Richard DeRosa

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Richard Jerome DeRosa (born November 25, 1955 in Huntington , Long Island , New York ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , also synthesizer ), who is best known as a composer and conductor . The head of the jazz composition and arrangement course at the University of North Texas was chief conductor of the WDR Big Band Cologne from the 2014/15 season to summer 2016 .

Live and act

DeRosa comes from a musical family: his father is the drummer Clem DeRosa ; his siblings are also musicians. He studied jazz and composition at the Manhattan School of Music and music education at New Jersey City University .

DeRosa was part of Gerry Mulligan's band in the 1980s ; he toured with Bob Brookmeyer , Jackie & Roy , but also played with Marian McPartland , Randy Sandke , Chris Potter , Bucky Pizzarelli , Harry Sheppard and Ken Peplowski . He has arranged for Mel Lewis ' Big Band , the Metropole Orkest and Wynton Marsalis ' Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as well as for Toots Thielemans , Norah Jones , Dominick Farinacci and Cassandra Wilson . As an arranger, conductor and drummer he also made numerous recordings, among others with Susannah McCorkle , Nancy Harrow , Marlene VerPlanck and Gerry Mulligan. DeRosa's arrangements and compositions are not only in demand in jazz, but also as film music , for Frankenstein - A New Musical and video clips .

DeRosa initially taught at the Manhattan School of Music and the Juilliard School . In 1999 he was appointed professor of jazz composition and arrangement at William Paterson University . Then he moved to the University of North Texas.

Fonts

  • Concepts for Improvisation - A Comprehensive Guide for Performing and Teaching Hal Leonard 1997
  • Andrea Pejrolo & Richard DeRosa Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer Focal Press 2007

Web links

Commons : Richard DeRosa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard DeRosa new chief conductor of the WDR Big Band ( Memento from September 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Between 1979 and 2005 he was involved in 33 recordings in the field of jazz. See Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (September 14, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME DeRosa, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeRosa, Richard Jerome (full name); De Rosa, Rich; DeRosa, Rich; DeRosa Ritchie; DeRosa Richie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntington (New York)