ICTUS NOVUS
Ictus Novus is a guitar and percussion duo that commissions, writes, and performs new works for the instrumentation. They seek to expand guitar and percussion repertoire by tapping into the energy of rock and metal music. Ictus Novus seeks to challenge the norms of "classical" music while creating art that is accessible to all people.
Ictus Novus is Matthew Kowalski (percussion) and Kyle Miller (guitar).
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Matt Kowalski is a percussionist and a composer based in Providence, Rhode Island. Matt holds a Bachelor's Degree in Percussion Performance from SUNY Fredonia and a Master’s Degree in Percussion Performance from Queens College. Throughout his time as a student and as a professional, he has assisted in the premieres of new works by living composers. As a soloist, he's performed at the New School’s Centennial Celebration of John Cage’s MUSICIRCUS and the MuSE Festival in Long Island City. As an ensemble member, he has collaborated with world-renowned artists like Makoto Nakura, Valerie Naranjo, and Dewa Alit.
For more info on Matt: Check out his website
Kyle Miller, a native New Yorker from Valley Stream in Long Island, is a genre-fluid composer, performer, educator and audio engineer. As a musician who first began his training in electric guitar and later switched to classical training, Kyle blends rock and classical styles to create a compelling musical language that is at once familiar and novel. He received his Bachelor of Music in Classical Guitar Performance and Master of Arts in Composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. He has studied guitar with William Anderson and Paul Bollenback, and composition with Edward Smaldone, Bruce Saylor and Jeff Nichols. Kyle also spent time studying guitar at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico and Balinese Gamelan in Bali, Indonesia. He is an active performer and composer of Gamelan Yowana Sari and Ictus Novus.
For more info on Kyle: Check out his website
email: ictus.novus.duo@gmail.com