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Stephen Jaffe
Stephen Jaffe (born December 30, 1954, in Washington, D.C. ) is an American of . He lives in , United States, and serves on the music faculty of , where he holds the post of Mary and James H. Sema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Jaffe At SAAM
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Bach Festival
Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) is an annual celebration of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and his musical legacy, held in Eugene, Oregon, United States, in late June and early July. About the festival The festival's programming is three-fold. It presents a diverse slate of concerts and guest artists, which in recent years has included non-Bach-related programs by Garrison Keillor, Bobby McFerrin, Frederica von Stade and Yo-Yo Ma; it maintains a focus on choral-orchestral repertoire, including commissions and premieres; and it undertakes extensive educational activities, including the Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy, directed by conductor Anton Armstrong of St. Olaf College. The ''Wall Street Journal'' has called OBF "one of the world’s leading music festivals". Oregon Bach Festival is a donor-supported program of the University of Oregon. The activities of the festival are concentrated at Eugene's Hult Center for the Performing Arts and at the University of Oregon's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Scurria
Amy Scurria (born September 24, 1973) is an American composer. Biography Amy Scurria was born into a military family and showed an early interest in music, memorizing the piano assignments of her sister Jackie. At age 11 she took lessons under the Suzuki method and began composing. Scurria graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in composition. In 1998 she received a master's degree in composition from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her doctoral degree in 2015 from Duke University in Durham. Dr. Scurria has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Teachers she studied with include: Chen Yi, Robert Sirota, Narcis Bonet, Anthony Kelley, and Stephen Jaffe. Her compositions have been performed in the United States, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, France, and Japan. She was a composer-in-residence at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Schimmel
Carl Schimmel is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He has been awarded the Joseph H. Bearns Prize from Columbia University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University, a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other honors. An album of his compositions, ''Roadshow'', was released in 2017. Education and early career Schimmel was born in 1975 in Pensacola, Florida and raised in Wakefield, Rhode Island. He received degrees from Case Western Reserve University (B.A. Mathematics & Music, 1997), Yale School of Music (M.M. Music Composition, 1999), and Duke University (Ph.D. Music Composition, 2008). His mentors at these institutions included Martin Bresnick, Stephen Jaffe, and Sydney Hodkinson. Career Schimmel's music has received numerous awards including the Lee Ettelson Award, first prize in the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble competition, a First Music Award from the New York Youth Sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Mallonée
Caroline Mallonée (born 1975"Caroline Mallonée," ''New Music USA'' (website), accessed 8 August 2019) is an American composer best known for her choral works. She is also the artistic director of the Creative Musicians Retreat, part of The Walden School's summer offerings. She attended Harvard University, where she studied with Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky, receiving her bachelor's degree in 1997. For her master's degree she attended Yale University, where she studied with Joseph Schwantner and Evan Ziporyn, receiving her degree in 2000. In 2005 she received a Fulbright fellowship to study with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2006 she received her Ph.D. from Duke University, where she studied with Scott Lindroth and Stephen Jaffe. Her music has been performed in Carnegie Hall, at Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Town Hall, Roulette, Symphony Space, Tokyo Opera City, and National Sawdust. Commissions include the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penka Kouneva
Penka Kouneva ( bg, Пенка Кунева) (/ˈpɛŋkɑː kuːˈnɛvɑː/; born February 25, 1967, in Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-American composer, Orchestration, orchestrator and Record producer, soundtrack producer. In 1999, she began working in film and television and in 2009 began to score for Video game, videogames (''Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands'' and ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (video game), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' video games, with themes by Steve Jablonsky). Her music is a blend of Bulgarian influences, classical training, rock sensibility, and modern film and Video game music, game soundtracks. Kouneva has released two award-winning concept albums: ''The Woman Astronaut'' (2015, on Varèse Sarabande / Universal Music Group) and ''A Warrior's Odyssey'' (2012, on Howlin’ Wolf Records / Sumthing Else Music Works, Sumthing Else) both receiving 5-star press. Adolescence and early career (1990–1999) Kouneva was born and ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Hindman
Dorothy Hindman (born March 13, 1966) is an American composer and music educator. Early life and studies Born in Miami, Florida on March 13, 1966, Hindman had intense early exposure to classical music from her mother, Dorothy Hindman Lyon, a gifted classical pianist and scientist, and her father, William Murphy Hindman, an actor and manager at that time of WTMI, Miami's classical radio station. Formal music study began late for her, at age 16, when she entered Miami-Dade College as a piano major with the intention to study synthesis. This path led her to avant-garde electronic music and at 19 she began a composition major at the University of Miami, studying with composer Dennis Kam, and graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in 1988. Her studies continued at Duke University with Stephen Jaffe and Thomas Oboe Lee, receiving her Master of Arts in the composition in 1989. In 1990, she became a University Fellow at the University of Miami, resuming her studies with Denn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Beck
Jeremy Beck (born 1960) is an American composer who "knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way." The critic Mark Sebastian Jordan has said that "Beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular long before that became the hip bandwagon it is today. Indeed, e is... an original voice celebrating music." Early life and musical education Jeremy Joseph Beck was born January 15, 1960, in Painesville, Ohio. His father, Albert William Beck (b. April 4, 1931, in Scranton, Pennsylvania; d. May 16, 2018 in Quincy, Illinois), known as "Al", was a visual artist and poet who taught for many years at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. His mother, Mila Katrine Aho (b. June 24, 1935, Painesville, Ohio; d. March 26, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee), known as "Katrine", was a pianist and organist who taught music privately. Beck's parents married in 1958, but not without some controversy: the Beck family was Jewish and the Aho family was L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridge Records, Inc
Bridge Records is an independent record label that specializes in classical music located in New Rochelle, New York. History A classical guitarist, David Starobin recorded the Boccherini Guitar Quintet in E minor in the 1970s. This was his first experience observing the process of recording. After starting Bridge Records in 1981, the first album issued was his ''New Music with Guitar''. Starobin's wife Becky is president of the company, while their son Robert is vice president. The catalog includes albums by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Henri Dutilleux, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Lansky, Joaquin Rodrigo, Fred Lerdahl, Poul Ruders, Stephen Sondheim, Toru Takemitsu, and Stefan Wolpe. A series of historical recordings coordinated with the Library of Congress includes works by Samuel Barber, Budapest String Quartet, Aaron Copland, Nathan Milstein, Leontyne Price, Leopold Stokowski, George Szell, and Cecil Taylor. The label recorded Mohammed Fairouz's first opera, ''Sumeida's Song'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciompi Quartet
The Ciompi Quartet is a string quartet at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States, where they were founded in 1965 by Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi. The Quartet has produced twelve recordings (half collaboratively with other artists) since 1991. All members of the Quartet are Duke professors. They have performed both in the U.S. and abroad, visiting places such as Texas, China, Germany, Serbia and more. External links The Ciompi Quartet's web site. American string quartets Duke University Musical groups established in 1965 University musical groups {{Classical-ensemble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami String Quartet
The Miami String Quartet is an American string quartet. The group was founded in 1988 at The New World School of the Arts by John de Lancie in Miami, Florida. The Quartet was in Residence at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, where all four members served as faculty members in the School of Music, and two still remain. The Quartet was the Grand Prize winner at the Fischoff competition, First Prize winners of the Concert Artists Guild competition, and prize winners at the London and Evian International Quartet Competitions. They were awarded the Cleveland Quartet Award and were named to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II Residency as well. The Miami Quartet has served as Artists in Residence at the Hartt School and Florida International University and perform and teach at the Kent Blossom Music Festival every summer. Recordings The Miami String Quartet's first recording, which featured the first two string quartets by Alberto Ginastera, was released in 1994. Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
The New Jersey Symphony, formerly the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, is an American symphony orchestra based in the state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Symphony is the state orchestra of New Jersey, performing classical subscription concert series and specials in six venues across the state, including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey, where it is the resident orchestra. Location and venues The New Jersey Symphony presents classical, specials, pops and family concerts at venues in six cities and venues around the state: * Newark: New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) * Red Bank: Count Basie Theatre * Morristown: Mayo Performing Arts Center * New Brunswick: State Theatre * Princeton: Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University * Englewood: Bergen Performing Arts Center The New Jersey Symphony previously presented concert series at the War Memorial in Trenton and the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn. The New Jersey Symphony performs summer co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
