James Oliverio

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James Oliverio is an American composer of film scores and contemporary classical music.

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film for the actors. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes pre-existing music, dialogue and sound effects, and comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to enhance the dramatic narrative and the emotional impact of the scene in question. Scores are written by one or more composers, under the guidance of, or in collaboration with, the film's director or producer and are then usually performed by an ensemble of musicians – most often comprising an orchestra or band, instrumental soloists, and choir or vocalists – known as playback singers and recorded by a sound engineer.

Contemporary classical music is classical music relative to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic music, experimental music, and minimalist music. Newer forms of music include spectral music, and post-minimalism.

Biography

Oliverio was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Oliverio later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the composer-in-residence at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His music for the film Time and Dreams was included in Atlanta's successful bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympics. His piece The Explorer (later retitled To Boldly Go...) was commissioned and premiered as the opening for that summer's four-year Cultural Olympiad. During the 1990s, Oliverio was described as "Atlanta's hottest composer".^[1]

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. The city proper has a population of 383,793, making it the 52nd-largest city in the United States and the second-largest city in Ohio. Greater Cleveland is ranked as the 33rd-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 2,057,009 people in 2018. A Gamma + city, Cleveland anchors the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area, which had a population of 3,515,646 in 2010 and is ranked 15th in the United States.

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Of the fifty states, it is the 34th largest by area, the seventh most populous, and the tenth most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus. Ohio is bordered by Pennsylvania to the east, Michigan to the northwest, Lake Erie to the north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast.

The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent, international music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is led by President Paul Hogle.

Since January 2001, Oliverio has served as Executive Director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida.^[2]

The University of Florida College of the Arts is the fine arts college of the University of Florida. The college was established in 1975, and is located on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The current dean is Onye P. Ozuzu.

A lifelong friend of the timpanist brothers Paul and Mark Yancich, Oliverio has composed a number of works for the performers, including his first and second timpani concertos and the 2011 double timpani concerto Dynasty.^[1]^[3]^[4]

List of compositions

The Fall of Babylon (1974) for mezzo-soprano and wind quintet
Dantreume Leu Pliska (1975) for timpani and amplified double bass
Etude for Four Harps (1975)
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1976) for two pianos
Aradia (1978) for acoustic and electronic chamber ensemble
J'ai Plus de Souvenirs (1978) for soprano and amplified double bass quintet
Go Gently, My Friend (1986) for symphony orchestra
American Suite (1988) for symphony orchestra
Anniversary Overture (1988) for symphony orchestra
Drawn to the Light (1989) for chorus and orchestra
Timpani Concerto No. 1: The Olympian (1990) for timpani and orchestra
Winds of the Magic Wood (1990) for woodwind quintet and narrator
Concerto for Orchestra (1990)
The Story of Snow White: A Child's Introduction to the Symphony Orchestra, Second Edition (1991)
Voyage Through the Musical Universe (1991) for orchestra and narrator
Songs Without Words (1992) for chamber ensemble
The Lessons of Time (1992) for chorus and orchestra
Imaginary Worlds (1992) chamber ensemble with electronics
Common Ground (1992) ballet for orchestra
Pilgrimage: Concerto for Brass (1992) for orchestra and brass soloists
Children of a Common Mother (1992) for four ethnic storytellers and multicultural percussion orchestra
To Boldly Go... (The Explorer) (1992) for orchestra
Dark Serenade (1994) for piano, cello, and orchestra
The Science of Imagination (1995) for orchestra and large-scale digital media
Three Scenes for Flute and Orchestra (1995)
StarChild: the Opera (1996) opera for live performers and large-scale digital media
Timpani Concerto No. 1 (1996) for timpani and symphonic winds
A Thousand Lifetimes (1997) for five singers and orchestra
DRUMMA (1998) for large percussion ensemble and timpani soloist
Dreamers, Then Remembering, Open the Sky (1998) for MIDI percussion soloists and symphonic band
Generations (2000) for chorus and orchestra
The Messenger (2001) for percussion, orchestra, and digital media
Hands Across the Ocean (2004) for distributed performance ensemble and online interactive virtual environment
In Common: Time (2005) for distributed performance ensemble and online interactive virtual environment
DRUMMA v2.0 (2006) for distributed percussion ensemble and interactive virtual environment
Timpani Concerto No. 2 (2007) for timpani and orchestra
SMOKE|WIRE|ROCK (2007)
Voyage to Tomorrow (2008) for chorus, orchestra, and digital media
Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear (2008) ballet
Dynasty (2011) Concerto for two timpanists and orchestra

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References

1 2 Ruhe, Pierre (May 31, 2011). "ASO to premiere James Oliverio's "Dynasty" Concerto for timpanist brothers". ArtsATL. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
↑ "James Charles Oliverio". University of Florida . Retrieved October 6, 2019.
↑ Ruhe, Pierre (June 3, 2011). "Atlanta Symphony review: Strong new works from Higdon, Mustonen and Oliverio". ArtsATL. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2016.
↑ Motsinger, Carol (November 21, 2014). "Don't miss Asheville Symphony Orchestra Saturday". Asheville Citizen-Times . Retrieved March 23, 2016.

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[ArtsATL-1] 1 2 Ruhe, Pierre (May 31, 2011). "ASO to premiere James Oliverio's "Dynasty" Concerto for timpanist brothers". ArtsATL. Retrieved March 23, 2016.

[2] "James Charles Oliverio". University of Florida . Retrieved October 6, 2019.

[3] Ruhe, Pierre (June 3, 2011). "Atlanta Symphony review: Strong new works from Higdon, Mustonen and Oliverio". ArtsATL. Archived from the original on April 2, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2016.

[4] Motsinger, Carol (November 21, 2014). "Don't miss Asheville Symphony Orchestra Saturday". Asheville Citizen-Times . Retrieved March 23, 2016.