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APNM COMPOSER: David Glaser
 David Glaser was born in Manhattan in 1952 and studied at Hunter College (BA), Queens College (MA) and Columbia University (DMA) where he worked with Mario Davidovsky, George Edwards, Martin Boykan and Jack Beeson. In 2007 he was awarded a Fromm Foundation commission to compose a piece for Parthenia. He has also received an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an Alice M. Ditson Grant, a CAP Grant and a Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Grant from the American Music Center, the Dr. Boris and Eda Rapoport Prize in Composition at Columbia University and Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Wellesley Composer Conference. He has been composer-in-residence at the NewMusic@ECU Festival at East Carolina University and at the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He is currently on the board of the United States section of the League of Composers/ISCM and of Parthenia, a consort of viols.
Glaser's CD Kinesis has been released on Albay Records (TROY 1343).
American Academy of Arts and Letters describes his work as “…subtly potent.”
His music has been commissioned by the NewMusic@ECU festival for Christopher Grymes, Parthenia – a Consort of Viols, the New York New Music Ensemble, Judith Kellock, Susan Narucki, Linda Larson, Elizabeth Farnum, the Cygnus Ensemble, the Anderson-Fader Guitar Duo, the Peconic Chamber Orchestra, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and Glaux, the new music ensemble of Temple University.
He is Associate Professor at Stern College of Yeshiva University in New York.
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| All APNM Works by David Glaser |
Duration |
Year |
Materials Available |
Sound Sample |
| APPARITIONS chamber orchestra |
13 min |
2005 |
score, parts |
No |
| AURORA fl, cl, vl, vc, pno |
10 min |
2010 |
score, parts |
No |
| CANTATA - PSALM CIV soprano, ob d’am, b cl, tpt, 2perc, gtr, vn, va, cb |
21 min |
1989 |
score, parts |
No |
| CATALYST fl, cl, vc, perc |
10 min |
2007 |
score, parts |
No |
| CATULLUS DREAMS soprano, bs cl, tpt, hp, gtr, vln, vla, cb, perc |
15 min |
1989 |
score, parts |
No |
| CHIAROSCURO alto sax, vla, pno |
11 min |
2003 |
score, parts |
No |
| CLOSELY BY THE SKY soprano, violoncello (2 scores needed for performance) |
14 min |
1996 |
score, parts |
No |
| CONCERTO FOR CLARINET AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA |
16 min |
2008 |
score, parts |
No |
| CONVERGENCE fl, guitar, vn,vc |
11 min |
2000 |
score, parts |
No |
| DIALOGUES for clarinet and violoncello |
19 min |
1986 |
parts, parts |
No |
| FANTASIA for solo viola |
7 min |
1979 |
score, parts |
No |
| FANTAZY tenor viola da gamba and bass viola da gamba |
5 min |
2008 |
score |
No |
| I MAKE A NOTE for fl, ob, 2 gtrs, vn, vc |
5 min |
2012 |
score, parts |
No |
| KINESIS guitar and string quartet |
15 min |
2008 |
score, parts |
No |
| LE CARNET ROUGE two guitars |
10 min |
2004 |
score |
No |
| MOONSET NO.1 soprano and clarinet |
7 min |
2003 |
score |
No |
| MOONSET NO.2 soprano and piano |
8 min |
2006 |
score |
No |
| MORNING STAR soprano, fl, ob, bsn, pno, vn, va, vc |
10 min |
1979 |
score, parts |
No |
| NIGHT WAVES for percussion quartet |
11 min |
1995 |
score, parts |
No |
| OF TWILIGHT soprano, vln, bs cl, pno, perc |
15 min |
2011 |
score, parts |
No |
| POLARIS cl, pno, string quartet |
13 min |
2012 |
score, parts |
No |
| PREDELLA viola da gamba quartet (Fromm Foundation Commission) |
15 min |
2010 |
score, parts |
No |
| SIRIUS for vn, va, vc, pno |
11 min |
2012 |
score, parts |
No |
| STRAY LIGHT soprano, fl, cl/b cl, vn, vc, pno |
10 min |
n/a |
score, parts |
No |
| STRING QUARTET |
20 min |
1994 |
score, parts |
No |
| STRING QUARTET NO.2 |
|
2005 |
score, parts |
No |
| TABLEAUX for solo violoncello |
9 min |
1984 |
score |
No |
| THE SPEECH OF DREAMS picc/fl/a fl, ob/eh, cl/b cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, 2perc, vn, va, vc, cb |
12 min |
1988 |
score, parts |
No |
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