Michael Starke (composer)
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Michael Starke is an American neo-baroque
composer
who has gained a following worldwide for his chamber works that showcase the recorder
.
He is often cited, along with Giorgio Pacchioni
, Grant Colburn
and Mark Moya, as one of the foremost composers of music in the Baroque
style living in the present day. Starke's music has been featured in a number of videos and a National Geographic production.
Neo-baroque
The Baroque Revival or Neo-baroque was an architectural style of the late 19th century. The term is used to describe architecture which displays important aspects of Baroque style, but is not of the Baroque period proper—i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries.Some examples of Neo-baroque architecture:*...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
who has gained a following worldwide for his chamber works that showcase the recorder
Recorder
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
.
He is often cited, along with Giorgio Pacchioni
Giorgio Pacchioni
Giorgio Pacchioni is an Italian performer, professor, and composer.- Life :He has held the chair of recorder at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna from 1977 to 2006, when he retired and moved to Ubatuba...
, Grant Colburn
Grant Colburn
Grant Colburn is an American harpsichordist, pianist and composer.He studied harpsichord with Igor Kipnis.He is the author of five published collections of baroque and renaissance harpsichord music as well as music for recorder/flute with continuo and unaccompanied cello or viola da gamba, of...
and Mark Moya, as one of the foremost composers of music in the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
style living in the present day. Starke's music has been featured in a number of videos and a National Geographic production.