Jim Bob Floyd

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James Robert Floyd , also JB Floyd (born June 2, 1929 in Tyler , Texas ) is an American concert pianist ( jazz , classical , avant-garde ), composer and music teacher .

Life

Floyd has been a professor and director of the piano department at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music for many years . He is also a Yamaha Artist . His work as a pianist is characterized by a rare versatility. He has mastered the entire classical repertoire, but also performs as a jazz pianist, improviser and interpreter of contemporary music and even electronics. As a composer, Floyd is one of the few who created several pieces for the computer-controlled Disklavier from the Yamaha company .

Discography (selection)

JB Floyd (piano), Thomas Buckner (baritone), Lisa Hansen (flute), Robert Ashley (composer)
University of Illinois Chamber Choir & Madrigal Singers, Salvatore Martirano (conductor), Marilyn Nonken, JB Floyd, Vicki Ray (piano), Jacqueline Bobak, Donald Smith (vocals), Ronald Dewar (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone), Thomas Howell (flute), Howard Smith (alto clarinet), Arthur Maddox (celesta), Dorothy Martirano (violin), Lee Duckles (cello), Thomas Frederickson (bass), Morgan Powell (trombone), Charles Brougham, Rick Kvistad (percussion)
  • Vol. 18, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age-III"
  1. Paul Lansky - Stroll, for chamber group and computer music on tape
  2. Cindy McTee - "M" Music (1991–92), for alto saxophone and computer music (tape)
  3. Charles Dodge - In Celebration (1975), computer music (tape)
  4. JB Floyd - Tribute (1991), piano and computer music system
  5. Allen Strange - Sleeping Beauty (1988-92), for amplified violin and computer-generated sounds - played by Debra Richtmeyer ( alto saxophone )
JB Floyd (piano), Patricia Strange (violin), members of the University of North Texas College of Music Faculty Chamber Players conducted by Thomas Clark: Mary Karen Clardy (flute), Robert Schietroma (marimba), assisted by marimba player Hsin-Yi Wu , Carter Enyeart (violoncello), Adam Wodnicki (piano)
  1. AccidentsTwo: Sound Projections , for piano with computer music
  2. Canadian Coastlines: Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
  3. Quadrants: Event / Complex No. 4 (1972, rev. 1994) for Yamaha Disklavier
  4. Event / Complex No. 9 (1974), for percussion, combined with a delay system and electronic music on tape
  5. Accidents (1967), for electronic prepared piano and Buchla-100 Electronic Music System
Performed by David Tudor , Montague / Mead Piano Plus ( Stephen Montague & Philip Mead), Robert McCormick, JB Floyd, and the CBC Radio Ensemble

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Couture, Transporting Transmittance: Music of JB Floyd , Allmusic, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Floyd, Jim Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Floyd, James Robert; Floyd, JB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American concert pianist, composer and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Tyler , Texas