MONROE GOLDEN

A STILL SUBTLER SPIRIT
Order CD: CD Baby
Download: Apple iTunes


ALABAMA PLACES
Order CD: Innova
Download from: Apple iTunes


Reviews:
Sonoloco
Birmingham News
Bixobal Magazine/American Record Guide
Sequenza 21
New Music Connoisseur
All Music Guide
KZSU Zookeeper

BIOGRAPHY

Monroe Golden is a composer from rural Alabama whose overtone-informed music has been called delightfully disorienting, lovely, sumptuous, yet arcane and irresistible..., full of wit and beauty. He has received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the AMTA/MTNA Commissioning Award, and commissions from solo performers and groups. His work Incongruity (piano/fixed media) was the first prize entry in the Chicago-based UnTwelve Competition. Beyond his own artistry, Golden has actively promoted the innovative arts in his resident community. A founding member and three-term President of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, he has also led the Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham Improv, Artburst performance series, and New Arts Stage -- and implemented the inaugural Birmingham New Music Festival in 2014. He graduated from the University of Montevallo and earned a doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Illinois, studying primarily with Ed Robertson, Ben Johnston, Sever Tipei, Herbert Brün, and Aurel Stroé. There are three complete audio releases of his music: A Still Subtler Spirit (Living Artist Recordings, 2003), Alabama Places (Innova Recordings, 2007), and Incongruity (self-published, 2011).