Christian Carey

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Christian Carey (* 1973 ) is an American composer, musicologist and teacher.

Carey studied at the Juilliard School of Music , at Boston University with Lukas Foss and at Rutgers University with Charles Wuorinen . At the Aspen Music Festival he took classes with Bernard Rands and Jacob Druckman . Since 2004 he has taught at Rider University , where he is assistant professor in the Department of Composition, Music History and Theory at Westminster Choir College . He has also been teaching music theory and coordinating the Aural Skills Program at the Manhattan School of Music since 2006, and has taught at William Paterson University , Seton Hall University and the College of Staten Island at the City University of New York .

As a musicologist, Carey mainly deals with American composers after 1945. He wrote his dissertation on Elliott Carter's Fifth String Quartet. On Carter's 100th birthday, he wrote a contribution about his late concerti at IRCAM for the Hommage à Elliott Carter conference , which was broadcast on Radio France . He also wrote about composers such as Milton Babbitt , Charles Wuorinen, David Rakowski , Lukas Foss, Morton Feldman and Ralph Shapey , as well as jazz and pop music.

Carey composed works a. a. for the New York New Music Ensemble , the Cassatt String Quartet , the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble , the group Ionization and the Helix! New Music Ensemble , the cellist Jody Redhage and the organist Joseph Arndt . In 2004 he won the composition competition of the Music Festival of the Hamptons and was commissioned to compose the work Mourning Madrid for orchestra and live locomotive, which premiered in Bridgehampton that summer by the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and the Long Island Railroad .

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SURNAME Carey, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, musicologist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1973