Charles Rochester Young

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Charles Rochester Young (1965) is an American composer, music educator, conductor and saxophonist.

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Life

Young graduated from Baylor University in Waco (Texas), where in 1988 he earned his Bachelor of Music. He then studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned his Master of Music in 1990. In 1993 he completed his studies with a promotion to Doctor of Musical Arts. His teachers have included Leslie Bassett, Donald Sinta, Keith Hill and Marianne Ploger. He soon became a teacher at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Subsequently, he became Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. He was their head of the composition and music theory. Currently, he is the Associate Dean of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.

In 1999 he was appointed by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education to "Wisconsin Professor of the Year" proclaimed.

As a composer he has won several awards including first prize in the National Flute Association Competition New Publications and first prize in the National Band Association / Merrill Jones Composition Competition. He was a prizewinner at the Vienna Modern Masters Competition. His works have been performed at well-known conferences and festivals around the world, such the World Harp Congress, the World Saxophone Congress, the Conference of the World Association of Symphonic Band and Ensembles (WASBE), the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Music Educators National Convention, and the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Compositions

Works for Orchestra

Works for Band

Chamber works

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