Upcoming
2025.05.01
LIGAMENT premieres Nocturne at University of Iowa, 7:30pm at Voxman Music Building.
2025.04.05
uclaFLUX performs AT A STEADY CONSISTENT RATE, 5pm PDT at UCLA's Lani Hall. Livestream here.
2025.02.08
Release show for I am here but I must go at Public Space One!
2025.02.07
Lex Leto x The Christine Burke Ensemble's album I am here but I must go released!
Recent
Thrilled to share Duo Axis' gorgeous performance of My simple measured steps have brought me here, a piece for amplified prepared piano & bass flute.
Since June 2022 I've been doing organ improvisations that are based loosely on one of two improvisational concepts; It creeps the mind and Something kept close.
Since about October 2022, I have been collaborating with Lex Leto and members of the Christine Burke Ensemble on a prioject that can best be described as indie meets experimental classic music. Here's a video of us performing "The Fly", one of the first songs we wrote together, and here is an article written about us by Iowa Press Citizen's Paris Barraza. More about the Christine Burke Ensemble here.
In July 2022, my debut album, Something kept close : outdoor music was released on Sawyer Editions! Chris Molinari's review of the album can be read here.
About
Christine is a composer from Iowa whose music has been performed by Duo Axis, Alkali Collective, Bob Spring, the Walden School Creative Musicians, line upon line, Will Yager, Wolftone, Dog Star Orchestra, Density512, ETHEL, Southland Ensemble, Koehne Quartet at Wien Modern, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Alarm Will Sound at the Mizzou International Compsers Festival, the Chicago Civic Orchestra Fellows, JACK Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Heavy Air, The Living Earth Show, NOW Ensemble, and Kamratōn Ensemble. She has participated in Northwestern University's New Music Conference, Núcleo Música Nova, the UNK New Music Festival, and the Earle Brown Music Foundation’s International Summer Academy. Current projects include tabletop organ improvisations and the creation of a new piece for LIGAMENT.
Christine earned a Master's Degree from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Nomi Epstein, Josh Levine, and Larry Fritts (composition) and Maurita Murphy Marx and Jorge Montilla Moreno (clarinet). She was previously a student of David Stock (composition) and Jack Howell (clarinet) at Duquesne University.
Email: cburkecomp@gmail.com
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/burkec2
"Burke mines her materials masterfully"
(Cacophony Magazine)
"Striking..."
(Musical America)
"Burke’s balanced yet asymmetric musical creations dare listeners to predict the next sonic surprise"
(Vero Rose Smith, Feed Me Weird Things Visual Mixtapes)