I am happy to announce that Donemus Publishing is now the exclusive publisher of all my works.
Scores and parts for all solo, chamber music and orchestra pieces are for purchase or rent via their website and distributers over the whole world.
For more info visit the Donemus website or write me.
Recently I gave two new performances on the contrabass flute, in Bangalore and Cleveland. 
Ned McGowan received the Alumni Achievement Award from the Cleveland Institute of Music. In May '14 he received the award during the commencement ceremonies.
This just out: Molly Barth's review of my CD, The Art of the Contrabass Flute, in The Flutist Quarterly.
Digital music at your fingertips: Ned McGowan & Susanna Borsch at the TEDx Tilburg University.
" 'Wood Burn' was an exuberantly wild burst of energy, working all five reed players for all they were worth." Stephen Smoliar, San Francisco Examiner
Link to the article.
Here's a website sale to buy 2 tickets for the price of one to thursday's concert of Spinifex with Dr. Mysore Manjunath in the KIT Tropentheater in Amsterdam.
Naruto Strait, for flute ensemble
Performed by the NFA International Liaison ensemble at the Japanese Flute Convention
Contrabass flute solo improvisation, Bangalore Internation Arts Festival, Bangalore, India
Percussion solo on contrabass flute, concert in Tokyo, Japan.
Inspiration, by Dr. Suma Sudhindra, with Dr. Suma Sudhindra (veena), B. C. Manjunath (mredangam), Vivek Santhoosh (keyboards), Kartik Mani (Drums).
Ricochet, with Pepe García, De Link, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Drumming (at 36:19), Steve Reich & Slagwerk Den Haag, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Bach - Badinerie Fun encore from a concert in Chiba, Japan, with Carla Rees, Masami Yamano, Yoshiaki Teramoto, Toshiyuki Shibata.
Photo: Hari Adivarekar
Ever heard the contrabass flute?
I will record the first-ever recording dedicated solely to this amazing instrument and need your help!
Tuesday March 8, Brasília, Brazil
Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro
Claudio Cohen, conductor Rafael Ribeiro, iPad
Follow my adventure in Brazil on:
facebook.com/iPadConcerto
Here's the latest trailer for my new opera theater piece together with writer Nafiss Nia, director Michael Helmerhorst and the Wervelwind ensemble with Maaike Porthuis.
Earlier this summer I taught at Eighth Blackbird's first ever Creative Lab summer festival in Ojai, California. The vibe was stellar and the quality of the musicians even better. Here’s a performance of my piece, Garden of Iniquitous Creatures, played by Nathalie Joachim, Benjamin Mitchell, Jeff Stern, Robert Fleitz, Kate Outterbridge and Aaron Wolff.
The video became corrupted so the first 5 minutes are missing.
Here’s a clip from a rhythm class I taught at the Creative Lab.
On July 2nd I had the honor to play one of my favorite pieces: Drumming by Steve Reich. It was for me a legendary concert: rehearsing with and performing for the composer, playing with one of the world's best percussion ensembles (Slagwerk Den Haag), in a jam-packed, sold-out Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, with great sound! The cheer after the piece was over was the most screaming I've ever had after a performance.
Here's the video.
The premiere of Ned McGowan's new piece Three Amsterdam Scenes for the Trio Scordatura
March 5, 2011 - Vortex Jazz Club, London England
The new website for Orfeo in India is online.
Review of Spinifex's recent India tour in The Hindu
This just out - a review of the recording of Bantammer Swing in Audiofile Audition:
Last chance to see WRENCH, the Hexnut show with the amazing photos of Edward Burtynsky. Sunday November 4 at 15.30 in Rotterdam at the Lantaren Venster.
Laatste kans om WRENCH te zien, de Hexnut show met de verbazingwekkende foto's van Edward Burtynsky. Zondag 4 november om 15.30 in Rotterdam bij de Lantaren Venster.
A rippin version of Torrent played by Kennenth Cox:
Susanna Borsch interviewed on Virus radio about the iPad concerto:
The IRC has a new website!!
The International Rhythm Course is a series of online and on-location courses to solidify the fundamental expressive qualities of rhythm and explore the rich world of rhythmic complexities in order to be applied to your own music.
IRC Level 1 - online course with the basic material to get started on the Carnatic approach and its Western equivalents
- January 18 - 29, 2021 - finished
IRC Level 2 - online course to take the Level 1 materials to the next level, and explore Carnatic approaches to music in the West
- Weekly March 2 to April 6, 2021: sign-up
IRC Utrecht - the opportunity for online and new students to come together, continue the studies and make music together.
- July 4 - 9, 2021: sign-up coming soon
IRC India - a musical and cultural trip to South India for continued rhythmical and musical study at the source of this great music.
- January 4 - 14, 2022
I have recently finished composing a Concerto for the iPad and Orchestra.
Called Rotterdam Concerto 2 - Digital Realms, it was premiered on the 1st of June by the Sinfonia Rotterdam, conducted by Conrad van Alphen with Keiko Shichijo as soloist:
From April until December 2011 Ned McGowan is teaching composition at the KMT in Hilversum.
TV interview Ned McGowan with Melchior Huurderman on the program Vrije Geluiden about the WRENCH project.
Music Cognition Reading Group of University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 1
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Spinifex Indian FX gets 5 stars by Ton Maas in the Volkskrant.
