Brian Padavic

Brian Padavic’s focus is live music. He has written for and performed with a variety of genres and ensembles: orchestras, jazz combos, big bands, folk, Latin, rock, musical theater, etc. This range of style influences his musical writing, he pulls from a mix of sources to create music that can be singable yet intellectually intricate, or danceable yet spacious and abstract. Padavic describes his art as – always emotional, and typically inspired by everyday people in my life. Everyone has a story to tell. I want to express their stories through my music.

Padavic States: “My music lives in an exciting and dangerous place between the cracks of musical genres. I fuse written notation with improvisation, combine jazz and opera, invent Hungarian/American folk rock idioms, and weave together Minimalist tendencies and polystylist techniques. My product is a tornado of visceral emotion and complex thought spinning along a Midwestern landscape that intersects the real with the surreal.”

http://soundcloud.com/brianpadavic

A Tale of Two Rabbys [text by Jennifer Coates] – https://soundcloud.com/brianpadavic/path-tique-a-tale-of-two – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrOI2hHQj9s
theatrical work for ensemble and vocalists (2012/rev.2014) ~ 45′

Counting Clouds for Ensemble of Irreproducible Outcomes – https://soundcloud.com/brianpadavic/counting-clouds-1