Ross Bauer
 rmbauer@ucdavis.edu 19 Old Firehouse Office Hours T 1–2 pm, R 3:30–4:30 pm |
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 Millenium 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, to be
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. 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 Empyrean Ensemble (a professional ensemble in residence at the University of California, Davis), he's remained active in the performance, recording and promotion of contemporary music, conducting over one hundred performances including numerous 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). |