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JAMES ILGENFRITZ

Composition
Bass

Composer and bassist James Ilgenfritz is recognized in the New Yorker for his “characteristic magnanimity” and his “invaluable contributions to New York’s new-music community.”

News

New single out 8/7/2020
James Ilgenfritz: Trust Fall for New Thread Quartet
Available through BandCamp

New album out now
James Ilgenfritz: You Scream a Rapid Language
Available through

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You Scream a Rapid Language collects recent chamber works, and features Pauline Kim Harris, Conrad Harris, William Winant, Thomas Buckner, Kathleen Supové, Margaret Lancaster, and Joseph Kubera, and was noted in The Wire for its “glint of mischief” and ability to “foreground the performative and gestural elements of music making.”