Nocturne 48: Judy Dunaway - Balloon Music

Judy Dunaway creates free improvisations and compositions on balloons as serious musical instruments. She has presented this work at many major festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Roy and Edna Disney Center (Los Angeles), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (New York), the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), and Podewil (Berlin). She has also performed works by John Zorn and Roscoe Mitchell, and has performed live improvisations on balloons with many outstanding musicians including Jennifer Walshe, John Hollenbeck, Yasunao Tone, and the FLUX Quartet. She has received grants/residencies from the Aaron Copland Fund, American Composers Forum, Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, STEIM, Harvestworks and others. She has released CDs of her balloon works on several labels including CRI (Composers Recordings Inc) and Innova.   More information: www.jeweltone16.org/judydunaway/biography.html