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Born in Hollywood, California, Julian Wachner began his musical education at age 4 and studied improvisation, composition, organ and theory under Dr. Gerre Hancock while a boy chorister at the St. Thomas Choir School in New York City. In 1990, at the age of twenty, he became the University Organist and Music Director of Boston University's Marsh Chapel with subsequent appointments to the faculty of the BU School of Theology and School for the Arts. In 1996, he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University's School for the Arts. He has served as music director of The Providence Singers (1996-2006), The Back Bay Chorale (1996-2002), The Boston Bach Ensemble (1995-2002), the Red House Opera Group (Summer 2002), the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists' Composition Program (1999, 2002, 2003), and of Marsh Chapel at Boston University (1990-2001.) Currently he is associate professor of music at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, co-artistic director of the Bach-Academie de Montreal, and director of music at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul. Previous faculty positions include those at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most active and versatile artists of his generation, Julian Wachner has appeared as a conductor with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Pops, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, L'Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, Tanglewood Young Artists' Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Lexington Sinfonietta, New England Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, and the Boston Bach Ensemble. Recent commissions include the Boston Landmarks Orchestra (The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 2004 and Lifting the Curse, 2006), l'Orchestre Métropolitain (Tryptich for Organ and Large Orchestra), Cornell University's Glee Club (Rubaiyat), and his first opera, Evangeline Revisited, for Opera McGill in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Other commissions and performances include the Spoleto Festival USA (Cymbale), the New Haven Symphony (Planet X, Pluto, Apollo's Fire), the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal (Psalm Cycle III), the San Diego Symphony (Regina Cœli), the Providence Singers (Canticles), the Quincy Symphony (Clarinet Concerto), the Cape Ann Symphony (Celebrations), Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Maryland (Behold the Tabernacle), the Charleston Symphony and Chorus (Regina Cœli), and Alea III (Cycles). His complete catalogue of music is published exclusively by E. C. Schirmer. |
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Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947) holds B.A., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition from Brown University and the Hart School of Music. A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory, she resigned from academia in 1982 to pursue a career as a full-time composer. She now lives on a dairy farm in Braintree, VT. Dr. Walker’s full catalog includes over 120 commissioned works for chorus, orchestra, band, and chamber ensembles. A proud resident of her state, she received the distinguished 2000 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Vermont Arts Council. (Choral works and selected vocal and keyboard works are published by E.C. Schirmer Music Co.; orchestral and instrumental works by MMB Music.) |
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Joelle Wallach (b. 1946) composes music for chorus, orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo voices. Her String Quartet
1995 was the American Composers Alliance nominee for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The New York
Philharmonic Ensembles premiered her octet, From the Forest of Chimneys, written to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Wallach grew up in Morocco, but makes her home in New York City, where she was born. Her early training in piano, voice, theory, bassoon and violin included study at the Juilliard Preparatory Division, and she earned bachelors and masters degrees at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, respectively. In 1984, the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with John Corigliano, granted her its first doctorate in composition. For more information, to hear samples of Wallach’s music, and to get a glimpse of her current works in progress, visit her Web site: www.joellewallach.com. |
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Robert Ward (b. 1917) received the 1962 Pulitzer Prize in Music and the New York Music Critic's Citation for his opera The Crucible. He has received many commissions for his works, which have been performed by the New York Opera, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, Central City Opera, Charlotte Opera and the Greater Miami Opera, among others. His body of work includes seven operas, large and small choral works and diverse chamber music. Ward has conducted his own works with many orchestras throughout the world. A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, he has held three Guggenheim fellowships and received grants from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Among his many awards are the North Carolina Award in Fine Arts, the Eastman School Achievement Award and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He continues to lecture at colleges and universities throughout the United States. |
| Donald Waxman
Donald Waxman was born in Steubenville, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1925, and moved to Baltimore, Maryland, while very young. His musical training began at the Peabody Conservatory, where his principle teachers were Carlotta Heller in piano, Felix Mendelssohn in cello and Elliott Carter in composition. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music (B.S. Composition), where he continued his composition studies with Bernard Wagenaar. Mr. Waxman has written for almost every genre, including compositions for piano and piano ensemble (many of which were premiered by the composer and his pianist wife, Jho Waxman), solo instrument, chamber ensemble, voice, chorus, symphonic and chamber orchestra. Orchestral performances of his works have included the Houston Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, National Gallery Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, Oakland Symphony and others. Chamber music and choral music premieres, many of these written on commission, have included the New York Composers Forum, Bennington Composers Forum, Huntingdon Trio, Baltimore Chamber Music Society, Gregg Smith Singers and others. Three of the largest MTA (Music Teachers Association) state organizations have honored Mr. Waxman in naming him their “Composer of the Year” and commissioning from him works that were premiered at their state conventions: New York in 1985 with Trio for Two Flutes and Piano, California in 1993 with Arabesques and Ostinato for Two Pianos and Florida in 1997 with Variations on a Waltz of Diabelli for Violin, Clarinet, Cello and Piano. The earliest awards to the composer for his creative work came to him while still a student at the Peabody and included the Gustav Klemm Composition Prize (twice) and the RCA Composition Award. In 1964-65. Mr. Waxman was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to Paris. In 1989 he was awarded a gold medal as the first American Composer-in-Residence at the Kang Nung (Korea) Music Festival. In 1998 he was awarded the Delius Society’s Grand Prize for American chamber music compositions. Instrumental and choral works of Mr. Waxman have been recorded on Vox Records; many of his instrumental, piano, vocal, choral and orchestral compositions are published by Galaxy Music (ECS Publishing). Mr. Waxman is particularly well known for his contribution to the field of piano pedagogy. His several hundred works in that genre are unique for their innovative harmonic and rhythmic language and have been called “an American Mikrokosmos”. In addition to his career as a composer, Mr. Waxman continues to be active as a pianist, conductor, teacher, lecturer and music editor. From 1970 to 1990 Mr. Waxman was Managing Editor of Galaxy Music Corporation, New York. He has served on the boards of MPA (Music Publishers of America) and ASCAP. The composer and his wife reside in Boca Raton, Florida. |
| David Ashley White
David Ashley White (b. 1944), a seventh-generation Texan, is a widely commissioned, performed, and published composer of sacred and secular music. He has been a member of the music composition and theory faculty of the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music for twenty-seven years and currently serves as director of the school. His E. C. Schirmer Music Company publications include choral, vocal, and chamber music. His hymns appear in several denominational books, including the hymnals of the Episcopal and Methodist churches, as well as in two collections that contain his complete output, Sing, My Soul and Songs for a New Creation, both published by Selah Publishing Company. His choral music can be heard on several CDs, including Echoes of the American Cathedral: Music of David Ashley White, The Choir of Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church, Robert Brewer, director and organist, and Frances Anderson, co-director (Zephyr, Z115-99); and The Blue Estuaries, American Choral Music, Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson, director (Zephyr, Z-120-01). The title of the latter is taken from White’s choral suite, The Blue Estuaries, a setting of poems by Louise Bogan, published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company. |
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Richard Wienhorst (1920-2010) was born on April 21, 1920, in Seymour, Indiana. There he learned to play the piano and the whole family of wind instruments. Wienhorst pursued his studies further at Valparaiso University where he received the B.A. degree. Joining the army during World War II, Wienhorst served as conductor of the 45th Armored Regiment Band. Afterward, he studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and finally at the Eastman School of Music where he received the Ph.D. degree in composition. Along the way, Wienhorst also studied at the Écoles d’Art Americaine du Fontainebleau and at the University of Freiburg (in Breisgau), Germany. His teachers included Leo Sowerby, Nadia Boulanger, Bernhard Rogers and Howard Hanson. From 1946 on, Wienhorst served on the faculty of the Music Department of Valparaiso University. In 1996, Valparaiso University conferred an honorary Doctor of Sacred Music degree on him. |
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