmony, melody, orchestration, rhythm, timbre and attack/decay. Perfect as for films, TV, documentaries. Instrumental, Classical Music, 21st Century
For flute and harpsichord this piece was composed and first performed in 1991 in memory of Aaron Copland, one of America's most influential composers. Instrumental, Classical Music, 20th Century
