Red Wierenga
Red Wierenga
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Sonic Arts
- Website: redwierenga.com
Red Wierenga is a pianist, accordionist, respectronicist, improviser, and composer based in New York City. His longest creative association is with the Respect Sextet, called "a group which has released one of the most compelling recordings of the year" by the Wall Street Journal and "one of the best and most ambitious new ensembles in jazz" by Signal to Noise.
He has performed and/or recorded with artists including The Claudia Quintet, Ensemble Signal, Salo, the Fireworks Ensemble, and David Crowell.
Wierenga builds and performs with new interfaces for electroacoustic improvisation, working with analog and digital synthesizers.
He received his bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Harold Danko, Ralph Alessi, and Kevin Puts. After having studied at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, the Netherlands, with Joel Ryan and Paul Berg, he became an Enhanced Chancellor's Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he received his Ph.D. and his teachers included Jason Eckardt and Douglas Geers. He has taught music appreciation and electronic music at Baruch College (CUNY) and currently teaches at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music.
