Robert Beaser
Robert Harry Beaser (born May 24, 1954 in Boston ) is an American composer, conductor and music teacher.
At the age of sixteen, Beaser was already conducting the Boston Youth Symphony performing an orchestral work of his own. He studied political philosophy and literature at Yale University and composition at the Yale School of Music with Jacob Druckman , Earle Brown , Toru Takemitsu , Arnold Franchetti and Yehudi Wyner . His teachers as a conductor were Otto-Werner Mueller , Arthur Weisberg and William Steinberg . He continued his composition studies in Tanglewood in 1976 with Betsy Jolas and, as the winner of a Rome Prize in 1977, with Goffredo Petrassi .
From 1978 to 1990, Beaser was the conductor of Musical Elements , a New York-based chamber ensemble for new music with which he premiered more than two hundred works by contemporary composers, and from 1988 to 1993 he was composer in residence of the Meet-the-Composer program of the American Composers Orchestra . Until 2001 he was artistic director of the orchestra, with whom he premiered several of his own works at Carnegie Hall , including The Heavenly Feast (with soprano Lauren Flanigan ), Chorale Variation , Seven Deadly Sins and his piano concerto. Beaser has been Professor at the Juilliard School since 1993, and Dean of the Composition Department since 1994.
As a composer, Beaser is assigned to the new tonalists , a group of American composers born around the mid-20th century led by Daniel Asia , Richard Danielpour , Michael Daugherty , Elliott Goldenthal , Aaron Jay Kernis , Libby Larsen , Lowell Liebermann , Paul Moravec , Christopher Rouse and George Tsontakis , who reject the partly hermetic tonal language of late musical modernism and return to more tonal music in traditional forms. He had his first success with the Mountain Songs (for flute and guitar), which were nominated for a Grammy in 1986 for best contemporary composition.
In 1994 he composed The Heavenly Fest for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and its conductor David Zinman , and in 1999 his opera The Food of Love was commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera , New York City Opera and WNET-TV . He has also received compositions from artists such as Leonard Slatkin , Paula Robinson , Richard Stoltzman , Eliot Fisk , James Galway , Lauren Flanigan , John Aller , Ransom Wilson , Carol Wincenc , Dawn Upshaw , David Zinman, Gerard Schwarz , Dennis Russell Davies , Christopher Taylor , Manuel Barrueco , Renée Fleming , Lukas Foss , Paul Sperry , Kim Kashkashian , Alasdair Neale and Steward Robertson , who premiered and partially recorded his works.
In 2004 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
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- Milken Archive of Jewish Music - Robert Beaser
- Juilliard School - Robert Beaser
- American Composers Orchestra - Artists - Robert Beaser
- Schott - Robert Beaser
- Apple Music - Robert Beaser
- Robert Beaser at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beaser, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beaser, Robert Harry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, conductor and music educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |