Orchestra Tech: National Conference October 10 - 14, 2001 / New York City Mark Applebaum Mark Applebaum received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough. His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, electro-acoustic, and electronic work has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia with notable premieres at the Darmstadt summer sessions. He has received commissions from Betty Freeman, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Zeitgeist, MANUFACTURE, the Jerome Foundation, and the American Composers Forum, among others. He is the recipient of the 1997 Stephen Albert Award, administered by the American Music Center. Mr. Applebaum is also active as a jazz pianist and builder of sound-sculptures. His music can be heard on the Innova label. Mr. Applebaum has taught at UCSD and served as the Dayton-Hudson Visiting Artist at Carleton College. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at Stanford University. Robert Beaser Robert Beaser is often cited as a leader of the "New Tonalists" and through a wide range of media has firmly established his own voice as a synthesis of Western tradition and American vernacular. Beaser has been commissioned with regularity by many major orchestras and ensembles throughout the world including, most recently, the New York Philharmonic (150th Anniversary), the Chicago Symphony (Centennial Commission), the American Composers Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. His music has been performed frequently by such renowned artists as Renee Fleming, Paula Robison, Dennis Russell Davies, James Galway, Dawn Upshaw, Eliot Fisk, Lauren Flanigan, Leonard Slatkin and David Zinman. | |
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