Ross Bauer

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Ross Bauer (born December 19, 1951, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. A professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005.

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Life and career

Born in Ithaca, New York, Bauer graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1975 with a Bachelor of Music degree. [1] At the NEC he was a pupil of John Heiss and Ernst Oster. He studied music composition with Luciano Berio while a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1982. In 1984 he earned a PhD from Brandeis University where he studied with Arthur Berger, Martin Boykan, and Seymour Shifrin. In 1986 he was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1988 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1996 he was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. [2]

As a music educator, Bauer taught on the music faculties of Brandeis University (1981–1985), Stanford University (1986–1988), and the University of California, Davis (1988–2017). [2] [3] Upon his retirement from the latter institution in 2017, he was named a professor emeritus. [3] At Brandeis he was the director of the Brandéis Jazz Ensemble, and at Stanford he directed the Alea II New Music Ensemble. [1] He founded the Empyrean Ensemble at the University of California, Davis; an ensemble he directed during his tenure at that university. [2]

As a composer, Bauer won the ISCM National Composers Competition in 1989 and the Speculum Musicae International Composers’ Competition in 1997. [1] He received commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation in 1991 and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation in 1994. [2] In 2005 he was awarded the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. [3]

Partial list of works

Orchestral

Chamber music

Piano

Vocal music

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Laura Kuhn, Dennis McIntire (2001). "Bauer, Ross". In Nicolas Slonimsky (ed.). Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . p. 236.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Richard Swift (2001). "Bauer, Ross". Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47309.
  3. 1 2 3 "ROSS BAUER, Professor of Music, emeritus (2017)". UC Davis Department of Music. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
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