Toby Twining Music

2011 Guggenheim recipient Toby Twining was raised in Texas, with family roots in country-swing and gospel, and has traveled musically from playing for rock and jazz bands to composing and performing experimental music for voices with a fresh approach to harmony. He moved to New York in 1987, initially writing for modern dance choreographers who wanted the sounds of a new choral music. In 1991 he started Toby Twining Music, which performed in music halls and festivals across the United States and Europe. His recordings include Shaman (SONY, 1994), The Little Match Girl and Emily Dickinson’s Birthday Pizza on A Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary Album (Highbridge, 1996), Chrysalid Requiem and Eurydice (Cantaloupe Music 2002 and 2011). Twining’s instrumental music has been recorded by pianist Margaret Leng Tan and cellist Matt Haimovitz. He was a 2003 Pew Fellow, and is co-founder of Arts on the Edge Wolfeboro.

Toby Twining Music’s tracks

• Holy Radiators: Songs of Resistance & Devotion, "Fear Torn" by Toby Twining Music
• Holy Radiators: Songs of Resistance & Devotion, "Though The City Heaves from Exhaustion" by Toby Twining Music
• Holy Radiators: Songs of Resistance & Devotion, "O Glittering Silence" by Toby Twining Music
• Holy Radiators: Songs of Resistance & Devotion, "O Way-Out-of-No-Way" by Toby Twining Music
• Sequence III from Chrysalid Requiem: Qui Mariam by Toby Twining Music
• Sequence I: Dies irae by Toby Twining Music
• 9:11 Blues for oud and cello (Mak Grigich—oud, Jeremiah Campbell—cello) by Toby Twining Music