Davis Brooks, Violin

For students, friends and colleagues.......

Recent & Upcoming Concerts

Bellingham Music Festival June 28 to July 20, 2018

String Quartet concert at John Seest Series 5/20/18

Piano Trio concert at Butler University 3/3/18

String Quartet concert at at Butler University 2/27/18

Chamber music concert at Tippeecanoe Series, Purdue University, 2/18/18

Solo recitals of new music at University of Iowa, University of Nebraska, Drake University and Clarke University September 2018

Playing and teaching at The Music Festival of the Adriatic in Duino, Italy. June 11th - July 5 2017

November 2016 - released a new cd of 10 new works for violin, electric violin or violin with “tape”. The music was written for me and recorded in Spring 2016. Early Musings

2/27/17 Violin Recital - Wooster College

2/7-12/17 The Little Mermaid National Traveling Show

1/10-15/17 Sound of Music National Traveling Show - Indianapolis

12/15/16 - Celtic Woman - Wabash

10/26/16 - Amy Grant

10/18/16 - Final Fastasy concert - Indianapolis

10/15/16 - Brace Yourself - Frank Felice - Butler University

10/14/16 Johnny Mathis - Cincinnati

10/10/16 Enjamb, Infuse, Implode - Anthony Cheung
University of Indianapolis

7/2016 Bellingham Music Festival

5/3-15/16 Phanton of Opera Touring Company - Murat Theatre - Indianapolis

4/14/16 - World Premiere of Peacemakers by James Aikman - ICO - Butler University

3/26/16 - Solo Performance at Parkenson’s Disease Benefit - University of Alabama

3/14-20/16 Newsies - Clowes Hall - Butler University

2/28/16 Tippeecanoe Chamber Music Recital with Kara Stolle - Purdue University

2/25/16 Becky Archibald Recital - Anderson University

2/2/16 Tom Gerber Recital - Butler University

1/22/16 Contemporary Violin Recital - University of Alabama

10/19/15 Contemporary Violin Recital - Northern Arizona University

10/13/15 Contemporary Violin Recital - University of Arizona

10/11/15 Ravel Tzigane with the Butler University Orchestra

9/27/15 Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Butler University Orchestra

9/15/15 Faculty Chamber Music Concert Mozart String Quartet

7/15 Bellingham Music Festival

4/10/15 Michael Schelles’s The End of Al Capone, Butler Arts Fest (premiere)

4/10/15 Peter Maxwell Davies - 8 Songs for a Mad King, Butler Arts Fest

4/8/15 Progressive Lenses - a progressive rock band at Butler Arts Fest

2/8/15 Benshoof Out and Back Again for Violin and Cello and Wind Ensemble with the Regali Winds at Indiana State University

2/3/15 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio with Kate Boyd , piano and Kurt Fowler, cello at Eidson Duckwall Recital Hall Butler University 7:30 PM

2/5/15 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio with Kate Boyd , piano and Kurt Fowler, celloat Indiana State University

9/14/14 Frank Felice You Drive Me Nervous and Mark Schultz With Every Leaf a Miracle with Kent Leslie Eidson Duckwall Recital Hall Butler University 2 PM

10/31/14 Solo Performance of Saint-Saens Danse Macabre and the incredible music to Young Frankenstein with the Butler Wind Ensemble under the direction of Prof. Michael Colburn, Schrott Aud. Butler University 7:30 PM

9/14/14 Frank Felice You Drive Me Nervous and Mark Schultz With Every Leaf a Miracle with Kent Leslie Eidson Duckwall Recital Hall Butler University 2 PM

April 2011 marks the release of a new cd. Music for Violin by composer C. P. First performed by Davis Brooks. This cd reflects a two decade time period of collaboration and friendship between composer and performer. Available on Itunes and Emusic.

In December 2010 I released a solo cd of music for violin and electronic media entitled ironically Violin and Electronics. It is also available on iTunes and eMusic and features the works of seven American composers. This cd was recently reviewed in Strad magazine (April 2011)

Bon appetit!

FOR PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

Why you’ve never really heard the “Moonlight Sonata”. by Jan Swafford 2010

FOR ARGUMENT AND INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION

Online Resources for Music Scholars - Mozart
Why do we hate modern classical music? by Alex Ross 2010
Who cares if you listen? by Milton Babbitt 1958
Milton Babbitt: A Discussion in 12 Parts
There will be people who are horrified by these ideas by Nico Muhly 2009
On Strads by Paul Zukofsky
Purloined Rhythms by Paul Zukosky
Purloined Too by Paul Zukofsky
À La Recherche du [cinq] Temps Perdu by Paul Zukofsky
Classical Musicians and the Fame Game by Mark Swed
I hate world music. by David Bryne
A Modernist defends Modern Music by Aaron Copland 1949
When Private and Public Worlds Meet by Aaron Copland 1968
Mozart’s Melody Machine by Ivars Peterson
Is Classical Music Dying by Jack Miles and Douglas McLennan
If I had ten minutes with the pope... by Stephen Hough
Generative Music by Brian Eno 1996
The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician by Robert Ostertag
Eye movement in music reading - Wiki

FOR VIOLIN TECHNIQUE

Conversation with George Neikrug by Tim Janof
Violinist’s Guide to the Alexander Technique by Paul Collins
Aspects of Contemporary Music by Paul Zukofsky
On Violin Harmonics by Paul Zukofsky