DAVID CRUMB
DAVID CRUMB
David Crumb was born in 1962 into a musical family, and studied cello and piano from an early age. He received his training in composition from the Eastman School and the University of Pennsylvania. Among numerous awards, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship, and grants from Meet The Composer and the A.S.C.A.P. Foundation. Crumb has accepted commissions from the Fromm and Barlow Foundations, the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors, the Los Angeles Symphony New Music Group, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra/A.S.C.A.P. Foundation. In 2001, his Piano Quartet was selected as a winning entry in the “Discover America V Competition for New American Chamber Works.”
Crumb’s music has been performed throughout the United States and abroad. His imaginative and dramatic compositions are richly tonal, and intensely coloristic. His orchestral music has been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Chamber works have been performed by the Parnassus Ensemble, Voices of Change, The Chicago Ensemble, Network for New Music, and Quattro Mani. In 2000, a compact disc recording of Crumb’s Variations for Cello and Chamber Ensemble, performed by cellist Ulrich Boeckheler, with Orchestra 2001, conducted by James Freeman, was released on the CRI label.
Crumb joined the music faculty at the University of Oregon in 1997, where he continues to serve as a member of the composition department. |
 | 2001: Discover America V Competition for New American Chamber Works | | 2001: Fromm Music Foundation (commission) | | 1998: Guggenheim Fellowship | | 1997: MacDowell Colony Artist Residency | | 1997: National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors Composition Project Award (commission) | | 1997: Riverside Symphony International Composer Readings | | 1997: Yaddo Colony Artist Residency | | 1996: Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program | | 1996: Meet the Composer Fund | | 1995: New England Reed Trio Composition Competition, Third Prize | | 1993: Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program | | 1992: A.S.C.A.P. Foundation Young Composer Grants | | 1992: A.S.C.A.P./Raymond Hubbell Music Scholarship Award | | 1992: Los Angeles Symphony "L.A. Composers Project 2" Award | | 1992: Orchestra Society of Philadelphia "New Orchestral Project, Philadelphia 1992" | | 1991: Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Scholarship | | 1991: University of Pennsylvania Hilda K. Nitzshe Prize | | 1991: Vanguard Arts Associates Competition, Third Prize | | 1990-91: University of Pennsylvania Graduate Teaching Assistantship | | 1989: A.S.C.A.P. Foundation Young Composer Grants | | 1989: Aaron and Abby Schroeder Fellowship/Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Festival | | 1988: University of Pennsylvania David Halstead Prize | | 1987: University of Pennsylvania Helen L. Weiss Prize |
Awakening for Trumpet and Percussion
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Harmonia Mundi for Two Pianos and Two Percussion
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Miniatures for Clarinet
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Piano Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello
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September Elegy for Violin and Piano
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Sextet for Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, and Percussion
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Soundings for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano
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Clarino for Large Orchestra (1991, rev. 1993 & 1996) -- 16'
3(Picc.) 3(E.H.) 4(E-flat Cl., A.Cl., B.Cl.) 3(Cbsn.) - 4 3 3 1; Timp. 3Perc. Pno. Str.
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Commission Information: Civic Orchestra of Chicago and A.S.C.A.P.
Premiere Information: Chicago Civic Orchestra; Symphony Hall, Chicago; June 12, 1991
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Primordial Fantasy for Solo Piano and Large Ensemble
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Variations for Cello and Chamber Ensemble (1993) -- 21'
Solo Vcl.; 2(Picc., A.Fl.) 1(E.H.) 1(E-flat) 1 - 1 0 0 0; 2Perc. Pno. Hp. 2Vln. Vla. Vcl. Cb.
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Commission Information: Los Angeles Philharmonic, with assistance from the Timothy Christopher Ware Getty Foundation
Premiere Information: Lynn Harrell, cello, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group; Japan-America Theater, Los Angeles, CA; May 17, 1993
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Vestiges of a Distant Time for Small Orchestra (1996) -- 12'
2 2 2 2 - 2 2 1 1; Perc. Pno. Str.
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Premiere Information: Cumberland Valley Chamber Players; David Currie, guest conductor; Thomson Chapel, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA; April 13, 1996
Vocalise for String Orchestra
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The Whisperer for Two Pianos
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Three Pieces for Piano
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Joyce Songs for Mezzo-soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Cello
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"…attractive, accessible, imaginative, well-crafted…"-Robert C. Marsh, Chicago Sun-Times"[David Crumb] evinces a keen sense of the expressive uses of sound-collage and repetition. "Clarino" is visceral in its excitement."-John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune"Crumb…showed talents for imaginative and delicate textures and for putting an eloquently soft period to a piece…"-Stephan Wigler, Baltimore Sun
"…expressive and beautiful."-American Record Guide"…a glowing work, sumptuous in its sound."-Robert Carl, Fanfare"…the major prize on the disc …how can you argue with its intoxicating range of instrumental color?"-David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer"David Crumb's Variations…basks in a tonal language of appealing vibrancy and poetic appeal…Crumb's animated unfolding of materials has a forceful voice of its own."-Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer"Orchestra 2001 picks a winner for cello… Any cellist would be glad to get his fingers on Variations, which takes about a half-hour to perform and conveys so particular and gripping a sound world one is hardly aware of time passing."-Lesley Valdes, Philadelphia Inquirer
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