Dirk Johan Stromberg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dirk Johan Stromberg is an American composer and music teacher.

Stromberg grew up in Great Britain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He studied music at Texas Tech University and Brooklyn College . He then taught u. a. at Brooklyn College, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi and Saigon Technology University . He has given guest lectures at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory, the National University of Vietnam, the University of the Philippines and the School of the Arts in Singapore. He was also the founding director of the Ho Chi Minh City International Festival of Contemporary Music, which is dedicated to the exchange between Vietnamese, American, European and Asian musicians, and the founder of the Bilgi Interactive Sound Project .

In his compositions Stromberg combines elements of classical music, jazz and improvisational music, Asian music and the avant-garde. They have been performed in the USA as well as in Europe, broadcast on the radio and recorded on CD (including a double CD with the composition Tropendrift based on poems by Albert Hagenaars ). Stromberg was composer in residence at the Studio for Electronic Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam and at the Brooklyn Center for Computer Music .

Works

  • Eastern Dreams for prepared guitar, 2006
  • Tropendrift for actors, chamber groups and live electronics (text by Albert Hagenaars, translation by John Irons ), 2005
  • still ... for tape, 2005
  • again ... for tape, 2005
  • The Paint They Left on My Lips for Laptop, 2005
  • Needles Playing the Blues for guitar and live electronics, 2004
  • A Few Days in a Few Seconds for voice and live electronics, 2004
  • Sound imprints for laptop and ambient noise, 2004
  • tHE sIS for actors, tape, chamber group and live electronics, 2004
  • After the Millennium Still Frustrated for chamber group and live electronics, 2004
  • Failing Thoughts of Memories for string quartet, 2003
  • Cruel World for wind sextet and live electronics, 2003
  • Descents for guitar, 2003
  • Soothsayer for chamber group (text by William Hall ), 2003
  • Terminus , Chamber Monodrama, 2003
  • Remnant , chamber monodrama, 2003
  • Dream Bells for Laptop, 2003
  • Time Bells for tape, 2003
  • yet ... for tape, 2003
  • once ... for tape, 2003
  • Akeldama for mixed percussion, 2002
  • The Myth of Sisyphus for cello (after Albert Camus ), 2002
  • Sketches for a Self-Portrait for guitar, 2002
  • Frantic Five for percussion, 2002
  • Disruptions for saxophone and guitar, 2001
  • Heroines for cor anglais and piano, 2001
  • Dialogues for wind ensemble, 2001
  • Orchestral Sketches for piano, 2001
  • 911… in Protest of for piano, 2001
  • Piano Journals , 2000
  • Buying a Father , chamber opera (libretto by David C. Scott ), 2000
  • Discordance for cor anglais and piano, 2000
  • Heritage for piano quartet, 2000
  • Improvisation for two instruments, 2000
  • Desolation for mixed chamber ensemble, 1999
  • The Loss of My Enchantress for saxophone, 1999
  • Millennial Frustrations for melody and harmony instrument, 1999

Web links

swell

personal data
SURNAME Stromberg, Dirk Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century