James Winn, D.M.A.
Director, Keyboard Studies; Coordinator, Composition Studies
Professor, Composition Studies, Keyboard Studies, Classical Piano, Harpsichord
Contact Information
- Office: 138
- Phone: (775) 784-4051
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Recordings
* indicates a world premiere recording
- German radio (Hessischer Rundfunk, Süddeutscher Rundfunk) - 1975 to 1983
- With the Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk:
- Busoni Concerto, Op 39; Beethoven - Choral Fantasy, Op. 80
- Brahms - Symphonies 3 &4 (in the composer’s transcriptions);
- Schubert - Grand Duo, Op. 140, D.812;
- Persichetti - Two Piano Sonata;
- Liszt - Concerto Pathetique;
- Saint-Saens - Scherzo, Op. 87;
- Caprice Heroique, Op. 106
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (radio) 1985
- With Cameron Grant: Stockhausen - Mantra
- A Jenny Lind Recital Northeastern Records - Classical Arts NR237-CD
- With Elizabeth Parcells
- ElectriCity* - O.O. Discs - CD#8
- With the New York New Music Ensemble.
- Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Requiem Canticles - Music Masters CD#01612-67078-2
- With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Robert Kraft.
- Respighi: Il Trittico Botticelliani - Deutsche Grammaphon CD# 437533-2
- With Orpheus.
- Wuorinen: Hyperion*; Archeopteryx* - Koch International CD#3-7110-2H1
- With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Charles Wuorinen
- Knussen: Ocean de Terre* - Virgin - CD#0777 7 5930825
- With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
- Robert Hall Lewis: Fantasiemusik II for Clarinet and Piano* - Albany Records
- With Jean Kopperud.
- Wuorinen: Double Solo* - Koch International CD#3-7123-2H1
- Wth Benjamin Hudson and William Purvis.
- Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire - Gunmar CD#GM2030CD
- With Phyllis Bryn-Julson and the New York New Music Ensemble.
- Lazarof: Divertimento II* - Delos CD#DE3134
- With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
- Wuorinen: Tashi*; Fortune* - Koch International CD#3-7242-2H1
- With Fred Sherry, Curtis Macomber, Alan Kay, Jean Kopperud.
- Jaffe: Four Songs* - Bridge CD#BCD9047
- With D’Anna Fortunato and Speculum Musicae
- Wuorinen: Winter’s Tale*; New York Notes; Twang*; Album Leaf* - Koch International CD#3-7272-2H1
- With the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
- Robert Black: Foramen Habet!* - Bridge CD#Bridge9061
- Carter: Triple Duo; Davies: Ave Maris Stella; Druckman: Come Round* - Gunmar CD#GM2047CD
- With the New York New Music Ensemble
- Wolpe: The Man From Midian*; Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (two-piano version) - Koch International CD#3-7315-2H1
- With Cameron Grant.
- Louis Karchin: Galactic Folds*; Songs of Distance & Light; Cello Sonata - CRI CD#739
- With Fred Sherry and the New York New Music Ensemble.
- James Primosch: Sacra Conversazione*; C. Bryan Rulon: Res Facta* - Centaur CD#CRC 2338
- With the New York New Music Ensemble.
- Les Petits Nerveux (French music for winds and piano) - Bridge CD#Bridge9079
- With Hexagon. This recording made four “best of the year” review lists (American Record Guide, Audiophile Audition, Pulse, and ClassicsToday.com)
- Shostakovitch: Selected Preludes - Outside in July
- Documentary soundtrack “All About Looking”
- James Dashow: Ashbery Setting* - Capstone CPS-8659
- With New York New Music Ensemble.
- David Froom: Chamber Concerto* - Arabesque CD#Z6710
- With the New York New Music Ensemble.
- Charles Wuorinen: Lightenings viii* - Koch International CD#3-7410-2H1
- With Elizabeth Henrickson - Farnum.
- Patterns: New Chamber Music from the University of Nevada, Reno* - Disc Makers CD#10P22098
- With Katharine DeBoer and the Argenta Ensemble.
- Ronald Caltabiano: Hexagons* - CRI CD#835
- With Hexagon.
- David Felder: Colleccion Nocturna (version for clar., pno., and tape)* - Mode Records CD#mode 89
- With Jean Kopperud.
- Eric Moe: Time Will tell* - Albany Records TROY506
- With Speculum Musicae.
- Louis Karchin: Cascades*, Sonata da Camera* - New World Records CD#80583-2
- Sonata da Camera with Curtis Macomber.
- Mario Davidovsky: Flashbacks* - Bridge CD#Bridge 9097
- With the New York New Music Ensemble.
- Wayne Peterson: Vicissitudes*, Labyrinth Koch International CD#3-7498-2HI
- With the New York New Music Ensemble.
- David Felder: Coleccion Nocturna (concerto version)* - EMF CD 033
- With Jean Kopperud and the June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra.
- Morton Feldman: Instruments II - EMF CD 033
- With members of the June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra.
- Wayne Peterson: Diatribe*, Duo* with Curtis Macomber - Albany Records TROY601
- Ceremony After a Fire Raid* with Elizabeth Farnum.
- Charles Wuorinen: New York Notes* - Center (re-issue) TZ 7077
- With Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Tzadik.
- Charles Wuorinen: Double Solo* - Naxos (re-issue) 8.559264
- With Benjamin Hudson, William Purvis.
- Stefan Wolpe: The Man From Midian* - Naxos (re-issue) 8.559265
- With Cameron Grant.
- Charles Wuorinen: Katz Fugue*, Twelve Short pieces, Self-Similar waltz, Album Leaf*, Christes Crosse - Albany Records TROY871
- with Elizabeth Farnum.
- Charles Wuorinen: Hyperian*, Archaeopteryx* - Albany Records (re-issue) TROY992
- With St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble.
- Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 16 (two piano version) - Albany Records (re-issue) TROY992
- Fred Lerdahl: Duo for Violin & Piano* - Bridge Records Bridge 9269
- With Rolf Schulte.
- Late Dates with Mozart (Violin Sonatas K. 454, 481, and 526) - MSR Classics MS 1305
- With Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio.
Dr. James Winn, piano and composition professor at the University of Nevada, Reno since 1997, made his professional debut with the Denver Symphony at the age of thirteen, and has been performing widely in North America, Europe, and Japan ever since. With his duo-piano partner, Cameron Grant, he was a recipient of the top prize given in the two-piano category of the 1980 Munich Competition. Dr. Winn has been a solo pianist with the New York City Ballet, a member of the New York New Music Ensemble, and of Hexagon (woodwind quintet plus piano), as well as a frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Series, the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento, the Group for Contemporary Music, and Bargemusic.
Well-known as a specialist in new music, he has been involved in numerous world premieres and premiere recordings by many renowned composers, among them 13 Pulitzer Prize winners (John Adams, Michael Colgrass, Mario Davidovsky, Norman Dello Joio, Jacob Druckman, Aaron Kernis, George Perle, Wayne Peterson, Mel Powell, Joseph Schwantner, Melinda Wagner, Charles Wuorinen, and Ellen Zwilich). He is currently a member of Argenta, UNR's resident chamber trio, the pianist of the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, and performs regularly in recital with internationally acclaimed New York based violinist Rolf Schulte.
An active recording artist, Winn is featured in more than three dozen CDs as soloist, chamber musician, and composer. Dr. Winn's compositions have been performed internationally. He has received the University of Nevada -Reno College of Liberal Arts' Mousel/Feltner award for creative activity, an Artist Fellowship Grant in composition from the Nevada Arts Council, the 2007 Award for Creative Activity from Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, and the 2009 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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