John Adams Thomas Adès David Amram Jan Bach Samuel Barber Ludwig van Beethoven Elmer Bernstein William Bolcom Benjamin Britten Carlos Chavez Aaron Copland John Corigliano George Crumb Michael Daugherty Claude Debussy Duke Ellington Gil Evans Peter Gabriel Jerry Goldsmith Henryk Gorecki Percy Grainger Donald Grantham Bernard Hermann Charles Ives Stan Kenton Aaron Jay Kernis Martin Lauridsen Steven Mackey Felix Mendelssohn Charles Mingus Thelonius Monk Gerry Mulligan Thomas Newman Arvo Pärt Sergei Prokofiev Maurice Ravel Silvestre Revueltas Christopher Rouse Peter Schickele Alfred Schnittke Carl Stalling Igor Stravinsky John Tavener Christopher Theofanidis Virgil Thomson Michael Torke Mark-Anthony Turnage Muddy "Mississippi" Waters Dan Welcher John Williams (to name but a few...)
(and Dmitri Shostakovich too!)
If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Considered the leader of the 19th Century Composer group "The Mighty Handful," I am indeed the teacher among them. My orchestration skills are superbly colorful, and are explained in my book on the topic, but works like "Scheherezade" explain my mastery better.
Interesting Trivia: For years Rob lived and breathed Baritone Saxophone and he's had the opportunity to play with the likes of Tito Puente, Louis Bellson, Slide Hampton, Red Rodney, Clark Terry, Denis DiBlasio, James Moody, Lou Marini, Ed Partyka, Al Hood, Tito Carrillo and quite a few others along the way. One of these days he's going to break out the big horn again...
Composer/conductor Rob Deemer (b.1970) first came to national attention in 1993 when he was named the College Winner of the Down Beat Magazine Student Music Award for “Best Extended Composition”. Since then, his career has taken him and his works from jazz clubs in Chicago, stage shows on a Caribbean cruise liner and film scoring studios in Los Angeles to concert halls, theatrical stages and film festivals across the country and around the world.
Such groups as the U.S Army Orchestra (Pershing’s Own), Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Trombone Quartet, Tosca and MacArthur String Quartets, Austin Civic Orchestra, Kishwaukee Symphony, University of Texas Symphony, wind bands at the University of North Texas, Roosevelt University, Texas State University and Northern Illinois University and the new music ensembles at the University of Texas and University of Oklahoma have performed Deemer’s works. He has received commissions by artists such as trombonists Mark Fisher, harpists Delaine Fedson and Megan Metheny, trumpeter Christopher Carrillo, violist Aurélien Pétillot and saxophonist David Box. His music has been received recognitions by BMI, Down Beat Magazine, Voices of Change, the Austin Civic Orchestra, the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and Manhattan Beach Music.
In addition to his work in concert music, Rob has extensive experience as a composer for film, theatre and dance. With over 30 films and documentaries to his credit, his film scores have been heard in the Cannes Film festival, Directors Guilds of America in both Los Angeles and New York, the Festival CineLatino in San Francisco, the Festivale Pan African du Cinema in Ouagadougou, Africa and festivals in Chicago, Austin, San Antonio, Las Vegas and San Diego. As an author, he is currently co-authoring Music in Sound Film, An Introduction with noted film scholars David Neumeyer and James Buhler.
His work as theatrical composer and sound designer has been produced at the Mark Taper New Works Festival, the California Institute of the Arts and the Skylight and Crown Theatres in Los Angeles and he has worked with such directors as Lisa Peterson, Philip Goodwin, Chris Fields and Tony Abettamarco. From 2005-2007, Rob teamed up with choreographer David Justin create the American Repertory Ensemble, a radical new performing ensemble that creates unique chamber music and dance experiences which has already given critically-acclaimed performances in Austin, Texas and Edinburgh, Scotland.
In 2006, Deemer began a new project outside of his compositional activities with the creation of a new radio show that focuses on living composers and their music. Entitled "The Composer Next Door" and originating out of KCSC-FM on the campus of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, OK, this program takes an “American Tour” approach with each show exploring the composers who live in a specific city, state or region in the United States. The program has already been awarded an grant through the Kirkpatrick Foundation and has had over 100 world-class composers donate their music. Listen to it on the web at www.kcscfm.com.
Deemer holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the University of Texas, a Master of Music in Composition as well as a Performers Certificate in Conducting from Northern Illinois University and an Advanced Certificate in Scoring for Film and Television from the University of Southern California. His instructors have included Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham and Jan Bach and he has participated in individual workshops with John Corigliano, William Bolcom, George Crumb, Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin, Jerry Goldsmith, Melinda Wagner, Christopher Theofanidis and Christopher Young.
Deemer has held teaching positions at The University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University and The University of Texas. In the Fall of 2007, he will begin his new position as composition department chair in the School of Music at SUNY-Fredonia.
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Thanks so much for the Add. Your music is very imaginative. Your writing is brilliant and the ensembles playing it show great respect for it. Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
We hope you and your friends enjoy our music. We've just added four new compositions.
It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
Onward and Upward with Music! Thom & Lorry Gambino New York, New York
Great music, powerful and lyrical at the same time. Thank you very much for adding me to your circle of friends.
I would like to invite you to listen to my STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (THE AWAKENING) performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and two of my piano trios performed by the Gryphon Trio: ODD WORLD, on my MySpace audio player and OLD PHOTOGRAPHS on the Gryphon Trio site (www. myspace. com/gryphontrio.)
You can also listen to excerpts from my STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (THE GATHERING), CONFESSIONAL (my cello concerto) and ANAKTORIA on the attached flash audio player. Enjoy.
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
I'm happy to announce my new cd MOONSTRUCK, a collaboration with Jan Bang, Arve Henriksen, Tilmann Dehnhard, Ulrike Haage, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Alejandro Govea Zappino, Jan Krause, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra a.o. You're welcome to enjoy, bb
