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Composer list
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Aldridge, Robert Livingston
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Amram, David
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Babbitt, Milton
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Bingham, Judith
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Brown, Earle
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Cage, John
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Cardew, Cornelius
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Carpenter, Cameron
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Crumb, George
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Dillon, James
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Dove, Jonathan
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Feldman, Morton
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Ferneyhough, Brian
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Franke, Bernd
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Genzmer, Harald
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Harrison, Lou
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Hersch, Fred
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Hillborg, Anders
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Hovhaness, Alan
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Kagel, Mauricio
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Ligeti, György
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Mayuzumi, Toshiro
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McNeff, Stephen
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Panufnik, Roxanna
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Philips, Julian
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Rathbone, Jonathan
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Reynolds, Roger
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Saunders, Rebecca
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Sheriff, Noam
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Tüür, Erkki-Sven
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Wallen, Errollyn
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Wallfisch, Benjamin
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Wolff, Christian
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Wuorinen, Charles
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Biscardi, Chester
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BIOGRAPHY |
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Chester Biscardi’s music has been featured at the Gaudeamus Festival in Rotterdam, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in England, Moscow Autumn, Music Today-Japan in Tokyo, the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, Piccolo Spoleto, the International Guitar Festival of Morelia, and the Bienal of São Paulo, Brazil. Performances of his music have also been sponsored by the American Composers Orchestra, the BBC-London, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Gothia Percussion Ensemble of Sweden, the Houston Symphony, the National Flute Association, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, the Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiana in Rome, and UNESCO/International Music Council.
Biscardi’s catalog includes works for opera, chorus, voice and piano, orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo piano, as well as incidental music for theater, dance, and television. His work is published by C. F. Peters, Merion Music, Inc. of Theodore Presser Company, and Biscardi Music Press; vocal music is distributed by Classical Vocal Reprints. Recordings appear on the Albany, Bridge, CRI (New World Records), Intim Musik (Sweden), New Albion, New Ariel, North/South Recordings, and Sept Jardins (Canada) labels. He is a Yamaha Artist.
Biscardi is a recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Aaron Copland Award, fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation, the Djerassi Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio), as well as grants from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Born in l948 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he received an M.A. in Italian Literature and an M.M. in Musical Composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale. He is Director of the Music Program at Sarah Lawrence College, where he holds the William Schuman Chair in Music.
Most recently, he received a 2007 Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges four composers each year who have arrived at his or her own voice. |
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www.chesterbiscardi.com
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