James Signorile

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James Vincent Signorile (* 1952 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American composer.

Signorile had piano lessons from the age of eight. He studied composition at Ridgewood High School with Murray B. Colosimo and John Lochner and until 1974 at Colby College in Waterville / Maine with Hindemith students Peter Ré , Ermanno F. Comparetti and Gordon W. Bowie . He was a member, composer, conductor and vice president of the Colby College Concert Band and the Colby Community Symphony Orchestra, with which he also performed his own works. In 1974 he received the Colby College Band Award . He received his piano training from Gates Wray , a student of Vladimir Horowitz . He also plays the clarinet, saxophone, recorder and guitar and was first bass clarinetist in the Ramapo Wind Symphony . In addition, he studied computer science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck / New Jersey until 1992 .

Works

  • Early Folk Songs for Guitar and Voice , 1967–70
  • Four Easy Piano Pieces , 1967-68
  • Sinfonietta # 1 in E Minor for orchestra, 1968
  • Love is Blue for piano or orchestra, 1968
  • Music to Watch Girls By for piano, 1968
  • Mission Impossible for orchestra, 1968
  • Quintet for Brass , 1968
  • Réfléchir for piano and guitar, 1969
  • Song to Peace for orchestra, 1969
  • Petite Camusette - J. Des Pres (arrangement for Concert Band), 1969
  • Elegy for a Clown for clarinet and trombone, 1969
  • Essay for Trombone and Orchestra 1969
  • I Saw A Light - A Christmas Carol for alto and piano, 1970
  • Variations on O Come, O Come, Emmanuel for string quartet, 1970
  • Gloria for mixed choir and orchestra, 1970
  • Bach Double Violin Concerto (arrangement for clarinet / violin / piano), 1970
  • Sonatina for solo Bb Clarinet , 1971
  • Three Short Solos for Voice , 1971-72
  • Five Short Piano Pieces , 1972.73
  • Bach Gavotte from 6th Suite for Cello (arrangement for orchestra), 1974
  • Emendemus In Melius - W. Byrd (arrangement for wind ensemble), 1974
  • Remnants for flute and piano, 1989
  • Twilight Dream for wind quintet, 1989
  • Breathless , Sonatina for flute quartet, 1990
  • Pandora Suite , MIDI Composition, 1991
  • Mars, from The Planets by Holst , MIDI-Arrangement, 1994
  • Corona Suite for Piano , 1998
  • Symphony No. 1 for Organ , 1999
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 , 1999
  • Imaginations [for Piano] , 1999
  • The Heppleston Variations for string quartet, 2000
  • Et in Terra Pax (Hymn for Hovhaness) for organ, 2000

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SURNAME Signorile, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Signorile, James Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois