Michele Fiala has concertized throughout the United States, Italy and Canada as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. She has performed with the Banff Summer Music Festival, Louisville Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Lee Ann Rimes, Barry Williams and Roberta Flack. She is Assistant Professor of Double Reeds at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and holds DMA and MM degrees from Arizona State University, and a BM from the University of Kentucky. She has edited music for Phylloscopus Publications, contributes to i Fiati and the Double Reed, and has completed a manuscript on nineteenth-century Italian oboe music. This is her first solo recording on CD. She has previously appeared on recordings on the Centaur and d’Note Records labels.
Heidi Pintner is Assistant Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Western Kentucky University, plays in the Bowling Green Chamber Orchestra, and is treasurer of the Flute Society of Kentucky. She has taught at California State University, Chico and performed with the North State Symphony, Chico Early Music Ensemble and Sacramento Early Music Consort. Dr. Pintner is an active soloist, chamber player, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States and Mexico. She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (BM) and Florida State University (MM and DM), where she studied with Michel Debost, Kathleen Chastain and Charles DeLaney. She has released a CD of flute chamber music on the Centaur label.
Cats in the Kitchen is an alternative classical work in three movements:
1 - Eggs & Toast 2 - O Sole Meow 3 - Where's Your Mouse, McGee?
Cats in the Kitchen was composed by Phillip Bimstein in 2007. It is scored for flute, oboe, meows, purrs, cracked eggs, sliced onions, buttered toast, sizzling skillets, spoons, knives, pepper grinder, toaster oven, pots, pans, draining dishwater, and pretty much everything else in the kitchen "sync.”
The sound score also features feline duets and trios, cat food crunches, waterdrums, and Bimstein's girlfriend Charlotte Bell speaking to her beloved cat, Fiona McGee, who sadly passed on shortly after this piece was composed. The flute and oboe playfully dance and weave with the sounds and each other, sometimes in imitation or dialogue with the cats, and at other times cooking up their own fanciful filigree.
Cats in the Kitchen was commissioned for Michele Fiala
and Heidi Pintner (see bios at left) by Western Kentucky University, through its Provost’s Initiatives for Excellence Fund and its Potter College of Arts and Letters. It was recorded by Pintner and Fiala and released in 2008 on Michele Fiala's MSR Classics CD as MS1217 - "The Light Wraps You: New Music for Oboe."
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Alternative classical composer Phillip Bimstein lives in Salt Lake City and Springdale, Utah, where he also served two terms as mayor. A recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet The Composer, American Composers Forum and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica, Bimstein's music has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Bang on a Can Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and London's Royal Opera House.
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