Monroe Golden
Monroe Golden is an American composer.
Golden studied composition at the University of Montevallo and the University of Illinois with James A. Jensen , Ed Robertson , Ben Johnston , Sever Tipei , Aurel Stroé and Herbert Brün . He lives in Birmingham / Alabama , where he organized the Birmingham International Improvisation Festival in 1998 and founded the New Arts Stage at Birmingham's City Stages , which he directed from 1999 to 2004. He founded the Birmingham Art Association and the ARTBURST Performance Series at the city's Unitarian Universalist Church . He was also a founding member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance , of which he was president from 2003 to 2005. In 2006 he was awarded the Alabama Music Teachers Association Prize and a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts .
Works
- Helical March for chamber orchestra
- Out of context for alpine bells, marimba and microtonal keyboard
- 43 commas for flute, piano and sound file
- Ten Strings for Violin and Guitar
- Spring, from Walden for violin and piano
- Alabama Places for piano and microtonal keyboard
- Poems of Life and Bliss for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello and piano
- Will for bass clarinet, baritone and piano
- Tracking Minotaurs for Saxophone Quartet
- Allahabad for singer, organ and trumpet (text by Sandra Sprayberry )
- Whirl for microtonal piano, flute and cello
- Bicinia for flute and clarinet or saxophone
- Cheaha for microtonal piano four hands and glockenspiel
- Fusion for electric viola and electric cello
- Grind for three grinders and percussion
- Music for nine pieces of metal
- Cipeku for two singers and instruments
- Leaven for quarter-tone guitar and marimba
- Drift for two pianos
- Vegan Permaculture for microtonal guitar quartet
- String Quartet no.2
- Three in the Morning for three tenor saxophones
- By Nary for amplified alto flute, glockenspiel, microtonal piano and trombone
- Nini Movements for wind quintet
- In Pell City for reader, piano and microtonal keyboard (text by Linda Frost )
- Poems of Life and Bliss for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello and piano
- Walden Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano for mezzo-soprano and piano (for Kathryn Venable)
- Two Psalms for mixed choir
- Pinhoti for cello and sound file
- 81 for piano
- Reform for flute, sound file and a video by John Burns
- 2x - 1 for tuba
- Drift for piano
- Fantasy for cello
- Tunnel Vision for bassoon and sound file
- Loci for flute and live electronics
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Golden, Monroe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |