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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