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Composer Alex Weiser Concert Curator 145 4th Ave Apt 10F | New York, NY 10003 917.902.4619 |[email protected] Event Producer www.AlexWeiser.com Music Educator PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Director of Public Programs 2016-Present • Kettle Corn New Music, Founder and Co-Artistic Director 2012-Present • Third Street Music School Settlement, Music Theory and Composition Faculty 2014-2019 (Substitute 2012-Present) • Music at the Anthology, Inc. (MATA), Director of Operations and Development 2011-2016 • New York Philharmonic, Teaching Artist Associate 2014-2015 • NYU Teaching Assistant, Assistant to Julia Wolfe for composition seminar and composers forum; head tutor for Music Theory, Musicianship, and Music History 2012-2014 EDUCATION • New York University, MA Spring 2014 - Music Composition – GPA: 4.0 • Yale University, BA class of 2011 - Music (Intensive) Graduated with Honors – GPA: 3.69 • Composition Studies with Michael Gordon, Michael Klingbeil, Kathryn Alexander, Paul Alan Levi • Master Classes and Lessons with Julia Wolfe, Martin Bresnick, Chris Theofanidis, Ingram Marshall, David Felder, Bernard Rands, Michel Merlet, Phillip Lasser, Amy Beth Kirsten, Mario Garuti • Stuyvesant High School, class of 2007 COMMISSIONS, AWARDS, & RESIDENCIES PREMIERES, COMMISSIONS, & • 2020 ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund Commission Recipient PERFORMANCES • 2020 and all the days were purple Named Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music Eliza Bagg, Lee Dionne, New Morse Code, Lisa Moore, Vicky • 2018-2019 Roulette Jerome Foundation Artist Residency Recipient Chow, Ashley Bathgate, Todd Reynolds, Kate Maroney, Cantata • 2019 Exploring the Metropolis Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Profana, Julian Schwarz, Marika Bournaki, Kathleen Supove, • 2018 Asylum Arts International Jewish Artist Retreat Participant Momenta Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, Mellissa Hughes, Matt • 2018-2019 LABA Fellow at the 14th Street Y Evans, Karl Larson, TILT Brass, JACK Quartet, Argento New • 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Award Music Project, Fifth House Ensemble, Dark in the Song, • 2017-2019 American Opera Projects Composers and the Voice, Fellow Guidonian Hand, Cadillac Moon Ensemble, New Amsterdam • 2016-2017 Roulette Emerging Artist Commission Recipient Singers, Hausmann Quartet, Exceptet, Bearthoven • 2016 Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency with Ashley Bathgate • 2015 Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency with HOCKET Piano Duo • 2015 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency 158 with Stewart Wallace • 2013 Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency 151 with Martin Bresnick • 2013 Composer Assistance Program Grant from New Music USA • 2013 Wildacres Retreat Residency Program • 2013 Kimmel Harding Nelson Artist Colony Residency • 2012-2013 Composer-in-Residence for the Guidonian Hand Trombone Quartet • 2012 Millay Colony Resident with Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship for NY State • 2011 Lyrica Chamber Music Hausman String Quartet Award • 2011 Iowa State University Carillon Competition Award MUSIC FESTIVALS • Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival 2018 Guest Composer • Bang on a Can Summer Festival 2014 • Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival 2013 • HighSCORE Music Festival July 2011 • Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop 2010 • June In Buffalo 2009 • European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) 2009 Alex Weiser Selected Works 145 4th Ave Apt 10F | New York, NY 10003 917.902.4619 |[email protected] www.AlexWeiser.com Vocal Works Opera Songs State of the Jews (libretto by Ben Kaplan) 80’ (2019) From An Ardent Lover (text by Alexander Harkavy) 3’ (2019) Come Home (text after Shmerke Kaczerginski) 5’ (2018) Extended Vocal Works Self-portrait (text by Edward Hirsch) 3’30’’ (2018) Thursday (text by William Carlos Williams) 2’30’’ (2018) A Certain Slant of Light (text by Emily Dickinson) 4’ (2011) in a dark blue night for Singer and Piano 9’ (2020) The Future is Space (text by Pablo Neruda) 2’ (2011) with gentle fingers for Singer and Percussion Quartet 10’ (2018) Ebb (text by Edna St. Vincent Millay) 2’30’' (2008) and all the days were purple for Singer and Chamber Ensemble 28’ (2017) Three Epitaphs for Singer and Chamber Orchestra 13’ (2016) Dreaming of Love for Singer, Trumpet or Violin, and Piano 8’ (2014/2015) Choral Marks (text by Laura Marris) for Singer and Piano 14’ (2013) Travelers (text by Laura Marris) for SATB, 4’ (2011) Orchestral Works after shir hashirim for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Piano, and String Quintet 6’ (2017) Ascension for 2 Flutes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Percussion, Piano, Guitar, and String Quartet 7’ (2014) Somewhere for Orchestra 10’ (2013) Winter Prayer for Concert Band 6’ (2011) Inimmediate Gratification for Orchestra 4’30’’ (2009) only a dream for Orchestra 5’ (2009) Chamber Works Waltz Apparition for Clarinet in Bb, Violin, and Piano 5’ (2018) Willow’s Song and Shimmer for Eight Spatially Arrayed Cellos 1’30’’ and 12’30’’ (2016) disarm for Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Violin, and Bass 10’ (2015) study search seek for Clarinet and String Quartet 6’ (2015) Anatomy of a Drum Roll, Resonance and Rhythm for Percussion Quartet 16’ (2014) Flex for Piano Trio 4’ (2014) Bearthoven Roar for Piano, Percussion, and Bass 4’ (2014) Octet for Flute (+piccolo), Clarinet in Bb, Percussion, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass 8’ (2013) Wind for Woodwind Quintet 8’ (2013) Music for 4 Trombones 26’ (2013) Quake for String Quartet 7’ (2013) Subway Memories for Flute, Percussion, Violin, and Cello 12’ (2012) Music for 5 Bassoons 15’ (2012) Two by Two for Two Drum Sets and Four Hand Piano 6’ (2011) Saxifrage for String Quartet 7’ (2011) adrift for Violin, Clarinet in Bb, and Trombone (or Violin and Piano) 6’ (2010) Finding and Flying for Clarinet in Bb (+Bass Clarinet), Trombone, Percussion, Piano, Violin, and Bass Guitar 8' (2010) Lament for Flute, Horn, Bass (or Cello), and Piano 7’ (2009) dust for Flute, Clarinet in Bb, Violin, and Cello 6’30’’ (2009) Solo and Duo Works Music for Dance (Stuck in the) House Music for Piano four hands 1’ (2020) Invisible Beauty for Piano Trio and Voice 20’ (in progress) The Old Question for Violin and Piano 5’ (2020) Silent for the Rain for Cello and Piano 10’ (2018) Lullaby for Solo Violin 4’ (2016) fade for Solo Piano 7’ (2016) water hollows stone for Piano four hands 18’ (2015) Rumbling Waves for Piano and Percussion 9’ (2014) Memories Suite for Solo Piano 12’ (2010/2011) thaw for Solo Piano 11’ (2009) piano piece for Solo Piano 6’30’’ (2009) …mallet merengue for Vibraphone and Marimba 6’30’’ (2008) Upcoming Performances Include: 11.22.20 Performance of and all the days were purple on Present Music’s Thanksgiving: Wherein Lies the Good, Digital Performance Date TBD: ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund Commission, Digital Premiere April 2021: New Ballet in collaboration with Jacqulyn Buglisi and Buglisi Dance October 2021: and all the days were purple orchestral version premiere Past Performances Include: 10.25.20 Wind performed by West Texas Winds on “Something Old, Something New” Midland, Texas 10.17.20 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain at Music for a Great Space, Digital Performance 10.6.20 Talk at Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, ZOOM Event 10.4.20 Dreaming of Love performed at Ensemble Uncaged: Palimpsest - Traces Remain, Longy School, Digital Performance 8.5.20 Talk at Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, ZOOM Event [postponed] 7.30.20 Digital premiere of (Stuck in the) House Music for four-hand-piano by HOCKET, Internet 7.16.20 Talk at The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County, ZOOM Event 7.5.20 Interview on Bund Podcast, Episode 7: Alex Weiser, YouTube 6.30.20 Digital premiere of The Old Question for Violin and Piano performed by Cantata Profana at YIVO, Facebook & YouTube 6.14.20 Performance of and all the days were purple on the Bang on a Can Marathon, Internet 5.28.20 Excerpts from State of the Jews screened and discussed as a part of 14th Street Y's Virtual Tikun 4.9.20 Poetry sung by Lorin Sklamberg at Russ & Daughters 2nd Seder, ZOOM Event 2.20.20 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain at NYU Black Box Theater, NYC 2019 12.5-8.19 State of the Jews opera preview performances at the 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, NYC 11.2.19 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain on Charles Ives Music Festival’s “Variation” Concert, Ridgefield, CT 7:30pm 10.18.19 Ashley Bathgate performs Willow’s Song and Shimmer at Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan 8:30pm 6.18.19 Alex Weiser Portrait Concert including a workshop performance of Act I of State of the Jews at Roulette, Brooklyn, NYC, 8pm 6.4.19 Elizabeth Shammash and Yehudi Wyner perform with gentle fingers as a part of a Hebrew Liederabend at YIVO, NYC, 7:00pm 5.22.19 Julia Yang and Lee Dionne perform Silent for the Rain on the Sessions Series, NYC, 7:30pm 5.2.19 Con Edison Exploring the Metropolis Composer-in-residence performance at the Turtle Bay Music School, 7pm 4.9.19 and all the days were purple album launch with Cantaloupe Music: show & party, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research NYC, 7pm 3.31.19 Julian Schwarz and Marika Bournaki perform Silent for the Rain on the Charles Ives Concert Series, Danbury CT, 3:00pm 2.3.19 Icarus Quartet performs Two by Two on St. John's Church’s Music in the Valley Series 2.2.19 LABA Alive Workshop performance of an excerpt of State of the Jews, 14th Street Y, NYC, 7:30pm 1.3+4+5.19 Premiere of Silent