Most recently released is Opus Six, For Winds and
Brass.  This work is easily performable
and written, “Bilingually, in the language of chromaticism and tones”.  The brass and winds section are constantly
speaking to each other throughout the work in perfect intervals and chromatic
rows developed minimally, similar in style to Ada Gentile with passages
reminiscent of Anton Dvorak.
                Currently,
he is finishing Ragnarok, a grand
opera based on the old Germanic and Norse myths about the end of the
world.  The opera portrays a clash of
cultures between Southern and Northern Europe and has both an
anti-imperialistic storyline as well as serving as a counter to the politics of
Wagner.
                He has
just released Chad Michelstetter: The
Early Works, available on Twin Ravens Records through Amazon.com, ITunes
and other fine music etailers and retailers. 
A second album is in the works for development beginning this summer!

Compositionally,
Chad Michelstetter has composed in different styles transcending the boundaries
of traditional classical training.  From
an early cycle of inventions, to the more substantive Opus Four for piano, his
music began to push the boundaries of tonality in a way that few composers of
modern music do- in an audience pleasing way. 
Opus Four was performed for a crowd of over 150 at California State
University of the East Bay to three thunderous standing ovations as Irene
Grigorio shook the house with her piano performance in 2004.  The work uses an octatonic scale in the style
of Bela Bartok with new applications of the old forms, including a Debussy like
third movement, largo atonal introduction and rousing final movement in oblique
motion.
                He
continued to compose in different formats, including a string quartet (Opus
Five) that cycles through a theme and variations loosely based on a C-Minor
theme, with chromatic variations in cannon and audience pleasing string
movements.

Chad
Michelstetter
 
                Unlike
many modern-classical composers, Chad Michelstetter came to the field through
blues and heavy metal music, beginning with bass guitar at fourteen in
1989.  In 1995, he began retraining,
learning classical piano and began performing works such as Debussy’s preludes,
Bach inventions and sinfonias and had a couple of major performances of
Beethoven’s Sonata Opus Twenty-Four, which was performed at the Schaum Music
School in Mequon, WI to an audience of over 100.
                Majoring
in composition and theory at Antioch College, under award winning composer and
friend of Bela Bartok, Dr. John Rinehart he later continued pursuits in both
classical and heavy metal performance through to 2002.  He later came to Hayward, California to study
under Drs. Frank LaRocca, Jeffrey Miller and David Stein at California State
University-East Bay.  His professors are
the founders of Composers, Inc., one of the premiere modern music performing
groups here in San Francisco....

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