Some recent events

 
Fall of 2007: Completed Virtual Voices For guitar, violin and digital sound.
Composed for DUO46 with sincere appreciation for their continuing support,
encouragement, and performance of music by living composers.

NOTES: Without exception, all the sounds in this composition were created from the sampled sounds of the acoustic guitar and the violin.  Several hundred samples are involved and, although in many cases, the samples are used quite literally, the digital manipulation of others obscures their origins. The composition is in a single movement and is about sixteen minutes in length.  The Genesis of the work can be found in the extended use of the instrument’s tuning pitches that both begin and end the work. As the composition progresses, the abstract, and detached, quality of the tuning gestures become more and more expressive and the instrumental roles become more companionate and inter-connected.  In the process the tuning intervals of the fourth and fifth are filled in to create richer and more extended harmonies and the “live” instruments attempt to break free from the rigid accuracy of the recorded rhythms and the fixed colors of the “virtual” voices.  About three quarters of the way through the work this culminates in both instruments playing “free” cadenzas followed by a return of the opening tuning material, and remembrances of a more connected relationship.  The piece ends with the “live” instruments silent, for the most part, and the “virtual” tuning notes take over, build to a climax and finally fade away.
 
February 20, 2007: Florida State University: performance of "Travelogues" for violin, guitar, and cello with cellist Evan Jones.

February 12, 2007: Birmingham-Southern College:  North American Premiere of "Travelogues" for violin, guitar, and cello commissioned by Duo46 with cellist Craig Hultgren.

October 23, 2006:
 "The Time Is:" performance by Robert Page and the Carnegie Mellon
Choir, Pittsburg, PA.

July 14 & 15, 2006:

Premiere of "The Time Is:" a new work for chorus, piano and strings commissioned by Music from Salem for their 20th Anniversar, Hubbard Hall, Cambridge, NY July 15. Based upon two texts by Eve Merriam and texts adapted from American Revolutionary War sources, a folk song from the Civil War, the Women's Sufferage Movement, and a poem by a young student (2006). Performed by the Salem Festival Choir, directed by Richard Butler and instrunentalists from the 2006 Music from Salem group.

Oct. 8 - OCT. 15, 2004: New Choral Music:
Korte was in residence at Eastern Mediterrranean University at Gazimagusa, Turkey for concerts of his music, lectures and the premiere of commissioned works for guitar, violin and cello. Commissioned by Duo46:
 MAKAM (dances), for violin & guitar
TRIO (Travelogues), violin, guitar & cello.[I. Cyprus, II. Te Maori, III. Aki]

2004. New Choral Music:
 Premiered in NYC - SHIKI (the seasons), for SATB (or SSA) chorus with soloists and a digital accompaniment (on CD) created from the sounds of the human voice, the koto, other Japanese percussion and the wind. Texts drawn from Japanese haiku nature poetry celebrating the seasons. Haru - Spring, Natsu - Summer, Aki - Autumn, Fyeu - Winter

"a magnificant work." - Gregg Smith

Total performance time about 28 minutes.  Movements may be separately performed. Scores (SATB or SSA) and CD's with both practice and performance versions available from the composer.

2003. New Choral Music:
 March - The New York Treble Singers, directed by Virgina Davidson, gave the premiere of the sections of SHIKI specially written for women's voices. July - The composer was in residence at the Adirondack Festival of American Music for the performance of songs, choral music and rehearsals for his SHIKI (the seasons), composed for the Greg Smith Singers.

2003. Chamber Music:
 REVISITATION - a Fantasia on a Revolutionary War melody for trumpet and organ. (Commissioned for the rededication of the Salem Court House, Washington County, NY.)