Featured Composers

Clarence Barlow
CREATE — April 12, and Songbird's Hour—April 12–14
Clarence Barlow

Professor Clarence Barlow is the Corwin Endowed Chair of Composition at the University of California-Santa Barbara. From its inception, the Corwin Chair has been an important post for promoting the creation and performance of contemporary music, for making regional, national, and international connections with other composition programs, for bringing noted composers to UCSB as guests to broaden students' horizons, and for attracting students to UCSB. Barlow's career achievements fulfill the Corwin's vision of fostering a link between continuing excellence in traditional approaches to composition while also recognizing the emerging role of music in the media arts and technology. Barlow's past and current teaching posts include twelve years as Professor of Composition and Computer Music at the renowned biennial Summer Courses of the International Music Institute at Darmstadt (1982-1994); over twenty years as Lecturer in Computer Music at the Cologne Musikhochschule (1984-2005); four years as Artistic Director of the Institute of Sonology at The Hague 's Royal Conservatory (1990-1994); and twelve years as Professor of Composition and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory (1994-2006). Other posts include Visiting Professor of Composition and Acoustic Art at the Folkwang University in Essen, Germany (1990-1991), and Visiting Professor of Composition at the ESMAE School of Music and Dramatic Arts in Porto, Portugal (2005-2006). Barlow, who studied composition under Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1968-1970) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1971-1973), is a universally acknowledged pioneer and celebrated composer in the field of electroacoustic and computer music. He has made groundbreaking advancements in interdisciplinary composition that unite mathematics, computer science, visual arts, and literature. While he has been a driving force in interdisciplinary and technological advances, his music is nevertheless firmly grounded in tradition and thus incorporates much inherited from the past. His works, primarily for traditional instruments, feature a vocabulary that ranges from pretonal to tonal, nontonal, or microtonal idioms, and, further, may incorporate elements derived from non-western cultures.

 

Richard Boulanger
CREATE —April 12
Boulanger

Richard Boulanger was born in 1956 and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music from the University of California, San Diego where he worked at the Center for Music Experiment's Computer Audio Research Lab. He has continued his computer music research at Bell Labs, CCRMA, the MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, and IBM and worked closely for many years with Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe. Boulanger has premiered his original interactive works at the Kennedy Center, and appeared on stage performing his Radio Baton and MIDI PowerGlove Concerto with the Krakow and Moscow Symphonies. His music is recorded on the NEUMA label.

Currently, Dr. Boulanger is a Professor of Music Synthesis at the Berklee College of Music where he has been honored with both the Faculty of the Year Award and the President's Award. He has published articles on computer music education and composition in all the major electronic music and music technology magazines. Most recently, Boulanger edited a definitive textbook on computer music that was published by The MIT Press entitled: The Csound Book.

Philosophy: "For me, music is a medium through which the inner spiritual essence of all things is revealed and shared. Compositionally, I am interested in extending the voice of the traditional performer through technological means to produce a music which connects with the past, lives in the present and speaks to the future. Educationally, I am interested in helping students see technology as the most powerful instrument for the exploration, discovery, and realization of their essential musical nature - their inner voice." http://www.csounds.com/boulanger

Thom Blum
CREATE —April 12

Thom Blum (b. 1954, Columbus, Ohio USA) has been composing electroacoustic and computer music since 1972. His works have been presented in concerts, festivals and radio broadcasts internationally. He studied composition at California Institute of the Arts (1972-74), where his teachers included James Tenney, Ingram Marshall, and Curtis Roads. He established a curriculum in computer applications to music at The Ohio State University, under the mentorship of Thomas Whitney, Charles Csuri, and Thomas Wells (B.S., 1977). He is a Co-founder of the International Computer Music Association (1977), and served as Associate Editor for M.I.T. Press Journals Computer Music Journal (1987-1996). Residing in San Francisco since 1978, he has worked as an audio software engineer for LucasFilm/DroidWorks, a researcher and software architect for Yamaha Music Technologies, and is a Co-founder of Muscle Fish, a sound analysis and processing software company. In 2001, he joined the five person collective known as the San Francisco Tape Music Collective (2001), which also includes composers Matt Ingalls, Joseph Anderson, Cliff Caruthers, and Kent Jolly. http://www.thomblum.com/

Larry Delinger
ECM—April 11
Larry Delinger

Larry Delinger studied composition in Los Angeles with Ernest Kanitz and in Santa Barbara with Edward Applebaum. He is a freelance composer, writing incidental music for theaters throughout the United States and Europe. These include the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, National Actors Theater in New York City and the Oslo Nye Theater in Norway. Many of his works have been performed on radio and television. Mr. Delinger has received numerous commissions including those from the California Brass Quintet for Nightwalls, the University of Northern Colorado wind ensemble for Elegies for Winds, Flute and Percussion, Costal Access Musician's Alliance for Studies in Light, Meditations commissioned by the Varian Foundation and Paradox for the Denver Brass which is now available on CD. Mr. Delinger has also composed music for Sesame Street, a rock album titled Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival, and the ballet Spheres for Dance Umbrella of New York. His published compositions include Elegy for John Lennon, Brass Rings, King Lear Sonata, Paradox and Nightwalls. Mr. Delinger has received eleven Los Angeles DramaLogue Critics' Awards for excellence in music composition and was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from Chadron State College.

Joel Feigin
New Century Voices —April 14
Joel Feigin

Joel Feigin (b: New York City, 1951) is a composer whose music has been heard across the U.S., Europe and Asia, his works widely praised for their “very strong impact, as logical in musical design as they are charged with emotion and drama.” (Opera Magazine) Feigin’s many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia (1998-1999) and a Fromm Foundation Commission from the Israeli-American pianist, Yael Weiss, for Aviv: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, premiered under the direction of David Dzubay in September 2010. Previously, pianist Margaret Mills had commissioned and premiered Variations on Empty Space, which is included on her Cambria Master Recordings CD, Meditations and Overtones, along with Feigin’s Four Meditations from Dogen. The disk is available at http://cambriamus.com/. Feigin’s two operatic works, Mysteries of Eleusis and Twelfth Night, have been presented by the Moscow Conservatory, the Russian-American Festival of Operatic Art, Long Leaf Opera, and Theatre Cornell, as well as in New York City Opera’s VOX 2003 Showcase and the New Works Sampler at the 2006 Opera America Conference in Seattle, Washington. A scene from Twelfth Night can be seen on YouTube. Feigin’s chamber and orchestral music has been performed and commissioned by such groups as the Santa Barbara Symphony, Speculum Musicae, Parnassus, and Piano-Spheres. Transience, a 2-CD set on North/South Recordings, followed a full evening of chamber and vocal works performed by Musicians Accord in New York City in 1995; concerts devoted solely to Feigin’s music have also been given in Armenia and Russia. A student of Zen Buddhism and Professor of Composition at the University of California Santa Barbara, Feigin studied with Nadia Boulanger at Fontainebleau and with Roger Sessions at The Juilliard School. His website can be found at www.joelfeigin.com.

Jeremy Haladyna
CREATE — April 12
Jeremy Haladyna

Jeremy Haladyna holds prizes and academic qualifications from three countries. He is a diplòmè of the history-rich Schola Cantorum on Left Bank. He also holds the s degree with Distinction from the University of Surrey (U.K.). He has taught undergraduate composition at UCSB since 1991 and was awarded the Ph.D. in composition in 1993. In addition to his responsibilities with ECM, he teaches orchestration and is on the faculty of the College of Creative Studies, UCSB. As pianist, composer, conductor and organist, he has long been committed to the espousal of new music. Prizes from the Friends of Lili Boulanger and s MCPS Ltd. bear witness to his creativity, and his own music has recently been heard at St. s Smith Square, London; South Bank Centre, London; St. s Cathedral, London; BMIC, London; and the National Museum of Art, Mexico City. His On The Mat of The Jaquar Priest, written for Jill Felber, appears on Neuma records. PaulJohnBritainMasterParis)

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