N O M I   E P S T E I N composer || curator


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"Nomi Epstein writes magical, otherworldly, spacious music.

What a stunningly individualistic and often haunting album: let's hope Epstein can continue to build on what promises to be a brilliant body of work." –New York Music Daily


"Her work is beautiful, quietly challenging and infinitely subtle, catering to nothing but the emergence of each element in a malleable context. " –Fanfare


"Epstein brings about inner pontification through short phrases and quietude. This is the type of music whose silence is just as powerful as its sound." –The Road to Sound


Nomi Epstein's work exists beneath the superficial expressive armor that dictates much of our communication, musically and otherwise. She writes music that is fragile and penetrating, demanding that the listener release our collective fixation on mental quickness and information density and sit still, sometimes uncomfortably so, with sound, phrase, and silence." –Dan Lippel


"To effectively present such music, one must often grasp diverse, elusive concepts and frame them without drawing unnecessary attention to one's own presence; working variously and often concurrently as a conductor and performer, Epstein has done this many times over. " –Dusted Magazine


"The soft nebulous edges of Layers for Piano artfully evoked a comfortable float on a feathery cloud.” –Sequenza 21

•New York Music Daily review of my album release"Nomi Epstein: sounds" (New Focus).

•The Road to Sound review of my album release"Nomi Epstein: sounds" (New Focus).

•Esoteros review of my album release"Nomi Epstein: sounds" (New Focus).

•Dusted Magazine review of my album release"Nomi Epstein: sounds" (New Focus).

•Avant Music News review of my album release"Nomi Epstein: sounds" (New Focus).

•Best of Bandcamp review of my album release"Nomi Epstein: sounds" (New Focus).

•Video Interview by Dan Lippel (New Focus) about album release "Nomi Epstein: sounds."

•Boring Like A Drill review of Juliet Fraser's album release which includes my collections for Juliet.

Presto Classical review of Juliet Fraser's album release which includes my collections for Juliet.

•Sequenza 21 Review: Southland Ensemble plays my all are above us in Los Angeles.

•Sequenza21 Review: Dog Star Festival, Reinier van Houdt premieres my Layers for Piano.

•Profiled/Interviewed in Musica Kaleidoskopea, Jan'18.

ªCommentator on Text Scores in Experimental Music.  Wort zu Klang: Verbale Partituren in der neuen Musik/Raphael Smarzoch. click to listen

•WFMT Relevant Tones radio show on Wandelweiser Music featuring an interview with Frey, Houben and myself, and a.pe.ri.od.ic performing.  Relevant Tones/Seth Boustead click to listen

•Interview on my communications (2) for USC/Greg Stuart. Free Times/Kyle Petersen.

•Video Introduction for my Translation: a conceptual, chamber opera. The Industry. click to watch

•Interview on my Translation: a conceptual, chamber opera. New Classic LA/Nick Norton

•Interviewed by Olivia Block for Experimental Music Yearbook on my Combine, Juxtapose, Delayed Overlap click to listen

•Profiled in the Chicago Tribune June 7, 2013. Chicago Tribune/Jessica Hopper



a.pe.ri.od.ic's debut CD 'more or less' listed in

Favorite Chicago Classical Albums of 2014, Chicago Reader

Best New Music Albums 2014, Bigcityblog.com

Classical Albums of 2014, Rhapsody.com


Chicago Tribune

“John Cage festival explores composer's changing world of sound”


The Chicago Reader

“A John Cage Q&A with composer and a.pe.ri.od.ic director Nomi Epstein”

“Three Beats: A prepared-piano preview of A John Cage Festival”

“Digging deep into John Cage this weekend”

“a.pe.ri.od.ic (5)”

“a.pe.ri.od.ic takes James Tenney's Swell Piece to the beach for free”

“Best of Chicago 2011: Best place to hear work by Wandelweiser Group composers”

“a.pe.ri.od.ic's Post-Cage Throwdown”


Timeout

“This Week in Chicago: John Cage Festival”


New City

“Experimental Variations: Nomi Epstein curates an ambitious John Cage Festival