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STACY GARROP DETLEV GLANERT Sponsored by Marcia & Fred Smith Sponsored by Jack Baskin & Peggy Downes-Baskin and Composer Stacy Garrop has won numerous Rowland & Patricia Rebele awards including a Fromm Music Foundation Grant, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg. He Àrst Composition Prize, two Barlow Endowment played trumpet and tuba, and later doublebass commissions, as well as competitions sponsored and piano. He studied composition with Diether by the American Composers Orchestra, Civic de la Motte from 1980 to 1982 in Hamburg, Orchestra of Chicago, Detroit Symphony with Hans Werner Henze from 1985 to 1989 in Stacy Garrop Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Omaha Cologne, and with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, in the summer of 1986. New England Philharmonic, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. Her chamber and Early in his career, Glanert especially admired orchestral works are published by Theodore Gustav Mahler for his expressive encompassing Presser Company, and she self-publishes her of the entire world, and Maurice Ravel for his choral works under Inkjar Publishing Company. glittering artiÀcial surfaces; both composers She is a Cedille Records recording artist and were very important for his development. Later on has works on seven of their CDs, with additional Hans Werner Henze and Bernd A. Zimmermann works on nine recordings by eight labels; these had an important inÁuence. Following the Àrst recordings feature performances by Chanticleer, successful performances of his work, Glanert decided to pursue a life as a free lance composer Detlev Glanert Lincoln Trio, Grant Park Music Festival Chorus, Gaudete Brass Quintet, Biava Quartet, Cecilia for lyric opera, orchestral music and chamber Quartet, Chicago a cappella, and Volti. Cedille music. His works demonstrate lyrical gifts and a Records is currently in the process of recording fascination with the Romantic past viewed from a her orchestral works with the Chicago College of modern perspective. Performing Arts Orchestra, to be commercially Glanert won the prestigious Rolf Liebermann released in 2015/2016. Opera Prize in 1993 for his Àrst full scale She has been commissioned by numerous opera The Mirror of the Great Emperor, and the ensembles and organizations including the Bavarian Theatre Prize in 2001 for the comic Albany Symphony, Chanticleer, Chicago Classical opera Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning, Recording Foundation, Chicago Chamber which garnered numerous stage productions and has become his most successful opera to date. Jennifer Higdon Musicians, Rembrandt Chamber Players, and the Capitol Saxophone Quartet. Garrop is currently Glanert is currently the most performed living working on a commission from the San Francisco opera composer in Germany. His stage works Choral Society and Piedmont East Bay Children’s (eleven) have received many different stage Choir to write an oratorio that will premiere in 2014. productions. His orchestral output includes three symphonies, concertos for piano, two pianos, Garrop has been in residence with several violin and tuba, and several orchestra pieces in organizations including the Volti Choral Institute all orchestra sizes. His works are conducted by, for High School Singers, Skaneateles Festival, among others, Markus Stenz, Oliver Knussen, Albany Symphony, and Music in the Loft. She Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, Donald has attended residencies at the Aspen Music Runnicles, Ivin Fischer, Christian Thielemann, Festival, MacDowell Colony, Banff Centre for Jun Märkl, Stefan Asbury and David Robertson. Dylan Mattingly the Arts, Yaddo Colony, and the Wellesley Composers Conference. Glanert lived in Italy for almost ten years, collaborating with the “Cantiere Internazionale Garrop earned degrees in music composition Montepulciano” where he was artistic director at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor for three years. In 1992-93 he was a fellow of the (B.M.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and Indiana German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, in 2003 University-Bloomington (D.M.). She is an he was composer in residence in Mannheim, in Associate Professor and Head of Composition 2005 was composer in residence in Sapporo, at the Chicago College of Performing Arts and since 2011 has been elected one of three at Roosevelt University. She is also on the house composers of the Royal Concertgebouw composition faculty of the annual Fresh Inc Orkest in Amsterdam. He holds lectures and Festival, sponsored by Fifth House Ensemble. composition classes in Aspen, Montepulciano, Melbourne, Jakarta and Sapporo, and currently Andrew Norman She makes her Cabrillo Festival debut with lives in Berlin. Thunderwalker at the Grand Finale performances The Cabrillo Festival will present the U.S. expanded biographies at Mission San Juan Bautista, Sunday, August 10, 2014. premiere of his Three Songs without Words on available online at Sunday, August 10, at Mission San Juan Bautista. www.cabrillomusic.org 22 CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.