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Compositions:
Light and Life, SATB
choral work with flute and violin composed for St Francis Day Blessing
of the Animals, first performance, Oct 7, 2007, St. John's Episcopal
Church, Oakland, CA; 2007
Religions, Power & Violence, sound track for DVD of same title, produced for World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004. Parliament of Souls, title music for the 27-part public television interview series, 1994.
Memoir
of the
Century, music composed for London Arts Exhibition "Memoir of
the Century" by visual artist Feliks Topolski.
Memoir of the Century is located at the South Banks Art Centre,
Hungerford Arches, London. in
just, commissioned by San Francisco Boys
Chorus
and
based on the poetry of e. e. cummings, first performance in 1990 at the
International Choral Music Festival, British Columbia and subsequently
taken on tour for the 1990 season. Birth
and Bonding, music for national award
winning
educational film on childbirth and early parental/infant bonding 1978.
Other works: Orchestrations (Bartok Mikro Kosomos), music for children's theater, solo vocal and instrumental works and arrangements. Email the composer: bbgrayATcreativefilms.com (Email address is spelled out, please replace AT with the appropriate symbol) Music Education:
Early music studies and
performance in piano from
the age of 5, clarinet (age 9), voice (age 14). High school
music performance experience in concert and jazz bands, concert
choir, madrigal singers, broadway musical productions and folk/rock
performance.
Undergraduate studies in music and music education at University of Kansas; 1968-69. Piano emphasis with additional instructional studies in winds, brass, percussion and strings. Graduated with B.A. (Voice) from C.S.U., Hayward; 1972. Secondary studies in psychology and music and dance therapy (with autistic children). Twelve years private study at post graduate level in music counterpoint, composition, orchestration and theory with master composer David Sheinfeld ; (1974 -1985) including a comprehensive study and analysis of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Berg. Four years private post-graduate study in piano with concert pianist Roy Bogus; 1976 -1980. Musical performance experience under conductors Seji Ozawa, Harold Carter, Denis DeCoteau, Frederic Balazs, and Paul Solomonovich. Independent study: Student observer with London Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. Electronic compositional techniques and studio production with John Whiting, [sound producer for Electric Phoenix] Additional instrumental experience in flute, oboe, guitar, violin and french horn. Solo performances and teaching/coaching experience in voice, piano, wind and stringed instruments include classical, jazz, Broadway musicals, folk, and avant gard works. Women's Community Orchestra: clarinet section -- 2000 - 2001 (clarinet). Teaching Experience Private and class instruction
in
piano, voice,
clarinet/flute and music theory from 1973 to the present.
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