Noah Creshevsky

Noah Creshevsky (born January 31, 1945 in Rochester ) is an American composer and music teacher .

Creshevsky studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the Juilliard School of Music with Luciano Berio . He was director of the Center for Computer Music and professor at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York . He also taught at the Juilliard School and Hunter College and was visiting professor at Princeton University . In his compositions, Creshevsky combines natural and instrumental sounds and human voices, which he processes electronically, in a kind of collage. He himself describes his compositional style as hyperrealism .

Creshevski has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts , the New York State Council on the Arts, and the ASCAP .

Works

Born Again , 2003
Borrowed Time , 1992
Breathless , 1997
Canto di Malavita , 2002
Celebration
Chaconne
Circuit , 1971
Coup d'etat
Creed
Drummer
Electric Partita , 1980
Electric String quartet , 1988
Estancia
et puis , 1998
Fanfare , 1998
Photo Music 1 The Prize
Photo Music 2 Diva
Gone Now , 1995
Great performances
Highway , 1979
Hoodlum Priest , 2002
In Other Words
Independence Day
Jacob's Ladder , 1999
Jubilate , 2001
Memento Mori , 1989
Nightscape
Novella , 2000
Nude Ascending , 1999
Ossi di Morte , 1997
Portrait of Rudy Perez
Private Lives , 1993
Sha , 1996
Shadow of a Doubt
Sonata
Strategic Defense Initiative , 1986
Talea , 1991
Twice , 1993
Vanishing Point
Variations , 1987
Four songs
Vol au Vent , 2002
Who , 1995

Discography

Man and Superman , 1992
Auxesis (with Politics as usual by Charles Amirkhanian ), 1995
Who , 2000
Hyperrealism / Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky , 2003
The Tape Music 1971–1992 , 2006
Favorite Encores , (works by Creshevsky and If Bwana ), 2008
Twilight Of The Gods , 2009

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personal data
SURNAME	Creshevsky, Noah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rochester (New York)