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Todd Reynolds is an American violinist, composer, and conductor well-known for his work with amplified violin and electronics. A student of Jascha Heifetz and former principle of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Reynolds entered into the contemporary music scene in New York as a member of Bang on a Can and Steve Reich and Musicians. Reynolds co-founded the string quartet Ethel as an attempt to take a classical ensemble format into the technological age by collaborating with a series of avant-garde and experimental composers, musicians, and artists to expand the string quartet repertoire to include electronic and interactive works.
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TODD REYNOLDS (NYC), composer, conductor, arranger, violinist and electronic musician, is a veteran of the New York City music scene, and a longtime touring and recording member member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project . Collaborations run the gamut from Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson to Kenny Werner and Betty Buckley to Meredith Monk and Scanner. His solo sets on tour opening for Indie sensations, The Books, and his affiliation with and use of the music software phenomenon Ableton Live have opened his unique blend of "classically- improvised-quantum-ambient-electronica" to a new and wider audience. His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music continues to produce innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world.
Reynolds is a founder of the band known as Ethel, a critically acclaimed amplified string quartet (represented by ICM Artists), with whom he wrote and toured internationally for its first 7 years. He also carries in his booking stash ’Still Life With Microphone’, an ongoing theater piece which incorporates his own written and improvised music, compositions written for him, and elements of video and theatrical arts. Nuove Uova [new eggs], new works for violin and electricity, another Todd Reynolds production is a ’new-music cabaret’ of sorts, having as its home Joe’s Pub in Manhattan. He is the recipient of ASCAP awards, an American Composers Forum Grant for Still Life with Mic and Commissioning and Performance grants from Meet The Composer, classical music’s funding godsend to the continuation of the classical music tradition.
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"Todd Reynolds Discography". http://www.amazon.com/s/?search-alias=classical&field-keywords=Todd%20Reynolds. Retrieved on 2006.



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