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Franklin Cox (born Charleston, Illinois, 1961) is an American composer, scholar, and cellist.
Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. [1] He is currently (2020) associate professor of theory, composition, and cello at Wright State University. [2] His ongoing concert series, The New Cello, features his work in addition to other composers that explore new possibilities on the instrument through extended techniques and microtonality. [3] [4] ) Cox has also been co-editor of Search: Journal for New Music and Culture since its founding in 2007. [5] 3
Franklin Cox's work advances a range of features and concepts associated with "New Complexity; [6] his performances range widely between new music to classical and common-practice chamber works. Works with considerable recognition include Chronopolis, for solo flute (1988–89), [7] Di-remption, for solo percussionist (1993), [8] If on a Winter's Night ..., for solo clarinet (1988) [9] and a landmark series of solo string compositions: the Clairvoyance set for violin solo, with a version for cello (1989), and Recoil, for cello solo (1994), along with a range of cello etudes. [10] [11] [12] [13] Cox's cycle Spiegelgeschichte, for 24 Voices, was a commission from Südwestrunfunk (SWR), Germany (2009–2011). Its first performance was by SWR Chorus in Eclat 2011 festival, Stuttgart, Germany. [14]
Cox has an international reputation as a scholar and as an editor of scholarship, with particular attention to the European tradition of new music and associated practices in the Americas. In that vein his foci have tended toward conceptual approaches to musical form, [15] [16] [17] history, [18] [19] [20] aesthetics [21] [22] [23] [24] (and its cultural/ideological implications [25] [26] ); his is prolific reviewer of others' music and scholarship, [27] particularly on Elliott Carter. [28] [29] His analyses of, and scholarship about, Klaus Hübler, with James Avery, is the definitive lens on that subject. [30] His analyses of his own music have also achieved significant circulation and academic attention, though they are published exclusively in the context of his role as Search editor. There exists also a considerable body of scholarship on Cox's own work. [31] [32] His scholarship has been translated into German [33] and Italian. [34]
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