Brian Simalchik (b. 1988, Danbury, CT) writes music that embraces emotional directness and nuance, evocative sounds and structures, and the expressive potential of silence and space.

He has had premieres by Roomful of Teeth, the Slee Sinfonietta, Wild Shore New Music, the Berkshire Symphony, UVA Percussion Ensemble, Williams Percussion Ensemble, I/O Ensemble, Opus Zero Band, Foot in the Door, Aqueeressence, Performance 20/20, Matthew Gold, Andrea Violet Lodge, I-Jen Fang, Gregory Beyer and Casey McLellan. His music has been presented by organizations such as the Talea Ensemble (at The Stone in NYC), June in Buffalo, Yarn/Wire, nief-norf, Wild Shore New Music, Close Encounters with Music, the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, the I/O New Music Festival and Mass MoCA. His piece Seven Songs was a winner of the nief-norf Summer Festival 2016 International Call for Scores. His piece Overlooks was a winner of the Wild Shore New Music 2016 Call for Scores and was performed in Alaska, New York City and Washington, D.C. on a program celebrating the National Park Service's centennial. He has been in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (in 2013 and 2020) and at Mass MoCA, and has participated in June in Buffalo and the Yarn/Wire International Institute.

He has degrees from The Hartt School (M.M.), where he studied composition with Robert Carl, and from Williams College (B.A.), where he was the recipient of the Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship in Music and studied with David Kechley and Ileana Perez-Velazquez. He has also studied with Jennifer Higdon and Judith Shatin at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He currently lives in Charlottesville, VA, where he hosts A New Sound, a radio show on WTJU focusing on contemporary classical music.

Contact

My music is self-published under the name Topography (ASCAP). For scores and performance materials, as well all other inquiries, please email brian.simalchik@gmail.com.