Recent News & Performances
April 19, 2012
World-premiere performance of Five Grooves & Five Solos for percussion, two pianos, and saxophone quartet. Andrew Martin, percussion. Inver Hills College.
March 25, 2012
World-premiere performance 50+ Times Three to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Essex Community College. Essex Chamber Players.
October-November, 2011
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Performances of A Letter to Say I Love You and Goodbye.Wolfgang David, violin; David Gompper, piano. IU East, Coe College, Indiana Wesleyan University.
July 26, 2011
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Release of String Quartets CD on Navona Records, distributed by Naxos.
April 2, 2011
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World-premiere of Sonata for Violin and Piano. Erik Rohde, violin. University of Minnesota School of Music. Minneapolis, MN.
April 21-24, 2011
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earWorm performances in Oklahoma. Masterclass at the University of Oklahoma School of Music on April 21.
November 14, 2010
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World-premiere of Three Symphonic Moods. Whatcom Symphony Orchestra, Bellingham, WA.
October 27, 2010
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World-premiere of Study for steel-pan and guitar. Andrew Martin and Antony Titus. InverHills College, Inver Grove Heights, MN.
September 23-29, 2010
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earWorm performances in Minneapolis and St. Paul. September 24 at the Black Dog Cafe and Wine Bar and September 25 at Cafe Maude. September 29 at the University of Minnesota SPARK festival.
March 13, 2010
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American premiere of April--a meditation for orchestra by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. Civic Hall Performing Arts Center, Richmond, IN.
March 12, 2010
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earWorm performs as part of the IU East Hear and Now Festival. Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, Richmond, IN. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
February 13, 2010
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World-premiere of String Quartet No. 6 by the Martinu String Quartet. Czech Academy of Music, Prague, Czech Republic.
December 6, 2009
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Performance with earWorm at the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) conference at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
November 13, 2009
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World-premiere performance of Suite for Violin and Marimba by marimbist Andrew Martin and violinist Ginna Watson. Indiana University East. Richmond, IN.
July 29, 31 & August 2, 2009
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Performance of String Quartet No. 4 by the Chanticleer String Quartet. Richmond and Indianapolis, IN.
June 1, 2009
May 28 & May 30, 2009
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Performances with earWorm sponsored by Indiana University East at the J&J Winery, Richmond IN (May 28). Performance at the Michiana Improvisation Festival at Indiana University South Bend, South Bend IN (May 30).
March 12-15, 2009
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Visiting composer at the University of Oklahoma; Performances with McKinley’s improvisation ensemble earWorm as part of the College Music Society Southwestern conference. Norman, OK.
December 2, 2008
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World-premiere of Three Autumn Sketches by the Duquesne University New Music Ensemble; David Stock, conductor. PNC Recital Hall--Mary Pappert School of Music--Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
December 5, 2008
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Performance with McKinley’s improvisation ensemble earWorm as part of the International Society of Improvised Music’s annual national conference. Lamont School of Music at University of Denver, Denver, CO.
May 23 - June 1, 2008
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Residency as a guest composer and faculty of the Composition Masterclass in conjunction with the Alba International Music Festival in Alba, Italy. World-premiere of Concerto Fantasy during the festival with the Alba Festival Orchestra; Jeffrey Silberschlag conductor.
June 7, 2008
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Raggedy Andy--concerto for marimba and chamber ensemble. Andrew Martin, marimba. Czech Chamber Players; Vit Micka, conductor.
October 26, 2007
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World-Premiere of Four Moments for orchestra with the Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vänskä, conductor
September 2007
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Feature interview broadcast on Slovak National Radio’s exTemporare music program.
![“The ‘jazziness’ is so throughly digested... [and] equally well grounded in the string quartet tradition, the influences of Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovich and others being conveyed by a subtle and distinctive voice... The music begs for repeated hearings.”
- Ken Smith, Gramophone Magazine
“These works... communicate directly to the audience as well as to the player... McKinley’s quartets best feature is that , actually, they almost defy analysis and must be described almost totally in emotional and artistic terms... He is a new name to me but one well worth getting to know.”
- Daniel Coombs, AudiophileAudition
“As could be expected from a collusion of [Elliott] Carter and
Miles [Davis], rhythms are invariably skewed
into something extraordinary.”
- Frank J. Otieri, New Music Box (www.newmusicbox.org)
“McKinley provides a varied feast of textures, ideas and emotions that delight the ear and warm the soul... [his] art is as varied as the planet and happily repays repeated visits.”
- James Wegg Review (www.jamesweggreview.org)
“...chords shift into one another in a mesmeric thread
of the utmost beauty.”
- Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine (www.fanfarearchive.com)
“...the strength of McKinley’s music lies in his lively rhythms and elastic melodies, and [his] impressive works show a composer mastering his medium with consummate craft and a fertile, almost improvisational, imagination.”
- Blair Sanderson All Music Guide (www.allmusic.com)
“Elaborate Bop-like lines...serpentine lyricism...all unified by an individual sense of form, wit and texture...a promising young American.”
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