JACK GALLAGHER is the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music at The College of Wooster (Ohio) where he teaches composition, orchestration, music theory, and trumpet.
His compositions have been performed or recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Krakow, Kiev Philharmonic, Koszalin Philharmonic, Ruse Philharmonic (Bulgaria), Utah Arts Festival Orchestra, Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Symphony, Gregg Smith Singers, Indiana University Wind Ensemble, Miami University (FL) Wind Ensemble, etc., and have been included on twelve published compact discs. He holds DMA and MFA degrees in composition from Cornell University and the BA degree in Music cum laude from Hofstra University.
His Exotic Dances for violin and piano was nominated by the editor of American Music magazine for the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1997. Named Ohio Music Teachers Association "Composer of the Year" in 1996, he is listed in the 2003 edition of Who’s Who in America.
His works have been broadcast on classical radio stations in Vienna, Amsterdam, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, OR, Washington, DC, and numerous others. Since 2002, the VMM compact disc recording of his Berceuse by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Krakow, Szymon Kawalla, conductor, has been broadcast 50 times on Radio Stephansdom Klassiksender, 107.3 FM, Vienna, Austria.
As producer, his production for TNC Records of Messiaen’s Oiseaux Exotiques with pianist Angelin Chang and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony conducted by John McLaughlin Williams won a 2007 Grammy Award in the classical category “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra.”
In January 2009, his Symphony in One Movement: Threnody, Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Diversions Overture, and Berceuse were recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta for September 2010 release on the Naxos label as Naxos 8.559652.
In June and August 2009, Grammy award-winning pianist Angelin Chang, head of keyboard studies at Cleveland State University, recorded Gallagher's piano works for forthcoming publication on CD. In September 2009, JoAnn Falletta conducted two performances of his Berceuse with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. In October 2009, Robert Sullivan, Principal Trumpet of the Cincinnati Symphony, performed in Tokyo the Japanese premiere of Gallagher's Remembrance of Robin for trumpet and piano, commissioned by Sullivan in memory of his late wife. He is scheduled to perform the New York premiere in February 2010.
Gallagher's music is published by Editions Bim (Vuarmarens, Switzerland), Ludwig Music, Lawson-Gould, Manduca Music, The Brass Press, and The Piano Teachers' Press.
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