Robert Livingston Aldridge/Westfield Symphony Orchestra, NJ (2 Weeks)
Robert Livingston Aldridge
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Robert Livingston Aldridge (b. 1954) has written over sixty
works for orchestra, opera, music-theater, dance, string
quartet, solo and chamber ensembles. His music has been
performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
His new musical,
The Third Person, based on a short story
by Henry James, with book and lyrics by Herschel Garfein,
will be premiered in London during the 2003-2004 season.
Mr. Aldridge received a Doctorate in Composition from the
Yale School of Music, a Master's degree in Composition from
the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor's
degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin
at Madison. He is Assistant Professor of Music at Montclair
State University, where he teaches music composition and
theory. Recordings of his music are available on BMG, GM,
Foghorn, SoundVision, Open Loop and Northeastern labels.
Christopher Brubeck/Stockton Symphony, CA (3 Weeks)
Christopher Brubeck
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Christopher Brubeck first distinguished himself as a jazz
musician, performing and recording with his father, the
legendary Dave Brubeck. He plays bass, trombone, piano,
guitar and sings and, in the past few decades, has earned
international acclaim as composer, performer and leader of
his own groups. On stage, Mr. Brubeck's irrepressible
enthusiasm is matched by his fluid command of jazz, blues,
folk, funk, pop and classical musical styles.
An award
winning composer, he has composed and arranged for The
Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Aspen
Wind Quintette and The Manhattan Choral Festival. Mr.
Brubeck is currently composing new works commissioned
by The U.S. Army Field Band, and by a consortium of
the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the St. Paul
Chamber Orchestra and Bay Chamber Concerts of Rockport,
Maine.
Vivian Fung/San Jose Chamber Orchestra, CA (2 Weeks)
Vivian Fung
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Vivian Fung (b. 1975) has been described by
The New York Times
as "prodigiously gifted," and by
The Seattle Times as
"a composer of considerable skill." She has had an impressive
string of commissions and performances by such ensembles as the
Seattle Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, San Jose Chamber
Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Edmonton Symphony
Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, American String Quartet,
Avalon String Quartet, Music Teachers' Association of California,
and the Millennium Chamber Music Society.
Her works have been
broadcast nationally in Canada on CBC radio as well as in the
United States. Ms. Fung studied composition at The Juilliard
School with David Diamond and Robert Beaser, and studied piano
with Gyorgy Sandor. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts
from Juilliard in May 2002.
Edward Green/InterSchool Orchestras of New York, NY (2 Weeks)
Edward Green
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Edward Green has been a professor at Manhattan School
of Music since 1984, teaching composition, jazz history,
world music and courses in the humanities. His academic
training was at Oberlin and New York University, and he
continued his artistic education in Aesthetic Realism classes
taught by the great poet and philosopher Eli Siegel.
Mr. Green is a diverse composer who has worked in many media,
including film. Among Green's most recent orchestral compositions
are his
Trumpet Concerto,
Overture (in G), and his
Concerto
for Alto Sax and Strings. Recent chamber works include a piano
quintet and a sextet, based on Arabic rhythms, which was
premiered last September at the Kennedy Center.
William Kraft/San Diego Youth Symphony, CA (2 Weeks)
William Kraft
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William Kraft (b. 1923) has had a long and active career as
composer, conductor, percussionist, and teacher. From 1981-1985,
Mr. Kraft was the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Composer-in-Residence;
for the first year under Philharmonic auspices, and the
subsequent three years through the Meet The Composer Orchestra
Residencies program. During his residency, he was founder and
director of the orchestra's performing arm for contemporary
music, the Philharmonic New Music Group. Mr. Kraft had
previously been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
for 26 years; eight years as percussionist, and the last
18 as Principal Timpanist. For three seasons, he was also
assistant conductor of the orchestra, and, thereafter, a
frequent guest conductor.
Recent activities include:
Performances of
Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra by the
Dresden (Germany) Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo, Japan,
and also by the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra,
Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Rotterdam
Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony; Red Azalea,
an opera commissioned by the Modern Music Theater Troupe
(London) premiered in 2002 at the University of California
at Santa Barbara's New Music Festival followed by a European
premiere in London; and residencies at the Chopin Conservatory
in Warsaw, Poland and the University of Indiana, Bloomington.
Current recording projects are with Prague Philharmonic,
New England Conservatory and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
John Mackey/Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, WA (4 Weeks)
John Mackey
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John Mackey (b. 1973) holds a Master of Music degree from The
Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the
Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John
Corigliano and Donald Erb. Mr. Mackey particularly enjoys
writing music for dance, and he has focused on that medium for
the past few years.
His orchestral music has received
performances by over a dozen American youth orchestras,
including those in New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, Minneapolis/St.
Paul, and Portland. Mr. Mackey's first orchestral work,
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, has been commercially
recorded by both the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony and the
Portland Youth Philharmonic.
Philip Rothman/Eugene Symphony Orchestra Association, OR (2 Weeks)
Philip Rothman
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Philip Rothman (b. 1976) is an award-winning composer whose
works have been performed by the Utah Symphony, Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugene
Symphony, National Philharmonic of Lithuania, Juilliard Orchestra,
New York Youth Symphony, United States Military Academy Band,
and numerous other ensembles. Mr. Rothman's music has
been heard at major venues such as Carnegie Hall and
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and it has been
broadcast on over 200 American radio stations, including
NPR's Performance Today, the syndicated radio program
Indianapolis on-the-Air, and the McGraw-Hill Companies'
Young Artists Showcase.
Mr. Rothman holds a Bachelor of Music
degree summa cum laude from Rice University and a Master of
Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he was awarded a
full scholarship. His teachers in composition have included
Samuel Adler, Edward Applebaum, Samuel Jones, and Richard
Lavenda.
Roberto Sierra/New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, NM (2 Weeks)
Roberto Sierra
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Roberto Sierra (b. 1953) is considered to be one of the
leading American composers of his generation. In 1987 Mr.
Sierra came to prominence when his first major orchestral
composition,
Júbilo, was performed at Carnegie Hall by the
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. His works have been performed
by the orchestras of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta,
Houston, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Dallas, Detroit, San Antonio
and Phoenix, as well as by the American Composers Orchestra,
the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the
National Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Continuum, the
Bronx Arts Ensemble, Voices of Change, England's BBC Symphony,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and at Wolf Trap, the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival, Festival Casals, Schleswig-Holstein
Festival in Germany, France's Festival de Lille, and others.
His Salsa para vientos was a prize-winning work at the 1983
Budapest Spring Festival, and his Suite won first prize at the
Alienor Harpsichord Competition. In 1987 the Almeida Festival
in London devoted an entire concert to his chamber works, and
the event was recorded and broadcast by the BBC. In April 2000,
Continuum ensemble presented a retrospective of Mr. Sierra's
chamber works at Merkin Concert Hall in New York. In 2003, Mr.
Sierra was awarded the prestigious Award in Music by the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. His music may be heard on releases
by New World Records, Newport Classic, New Albion, ADDA, Musical
Heritage Society, Koss Classics, CRI, BMG, Fleur de Son, Albany,
Ondine, Urtext and Dorian Records.
Peter Schickele/Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, IA (2 Weeks)
Peter Schickele
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Peter Schickele (b. 1935) is internationally recognized as one of
the most versatile artists in the field of new music. His works,
now well in excess of 100 for symphony orchestras, choral groups,
chamber ensembles, voice, movies, and television have given him
"a leading role in the ever-more-prominent school of American
composers who unselfconsciously blend all levels of American
music." (John Rockwell,
The New York Times). He studied
composition with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud, and at The
Juilliard School of Music with Vincent Persichetti and William
Bergsma. Then, under a Ford Foundation grant, he composed music
for high schools in Los Angeles before returning to teach at
Juilliard in 1961.
In 1965 he gave up teaching to become the
freelance composer/performer he has been ever since. In the
course of his career, Mr. Schickele has also created music for
four feature films, among them the prize-winning
Silent Running,
and for documentaries, television commercials, several Sesame
Street segments and an underground movie that he has never seen
in its finished state. He was also one of the composer/lyricists
for
Oh! Calcutta!, and has arranged for Joan Baez, Buffy
Sainte-Marie and other folk singers.
