DAVID BIEDENBENDER 22710 Fireside Court Apt. 204 ● Novi, MI. 48375 ● phone: 734.904.2463 website: www.davidbiedenbender.com ● email: davidbiedenbender@gmail.com
Résumé
CREATIVE WORK AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SELECTED RECENT AND UPCOMING COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS 2014 (FORTHCOMING) Commissioned work for Timothy Higgins, principal trombone, San Francisco Symphony 2014 (FORTHCOMING) Commissioned work for the Edge Ensemble (Netherlands) 2014 (FORTHCOMING) Commissioned work for Jeannette Fang, prepared piano 2013 (FORTHCOMING) Commissioned work for the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble 2013 (FORTHCOMING) Commissioned work for the Akropolis Reed Quintet 2013 Strange, Beautiful Noises for the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Santa Cruz, CA 2013 Arrangement of Beck’s I’m Down commissioned by the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble 2012 Dreams in the Dusk, concerto for alto saxophone and band, commissioned by Jonathan Yanik and the United States Navy Band 2012 Grit, mixed chamber ensemble, commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble 2012 Surface Tension, string quartet, written for the Stenhammar String Quartet and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study 2012 Schism, sinfonietta, commissioned by Alarm Will Sound and the Missouri International Composers Festival 2011 Liquid Architecture, bass trombone and piano, commissioned by Randall Hawes, principal bass trombone, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Kathryn Goodson, piano 2011 you’ve been talking in your sleep, saxophone quartet, commissioned by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet
SELECTED AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 2013 2013 2012 2011, 2012 2009 2009
Winner, VocalEssence and American Composers Forum Composition Competition, awarded for This Night, a cappella choir Nomination, Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award from Composer’s, Inc. (San Francisco) ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award Winner, SCI/ASCAP Student Composer Competition (Region 5) Winner, Third Millennium Ensemble Composition Competition
SELECTED PRESS/MEDIA 5.6.2013
Examiner.com (Orlando, FL), “H2 Quartet plays at Timucua in downtown Orlando,” review of you’ve been talking in your sleep, described as: “…modern, venturesome, and inexorable…The excitement, intensity, and freshness that characterizes Biedenbender’s music hung in the Timucua house long after the last note was played.” <http://www.examiner.com/review/h2-quartet-plays-at-timucua-downtown-orlando> <http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2013/04/boston-new-music-initiative-serves-up-a-bracing-array-of-works/>
11.28.2012
NewMusicBox, “Composers, Inc. Introduces San Francisco Opera Brass,” review of you’ve been talking in your sleep: “The one piece from this program that I’ve since revisited simply for pleasure’s sake is David Biedenbender’s saxophone quartet you’ve been talking in your sleep…” <http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/composers-inc-introduces-san-francisco-opera-brass-subotnick-revisits-silverapples/>
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