REVIEWS

"Peter Terry and Lucia Unrau are bringing computers in from the fringe of the classical music scene."

"The duo presented a stimulating concert of live electronic music, full of intense and surprising timbres, committed gestures, and compelling musical content. Terry's works presented on the concert combine live Midi processing with sequencing and live performance, creating a wide variety of textures and moods, often with a very moving basis in the composer's personal experience.

Terry's expert hand with sound design is truly remarkable; all of the works on the program demonstrated the composer's imagination and tremendous attention to detail on his score...Unrau's accomplished, intensely concentrated performance made the intricate and difficult passage work of the solo part seem almost effortless."

"Peter Terry successfully presented six of his works...the program served as an attractive cross-section of his stylistically diverse output, which favors computer music but also contains thoughtful, impressive non-electronic music as well..."Illuminations" showed off Terry's prodigious ability to write virtuosic melodic lines and ostinatos."

"Terry has developed an individual style, both as a composer and a performer, for the electronic wind instrument. He is a master in creating and performing in this medium..."

"Peter Terry's "A Halo of Dark Stars" proved equally vivid and dramatic, with a synthesized pop coloring. Lucia Unrau provided pointed, bravura playing at a MIDI keyboard..."

"The opening piece, "A Halo of Dark Stars" presented to the audience a mixture of bell-like timbres set to unpredictable arpeggios and an ominous, alien-like section of sustaining tones. The performance was a constant interplay between human, with Unrau at the keys, and computer..."

"Aria conjures up an entire orchestra of familiar but not quite identifiable instruments, laying out a musical landscape that is at once intriguing and mysterious."