Darryl Kubian is a member of the first violin section of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and former principal 2nd violin of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Robert Spano. He has been a featured soloist with trumpeter Randy Brecker and the NJSO in a program of music by Charlie Parker entitled Byrd Lives! as well as producing and performing arrangements of Duke Ellington's Sacred Songs in cooperation with the NJSO and the Jazz Studies program at Rutgers University. In addition to his many solo and chamber ensemble performances, Mr. Kubian has performed in many Broadway musicals, including The King & I, Show Boat, Crazy For You, and Tommy.
Active as a composer and recording engineer, Mr. Kubian's music production company Xtreme Medium is involved with many diverse projects. Highlights include composing the music for the Discovery Channel's docu-drama Raging Rapids, which also ran theatrically for Sony's High-Definition Television Theater; scoring for National Geographic's Phobias, Really Wild Animals and Killer Ice; producing two HDCDs for the NJSO's principal flutist Bart Feller, engineering and producing various CDs for The Elements Quartet, The Oberon Quartet, The Halcyon Trio and violinist Garrett Fischbach from The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Past projects include scores for National Geographic, Pangolin Pictures, NHK, Discovery Channel, CBS, The Learning Channel, The Travel Channel, Discovery Health and the Disney Channel.
Darryl has just released his first solo CD entitled String Theory. This CD explores the rich tradition of the violin as a solo instrument through original music and arrangements infused with the sounds, styles and techniques of modern music making. It features the Zeta 5-string MIDI violin, an 18-piece string section, and internationally renowned drummer, Jay Dittamo. The CD is distributed by CDBaby.com and the iTunes Music Store.
Future projects include an electric violin concerto with orchestra and a small chamber piece for strings and Theremin, which Mr. Kubian is an avid performer and proponent of. He received his BM and MM at Rutgers University where he studied violin with Arnold Steinhart and Hiroko Yajima, and composition with Charles Wuorinen.
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