ArtistInfo

Newband

Band, *1977 US
Classical

Newband is a contemporary music ensemble devoted to the performance of microtonal music. The group was founded in 1977 by musicians Stefani Starin and Dean Drummond. As a youth, Drummond performed with maverick composer Harry Partch in a unique ensemble of microtonal instruments that Partch designed and built himself; Drummond performed in the premieres of Partch’s Daphne of the Dunes, And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma, and Delusion of the Fury, as well as on both Partch Columbia Masterworks recordings made during the late 1960s.

Members

	Bill Ruyle mar, dr US
	Michael Lipsey mar US
	Tom Kolor mar US
	Dominic Donato perc, mar
	Frank Cassara mar, perc US
	Dean Drummond perc, str 1949-2013 US
	Elizabeth Rodgers p, sampler, key
	Nelson Padgett org, p US
	Nina Kellman g
	Stefani Starin fl US