Guy Allen Kelpin

Guy Allen Kelpin (born November 30, 1976 in Waukesha / Wisconsin ) is an American composer and trombonist.

Life

Kelpin had already taken piano lessons as an elementary school student as part of a support program at Carroll College and began to compose before he was ten. a. Piano suites, two operettas and some symphonic pieces in a classical style. He then studied music theory, history and composition with James Machan and then received several awards from the Wisconsin School Music Association (WAMA) for songs in the style of German Romanticism .

His first stylistically independent work was the Suite for Band , which was performed several times and was awarded a First Prize by the WSMA. This was followed by works such as The Bell , a piano piece based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and Symphonic Suite for Percussion: Of Gods and Goddesses . At Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU), Kelpin studied composition with David Vayo and Phillippe Bodin until he graduated in 1999 . During his studies he also got to know the composers Joseph Schwantner , John Corigliano and Arvo Pärt . During this time, compositions such as the tone poem Navajo Windway , the Piano Sonatina , Horizons , a duet for viola and percussion, the Brass Quintet in Bb , the choral work October's Bright Blue Weather , Actuated by Selfish Motives , a performance work for percussionists and several electroacoustic pieces. From 1999 he studied film music at the North Carolina School of the Arts .

Kelpin has also played the trombone since he was a child. He was a high school member of the Wisconsin State Honors Ensemble , the Milwaukee Youth Symphony, and the Greater Milwaukee Youth Wind Ensemble, and attended summer classes in Interlochen, Birch Creek, and the Indianhead Arts Center . At IWU he was a trombone student with Thomas Streeter and took part in the Aspen Music Festival three times . There he studied trombone with Per Brevig and film music with Brane Zivkovic . He has performed as a musician in the USA, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Japan. In addition to his work as a composer and musician, Kelpin gives private trombone lessons.

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