Joseph Pehrson

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Joseph Ralph Pehrson (born August 14, 1950 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American composer and pianist .

Life

Pehrson studied composition at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1972 , a Master of Music in 1973 and completed his studies in 1981 with the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA). His teachers include Leslie Bassett and Joseph Schwantner, as well as Otto Luening and Elie Siegmeister in New York City .

From 1992 to 1993 he was a guest composer at the University of Akron in Ohio. Together with Patrick Hardish , Pehrson founded Composers Concordance, Inc. in New York in 1983 . He also heads the Composers Concordance Records and is a member of the New York Composers Circle. He writes for New Music Connoisseur , a New York New Music magazine run by the Center for Contemporary Opera and the American Composers Alliance.

His works include orchestral and chamber music , including electronic music. They were u. a. premiered by the soloists Francis Orval and Carson Cooman as well as the ensembles American Modern Ensemble and Ensemble Sortisatio . Pehrson's music was played in numerous cities across the United States. It took him to the Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall . Concerts also took place in Central and Eastern Europe at the ISCM World Music Days 1999 and Russia, organized by Anton Rovner .

Prices

  • 1993: Winner of the Chicago Ensemble Competition (for exhilarations)

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

  • Regions (1973)
  • Sinfonia Concertante (1980)
  • Manhattan Plaza Orchestral Painting (1988)
  • Chrome accordion (1995)

Chamber music

  • De Rerum Natura (1974)
  • Entropic Latitudes (1974)
  • Patina (1977)
  • New York Suite (1983)
  • Concertino for Horn & Eight Instruments (1987)
  • Hornucopia (1988)
  • Etheroscape (1989)
  • Windwork (1990)
  • Confessions of the Goliards (1992)
  • Comedy (1993)
  • Forest of Winds (1994)
  • Horn orarium (1994)
  • Trumpet in a New Surrounding (1996)
  • Wild, Wild West (1997)
  • Twang (1998)
  • Blackjinn (2003)
  • Mandolini Majestici (2003)
  • Liberations (2006)
  • Windjammer (2006)
  • Cracker (2006)
  • Slacker Cracker (2006)
  • Spinner (2006)
  • Prudendurance (2008)
  • Fire in the Evening (2008)
  • Good Time (2008)
  • Night Crawler (2009)

Electronic music

  • Alignments (1974)
  • T & Serial (1990)
  • Wuuuu (1997)
  • Unheard (2000)
  • Transfigured Nineteen (2000)
  • Hexy (2000)
  • Beepy (2001)
  • The Tempest (2001)
  • Blect (2002)
  • Inner Voices (2005)
  • microproj (2007)

Discography

  • The William Cullen Bryant Bicentennial Concert (1995)
  • Electronic (2007)
  • Ballets & Solos (2010)

literature

  • Pehrson, Joseph Ralph. In: Europa Publications (Ed.): International Who's Who in Classical Music 2012 . 28th edition, Routledge, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-85743-644-0 , pp. 667-668.

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personal data
SURNAME Pehrson, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pehrson, Joseph Ralph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan