Roger Bourland (born December 13, 1952) is an American composer, [1] [2] [3] publisher, [4] blogger, [5] and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. [6]
Roger Bourland (born December 13, 1952) is an American composer, [1] [2] [3] publisher, [4] blogger, [5] and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. [6]
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Bourland received a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and Composition (1976) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying with Leslie Thimmig [7] and Randall Snyder; [8] a Master of Music in Music Composition (1978) from the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with William Thomas McKinley and Donald Martino; and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Music Composition from Harvard University, [9] studying with Randall Thompson, Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner.
Bourland studied at Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller and was awarded the Koussevitzky Prize in Composition (1978). Other awards include the John Knowles Paine Fellowship (Harvard), two ASCAP Grants to Young Composers, [10] numerous Meet the Composers grants, and was a co-founder of the Boston-based consortium "Composers in Red Sneakers." [11] Bourland has composed over one hundred fifty works for all media: film, solo, instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music, electro-acoustic music, and music for orchestra, wind ensemble, and other large ensembles.
From 1983 to 2013, Bourland taught composition, music theory, analysis, orchestration, electro-acoustic composition, and other classes and seminars in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He was awarded the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2005-6, [12] and served as Chair of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Music from 2007 to 2011. [13] Professor Bourland retired from UCLA in 2013 and moved to Northern California to devote his time to composition.
| YEAR | TITLE | LIBRETTO | PUBLISHER |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-19; in progress | Smoking Mirror [14] | Mitchell Bryan Morris | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 2014 | The Dove and the Nightingale [La paloma y el ruiseñor] [15] | Mitchell Bryan Morris; Spanish adaptation by Plácido Domingo Jr. | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 2007 | Flight into Egypt | Thornton Wilder [16] | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| YEAR | TITLE | STORY | CHOREOGRAPHER |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Frida and the Smoking Mirror | Based upon a story by Mitchell Morris | Zoíla Fernandez |
| 2017 | La Paloma y el Ruiseñor | Based up the libretto by Mitchell Morris | Zoíla Fernandez |
| YEAR | TITLE | STORY | COMMISSIONER |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Homer in Cyberspace | Book and lyrics by Mel Shapiro | UCLA REMAP |
(For large-scale choral works, see Cantatas below)
| YEAR | TITLE | INSTRUMENTATION | TEXTS | PUBLISHER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Four Marian Songs | voice, piano | William MacDuff | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 2005 | Four Xmas Songs | voice, piano | William MacDuff | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 2003 | Four Apart-Songs | voice, piano | Roger Bourland, William MacDuff, Francisco X. Alarcón, and James Patrick Kelly | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 2003 | Four EndSongs | voice, piano | Emily Dickinson, Thom Gunn, Allen Ginsberg, and Francisco X. Alarcón | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| YEAR | TITLE | INSTRUMENTATION | PUBLISHER |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Three Impromptus | piano | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 2001 | Five Miniatures | piano | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 1998 | Garlands | carillon | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 1990 | St. Stephen Counterpoint | organ | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 1985 | Morning Sonata | organ | ECS Publishing |
| 1981 | Cantilena | flute, organ | ECS Publishing |
| 1977 | Ides, Book 3 | piano | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 1975 | Ides, Book 2 | piano | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 1974 | Preludes, Book 1 | piano | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| 1974 | Ides, Book 1 | piano | Yelton Rhodes Music |
| YEAR | TITLE | PRODUCTION CO | DIRECTOR | WRITER | DISTRIBUTION CO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | INFRARED | Steakhaus Productions [18] | Mel Shapiro [19] | Mel Shapiro [19] | Steakhaus Productions [18] |
| 2007 | POSSUM DEATH SPREE 3 | Atomfilms Studio [20] | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | |
| 2007 | POSSUM DEATH SPREE 2 | Atomfilms Studio [21] | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | |
| 2007 | POSSUM DEATH SPREE 1 | Atomfilms Studio [22] | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | |
| 2007 | CAGES | Imperative Pictures [23] | Graham Streeter [24] | Graham Streeter [24] | Golden Village Entertainment [25] |
| 2003 | DOPPELGÄNGER | Jason Moskovitz [26] | Jessica Rhoades [27] | Michael Horowitz, Gareth Smith | Michael Horowitz [28] | |
| 2000 | OUT OF TRUST | Loyola Productions, Inc [29] | Eddie Siebert [30] | Eddie Siebert [30] | Loyola Productions, Inc [29] |
| 2000 | LUCE, TEMPO, ROMA | Cameron McNall [31] | Cameron McNall [31] | Cameron McNall [31] | Cameron McNall [31] |
| 1990 | VOICES FROM SANDOVER | Peter Hooten [32] | Joan Darling [33] | James Merrill [34] | Washington University Film & Media Archive [35] |
| 1987 | NIGHT LIFE | Creative Movie Marketing [36] | David Acomba [37] | Keith Critchlow [38] | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video [39] |
| 1987 | WOLF AT THE DOOR (OVIRI) | Caméras Continentales [40] | Henning Carlsen [41] | Christopher Hampton [42] | California Pictures [43] |
| 1986 | THE TROUBLE WITH DICK | Frolix | Gary Walkow [44] | Gary Walkow [44] | Gary Walkow [45] |
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