Dean Rosenthal

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Dean Rosenthal (* 1974 in Concord / Massachusetts ) is an American composer for instrumental and electronic music, sound installations and field recordings.

Life

Rosenthal studied philosophy and music at McGill University and the California University of the Arts. His composition teachers were u. a. Tom Johnson , Morton Subotnick, and Wadada Leo Smith . He became known for a number of portrait compositions by contemporary composers and musicians ( Luciano Berio , Thomas Buckner , John Cage , Cornelius Cardew , Morton Feldman , Glenn Gould , Lou Harrison , Eric Satie ). He has received composition commissions from Barbara E. Galli and Morton Subotnick the Flexible Orchestra, The Washington Square Winds.

His works have been performed in more than 23 countries, including the Electronic Music Foundation and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, London's Stratford Circus, the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media in Boston, and the Teatro San Giorgio in Udine, in the ears high noise shop and O Tannenbaum in Berlin, in the art station Sankt Peter in Cologne.

Rosenthal is co-editor of The Open Space magazine. His texts on music theory and aesthetics have been published in contemporary music magazines such as The Ear Reader and Musicworks . He lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of the US state of Massachusetts.

Works

  • The Orderly Organ for Organ (2018)
  • Orderly Movements for three oboes (2017)
  • Ostinato Obbligato for piano (2017)
  • The Name of the Street You Live On for piano (2016)
  • Iceland electronic music (2015)
  • Path (for Flexible Orechetra) for chamber orchestra (2015)
  • Path for oboe or clarinet (2014)
  • Stones / Water / Time / Breath for water, stones, participants (2012)
  • Duplets free voting (2012)
  • Unconfirmed Report free choice of instruments (2011)
  • Perfect for ... for violin (2011)
  • Menemsha Village Field Recording (2010)
  • Lullabye for piano (2010)
  • Life Is What Happens , electronic music (2010)
  • I Think So, Too for two flutes, two clarinets and two bassoons (2009)
  • Our Gazes for two voices based on texts by Henry Lyman (2009)
  • Ariel for string quartet or choir based on the poem by Sylvia Plath (2003, 2009)
  • This Is My Message to the World for guitar and voice based on the poem by Emily Dickinson (2003)
  • In Just Spring… for two violins and soprano based on the poem by EE Cummings (2003)
  • December for piano (2003)
  • Organ Music (2002)
  • Songs from the Japanese for soprano and violin (1999–2000)
  • Castles and Arias for chamber orchestra (1999)
  • Embodied Naked for soprano or tenor, piano, violin and cello with a prelude and postlude for string trio based on a poem by Elliot Wolfson (1998)
  • Underpinnings for chamber orchestra after a painting by Jasper Johns (1998)
  • Your Fine Promises for soprano and piano based on a poem by Fujiwara no Mototoshi in a translation by Kenneth Rexroth (1997)
  • Portraits for tape (1997)
  • Ear Trainer sound installation for tape / electronics (1996)

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenthal, Dean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Concord