David Wolfson (composer)

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David Wolfson (* 1964 ) is an American composer.

Wolfson studied composition with Eugene O'Brien and John Rinehart at the Cleveland Institute of Music . He graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1985, received the Darius Milhaud Society's first Darius Milhaud Award that same year and won the Bascom Little Musical Theater Composition Competition with the short opera Rainwait . For four years he was the assistant music director of the Cleveland Play House and taught at the Play House Youtheatre .

For fourteen years he composed the music for Story Salad , a series of children's stage revues seen by more than a million children, teachers and parents, a series of drama music and the songs for the show Country Critter Jamboree , which was released in 1989 Times was performed. From 1989 to 1993 he was composer and musical director of the EM / R Dance Co. , after which he directed Wolfson dance & music with the choreographer Lynn Wichern Wichern . Their last work together was Breath: The Passionate Life and Extraordinary Language of Emily Dickinson , a musical theater work performed at St. Mark Church in New York in 1996 . From 2002 to 2007 Wolfson was musical director of the New York Theatrical Community Chorus , then until 2010 musical director and composer of the Experience Vocal Dance Company .

Works

  • All About the Kids , musical, libretto by Erik Johnke based on the play by Caytha Jentis
  • Cat , children's theater based on Erik Johnke
  • Petroglyph for solo clarinet, 2011
  • Inferior Life for mezzo-soprano and piano, 2011
  • Seventeen Windows for piano, 2011
  • Maya's Arc , short opera, 2011
  • Deep Woods for soprano and string orchestra (text by Peter Beagle ), 2010
  • Sic Transit for solo bassoon, 2009
  • Feet First for solo violin, 2008
  • Return for vocal dancers and piano, 2008
  • Time Flies for cello quartet, 2007
  • Like Water for soprano and piano, 2006
  • Simple Preludes for piano, 2006
  • Following Wind for Electronics, 2006
  • Four songs for The Jesus Project for soprano, baritone, piano, cello and violin (texts by Kahlil Gibran and Alfred Noyes ), 2006
  • Sar's Vocalise for vocal dancers solo, 2006
  • Incidental music for The Lost Boy by Ronald Gabriel Paolillo , 2006
  • Macy's Flower , sound design (with Paul Zacharek ), 2006
  • Rowing to Atlantis for vocal dancers and accordion, 2005
  • Dreamhouse , stage song cycle based on poems by Barbara DeCesare , 2005
  • A Ball of Gold for mixed choir (text by Stephen Crane ), 2004
  • The Rain it Raineth every Day for mixed choir (based on Charles Lord Bown ), 2003
  • Songs of Love and Distance for soprano and chamber orchestra (texts by Sara Teasdale ), 2000
  • Six Love Songs for tenor and piano, 1999
  • Incidental music for The Loss of D-Natural by N. Richard Nash , 1998
  • Incidental music for Damnit, Shakespeare , 1996
  • Breath: The Passionate Life and Extraordinary Language of Emily Dickinson , 1996
  • A Woman's Life and Loves for female voice and piano, 1995
  • Crushed Ice for percussion quartet, 1995
  • Battle of the Sexes for flute, trombone and narrator, 1994
  • Country Critter Jamboree , Songs for the Show, 1994
  • Cityscape for baritone and piano, 1993
  • The Ascent from Hell for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble, 1993
  • My First Pop-Up Book of the Infinite Beyond for amplified flute, sampler and percussion, 1992
  • Heat Lightning for percussion, 1991
  • Number 21 for the Don Quijote Experimental Childrenís Theater, 1989
  • Story Salad I-XIII according to Peggy Traktman , 1986–2000
  • Rainwait , short opera, 1985

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personal data
SURNAME Wolfson, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964