James Avery (born 1937 in Hutchinson, Kansas, died 8. March 2009) was a pianist and composer, specialised in contemporary music. He was professor for piano in Freiburg from 1980 to 2002, and he founded the Ensemble SurPlus in 1992.
ALBUMS
Stockhausen*, Steven Schick, James Avery (2), red fish blue fish
Complete Early Percussion Works
2014
Stefan Wolpe - Heinz Holliger, Robert Aitken (2), James Avery (2), Ensemble SurPlus
Stefan Wolpe Vol.4
2007, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)
SurPlus*, James Avery
SurPlus Plays Music Of Solitude I
1994, CD, Album, d'c records, 
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, Contemporary
Dieter Mack - Steven Schick, James Avery (2), Peter Veale, Hans-Jörg Koch*
Lalangan • Preret • Früchte • Studie II
1986, LP, Album, Pro Viva
John Ferrell, James Avery (2), Guillaume Lekeu, Charles Wuorinen
Sonata In G For Violin & Piano / Six Pieces For Violin & Piano
1980, LP, Orion Master Recordings
James Avery
James Avery, Piano
LP, Orion
Leopold la Fosse, James Avery
Twentieth-Century Austrian Music For Violin And Piano
LP, Orion, 
Béla Bartók / Karlheinz Stockhausen
Sonata For 2 Pianos And Percussion • Kontakte
1990, CD, Album, Music & Arts
Trio SurPlus
Trio SurPlus
2001, CD, edition zeitklang, ,
, Contemporary
APPEARANCES +
Ming Tsao - Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Ascolta, ensemble recherche, Ensemble SurPlus
Pathology Of Syntax
2014, CD, Album, Mode, ,
, Contemporary
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
Angelus Novus Cycle
2012, 2xCD, Album, Neos
Aleš Kacjan
Flavta
2011, CD, Album, ZKP RTVS, 
,
, Contemporary
Thomas Bruttger / Ensemble Aventure
Light, Reflection
2009, 2xCD, Album, Ars Musici
Ursula Mamlok
Music Of Ursula Mamlok Vol. 1
2009, CD, Bridge Records (4)
Klarenz Barlow*
Klavierwerke Von Klarenz Barlow
2008, SACD, Hybrid, Cybele
Charles Wuorinen
Duos
2008, CD, Albany Records, ,
, Contemporary
Mathias Spahlinger
Musica Viva 16 : Farben Der Frühe (Für Sieben Klaviere)
2007, SACD, Multichannel, Album, NEOS, ,
, Contemporary/Post-Modern
Manel Ribera Torres
El Món D'Ulisses
2007, CD, Album, Ars Harmonica
Andrew Joy
Cor À Cor
2006, CD, Album, edition zeitklang, WDR 3, ,
, Contemporary
Stefan Wolpe
Enactments
2005, CD, Album, hat[now]ART, 
,
, Contemporary
Dieter Mack
Dieter Mack
2005, CD, Album, Composers' Art Label, edition zeitklang
Various
Music Around Benjamin Boretz: Open Spaces, 2005
2005, 2xCD, Comp, Open Space
Various
Musik In Deutschland 1950-2000 - Konzertmusik / Instrumentale Kammermusik
2005, 8xCD, Comp + Box, RCA Red Seal, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Deutscher Musikrat
Gerald Eckert - Ensemble Aventure
Des Nichts, Verlorene Schatten / L'étendue Des Fins Éclats, Éparse / Erinnerte Zeit, Gebrochen / Offen – Fin Des Terres
2004, CD, Album, col legno, Südwestrundfunk, ,
, Contemporary
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
2004, CD, Album, Composers' Art Label
Hölszky* / von Bose* / Mahnkopf* / Koblenz*
Münchener Biennale
2003, CD, Comp, RCA Red Seal, BMG Classics, Deutscher Musikrat, ,
, Contemporary/Opera
Various
Musiktheater - Oper (Porträt)
2003, 7xCD, Comp + Box, Sli, RCA Red Seal, BMG Classics, Deutscher Musikrat, ,
, Classical/Opera
Charles Wuorinen
Lepton
2002, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
, Contemporary
Iris Szeghy - Ensemble SurPlus
Porträtkonzert
2001, CD, Album, Hastedt
Bernfried Pröve
Porträt I
2000, CD, Album, Edition Zeitklang
Bernfried E.G. Pröve
Salto · Alliages-Métaboles · Entzeichnung I · Es-Trace II · Dies-Transfiguration · Glocken · Air · Die Gefaltete Zeit · Instances II
1999, CD, Album, WERGO, ,
, Contemporary
Mathias Spahlinger
Musica Impura
1998, 2xCD, Album, Accord, 
,
, Contemporary
Jakob Ullmann
Komposition Für Streichquartett / Komposition Für Violine / Disappearing Musics
1996, CD, Album, WERGO, Deutscher Musikrat, ,
, Neo-Classical/Contemporary
ensemble recherche
For Stefan Wolpe - Wolpe, Feldman, Cage, Carter, Schöllhorn
1995, CD, Album, Montaigne
Schnittke* - Gidon Kremer, Chamber Orchestra Of Europe*, Christoph Eschenbach
Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3, Stille Nacht & Gratulationsrondo
1994, CD, Album, Teldec
Peter Tod Lewis
Signs & Circuits, Manestar, Gestes, Bricolage, ... Of Bells ... And Time
1992, CD, Comp, RM, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
, Musique Concrète/Post-Modern/Modern/Contemporary/Chamber Music/String Ensemble
Ferneyhough*, Xenakis*, Truax*, Schottstaedt*
Perspectives Of New Music
1990, CD, Perspectives Of New Music
John Anthony Lennon / Eleanor Cory / Chester Biscardi / Charles Wuorinen
American Composers Alliance Recording Award
1982, LP, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
Richard Hervig / Daniel Godfrey
Chamber Music
1979, LP, Album, Orion
Hibbard* / Purswell* / Lewis* / Martirano* / Jenni* / Riley*
From The University Of Iowa
1974, LP, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), ,
, Contemporary/Experimental
Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf - Peter Veale • Franklin Cox • Ensemble SurPlus • EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR
Pynchon Cycle
2011, CD, Album, Neos
