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Fields
of Study:
Composer, music theorist, and pianist
Degrees and Studies:
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
Biographical Information:
As an undergraduate at the Oberlin Conservatory,
he received a Theodore Presser Foundation
grant to study history, language, and
traditional arts at Yonsei University
in South Korea. Recognition for his composition
work includes a Charles Ives Scholarship
from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Aaron Copland Awards, the
Wayne Peterson Composition Prize, and
awards from BMI and ASCAP. He has received
commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra,
the Naumburg Foundation (for the Mir String
Quartet), and the Fromm Foundation. His
composition Split Horizon, a concerto
premiered at Carnegie Hall by the sextet
Eighth Blackbird and the American Composers
Orchestra. He is also the author of an
analytical study of piano music by George
Perle, Professor Emeritus at the City
University of New York.
Office:
NMB 315
Telephone:
(718) 997-3854
email address:
david.schober@qc.cuny.edu
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