Ross Bauer
 rmbauer@ucdavis.edu 19 Old Firehouse Office Hours TBD |
Ross Bauer's music has been performed and recorded by the Radio Orchestras of Hilversum and Slovakia, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Berkeley, Rohnert Park and Santa Cruz Symphonies, the Alexander and Arianna Quartets, Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, the New Millennium Ensemble, Ensemble 21, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, The Left Coast Ensemble, Earplay, sopranos Susan Narucki and Christine Schadeberg, violinist Curt Macomber, Paul Hillier, and many others. His work is published by C.F. Peters and Southern Music, and recorded on the GM, Centaur, and New World labels. A CD of his chamber music was released in April 2007 on Albany Recordings. Guest Composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference in the summer of 2001, he is one of four recipients of the 2005 Academy Awards in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and recently received a commission from the Barlow Foundation for his Implicit Memory, premiered by the New York New Music Ensemble in February 2008. His Thin Ice, a chamber concerto for cello and fourteen players, was premiered by Greg Hesselink and Sequitur in June 2006 and is forthcoming on a Sequitur CD. He recently finished a piece for the New York based ensemble Flexible Music. Bauer's other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fromm Foundation commissions, a Koussevitzky commission, an NEA Composition Fellowship, and the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A founding member of Boston's Griffin Music Ensemble, and founder and former director of the Empyrean Ensemble, he's remained active in the performance, recording, and promotion of contemporary music, conducting over one hundred performances including many premieres. He teaches composition and theory at the University of California, Davis, and has also taught at Stanford and Brandeis universities. He attended New England Conservatory and Brandeis studying composition with John Heiss, Martin Boykan, Arthur Berger, and Luciano Berio (at Tanglewood). Please see Bauer's selected list of works and reviews. |