Anthony Burr and Anthony Pateras

Anthony Pateras & Anthony Burr, duo for piano, clarinet & electronics, with solo sets for piano and clarinet

Pateras & Burr worked together closely in 2014 and 2015, culminating in the release of The Long Exhale (Immediata 2016), featuring Pateras on prepared piano and Burr on clarinet and ARP 2600.

Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist, and electroacoustic musician active whose practice spans concert works, piano performance, acousmatic diffusion, film soundtrack, psychoacoustic experiments, and percussion ensemble. He is also a member of the bands Sulla Lingua & PIVIXKI. Having cultivated singular languages in the Pateras/Baxter/Brown & North of North trios, he remains committed to piano improvisation as a method of assimilating instrumental practice with compositional thought. His electronic work traverses multiple rhythmic disciplines in an effort to synthesize polyrithmia with timbral otherness.

Anthony Burr is a foremost exponent of contemporary music, presenting solo clarinet works in collaboration with Alvin Lucier, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, and Magnus Lindberg. He has also worked widely outside the classical arena with artists including Jim O'Rourke, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Ikue Mori, Tim Barnes, Alan Licht, and Mark Dresser. Ongoing collaborations include a duo with Skuli Sverrisson, The Clarinets (with Chris Speed and Oscar Noriega), a series of recordings with cellist Charles Curtis, and live film/music performances with Jennifer Reeves. As a composer he has specialized in epic-scale mixed media pieces, most notably Biospheria: An Environmental Opera, created with artist Steve Ausbury.