David Del Tredici

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David Del Tredici (born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale , California ) is an American composer .

Life

At the age of 17 he made his piano debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra . Del Tredici studied music at the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University , where he received an MFA in 1964 . There he studied composition with Earl Kim , Seymour Shifrin and Roger Sessions .

His early composed works dealt with James Joyce ( I Hear an Army ; Night Conjure-Verse ; Syzygy ) and for a decade with the work of Lewis Carroll ( Pop-Pourri , An Alice Symphony , Vintage Alice and Adventures Underground , Final Alice , Haddock's Eyes ). In 1980 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for the composition In Memory of a Summer Day . His later composed works deal with Allen Ginsberg , Thom Gunn , Paul Monette , James Broughton , Colette Inez and Alfred Corn . Del Tredici is a music professor at the City College of New York . His students who have studied with him include John Adams , Richard St. Clair , Tison Street and Randall Woolf . Del Tredici lives with his significant other in Greenwich Village , New York City .

He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1984 .

Compositions (selection)

  • 1958: Soliloquy for piano solo
  • 1959: Six Songs for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
  • 1960: Scherzo for piano four hands
  • 1964: I Hear An Army (text by James Joyce)
  • 1966: Syzygy for soprano, horn and orchestra
  • 1968: Pot-Pourri for soprano, rock group, choir and orchestra
  • 1969: An Alice Symphony for soprano, folk group and orchestra. Texts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • 1971: Adventures Underground for soprano and orchestra. Texts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • 1976: Final Alice , an opera in concert form for soprano, folk ensemble and orchestra
  • 1980–81: Child Alice , ("In Memory of a Summer Day", "Happy Voices", "In the Golden Afternoon", "Quaint Events") for soprano and orchestra
  • 1985: Haddock's Eyes for soprano and 10 instruments
  • 1986: Tattoo for orchestra
  • 1990: Steps for orchestra
  • 1999: Dracula - based on a story by Alfred Corn
  • 1999: Three Baritone Songs
  • 1998: Miz Inez Sez for soprano and piano - poems by Colette Inez
  • 1996-2000: Gay Life
  • 2005: Rip Van Winkle for narrator and orchestra

Prizes and awards (selection)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Del Tredici, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cloverdale , California