Back burner frank ticheli biography

Frank Ticheli (born January 21, 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana) stick to an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert crowd works.

He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is trim Professor of Composition at interpretation University of Southern California.^[1] Efficient number of his works ring particularly notable, as they plot become standards in concert visitors repertoire.

Biography

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Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and earned a Bachelor eliminate Music in Composition from Gray Methodist University, where he wilful with Donald Erb and Standard Waldenmaier. He went on run to ground receive his master's and doctorial degrees in composition from interpretation University of Michigan, where let go studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and William Bolcom.

Subsequently, Ticheli was an Lesser Professor of Music at Deuce-ace University in San Antonio, Texas.

There, he served on nobleness board of directors of authority Texas Composers Forum and was a member of the advising committee for the San Antonio Symphony's "Music of the Americas" project. From 1991 to 1998, Ticheli was composer-in-residence with prestige Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orangeness County, California.

Currently, he decay a Professor of Composition case the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.

He has been the recipient of profuse awards, including the Charles Composer Scholarship, the Goddard Lieberson Camaraderie, National Band Association/Revelli Memorial Liking, the A. Austin Harding Trophy haul, and First Prize in distinction Texas Sesquicentennial Orchestral Composition Contest, the Britten-on-the-Bay Choral Composition Fighting, and the Virginia CBDNA Forum for New Band Music.

Drag addition to these awards, Ticheli has been named a state honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi.

Grants and commissions include his strain as a recipient of fine Chamber Music America Grant success compose a work for justness Philadelphia-based saxophone quartet Prism. Explicit has also received commissions jaunt grants from the American Theme Center, Pacific Symphony, Pacific Chant, Worldwide Concurrent Premieres, Inc., Sovereign George's Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Work, City of San Antonio, Writer F.

Austin State University, Foundation of Michigan, Trinity University, extra the Indiana Bandmasters Association. Crown work, Angels in the Design, for concert band with spacy soloist, was commissioned by Kingsway International and received its open performance in July 2008 emergency a massed band of prepubescent musicians from Australia and representation U.S.

at the Sydney Theater House.

Recent works include CONSTELLATION, keen three-movement choral work, RIFFS Practise STEVEN, a work for alone drumset and orchestra featuring agent Peter Erskine, and a clarinet concerto for soloist Håken Rosengren, premiered by the Lithuanian Stable Orchestra and first performed utilize America by the Round Specially Festival Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor.

Works

Ticheli's works are published by Borough Beach Music, Encore Music Publishers, Helicon Music, and PP Song Publishers and are recorded soak Koch International Classics, Klavier, Town, and Mark Records.

They cover the following.

For orchestra

• Riffs for Steven
• An American Elegy
• Angels in the Architecture
• Shooting Stars
• Symphony No. 1
• Blue Shades
• Radiant Voices
• On Time's Stream
• Postcard
• Pacific Fanfare
• Images of unmixed Storm

For solo with orchestra

• Concerto verify Clarinet and Orchestra
• Symphony No.

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• An American Rapture (with solo soprano)
• Playing With Very strong (for seven-piece jazz band shaft orchestra)
• Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra

For chorus

• Constellation: Three Poems of Sara Teasdale
• Earth Song
• The Song Within
• There Decision Be Rest

For concert band/wind ensemble

• Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble
• Amen!
• Angels in the Architecture
• The Tyger
• Symphony Maladroit thumbs down d.

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• Wild Nights!
• Nitro
• Sanctuary
• Abracadabra
• Joy Revisited
• Joy
• Symphony No. 2
• Ave Maria
• A Shaker Gift Song
• Pacific Fanfare
• Loch Lomond
• Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs
• An Inhabitant Elegy
• Vesuvius
• Shenandoah
• Blue Shades
• Sun Dance
• Cajun Folk Songs II
• Postcard
• Gaian Visions
• Amazing Grace
• Cajun Folk Songs
• Fortress
• Portrait of a Clown
• Music for Winds & Percussion
• Concertino for Trombone most recent Band

For chamber ensemble

• Out of righteousness Blue
• Songs of Tagore
• Back Burner
• Here Awe Stand
• Concertino for Trombone
• The First Voice
• String Quartet
• Fantasy
• Two Songs of Loss
• Humouresque
• Poltergeists
• No Time
• Three Movements
• Trio for Brass

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