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2009-10 Emerging Composers in Residence:
San Francisco resident Bruce Christian Bennett is a composer, technical writer for a music technology company, and a lecturer in music at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. His works have been played throughout the United States and abroad by such groups as the Arditti String Quartet, Earplay, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Sirius, and members of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. A composer of electroacoustic music, his works have been presented at curated events such as ICMC, the Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth, the Pulse Field exhibition in Atlanta, Sonic Circuits II, Cultural Labyrinth in San Francisco, EX-STATIC and Sonic Residues in Melbourne, Australia, SEAMUS and SCI conferences.
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. This is the second time that he has been selected to participate in Berkeley Symphony’s Under construction series.
Composer and violinist Andy Tan (An Tan) is currently an MA candidate in composition at University of California, Davis. He has studied with Ross Bauer and Kurt Rohde, and he is currently studying with Mika Pelo. Mr. Tan’s music has been performed by the Ariana String Quartet, New York New Music Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, Mercedes Gomez and the UCDSO. His work “Sonata Breve for Cello and Piano” was published by J.B. Elkus and Son. Other recent works include an original score for the documentary “A World of Grazing.” Jazz musician and composer Clark Suprynowicz will serve as alternate for the 2009-10 series, following his participation in the 2008-09 program. The selection committee was comprised of Music Director Joana Carneiro, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Music Ken Ueno, UC Davis Associate Professor of Composition Laurie San Martin, and Berkeley Symphony Education Director & Conductor Ming Luke.
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Aptos resident Don Myers studied music theory and orchestration at San Jose State University. In private lessons with Lou Harrison he also studied composition and gamelan, becoming Mr. Harrison’s final principal teaching assistant. While artist-in-residence at the Western Stage in Salinas, CA he created compositions for theater. Among several other awards he won the ERMMEDIA’s Masterworks Prize for his chamber work for tenor, alto flute, and string quartet, Meditation in Three Reflections. This piece was recorded for release on the ERMMEDIA label, to be distributed through Naxos in September of 2009. ERMMEDIA also commissioned Mr. Myers to compose a suite for the classic Georges Méliès film, Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon), to be included in a DVD boxed set to be released through Naxos in September.
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