Carlton Vickers is widely regarded as one of today's most important performers
of contemporary and electro-acoustic flute music. A long standing performer with the
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Vickers has been a ubiquitous presence for over
18 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, John Harbison, Jonathan Harvey, Jörg Herchet, Louis Karchin, Arthur Kreiger, Stan Link, Steven Mackey, Donald Martino, Tristan Murail, Shulamit Ran, Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Frederic Rzewski, Joseph Schwantner, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Harvey Sollberger, Charles Wuorinen and Yehudi Wyner.

Current recording projects include these upcoming releases for contextrecords.

isolations in free sonics The much anticipated follow-up to over from silence features seminal works for flute by Chris Dench, Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Finnissy.

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).

Also available on contextrecords is 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,
DIEM (Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music), SEAMUS, and the Third Practice
Electroacoustic Music Festival.

He has recorded for Albany, Bridge, CRI, Centaur, Capstone and context records respectively.

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