Quirks brant karrick biography

          Biography....

          General Info · Instrumentation · Errata · Program Notes · Media · State Ratings · Performances · Works for Winds by This Composer.

        1. General Info · Instrumentation · Errata · Program Notes · Media · State Ratings · Performances · Works for Winds by This Composer.
        2. Quirks” Composer: Brant Karrick () Columbia Concert Band Director: Michael Blackman Columbia Bands, Inc. Performed: December
        3. Biography.
        4. Quirks by Brant Karrick.
        5. One problem seen in music education curriculum today is the underrepresentation of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian (BBIA), and female composers in the band.

          6. Highs and Lows

          A LIFE-CHANGING DIAGNOSIS

          By 2011, at the age of 50, Karrick was at one of the highest points of his career. He had racked up a list of credits that any musician would envy, and bands had performed his compositions all across the globe.

          However, days before he was set to attend The Midwest Clinic in Chicago as a guest conductor, he was sitting in a hospital bed.

          “It was a form of pneumonia called pleurisy, where your lungs fill up,” Karrick says. “They eventually had to tap into my lungs to drain them.”

          After a two-week hospital stay, Karrick bounced back but later began bleeding and bruising easily—a sign that his platelet count was going down.

          COCC professor of music, Michael Gesme, will lead the ensemble in a varied program beginning, appropriately, with “Quirks” by Brant Karrick.

          Despite trying many different treatments, nothing helped. In February 2014, Karrick’s oncologist noticed a lump on his neck. After a biopsy, Karrick was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma that had started attacking his lymph nodes, pelvis and bone.

          “My doctor said that if you have to have cancer, that’s