Robert Beaser
À propos de Robert Beaser
Masterly... dazzlingly colorful, fearless of gesture... beautifully fashioned and ingeniously constructed. - Gramophone Magazine
Robert Beaser is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished creative musicians of his generation. Since 1982, when the New York Times wrote that he possessed a “lyrical gift comparable to that of the late Samuel Barber,” his music has won international acclaim for its balance between dramatic sweep and architectural clarity. He is often cited as an important figure among the “New Tonalists,” composers who are adopting new tonal grammar to their own uses, and through a wide range of media has established his own language as a synthesis of Western tradition and American vernacular.
Beaser’s orchestral CD on London/Argo has garnered considerable attention prompting Gramophone magazine to call his music “Masterly...dazzlingly colorful, fearless of gesture...beautifully fashioned and ingeniously constructed.” The Baltimore Sun writes “Beaser is one of this country’s huge composing talents, with a gift for vocal writing that is perhaps unequaled.” Composed in 1999, his opera The Food of Love, with a libretto by Terrence McNally, is part of the Central Park trilogy, which opened to worldwide critical accolades at Glimmerglass and New York City Opera. The San Francisco Chronicle called his opera “gripping… and arresting... a masterful score with beautiful rhapsodic turns, canny pacing, pungent orchestral writing and magnificently shapely arias.” The Arizona Republic called it “a masterpiece” and USA-Today added, “Beaser’s glistening, percussion-tinged orchestral textures and utterly singable melodies are a joy to hear at every turn.” The opera’s nationally televised broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances received an Emmy nomination in 2000.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Beaser studied literature, political philosophy and music at Yale College, graduating summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1976. He went on to earn his Master of Music, M.M.A. and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music. His principal composition teachers have included Jacob Druckman, Earle Brown, Toru Takemitsu, Arnold Franchetti, Yehudi Wyner and Goffredo Petrassi. In addition, he studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller, and William Steinberg at Yale, and composition with Betsy Jolas on a Crofts Fellowship at Tanglewood in 1976. From 1978-1990 he served as co-Music Director and Conductor of the innovative contemporary chamber ensemble Musical Elements at the 92nd Street Y, bringing premieres of over two hundred works to Manhattan. From 1988-1993 he was the Meet the Composer/Composer-in-Residence with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and now serves as ACO’s Artistic Director. Since 1993, Beaser has been Professor and Chairman of the Composition Department at the Juilliard School in New York.
Beaser’s compositions have earned him numerous awards and honors. At the age of 16, his first orchestral work was performed by the Greater Boston Youth Symphony under his own direction at Jordan Hall in Boston. In 1977 he became the youngest composer to win the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome. In 1986, Beaser’s widely heard Mountain Songs was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Contemporary Composition. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Charles Ives Scholarship, an ASCAP Composers Award, a Nonesuch Commission Award and a Barlow Commission. In 1995, when the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him with their lifetime achievement award, the Academy Award in music they wrote: "His masterful orchestrations, clear-cut structures, and logical musical discourse reveal a musical imagination of rare creativity and sensitivity...and put him in the forefront of his generation of composers."
Beaser’s music has been performed and commissioned with regularity both in America and abroad. He has received major commissions from the New York Philharmonic the Chicago Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, The American Composers Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony and Dawn Upshaw, The Minnesota Orchestra, Chanticleer, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, and WNET/Great Performances among others. His music has been performed, recorded and commissioned by artists such as Leonard Slatkin, Paula Robison, Richard Stoltzman, Eliot Fisk, James Galway, Lauren Flanigan, John Aler, Ransom Wilson, Carol Wincenc, Dawn Upshaw, David Zinman, Gerard Schwarz, Dennis Russell Davies, Christopher Taylor, Manuel Barrueco, Renée Fleming, Lukas Foss, Paul Sperry, Kim Kashkashian, Alasdair Neale, Stewart Robertson, and Big Bird. His music is featured on commercial recordings released on many record labels including London/Agro, Milken Archives, New World Records, EMI-Electrola, Koch, Siemens and Innova.
Recent events for Robert Beaser and his music include the debut and subsequent European tour of his orchestral work of Evening Prayer by Federico Cortese and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2008; the 2009 premiere of Guitar Concerto, featuring renowned virtuoso Eliot Fisk, which continues to see performances with Fisk and orchestras across the country. In December of 2010, Steven Davis led the University of Missouri-Kansas City Wind Ensemble through the world premiere of Beaser's Manhattan Roll in a new arrangement for wind band. The performance kicked off a tour of over 25 bands across the US. Beaser composed Ground "O" in 2011 in honor of Gerard Schwarz's final season as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony. The premiere took place on February 17, 2011 in Seattle. In 2015, Kevin Sedatole led the premiere of Beaser's The End of Knowing for soprano, baritone and wind ensemble with the Michigan State University Band, which was commissioned by a consortium of 27 bands.
Liste d'œuvres
Chronologie
Graduated summa cum laude from Yale University
David Zinman and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut "The Heavenly Feast" for soprano and orchestra.
Steven D. Davis leads the University of Missouri-Kansas City Wind Symphony through world premiere of "Manhattan Roll" in new wind ensemble transcription. The performance kicks off a nation-wide tour of the work at more than 25 bands across the US.
Produits
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for high voice and pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: soprano et pianoLangue: Anglais
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition et partiesInstrumentation: 2 trompettes, cor, trombone et trombone basseNuméro du produit: EA 827En stock186,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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En stock35,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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New Piano WorksCompositeur: Robert Beaser | Kamran Ince | Stephen Paulus | Tobias Picker | Christopher Rouse | Joseph Schwantner | Alvin SingletonEditeur: Corey FieldMedia Type: PartitionSérie: Changing Faces
Instrumentation: pianoLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: EA 591Épuisé18,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
for orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: Chorale Variations
Instrumentation: orchestreNuméro du produit: EA 747Épuisé66,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
Nouvelles pièces pour piano. Petrushka ProjectMedia Type: PartitionInstrumentation: pianoLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: ED 21470En stock10,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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for orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: Double Chorus
Instrumentation: orchestreNuméro du produit: EA 737En stock52,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
for orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: timbales, harpe et orchestre à cordes
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for soprano and pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: soprano et pianoLangue: Anglais
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for orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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for guitar and orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: guitare et orchestre
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: The Heavenly Feast
Instrumentation: soprano et orchestreNuméro du produit: EA 766Épuisé211,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionInstrumentation: flûte et guitareNuméro du produit: EA 575En stock18,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for solo pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: piano
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for wind ensembleCompositeur: Robert BeaserEdition: PartitionSérie: Manhattan Roll
Instrumentation: ensemble à ventsNuméro du produit: ED 30049Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 89,99 €TTC -
for wind ensembleCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: formation de vents
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: Manhattan Roll
Instrumentation: orchestreNuméro du produit: EA 812En stock149,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
for orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre
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Psalm 19:14 for solo voice, SATB chorus and pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserEditeur: Judith ClurmanEdition: PartitionInstrumentation: seul voix, SATB et pianoNuméro du produit: ED 30114Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 2,99 €TTC
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for flute and pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'exécutionInstrumentation: flûte et pianoNuméro du produit: EA 597En stock10,50 €TTC, hors expédition
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for flute and guitarCompositeur: Robert BeaserEdition: Partition d'exécutionInstrumentation: flûte et guitareNuméro du produit: ED 30025Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 39,99 €TTC
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En stock21,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Partition électronique en PDFEdition: Edition séparéeSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: pianoNuméro du produit: ED 30079 Q11138En stock2,99 €TTC -
for solo piano and orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: Piano Concerto
Instrumentation: piano et orchestreNuméro du produit: EA 738Épuisé330,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
for piano and orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: piano et orchestre
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for male and female soloists, children's chorus and keyboardCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Partie de choeurInstrumentation: für männliche und weibliche Solostimme, Kinderchor und KeyboardLangue: Anglais
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for SSAATTBB chorus a cappella with SATB soliCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition et partiesInstrumentation: choeur (SSAATTBB) et solistes (SATB)Numéro du produit: EA 594En stock73,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for soloists, SATB choir and organCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: solistes, SATB choeur et orgueLangue: Anglais
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from "Mountain Songs"Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Réduction pour pianoInstrumentation: ténor et pianoLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: EA 739Épuisé62,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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Composer BrochureCompositeur: Robert BeaserNuméro du produit: KAT 565-99En stock0,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for tenor (baritone) solo and orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: The Seven Deadly Sins
Instrumentation: ténor ou baryton et orchestreLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: EA 776Épuisé211,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
for wind quintetCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Jeu de partiesInstrumentation: quintette à ventNuméro du produit: EA 508-01En stock109,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for wind quintetCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition de directionInstrumentation: quintette à ventNuméro du produit: EA 508En stock66,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for solo guitarEn stock15,50 €TTC, hors expédition
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for soprano and chamber ensembleCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeInstrumentation: soprano et ensemble de chambreNuméro du produit: EA 629Épuisé66,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for soprano and chamber ensembleCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: soprano et ensemble de chambreLangue: Anglais
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Type de produitEn stockPrix à partir de 49,99 €TTC
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for SATB chorus and organCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Partition de choeurInstrumentation: SATB chouus et orgueLangue: Anglais
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Partition électronique en PDFEdition: Réduction pour piano avec partie solisteInstrumentation: flûte et orchestreNuméro du produit: ED 31000 Q564226En stock26,99 €TTC
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for flute and orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: PartitionInstrumentation: seul flûte et orchestreNuméro du produit: EA 700Épuisé126,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for flute and orchestraCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: seul flûte et orchestre
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for tenor and chamber ensembleCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: ténor, ensemble de chambreLangue: Anglais
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for tenor and chamber ensembleCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSérie: Songs from "The Occasions"
Instrumentation: ténor et orchestre de chambreLangue: AnglaisNuméro du produit: EA 573En stock81,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
for piccolo and pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionInstrumentation: piccolo et pianoNuméro du produit: EA 831En stock93,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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for clarinet and pianoCompositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: clarinette, piano
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Jeu de partiesInstrumentation: quatuor à cordesNuméro du produit: EA 628-01Épuisé295,00 €TTC, hors expédition
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Compositeur: Robert BeaserMedia Type: PartitionEdition: Partition de directionInstrumentation: quatuor à cordesNuméro du produit: EA 628Épuisé160,00 €TTC, hors expédition