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Composers Jazz Bios:     more detail

Dixonia: A Bio-Discography of Bill Dixon (Discographies) by Benjamin I. Young, 1998-07-17 Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by David Demsey, Ronald Prather, 1993-01-30 Dis Here: A Bio-Discography of Julian Cannonball Adderley (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference) by Chris Sheridan, 2000-05-30 Jazz: The Essential Companion to Artists and Albums (Rough Guides) by Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, et all 1995-11-01 Jean 'Django' Reinhardt: A Contextual Bio-Discography 1910-1953 by Paul Vernon, 2003-08 George Gershwin: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by Norbert Carnovale, 2000-02 Bobby Hackett: A Bio-Discography (Discographies) by Harold Jones, 1999-01-30 William Thomas McKinley: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by Jeffrey S. Sposato, 1995-05-30 They Also Wrote by William E. Studwell, 2000-10-18 Twentieth-Century Brass Soloists by Michael Meckna, 1994-02-28 American Women Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary by Virginia L. Grattan, 1993-04-30

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1. Composers Bios, Leonarda CD #LE 348
   Leonarda Productions' Composer bios. is an up tempo fugue, with elements of jazz andsome comphi.html (takes you to alphabetical list of composers with links to  
   http://www.leonarda.com/MainPageCmp/comp348.html
   
   Extractions: (Players alternate on parts.) Christopher Weait, whose musical works include nearly 100 compositions, has been Professor of Bassoon at Ohio State University since 1984. He was principal bassoonist of the Toronto Symphony for 17 years, where he worked under music directors Ozawa, Ancerl, and Andrew Davis and founded the Toronto Chamber Winds. He played with the Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia and the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point. Weait has been a visiting professor at the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University and has recorded solo and chamber albums on the CBC, Coronet, Crystal, d'Note, Kneptune, Lyrichord and Innova labels. His book Bassoon Reed-Making: A Basic Technique Suite of Early American Tunes was Weait's first published work. "The arrangements were made partly to provide music for the charming and exotic sound of the bassoon quartet and partly out of my interest in American music from the 19th century. The first, third and fourth movements. are drawn from the Merrimac Collection, edited by American lexicographer Henry Eaton Moore (1803-1841) and published in Concord, New Hampshire in 1833. The second movement is based on the hymn tune Work, for the Night is Coming

2. NPR Bios - Wynton Marsalis
   Find the biographies and photos of NPR hosts and correspondents. Recognized as one of today's premiere jazz musicians and composers, Wynton Marsalis began his career at age the world to educate young people about jazz. Return to NPR bios  
   http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/wmarsalis.html

3. Jazz Composers I WRITE THE MUSIC
   Directory. Shunkichi Ishii's jazz Piano Page. jazz composers Collective.Italian jazz Musicians Catalogue. jazz bios Awesome Library .  
   http://iwritethemusic.com/jazzcomposers.html
   
   Extractions: Jazz Sites: Jazz Clubs Around the World Jazz Club Directory Shunkichi Ishii's Jazz Piano Page Jazz Composers Collective ... RoJaC Robert's Jazz Corner: Austria One Stop Jazz On The Web The Contemporary List Of Jazz Links World-Wide Jazz Web ... Nighthawk Online is an online magazine for jazz, blues and Latin jazz. Nighthawk offers featured columns, streaming audio of new releases, artists' profiles, festival/tour/society information and much more. JazCraft Home Page

4. Jazz Composers I WRITE THE MUSIC
   Ishii's jazz Piano Page. jazz composers Collective. Italian jazz Musicians Catalogue. jazz bios "Awesome Library"  
   http://www.iwritethemusic.com/jazzcomposers.html
   
   Extractions: Jazz Sites: Jazz Clubs Around the World Jazz Club Directory Shunkichi Ishii's Jazz Piano Page Jazz Composers Collective ... RoJaC Robert's Jazz Corner: Austria One Stop Jazz On The Web The Contemporary List Of Jazz Links World-Wide Jazz Web ... Nighthawk Online is an online magazine for jazz, blues and Latin jazz. Nighthawk offers featured columns, streaming audio of new releases, artists' profiles, festival/tour/society information and much more. JazCraft Home Page

5. Leonarda Composers #339
   Leonarda Records Composer bios. of her other works, it incorporates jazz idioms (solo SymphonyOrchestra's Unisys AfricanAmerican composers Forum competition  
   http://www.leonarda.com/MainPageCmp/comp339.html
   
   Extractions: Music by African-American Women Irene Britton Smith (b. Chicago, early 20th century) earned a bachelor's degree in composition from the American Conservatory, where she was a student of Leo Sowerby and Stella Roberts, and a master's degree from DePaul University, where she studied with Leon Stein. She also attended The Juilliard School during 1946-47, studying with Vittorio Giannini. In summers, she studied at the Eastman School of Music, the Berkshire Music Center with Irving Fine, and at the Conservatory in Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger. Smith's works include a Sinfonietta for orchestra, chamber music, piano works, anthems, and songs. Now retired, Smith taught elementary school in Chicago for more than 40 years while continuing to compose. Sonata for violin and piano was written while she was a student at Juilliard. Dorothy Rudd Moore (b.1940) was born in New Castle, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Howard University, where she earned a B.A. in music theory and composition, studying with Mark Fax. She was the recipient of a Lucy Moten Fellowship for study with Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in France in 1963, and continued composition studies with Chou Wen-Chung in New York in 1965. She taught at the Harlem School of the Arts, New York University, and Bronx Community College, and and was one of the founders of the Society of Black Composers. Her opera, Frederick Douglass

6. Faculty Bios - Department Of Music - Caldwell College
   His recent New York club appearances include engagements at the Blue Note with theBMI New York jazz composers Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano, at the Village  
   http://www.caldwell.edu/academics/music_bio.html
   
   Extractions: Laura Greenwald is chair of the Music Department at Caldwell College where she teaches voice and music theory and directs the concert series. She also serves as an Affiliate Artist teaching voice at Drew University. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied voice with Hilda Harris and Maitland Peters and coached with Dr. Richard Mercier and Dr. Kenneth Cooper. Laura received her BME from Baldwin-Wallace College and Master of Music in Voice Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College where she studied with Judith Nicosia. Before relocating to New Jersey, Dr. Greenwald taught high school choral music and elementary general music in Ohio. She has taught private voice lessons since 1983 at various locations including The Pingry School, Caldwell College and Drew University. Dr. Greenwald is a member of Music Educator’s National Conference, College Music Society, NASM, The Voice Foundation, NYSTA and the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing for which she has served as both treasurer and secretary. Recently married, she resides in West Orange with her husband David Strom. Max Morden is a musician noted for his ability to cross styles, from big band jazz to Bach cantatas. As a trumpeter, he can often be found performing in the pit orchestra for Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast and with many of the ensembles around the state including the New Jersey Choral Society and the New Jersey Symphony. Presently he is the concert master, arranger, and assistant conductor of the highly acclaimed Gramercy Brass Orchestra in New York City, which just completed a recording of patriotic favorites on the Koch International recording label that is scheduled for a spring release. You can also hear Max on a new recording by the New Jersey acoustic rock group, Gabriel’s Hold. He is also the principal trumpet soloist for numerous churches throughout New Jersey.

7. BIOS
   Forum) CCP '88 (MN composers forum) Harvestworks Program Residency '91 National Geographicfilm score '90 jazz composers Series, MN '89 '86 National Endowment  
   http://www.harvestworks.org/ccs/0016.html

8. BIOS
   1987 I consider myself a mainly self taught composer Composer's bio/personal statementMusic presented by jazz composers Collective; Texaco NY, and Heinekin  
   http://www.harvestworks.org/ccs/0008.html
   
   Extractions: Performances at: Bang on a Can, Avery Fischer Hall; Knitting Factory and related festivals, 1996,97 and 98; Soha Arts Festival; Merkin Hall; MOMA; LaMama; North Sea Jazz Festival; NY Microtonal Festival; Barbican Center, London; Singapore Arts Festival; Hamumis Festival, Papua New Guinea; Extensive US touring and club performances.

9. Membership Of New York Women Composers
   Honors/awards Charles Ives Prize; Pennsylvania Government School of the Arts;Southeastern composers League (1st); National Composer (jazz and classical).  
   http://www.ibiblio.org/nywc/bios.html
   
   Extractions: BETH ANDERSON University of California, Mills College (MFA,MA). Taught: NYU, College of New Rochelle. Grants: NEA, NPR, MTC. OPUS ONE, 1750 Arch labels, Newport Classics. In the early 1970s Anderson had composed graphic scores (Music for Charlemagne Palestine), text-sound pieces (Torero Piece) and tape works (Tulip Clause). In the late 1970s, partly influenced by dance and in keeping with a widespread trend, her music became more regular in rhythm, more popular in orientation, and overtly romantic. DOROTHEA AUSTIN Professor at Queensborough Community College; Degrees: Performance, Teaching, Royal College, Royal Academy of Music, London; M.A. Composition, Queens College, NYC; Studied with Leo Kraft, George Perle; Style: 20th Century Lyricism, Cell Manipulation, Motivic Interplay; Performed: Carnegie, Merkin Hall, University Concert Series, television. ELIZABETH AUSTIN Goucher College(BA), Fontainebleau Conservatoire Americaine (1958:Boulanger), Hartt School (M.M.), University of Connecticut (Ph.D.); Publishers: Arsis Press, Peter Tonger Verlag; Recordings: Capstone; recent grants: Connecticut Commission on the Arts; recent awards: Nashville Music Awards nominee; ties to Mannheim (Germany) Musikhochschule, Brandenburg (Germany) Colloquium for New Music. LYDIA AYERS layers@cs.ust.hk

10. Meet The Composer - Industry Links
    for bands 'bones, brass quintets, and jazz ensembles; for percussion published bythe composers; Howard Stokar to announce our new website with bios, photos, and  
    http://www.meetthecomposer.org/bbs.htm
    
    Extractions: Please e-mail the name of your organization, web address, snail mail address and phone number (optional). Please be careful when typing in your web address ! You may also send us a one-line description of your site which we'll post under your URL. Meet The Composer is not a membership organization, and there is no charge for this service. This area of the site is updated on a regular basis.

11. Page Not Found
    Ensemble, the Contemporary jazz Orchestra, and The Steve AdamsKen Filiano Duo andQuartet. He is also a past member of the composers’ consortium composers  
    http://www.westaf.org/CAC/pr5-17-00ArtistFellowship-Bios.html

12. Music Links
    kidfriendly bios about jazz greats. http//www.pbs.org/jazz/kids/nowthen/index.html.Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of composers Very little  
    http://users.rcn.com/muffitt/music_links.htm

13. BCLS - Music
    CLASSICAL composers ARCHIVE composers searchable by nationality, timeline, yearof birth or alphabetically. jazz ONLINE -artist bios, reviews, music  
    http://www.baycountylibrary.org/TeenPage/music.htm

14. Bios
    Associations American Federation of jazz Societies; Connecticut composers,Inc. Connecticut Songwriters Association; The Hartford jazz Society, Inc.  
    http://www.youngjazeevibes.com/bios.htm
    
    Extractions: BIOS HOME BIOGRAPHY DISCOGRAPHY UPCOMING PERFORMANCES .Paul Paul Lowe, Jr. Lowe "Music is a universal language," says Lowe. "All the different forms of music are dialects of the universal language. To me, Jazz represents an American art form. In the jazz groups I've formed and performed with, each musician has an equal and democratic voice." Paul has studied at various music educational institutions including but not limited to Berklee College of Music, the Litchfield Jazz Festival Summer Music School, Young Artists Philharmonic Jazz Workshop, and Western Connecticut State University Jazz Program. He is currently working on developing Young Jazee Vibes' debut album on CD. Paul is now a senior at Shelton High School. He is a Honors student, and maintains an "A" average. Paul is a member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society. Paul created, designed, and is the webmaster for the first Shelton High School website: www.sheltonhighschool.com He is a judoka (judo player) blue belt, and competes locally and nationally in judo tournaments and is currently preparing for the 2004 Olympics. Paul recently won a gold medal in the 2001and 2002 Nutmeg State Judo Games Advanced Junior Division.

15. Jazz Profiles Bios
    by Schirmer Books as jazzwomen A Century of Women Performers, composers, and Producers.vShe has also written and produced numerous programs on jazz for NPR's  
    http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/oldsite/producers.html

16. Bookmarks About Jazz
    ambient, electronic, classical and 20th century composers, all of concentrates oncontemporary funkfusion and acid jazz. WAV and MPEG as well as bios and infos  
    http://www.sainet.or.jp/~head/Jazz.html

17. New York Philharmonic: Artist And Composer Bios. Biographies Of Many Of The Peop
    Artist and Composer bios. several awards from the American Society of composers,Authors, and musical world one that includes classical, jazz, and commercial  
    http://www.menc.org/guides/nyphil/composer.htm
    
    Extractions: A native of California, trombonist Joseph Alessi began childhood musical training with his father, Joseph Alessi, Sr. He attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. While still a student, he performed as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. He also spent four seasons with the Philadelphia Orchestra and one season with L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. In 1985, he was named to the principal chair of the New York Philharmonic . His solo appearances with the Philharmonic included the world premiere of Christopher Rouse's Pulitzer Prize- winning Trombone Concerto in 1992 and Creston's Fantasy for Trombone in 1990. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, and he travels widely as a soloist and clinician. Christine Goerke Soprano Christine Goerke received important training in the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artist Development Program. She also collaborated frequently with the late Robert Shaw, who conducted her concert debut at Carnegie Hall. Goerke's first major role at the Metropolitan Opera was Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni during the 1997-98 season. She has appeared as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, and other major orchestras.

18. American Composers Orchestra--Orchestra Bios
    also be heard in such diverse settings as the Montreux jazz Festival, the area, heis currently the first clarinetist with American composers Orchestra, The  
    http://www.americancomposers.org/orchestra/orchestra_bios.htm
    
    Extractions: Board of Directors Administrative Staff Artistic Advisors Back Ah Ling Neu, violist, born in Japan of Chinese parents, studied at the San Francisco Conservatory with Gennady Kleyman and in Holland with Nobuko Imai. Ms. Neu's performances throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia have included the Marlboro Festival, Chamber Music/West, Tanglewood, the International Musicians' Seminar in England, the Spoleto Festival (Italy and USA), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Germany and "Chamber Music at the Y" in New York City. A former member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Ridge String Quartet, she is presently a member of the New York Philomusica Ensemble and has performed on several Musicians from Marlboro tours. She is currently principal viola of the Eos ensemble, the Brandenburg ensemble and a member of Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra. Back Diva Goodfriend-Koven has performed on both flute and piccolo with all of the major orchestras and chamber orchestras in the New York City area. She is active as a teacher and also plays in The Locrian Ensemble (the mission of the group is to perform music that is no older than 10 years). She has been a member of American Composers Orchestra since 1981 which is also when she became a regular Associate musician with the MET Orchestra. Besides membership in both the American Symphony and American Ballet Theater, she has attended and performed at the Bard Music Festival since its inception in 1989. She has been seen on Live From Lincoln Center performing with the NY Philharmonic,and has recorded extensively with Orpheus, ACO, The MET Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and also on numerous commercial films and sound-tracks.

19. Kassaba Biographies
    composers Competition and won a prize in the IBLA Grand Prize—European Internationalcomposers Competition. In 2000, the Dayton jazz Orchestra commissioned  
    http://www.kassaba.com/bios.html
    
    Extractions: shekere Pianist and composer Greg Slawson is from Cleveland, Ohio. His compositions led to the formation of this unique ensemble that combines elements of classical, jazz, hip-hop and international music. Greg was a double-major in music and psychology as an undergraduate at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. At the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) he earned a Master of Music degree in piano performance. He was a finalist in ASCAP's Morton Gould Young Composers Competition and won a prize in the IBLA Grand Prize—European International Composers Competition. In 2000, the Dayton Jazz Orchestra commissioned Greg's work "Archipelago," a concerto for piano and jazz orchestra, which he premiered with the ensemble. He also wrote "Prelude e Danza" for Anita Pontremoli and Arnold Steinhardt, first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, for the world premiere at CIM. Kassaba is the culmination of Greg's diverse musical experiences. ( greg@kassaba.com

20. Barcelona In 48 Hours: Bios
    bios » —anja hitzenberger is the recipient of several Meet the Composer Fund grantsand received an Honorable Mention in the jazz composers Alliance/Julius  
    http://www.barcelonain48hours.com/bios.html
    
    Extractions: Originally from Salzburg, she moved to New York City in 1990 and worked for several years for the Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik. Hitzenberger studied at the International Center of Photography in New York and was a correspondent for tanz Affiche , the Austrian dance magazine. She has received numerous grants from the Austrian government, the city of Vienna, and the state of Salzburg. Her work has been published internationally, including in The New York Times , the Village Voice Time Out New York Ballet International/Tanz Aktuell Dance Magazine Surface Nouvelle de Danse Terrain: Danser Danspace Project: 25 Years Movement Research's Performance Journal , the Oxford University Press Dictionary of Dance tanz Affiche , Deborah Hay's book My Body: The Buddhist , and was commissioned by Dance Ink

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