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2008-09 Emerging Composers in Residence:
Jean Ahn holds degrees in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. and M.A.) and from Seoul National University (B.A.). Her music has been played around the world including at the IAWM Beijing Congress, Pan Music Festival (Korea), Korean National Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, June in Buffalo, Music 07 (Cincinnati), Oregon Bach Festival, and Spark Electronic Music Festival (Minnesota). An important aspect of her work is the use of electronics. She studied at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley and developed a series of electronic music with Asian elements. She is currently teaching at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
Danville resident Patricio da Silva studied piano and composition at the Escola Superior de Musica de Lisoba in his native Portugal. He completed his Master's of Fine Arts at the California Institute of the Arts and his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz, and he has conducted post-doctorla research in the United Kingdom and at the IRCAM in Paris. Since 2004, he has been a composition fellow with the Tanglewood Music Center, Foundacao Ciencia e Tecnologia, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and later this year at the Aspen Music Festival and the MacDowell Colony. His music has been performed at many international venues including the Ojai Music Festival, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Cistermusica, LASO, and is scheduled to be performed at the Aspen, Portugal's Orquestra do Algarve, and on several European festivals with pianist Tzimon Barto. His winning entry is entitled The Fact of the Matter as a Matter of Fact.
Berkeley resident Clark Suprynowicz is a jazz musician as well as a composer. He was a student of bassist Dave Holland in New York, and has worked with Tom Waits, John Zorn, and Bill Frisell. He has penned theme music and incidental music for National Public Radio, as well as a body of songs and chamber music. His work as a composer for the last two decades has focused on the stage: Mr. Suprynowicz was a founding member of the New Music Theatre Projrect at Z Space Studios in San Francisco. In 2006, his opera Chrysalis (libretto by John O'Keefe) was premiered by Berkeley Opera. Other music theater works include Ariadne, premiered at Diego Rivera Theater in San Francisco, and Caliban Dreams (with Amanda Moody), an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, commissioned by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Suprynowicz teaches musicianship and composition at both the Crowden School in Berkeley and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Andy Tan, a master's candidate in composition at UC Davis, was selected as alternate for the 2008-09 series. The selection panel include UC Davis Assistant Professor of Composition, Under Construction alumnus, and 2008 Rome Prize winner Kurt Rhode, UC Davis Associate Professor of Composition Laurie San Martin, and Berkeley Symphony Eduation Director & Conductor Ming Luke. Read the 2008-09 Emerging Composers in Residence press release | | ||||
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Selected to participate in Berkeley Symphony's Under Construction series for a second year, San Francisco resident David Graves is a composer in multiple genres, including ambient, jazz, and rock. As a recipient of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship, his large-scale ambient pieces have been installed at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in 2003 and the SURROUND>SOUND series in 2006. In July and August 2008, he performed Human Street Textures on the Soundwave>Series AudioBus; along with artist [ruidobello], street sounds were collected, modified, and merged with prerecorded compositions. He has scored numerous works for the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra since 2004 and has studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as the City College of San Francisco.
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