UPCOMING CONCERTS 2023

CD Release: Neil’s newest CD, Lockdown Fantasies | Journey’s End, was released on Other Minds Recordings on January 13, 2023. It features pianist Geoffrey Burleson performing the title piece, and pianist Kathleen Supové performing Journey’s End.

Monday, April 8, 2024 - 7:30pm
Pianist Geoffrey Burleson will be performing the last two movements from Neil’s Lockdown Fantasies at Cogswell Hall at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Wednesday-Saturday, June 5-8, 2024 - Time TBD
Neil will perform Messages at the New Music on the Bayou Festival, in Monroe & Ruston LA.

RECENT MUSIC

Gardening At Gropius House (excerpt)

RECENT NEWS & PRESS

“Rolnick’s Messages for solo laptop was a tasteful celebration of his deceased wife, Wendy. Using samples of her phone messages, he delivered a beautiful, spontaneous version of the work. I was … struck with Rolnick’s sense of timing throughout the performance. … I have returned to this playful, loving memorial throughout this year.” Read Ralph Lewis’ review in The Computer Music Journal, (2021) 44 (1): 89–91

“The composer Neil Rolnick has a knack for endowing his electronic and electroacoustic works with genuine humanity.” Read Steve Smith’s preview of Neil’s concert at Roulette in the New Yorker Magazine, November 11, 2019.

Deviant Septet was awarded a 2017 New Music USA Projects Grant for the development of Neil's monodrama Cordelia, with soprano Mellissa Hughes and a libretto by Larry Beinhart.

Neil has been awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship for a residency at the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, in April and May 2017.  He will be working on Deal With The Devil for violinist Jennifer Choi and pianist Kathleen Supove.

Neil received a 2016 ArtsLink Grant for a two week residency with Omen Theater in Belgrade Serbia.

Neil's CD  Ex Machina has "an immediacy and ever-permutating spontaneity ... that is as playful as it is serious."  Read Greg Applegate's Nov. 2016 review on classicalmodernmusic.blogpot.com.

Anne Midgette calls Neil's performance at Atlas Performing Arts "a terrific concert" in her Washington Post review , January 31, 2016

Gardening At Gropius House is discussed in CNN.Style, July 2015.

Ableton.com feature article on Neil's use of sampling in A Robert Johnson Sampler, Feb 21 2014

Feature interview by Frank J. Oteri on NewMusicBox.org, April 2013

MONO Prelude has "a haunting spoken text ... with driven, vital music." Allan Kozinn's NY Times review of the CD release concert for Extended Family. January 14, 2011. 

The Economic Engine "presents a wondrous atmosphere that leaves the listener in a liminal space between two cultures." American Record Guide(March/April 2010)

Priscilla McLean calls Extended Family "one of Rolnick's best works" in her review of his concert at EMPAC.  Albany Times Union, February 18, 2010.

The Economic Engine CD is on the NY Times' classical critics' list of "best Classical CDs of 2009." November 27, 2009 

"Rolnick's music is a vivid and vigorous hybrid of idioms," Anne Midgette, The Washington Post, October 6, 2009