about carlton vickers

carlton vickers is widely regarded as one of today's most important performers
of contemporary and electro-acoustic flute music. vickers has been a ubiquitous presence for over
19 years as flute soloist with the acclaimed canyonlands new music ensemble
and the maurice abravanel visiting distinguished composers series.
he has worked in conjunction with, and has won the admiration of such prominent composers as milton babbitt, harrison birtwistle, martin boykan, john cage, chen yi, john corigliano, mario davidovsky, stephen dembski, john harbison, jonathan harvey, jörg herchet, louis karchin, arthur kreiger, stan link, steven mackey, donald martino, eric moe, tristan murail, shulamit ran, steve reich, roger reynolds, frederic rzewski, joseph schwantner, ernstalbrecht stiebler, harvey sollberger, george tsontakis, scott wheeler, charles wuorinen and yehudi wyner.

now available from contextrecords:

boulez/cage this unique release features the epic boulez sonatine for flute and piano, and the completion of a project spanning 15 years in preparation; a full microtonal realization of john cage's massive atlas eclipticalis for 3 flutes (dedicated to masayuki koga). e-album available as download here.

also available, the acclaimed over from silence, featuring premiere recordings of works by davidovsky, herchet, kreiger, martino, saariaho and schenker.

concert invitations include the dresdener zentrum für zeitgenössische musik,
danish institute of electroacoustic music, seamus, third practice
electroacoustic music festival , and the cleveland contemporary players.

he has recorded for albany, bridge, cri, centaur, capstone and contextrecords respectively.