| David Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, and received degrees in theory and composition from the University of Northern Colorado, New England Conservatory, and Princeton University, where he received the Ph.D. His honors include awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, BMI, ASCAP, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and the Rome Prize, and he has received commissions from Chamber Music America, the Barlow Endowment, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust and the Koussevitzky Foundation, for performers such as Speculum Musicae, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Duo d’amore, cellist Matt Haimovitz, the River City Brass Band, and the Empyrean Ensemble. In addition, his works have been performed by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under Marin Alsop, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leslie Dunner, the Chicago Symphony Chamber Players, the San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Music Players, the Chamber Society of Lincoln Center, jazz musicians Bob Mintzer, George Garzone, Pheeroan ak-Laff, and the Corvini/Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble, and recorded on Channel Classics, CRI and Oxingale Records. He is the leader and founder of the Pittsburgh Collective, a contemporary big band, and has conducted concerts of his works at the Festival of New Trumpet Music, the International Association for Jazz Education conference, and the Composer Portraits series at Miller Theatre. He is Associate Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA where teaches theory, composition, music and film, and jazz history.
A note from the composer
Klatka Still’s title refers to two of the composition’s influences, the jazz trumpeter and composer/arranger Tony Klatka, and a particular cross-section of Polish fans at the 2006 World Cup in Berlin. The other primary inspiration was a memorably atmospheric outdoor concert in Rome by the trumpeter Tomasz Stanko in 2002. Along with Marya Martin, I’m most greateful to musicologist Piotr Wilk with whom I attended the Stanko performance.
An alternate version of VELOCITY for 2 flutes is published separately (414-41193C). |
