The composer Sidney Corbett is featured in this first release by Edition Kopernikus, entitled The Longings. The release is a portrait of an artist, whose highly individual artistic stance is outside the mainstream trends in new music composition yet represents a no less vigorous or explicitly contemporary sensibility. Corbett’s musical voice has in the meantime firmly established itself in the international music world. Sidney Corbett was born in Chicago and educated at the University of California in San Diego, Yale University and then in György Ligeti’s composition class at the Academy of Music in Hamburg. He has lived in Germany since the mid 1980s and has been Professor of Composition at the University of the Performing Arts in Mannheim since 2006, where he also directs their Forum for New Music. One area of particular emphasis in Corbett’s work is that of music theatre; however there is also a sizeable body of chamber music. Four works from his chamber music output from 2003 to 2006 are presented on this current CD, performed by the musicians of the Berlin Modern Art Ensemble, a group that has worked closely with the composer Sidney Corbett for many years.

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A collection of musical scores of Sidney Corbett's compositions can be found on edition nova vita and are freely downloadable.

A list of Sidney Corbett's works can be found on Edition Peters