David Glaser
(1952)

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 Albany 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.