Brian Herrington

Brian P. Herrington (born June 3, 1976 in Beaumont / Texas ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Herrington studied at Lamar University with Frank Felice and from 1998 to 2000 at the University of Louisville with Simon Bainbridge , Marc Satterwhite and Steve Rouse . From 2001 to 2004 he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Simon Bainbridge, and he also attended masterclasses with Peter Maxwell Davies . He teaches music theory and composition at Sam Houston State University and is the founder and leader of the New Music Group Intersection .

At the Royal Academy he received the Josiah Parker Prize for a String Trio and the Battison Haynes Prize . His organ work Silsbee Groves premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in 2002 . His Symphonia , commissioned by the London Sinfonietta , premiered in 2004 at Queen Elizabeth Hall . Herrington has been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize (2003), the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards (2006), and the ASCAP Leo Kaplan Prize (2006). He is a member of the American Music Center and the British Society for the Promotion of New Music .

Works

• To Laura Phelan for medium voice and large orchestra, 2000
• Truly for soprano and mixed ensemble, 2000
• Three Poems for piano, 2000
• Faulkner portrait for piano, 2000
• Pastorale for large orchestra, 2001
• Quasi una fantasia for wind quintet, 2001
• Canticles of Job for mezzo-soprano, cello and percussion, 2001
• If I Forget Thee for large orchestra, 2002
• Adoration for string quartet, 2002
• Trio for piano, violin and cello, 2002
• Silsbee Groves for organ, 2002
• Oculus non vidit for three choirs, 2002

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• Classical Composers Database - Brian P. Herrington
• The Royal Philharmonic Society - Brian Herrington
• Vox Novus - Brian Herrington