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Latest news!

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]September 9 2017- my piano composition in 3 movements, Streets and Bridges, will be performed as part of the West Fork New Music Festival at Fairmount University  (WV).   Pianist is Topher Ruggiero.

August 2017- arranging my percussion quartet Time in Transcendence for a traditional quartet sans microtonal and custom-built instruments of Clocks in Motion.  The new arrangement will be premiered by the School of Music Western Percussion ensemble in 2018.

August 2017- composing a brief work for faculty trombonist Mark Hetzler for premiere during the upcoming concert season

April 30 2017- premiere of multi-media theatre work When Time Ran Out featuring sound design and music by  Joseph Koykkar.  Collaborators were Karen McShane-Hellenbrand (choreography) and Shuxing Fan (computer animation/projections).  UW-Madison 90th Anniversary Festival of Dance.

November  10 2016—–premiere of Time in Transcendence by Clocks in Motion percussion ensemble in Madison, WI at the First Unitarian Society.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Composer Joseph Koykkar presents his debut full-length release on Ravello Records DOUBLE TAKES AND TRIPLE PLAYS. Featuring works spanning a 20-year period (1992-2012) in the composer’s career, this album exemplifies Koykkar’s practical approach to writing, dictated by the bounds and the interplay within chamber ensemble combinations, occasionally using computer-generated sounds. –Parma Records press release[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]CD released in February 2016[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]