Jack Stamp

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Jack Stamp (2015)

John E. "Jack" Stamp (born March 5, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is an American conductor , composer and music teacher who is mainly active in the field of brass music .

Life

Jack Stamp grew up in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC. His grandfather, an amateur musician, gave him his first piano. At the age of 12, Stamp learned to read chord symbols by reading the sheet music of popular music.

In high school, Stamp played in the school orchestra and also tried to make arrangements for the local jazz band; he also came into contact for the first time with the composer Robert Washburn , with whom he would later study.

In 1972, Stamp began his studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). From 1974 to 1975 he studied with Robert Washburn each summer. In 1976 Stamp received a bachelor's degree in music education and moved to East Carolina University (ECU), where he received a master's degree in percussion in 1978. Stamp then took a position as wind band conductor at a high school in Wilmington, North Carolina .

Even while at the ECU, Stamp was in correspondence with Fisher Tull after conducting one of his works. After he left Wilmington in 1982 to teach at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina , he took private lessons with Tull.

Stamp stayed at Campbell University until 1990, where he served as chairman of the arts department. During this time he also studied at Michigan State University with Eugene Corporon and received a doctorate in wind band conducting in 1988. Upon his return to North Carolina, he wrote his first commissioned work, Past the Equinox and conducted the band of Duke University and the Brass Band of Cary, North Carolina , which he led to a national championship.

In 1990 Stamp moved to the IUP, where he was professor of music, conductor of the wind orchestra and deputy chairman and later chairman of the music department until 2015. Since then he has taught at the University of Wisconsin at River Falls. In addition, Stamp is active worldwide as a guest conductor and composer of commissioned works.

In 1992, Stamp founded the Keystone Wind Ensemble , which consists of students, graduates and professors of the IUP and specializes in the recording of wind orchestra works, with a focus on American literature. With this orchestra he has produced more than 20 albums.

Stamp is married and lives in Hudson, Wisconsin.

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Stamp wrote about 60 works for wind orchestra . These are often shaped by his fondness for polychords and the theory of forms , which he discovered while studying in Pennsylvania. In addition to his teachers Washburn, Tull and Corporon, he was mainly influenced by the composers Joan Tower , David Diamond and Richard Danielpour ; he was particularly impressed by Towers' rhythmic ingenuity.

Stamp's best-known piece, the Gavorkna Fanfare , is dedicated to Eugene Corporon.

  • 1975 Daybreak for marimba ensemble
  • 1975 Three Turns for brass quintet
  • 1977 Antihigram
  • 1977 Journey Past the Unicorn
  • 1989 Past the Equinox
  • 1989 Love's Philosophy
  • 1991 Elegy and Affirmation
  • 1991 Gavorkna Fanfare
  • 1991 O zone
  • 1991 Remembrance of Things to Come
  • 1992 Centograph , Fanfare
  • 1992 Fanfare for the Great Hall
  • 1992 Jigsaw
  • 1992 Melting of the Winter's Snow
  • 1994 Canticle
  • 1995 Aubrey Fanfare
  • 1995 Five Contrasts
  • 1995 Four Maryland Songs for soprano and wind orchestra
  • 1995 Harnett County Celebration
  • 1996 Ere the World Began to Be
  • 1996 Prayer and Jubilation
  • 1997 Choral prelude Be Thou My Vision
  • 1997 If Morning Might Arrive
  • 1997 With Trump and Wing
  • 2001 In this Hid Clearing ...
  • 2001 Three Places in England
  • 2002 Escapade
  • 2006 Symphony No. 1 In Memoriam of David Diamond
  • 2008 Tarheel Sketches
  • 2009 Concertino for percussion and wind orchestra
  • 2009 Moltres' Dance
  • 2010 Five Songs From the Hills
  • 2011 Canticle: Voces Cadentes for narrator, choir , string orchestra and wind orchestra
  • 2013 Psalm 150 for organ and wind ensemble
  • 2014 And the Time Is for choir and percussion ensemble
  • Aloft!
  • Bandancing
  • Chorale and Toccata
  • Cheers!
  • Cloudsplitter Fanfare
  • Declamataion on a Hymn Tune for brass ensemble and percussion
  • Divertimento in F
  • The Final Beguine
  • Hero Still in quick of Grace
  • In final obedience
  • Pastime
  • Roulette's Deception
  • Southpaw , song cycle for tenor , double wind quintet and percussion
    1. It all begins
    2. Elements of chance
    3. How Do I Make an Out
    4. Passing It Down
    5. Called out
    6. Cooperstown
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • Variations on a chorale by Bach
  • Variations on Down Ampney (Come Forth, O Love Divine)

Unless otherwise stated, these are works for wind orchestra.

Awards

In 1995 Stamp was named a “Distinguished Alumnus” by the IUP. A year later he won the "Orpheus Award" from the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia student association . In 1999, Stamp received the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association's Citation of Excellence . In 2000 he was named a member of the American Bandmasters Association . In 2007, Stamp won the IUP's Distinguished Faculty Award for Creative Arts; from 2008 to 2009 he was “Distinguished University Professor” there - one of the university's highest honors.

Recordings (selection)

  • Past The Equinox - The Music of Jack Stamp (1994, Citadel CTD 88105), Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).
  • Divertimento (1995, Citadel CTD 88108), Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).
  • Celebrations (1995, Citadel CTD 88111), IUP Wind Ensemble, Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).
  • Songs Of Abelard And Other World Premieres (1998, Citadel 88128), Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).
  • Cloudsplitter (2000, Citadel CTD 88140), Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).
  • Internal Combustion (2001, Piano Records K 11119), IUP Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp, Lowell Graham (conductors)
  • Norman Dello Joio (2003, Piano Records K 11138), Keystone Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).
  • Radiant Joy (2010, Piano Records K 11184), IUP Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp (conductor).

literature

  • Wolfgang Suppan , Armin Suppan : The brass music lexicon . 5th edition. HeBu-Musikverlag, Kraichtal 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806925-9-5 , p. 714 .
  • Dawn Anna Perry: Jack Stamp: a biographical sketch and analysis of Symphony No.1 “In Memoriam David Diamond” . Dissertation at the University of Southern Mississippi, August 2008 ( usm.edu [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).

Web links

Commons : Jack Stamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KD Kneeburg: Scenes from Championships . In: The Brass Band Bridge . No. 36 , May 1989, pp. 3–7 ( nabba.org [PDF; 7.3 MB ]).
  2. ^ Music Department: Faculty and Staff. University of Wisconsin at River Falls website, accessed June 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b c John E. Stamp (Music) - Previous Award Recipients. Indiana University of Pennsylvania website, accessed June 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Keystone Wind Ensemble at Allmusic (English). Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  5. ↑ Biography. Jack Stamp website, accessed June 10, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Perry 2008, p. 11.
  7. ↑ Perry 2008, pp. 16-20.
  8. ^ Norman E. Smith: Program Notes for Band . GIA Publications, Chicago 2002, ISBN 978-1-57999-147-0 , pp. 560 .
  9. ↑ Read We Forget - Membership History 2012. (PDF; 619 kB) American Bandmasters Association, archived from the original on September 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 29, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Stamp, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stamp, John E. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, conductor and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC