[1] He has worked with a diverse array of artists from Arcade Fire, The National, and Paul McCartney to Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, George Crumb, and Steve Reich.
[3] In an article written for the WQXR Editorial, Burhans stated that his early musical influences were varied, ranging from Mozart to Philip Glass and Steve Reich, to the Beatles and Sam and Dave.
[2] Burhans attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Eastman School of Music, where he received a bachelor’s degree in composition and viola performance in 2003.
“In a distant place”, commissioned by the Bloomingdale School of Music, was premiered on June 20 at Christ & Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church.
His setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, recorded by the Trinity Wall Street Choir, opens and closes the album respectively in the same manner as a choral evensong.
[8] In 2015, Burhans contracted Alarm Will Sound for 8 performances with Björk at Carnegie Hall and Kings Theatre to kick-start her Vulnicura world tour.
The opening track, “A Moment for Jason Molina”, was on the list of NPR’s Best Songs of 2019, alongside works by major pop artists such as Billie Eilish, Lizzo and Carly Rae Jepsen.
He once said in an interview, “People need to have labels for record stores—oh, wait, record stores don’t exist anymore.”[10] He believed that avant-garde classical music had considerable links with avant-garde rock music,[2] further claiming that he composes in an “emo-classical” style – a poignant and devotional mode of composition that draws equally from sacred and secular source material.