Jane Brockman (composer)

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Jane Brockman (* 1949 ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Brockman became the first woman in the history of the University of Michigan to earn a doctorate in composition. Scholarships made it possible for her to study in Paris (Bri Max Deutsch ) and Vienna. Her teachers included Leslie Bassett , Ross Lee Finney , George Balch Wilson , Wallace Berry, and Eugene Kurtz . She taught for nine years at the University of Connecticut , where she founded an electronic music studio, as well as at the Hartt School of Music , the University of Rhode Island and the University of Michigan. One of five recipients of a Sundance Institute Film Composers' Lab Fellowship , she worked with Henry Mancini , Bruce Broughton , Alan Silvestri and David Newman .

She then worked in Los Angeles as a composer for film and television music, before settling as a freelance composer in Santa Monica. She was a board member of the New York Composers Concordance , Women in Film, and the Society of Composers and Lyricists in Los Angeles.

Works

  • Departures , trio for violin, cello and piano, 2009
  • Mystique for piano four hands, 2009
  • Dance of Spirals , trio for violin, cello and piano, 2008
  • Star Sail Trio for violin, cello and piano, 2008
  • Law of the Jungle for marimba and piano, 2007
  • From Secret Springs for flute, viola, cello and piano, 2006
  • Scenes from Lemuria for clarinet and string quartet, 2006
  • Feast of Fives for flute, cello and piano, 2003
  • Fireflies for solo flute, 2003
  • Fantasy on a Voodoo Rhythm for alto saxophone, cello or violin and piano, 2003, 2006
  • Circles in the Sun for clarinet and electronic sounds on CD, 2002
  • Nibiru Trio for clarinet, violin and piano, 1999
  • Prelude to Nibiru for orchestra, 1999
  • Tagore songs for clarinet or soprano saxophone and electronic sounds on CD, 1997
  • Tenacious Turns for clarinet, pitch-to-MIDI concert and electronic sounds on CD, 1991
  • Landscapes for piano and electronic sounds on CD, 1990
  • Ningana for clarinet, pitch-to-MIDI concert and electronic sounds on CD, 1989
  • Starsail II , dance piece for digital synthesizers, 1987
  • Starsail for chamber orchestra, 1987, 1998
  • Perihelion II for string orchestra, 1985
  • Perihelion I for string orchestra and computer sounds , 1985
  • Kurzweil Etudes for Kurzweil 250 Synthesizers, 1985
  • Refracting Time for two synthesizers and digitally processed horn, 1984
  • Autumnal Contrasts for wind ensemble, 1983
  • Character Sketches for piano, 1983
  • Brinkscape , Synclavier-based digital sound with horn, 1983
  • Shadows , duo for flute and clarinet, 1982
  • Descent into the Maelstrom for computer-generated tape and percussion, 1982
  • Music for Clarinet and Piano , 1981
  • Two Piano Quartet with flute and cello, 1980
  • Tall-Tale Fantasy for piano, 1978
  • Divergences , Trio for flute, soprano saxophone and piano, 1975, 2007

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SURNAME Brockman, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1949