David Schober - Biography |
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BiographyDavid Schober (b. 1974) is Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York. He grew up in Rushford, Minnesota and attended St. Mary's University of Minnesota from 1989 to 1992. Thereafter he enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music to study piano with Joseph Schwartz and composition with Param Vir and Randolph Coleman. As recipient of the Theodore Presser Music Award, he pursued a six-month program of language, culture, and musical study at Yonsei University in South Korea in 1995. He graduated from Oberlin in 1997 with awards in both composition and accompanying. National recognition for his composition work has included the BMI Student Composer Awards (1991, 1994), the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (1997), the Wayne Peterson Composition Prize from San Francisco State University (1999), and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002). In the summer of 1998, he attended the Yale Music School's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Dartington International Summer School in England. As a winner of the 1999 Aaron Copland Awards, he spent a month in residence at the Copland House in Westchester County, New York. He has received commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Naumburg Foundation (for the Miró String Quartet), violinist Gregory Fulkerson, the BMI Foundation Carlos Surinach Fund, and the new-music ensemble eighth blackbird, which has given more than sixty performances of his Variations for Sextet in tours across the U.S. and Korea. In the 2002-03 academic year, Schober was a fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, where he completed a Ph.D. in music theory and composition. He has studied composition with Bright Sheng, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, Susan Botti, Evan Chambers, and William Albright, piano with Logan Skelton, and organ with Marilyn Mason. The analytical portion of his two-part dissertation is an exploration of piano music by George Perle. His dissertation composition, Split Horizon, is a concerto for eighth blackbird commissioned by the Fromm Foundation; the work was premiered with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and has been performed by several other ensembles, including the Utah Symphony and the IRIS Chamber Orchestra.
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