Since the late 1990, Beijing based composer and multiple flutist Bruce
Gremo Since has focused on computer application composition. This includes
pitch-tracking intensive applications, and the Cilia, his patented flute-controller
instrument, originally developed in part through a grant from Harvestworks a decade
ago. Bruce Gremo also regularly performs on bass flute, alto shakulute, Japanese
shakuhachi, glissando head joint flute, Indian bansuri, and Chinese xun. He is also
principle flutist in the Peking Sinfonietta, and a classical recitalist. Gremo is
interested in developing concert formats where different performance practices meet;
classical repertoire and improvisation, hi-tech electronic and acoustic, western and
eastern, old and new, functional and ecstatic. These interests are born out of the
mix of his graduate academic composition education and his practical education as a
participant in the free improvisation and experimental music scene in New York from
the late 1980s, until he relocated to Beijing in 2006. He has been a soloist at;
Lincoln Center Festival, Wien Modern, the BBC Proms Festival at the Royal Albert
Hall, the Knitting Factory Jazz Festival under Ornette Coleman’s direction. He
toured over fourteen months as synthesizer programmer and soloist with the Peter
Sellars production of the KunQu opera, The Peony Pavilion. Recipient of numerous
awards, his music has been performed around the world.