Bruce Bennett

Bio:

Bruce Bennett is a native of Seattle and currently resides in San Francisco. In addition to an active performing and composing career, he works for Avid writing the Pro Tools guides and teaches composition, orchestration, counterpoint, and 20th-Century Music at San Francisco State University on the side. He was a visiting artist at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2005–2006 and visiting assistant professor of music at Tulane University from 2003–2005 (only to run away after that damn hurricane, and happier to be on top of a fault line than 6 feet below sea level!).

He has received several honors, including grants from Meet the Composer, a 2003 commission from the Fromm Foundation and the 1993 Prix Maurice Ravel at Fontainbleau. He was a founding member of both the Berkeley New Music Project and the CNMAT Users Group (a coalition of composers and engineers whose interests are in the interaction of music and technology), and is on the board of directors for Earplay (a San Francisco–based new music ensemble).

His works have been played throughout the United States and abroad by such groups as the Arditti String Quartet, the Avenue Winds, the Berkeley Symphony, City Winds, Del Sol String Quartet, Earplay, the Ensemble InterContemporain, the New Orleans New Music Ensemble, Sirius, and members of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; his electroacoustic music has been presented at events such as the Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth, the Pulse Field exhibition in Atlanta, Sonic Circuits II, Cultural Labyrinth in San Francisco, EX-STATIC and Sonic Residues in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been represented and at CMS, ICMA, SEAMUS, and SCI conferences.

He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 where he studied composition with Richard Felciano and computer music with David Wessel. He received his M.M. in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1993, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, David Conte, and Elinor Armer; he received his B.A. in music from Reed College in 1990 where he was a student of David Schiff.

Member Since:

January 06, 2008

Members:

me, myself, and i; and whoever else i can convince to participate in this mad pursuit of hopelessly hopeful musicality.

Influences:

life

Sounds Like:

music

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