Vasarely Patterns
2002- Premiered May 2002 by the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
- Robert Black, double bass; David Cossin, percussion; Lisa Moore, piano; Mark Stewart, electric guitar; Wendy Sutter, cello; Evan Ziporyn, clarinet.
- Dedicated to Jon Riksford.
Compositions
Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert · selected works, 1996–present
Two (Three) Etudes
1998 (2008)- Read by Rolf Schulte. For Sarah Darling.
- Three movement version dedicated to Giselle Crosa.
in this cold winter…
1997- Premiered March 5, 1999 by Wenyi Shih, Ching-Ching Chan, violins; Joli Wu, viola; Jennifer Lucht, cello.
- Earlier version (5 movements) in 1997 read by Akiko Tarumoto, Julie Park, violins; Philip Kim, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello.
Et Factum Est Vespere Et Mane (Dies Quartus)
1996- Premiered May 1996 by Sidney Kwiram, soprano; Nate Becker, clarinet; Giselle Crosa, viola; Fleur de Vie Weinstock, piano.
About the composer.
Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (b. 1976) received his undergraduate and graduate education at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude, and studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Judith Weir, Bernard Rands, and Michael Gandolfi.
He was professor of music at MIT from 2006 to 2024, where he created the Music Technology program and a creative research lab (cuthbertLab). In addition to MIT, Myke also held appointments at Boston University and Smith College, where he advised student composers and served on thesis-prize juries.
He is the creator of music21, a toolkit for computational musicology used extensively by composers to unlock their creativity. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (American Prix de Rome) and Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.