appearances as a concerto soloist with school orchestras in works by Stravinsky, Schnittke, John Corigliano (whose concerto he performed with Leonard Slatkin conducting at Avery Fisher Hall) and Paul Schoenfield.
There is precedent for the career paths these artists are following. For example, in the late 1960s and 1970s in New York, Gilbert Kalish, Paul Jacobs and Ursula Oppens first made their names as authoritative performers of contemporary music -- though they played standard repertory as well -- and eventually won acclaim for the full breadth of their work. (Jacobs died at 53 in 1983.) Gosling and especially McMillen have expressed interest in expanding their careers over time into standard repertory. But they are in no hurry. McMillen produced his own CD, called Soundings, which offers gripping and impressive performances of Liszt, Debussy, Scriabin and Copland, as well as more recent works by Morton Gould and William Bolcom.
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