![]() Samples of his photography can be seen by clicking here. Trained in film music composition at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Austin has scored movies, documentaries and commercials, has arranged for marching bands and has produced concert pieces for orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber ensembles and big band.Īustin is also a documentary filmmaker and photographer. ![]() Austin has been commissioned to compose and arrange for the Savannah Philharmonic, the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra, the Camel City Jazz Orchestra and the Savannah Jazz Orchestra. ![]() In 2013, Austin was commissioned by the Kessler Collection hotels to arrange and produce an album of contemporary, electronic-jazz, lounge music, based on Johnny Mercer classics. The album release is slated for summer 2015. Featuring the original music of singer/songwriter, Julie Rose Wilde, Bohemian Dream Cabaret was recorded at historic Davout Studios with Ron Meza's Parisian High Definition Big Band and is the basis for the live cabaret show of the same name. In 2014, Austin arranged and recorded a big band/gypsy jazz album in Paris, France, with world-renowned recording artists Bireli Lagrene, Didier Lockwood and Jeff Hamilton. Austin's film scores have been heard at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, the Beaufort International Film Festival, the Comic Con Wizard World Film Fest Philadelphia, Dragon Con Independent Film Festival, the Doobious Film Slam in Atlanta, GA, and the Emerging Filmmakers Forum in Beverly Hills, CA. Holiday Swing & Salsa with Camel City Jazz Orchestra Decem 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM 12 25 Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Fairgrounds Farmer’s Market Camel City Jazz Orchestra’s Holiday Swing & Salsa will feature old holiday favorites plus authentic holiday selections from the Latin American salsa tradition. His most recent project will be the musical backdrop for a light show in Savannah, Georgia's famous River Street District.Īustin's music was heard on PBS in summer 2016, as part of the "Jeremy Davis and the Fabulous Equinox Orchestra" special. His music has been performed in Europe, China and throughout the United States. It's also beautifully recorded, bringing out the resonant woodiness of the cello, as well as its percussive potential and its ability to set off ringing harmonics in the space around the performer.Filmmaker, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Studio EngineerĪustin is an American composer and arranger. It's a completely exhilarating 50-odd minutes of music, with not a dull spot. The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, calling it "superb," and stating that it "sees Honsinger negotiate the entire range of his musical heritage, from Bach-like solo sonatas to Berliner Ensemble cabaret songs to free-form improvisations which camouflage a strong inner structure. It is the speed with which the performer can transform from these emotions which highlights his virtuosity on the instrument." This recording captures all of the evocative emotional weight that a cello recital carries, but is lively and upbeat while simultaneously melancholic and introspective. he is captured in crystal-clear fidelity, and his performance is evocative of jazz, classical, folk, and avant-garde idioms, fields that he draws inspiration from then transmutes into his own unique instrumental language. His performance is flippant, but by no stretch is it slapstick his improvising is highly developed, and. He lets the instrument do the talking, in that his vocalizing is vague tonal accompaniment to his virtuoso string flurries. His vocalizing in improvisation is a kind of subconscious moan that is charming and somewhat frightening to hear over the squalls of cello lyricism. performing as he does best a style of fractured but highly emotive avant-garde cello. Country, blues & jazz music will be your soundtrack during a visit to these three iconic music cities in the USA. In a review for AllMusic, Dean McFarlane wrote: "This CD. I thought, yeah, it's a little bit like a camel, like kissing a camel." When asked why he didn't name the album A Llama's Kiss, Honsinger responded: "Aahh, because I like the word camel." Reception Professional ratings Review scores They were all dressed with suits and briefcases and they all had to look at the llama and their reactions were – I never laughed so hard in my life. It was tied up outside the City Hall of Marseille and the funny thing was that these business people had to go past the llama to get into the City Hall. When asked about the title of the album, Honsinger replied: "I had an experience with a llama one time. It was recorded in December 1999 at Plantage Doklaan, Amsterdam, and was released by Instant Composers Pool in 2000. ![]() A Camel's Kiss is a solo cello album by Tristan Honsinger.
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