Ross Bauer (born December 19, 1951, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. A professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Ithaca, New York, Bauer graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1975 with a Bachelor of Music degree.[1] At the NEC he was a pupil of John Heiss and Ernst Oster. He studied music composition with Luciano Berio while a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1982. In 1984 he earned a PhD from Brandeis University where he studied with Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, and Seymour Shifrin. In 1986 he was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1988 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996 he was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.[2]
As a music educator, Bauer taught on the music faculties of Brandeis University (1981–1985), Stanford University (1986–1988), and the University of California, Davis (1988–2017).[2][3] Upon his retirement from the latter institution in 2017, he was named a professor emeritus.[3] At Brandeis he was the director of the Brandéis Jazz Ensemble, and at Stanford he directed the Alea II New Music Ensemble.[1] He founded the Empyrean Ensemble at the University of California, Davis; an ensemble he directed during his tenure at that university.[2]
As a composer, Bauer won the ISCM National Composers Competition in 1989 and the Speculum Musicae International Composers’ Competition in 1997.[1] He received commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation in 1991 and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in 1994.[2] In 2005 he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[3]
Partial list of works
[edit]Orchestral
[edit]- Concertino for Chamber Orchestra (1983)
- Sospeso for Strings (1987)
- Neon (1988)
- Piano Concerto (1990)
- Halcyon Birds for Chamber Orchestra (1993)
- Romanza for violin and orchestra (1996)
- Icons, bassoon concerto (1997)
Chamber music
[edit]- Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (1980)
- String quartet no. 1 (1981)
- Hang Time for clarinet, violin, and piano (1984)
- Along the Way for 10 Players (1985)
- Deja Vu for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1986)
- Evanescent Heterophony for cello and piano (1986)
- Chimera for 9 Players (1987)
- String quartet no. 2 (1987)
- Fast Gar Nichts... for string trio (1988)
- Chin Music for viola and piano (1989)
- Anaphora for flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano (1991)
- Tributaries for cello, percussion, and piano (1992)
- Aplomb for violin and piano (1993)
- Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string Quartet, and bass (1994)
- Stone Soup for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1995)
- Motion for piano trio (1998)
- Pulse for clarinet, viola, and piano (1999)
- Etudes for Violin (1999)
- String quartet no. 3 (2000)
Piano
[edit]- Tonarten (1982)
- Birthday Bagatelles (1993)
Vocal music
[edit]- Four Honig Songs for Soprano and Piano (1989)
- Oda al Olor de la Lena for Baritone, Alto Flute, Cello, and Percussion, after Neruda (1991)
- Ritual Fragments for Soprano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, and Piano, after Native American texts (1995)
- Eskimo Songs for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello, and piano (1996)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Laura Kuhn, Dennis McIntire (2001). "Bauer, Ross". In Nicolas Slonimsky (ed.). Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. p. 236.
- ^ a b c d Richard Swift (2001). "Bauer, Ross". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47309.
- ^ a b c "ROSS BAUER, Professor of Music, emeritus (2017)". UC Davis Department of Music. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
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