David Morneau

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David Morneau (born May 2, 1975 ) is an American composer.

Morneau studied at Ohio State University with Marc Ainger , Donald Harris and Jan Radzynski . He was recognized as an Outstanding Graduate Student in Composition and received the Ruth Friscoe Prize for Composition for The Rhythm Variations , twelve variations based on George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". He continued his education at Western Michigan University with Richard Adams , C. Curtis-Smith and Robert Ricci and at Cornerstone University in Richard Stewart , where he the degree of Bachelor of Music Composition gained and the Fine Arts Division Award was awarded . He teaches at Ohio State University .

Morneau has been involved in Robert Voisey's project 60x60 since 2006 . Between 2007 and 2008 he created 60x365 , a collection of 365 one-minute works composed every day, which he put on the Internet as a podcast. In his Love Songs Project , a collaboration with eleven poets, Shakespeare's sonnets are combined with contemporary poetry and set to music. A dance performance with the choreographer Amiti Perry resulted in Morneau's solo album a / break machinations , which was released in 2008 by Immigrant Breast Nest Records .

With the choreographer Esther Palmer and the performance artist Shana Burns he founded Seen Performance . The group realized performances such as Where is Tokyo , which is only performed in front of two spectators, The Party Project , Box Shy , Landing , which is also tailored to an intimate setting , and the one-hour meditation On the other side of the glass plate, she wore nothing .

With Robert Voisey he founded the Ensemble Elevator Machine Room in 2009 , whose first work Monkey Lab , an opera for speakers and electronic music, premiered at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival. Furthermore, Morneau u. a. with the songwriter Ed Mornau (album Jacquerie ) and the choreographers Ashley A Friend ( I Hate John and Sunshine & Dirt ), Anna Sullivan ( The Clone Zone ) and Boris Willis ( Abandoned Revolution ).

Works

  • Voices From Salem, MA, 1692 , 1999
  • The Eleven-Fingered Pianist for Piano, 2000
  • Sketches of Jain for alto saxophone, 2000
  • Why Can't I Have a Normal Dog Like Everyone Else? for double bass, 2000
  • A Gaggle of Gripes for tenor and piano, text by Ogden Nash , 2000
  • MOVE! for jazz band, 2001
  • Elegy for Sophie for piano, 2001
  • Hear My Cry, O God for mixed choir, organ and trumpet, 2002
  • In Other Words… for clarinet and piano, 2002
  • In Spring for mezzo-soprano and piano, text by Emily Dickinson , 2002
  • Stanzas for mezzo-soprano and piano, text by Gertrude Stein , 2003
  • Divergent Roads for wind ensemble, 2003
  • Watchmen , Wind Quintet, 2003
  • Caffeine Jitters for flute and jazz band, 2004
  • House Blend for jazz band, 2004
  • Winter at the Grand Haven Lighthouse for wind ensemble, 2004
  • The Rhythm Variations for piano, 2004
  • Dancing DNA , soundtrack for dance video, 2004
  • Mob Mentality for wind ensemble, 2005
  • Triage: Part 1 , music for dance performance, 2005
  • Where is Tokyo? , Music for dance performance, 2005
  • Joplin Fetish for marimba and piano, 2005
  • The Sincerest Form of Flattery for Marimba, 2005
  • The Rhythm of Things , dance video soundtrack, 2005
  • Survival Machine for flute and computer, 2005
  • Collage no.1 (Hungarian) for orchestra, 2006
  • Amen , soundtrack and video for dance, 2006
  • Lifedance (Fragments of Figments) , music for dance performance, 2006
  • Nearing , soundtrack for dance video, 2006
  • in8 for Game Boy with Nanoloop 1.3
  • The Lost Revolution , music for dance performance (in process)

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SURNAME Morneau, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1975