Clint Needham CV 2014

CURRICULUM VITAE

C LINT N EEDHAM 20297 Arlington Dr. Strongsville, OH 44149 (812) 369-0421 / clintneedham@gmail.com / www.clintneedham.com Education • Doctor of Music in composition, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2010. Minors in music theory and trumpet performance. Studies with Claude Baker, Don Freund, Michael Gandolfi, Per Mårtensson, and Richard Wernick.

• Master of Music in composition, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2006. Cognate in wind conducting. Studies with David Dzubay, P.Q. Phan, and Sven-David Sandström.

• Bachelor of Music in composition (cum laude), Baldwin-Wallace College, 2004. Studies with Loris Chobanian.

Additional Study • Aspen Music Festival (three summers): Robert Beaser, Syd Hodkinson, Christopher Rouse, George Tsontakis • Wellesley Composers Conference: Mario Davidovsky, Tania León, Roberto Sierra Teaching Experience • Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, Composer-in-Residence, fall 2012-present • Ohio Wesleyan University, Assistant Professor of Music, fall 2010-2012 • Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music, Associate Instructor, fall 2006-spring 2009 Professional Com position Awards • Cleveland Community Arts Partnership Fellowship, 2013 • International Barlow Prize, Barlow Endowment Consortium Commission, 2011 • Mizzou/Alarm Will Sound New Music Festival Composer, 2011 • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Project 440 Commission, 2010 • Charles Ives Scholarship, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2010 • Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, 2010 • Omaha Symphony New Music Symposium, 2010 • ASCAP “PLUS” Award, 2006-present • Special Distinction, ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Prize, 2010 • ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer Award, 2006(HM), 2007, 2008(HM) & 2009 • International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest (1st Prize), 2009 • National SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission, 2009 • Fellowship, 65th Annual Composers Conference at Wellesley College, 2009 • Quintet Attacca/Center for Chicago Programs Call for Scores, 2009 • Jacob Druckman Prize, Aspen Music Festival, 2008 • Heckscher Composition Prize, Ithaca College, 2008

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Symphony in C Young Composers Competition, 2008 Fellowship, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, 2008 Lee Ettelson Award, Composers Inc., San Francisco, 2008 First Prize, Regional SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commissions, 2008 American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Commission, 2007 BMI Student Composer Award, William Schuman Prize, 2007 New York Youth Symphony First Music Orchestra Commission, 2007 Washington International Competition for Composers Award, 2006

Academ ic Awards/Scholarships/Fellowships • Jacobs School of Music Doctoral Fellowship, Indiana University, 2006-2010 • Dean’s Prize for orchestra composition, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2010 • Dean’s Prize for chamber composition, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 2007 • Susan and Ford Schumann Scholarship, Aspen Music Festival and School, 2003 & 2007 • Susan and Ford Schumann Fellowship, Aspen Music Festival and School, 2005 • Bernard Heiden Scholarship, Indiana University, 2004 • Lee Goldstein Scholarship, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, 2003 Notable Perform ances • Albany Symphony, We are all from somewhere else, spring 2015 • Cleveland Chamber Symphony, New Work, spring 2015 • Albany Symphony, the Body Electric, fall 2014 • New York All State Orchestra, Everyday Life, December 8, 2013 • Buffalo Chamber Players, Voices, November 5 & 6, 2013 • Orpheus Wind Quintet, Imaginary Dances, October 22, 2013 • Imani Winds, Imaginary Dances, Summer, 2013 • Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Urban Sprawl, June 13, 2013 • Fifth House Ensemble, Imaginary Dances, April 28-May 16, 2013 • Albany Symphony, Everyday Life, January 12, 2013 • Spokane Symphony, Urban Sprawl, January 11, 2013 • Boston Symphony’s Hawthorne Quartet/Omaha Symphony, Voices, October, 2012 • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, When We Forget, March 24, 2012 • Ensemble 20-21, The Last Year on Earth, March 22, 2012 • SONiC Festiival, NYC, Camerata Aberta, Color Study, October 18, 2011 • Camerata Aberta (Brazil premiere), Color Study, October 14, 2011 • Alarm Will Sound, Urban Sprawl, July 17, 2011 • Texarkana Symphony, Southern Air, April 9, 2011 • Sioux City Symphony, Inside and Out, April 16, 2011 • Bloomington Symphony, Peau Rouge Indiana, February 26 & 27, 2011 • Dinosaur Annex, Viola Music, January 30, 2011 • President’s Own Marine Band Brass Quintet, Brass Quintet No. 1, December 15, 2010 • Omaha Symphony, the Body Electric, November 2-5, 2010 / June 3, 2010 • Minnesota Orchestra, the Body Electric, October 29, 2010

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New York Classical Players, Driving Music, October 2 & 3, 2010 United States Air Force Band of the West, Folksongs Americana, July 25, 2010 International Trumpet Guild, Sydney, Australia, Cleveland Sketches, July 7, 2010 Wingra Woodwind Quintet European Tour, Five Movements, Fall 2009 Symphony in C, Radiant Nation, December 13, 2008 American Composers Orchestra, Chamber Symphony, November 14 & 16, 2008 Aspen Music Festival Concert Orchestra, Earth & Green, August 13, 2008 Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra, Radiant Nation, July 30, 2008 New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Violin Concertino, November 25, 2007 & December 9, 2007 American Brass Quintet US Tour, Brass Quintet No. 1, 2007/08 Publishers Theodore Presser Company, majority of catalog Manhattan Beach Music Triplo Press

Book Publication • Composers on Composing, Volume IV (contributing author), GIA Publications, Mark Camphouse, editor, 2008 Recordings • Jack Sutte (trumpet), “Fanfare Alone”: Three Ditties for solo trumpet, 2014 • Beauport Classical, Bala Brass Quintet: Abstract Mosaics, 2014 • American Composers Orchestra Digital Downloads Vol. 1, Chamber Symphony, 2012 • United States Air Force Band of the West, Folksongs Americana, 2010 • Summit Records (SR-484), American Brass Quintet “Jewels”: Brass Quintet No. 1, 2008 • Mark Masters, University of North Texas Symphonic Band “Frank Ticheli Composition Contest”: Images of a Hero, 2007 Guest Com poser/Lecture/Radio Broadcasts • Albany Symphony Composer in Residence/Composer Educator, 2014/2015 season • WCLV, broadcast of my work Cradle My Heart, January, 2014 • NPR & American Public Media, broadcast of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall of my work, When We Forget, 2012/2013 • SUNY-Fredonia, guest composer/lecture, 2012 • Sioux City Symphony Composer of the Year, 2011 • 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and the Humanities, Thomas Durham, Executive Dir./Barlow Endowment, will present a lecture on my work, the Body Electric • Omaha Symphony Celebrate Creativity concerts, guest composer, November 2-5, 2010 • WQXR, Classical Music Station of NYC, 24 hour broadcast featuring 3 of my works, 2010 • University of Alabama-Huntsville New Music Festival, guest composer, 2010 • WFIU, Indiana University Public Radio, interview about my work Chamber Symphony, 2009 • Wellesley College Composers Conference, guest composer/lecture, 2009

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Ithaca College, guest composer, guest composer/lecture, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, guest composer/lecture, 2009 Rutgers University, guest composer/pre-concert talk, 2008 University of Louisville/Brass Chamber Music Conference, guest composer/lecture, 2008 Aspen Music Festival, guest composer/lecture, 2008 Aspen Public Radio, interview about my work Earth and Green, 2008

References Composers: • Dr. Claude Baker, Chancellor’s Professor of Music Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 1201 E. Third St., Merrill Hall 003, Bloomington, IN 47401, (812) 855-7423, bakerwc@indiana.edu • Dr. Dirk Garner, Gigax Professor of Music, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, 275 Eastland Rd., Kulas Musical Arts Building, Berea, OH 44017, (216) 316-3845, dgarner@bw.edu • Dr. Syd Hodkinson, Director, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Almand Chair of Composition Stetson University School of Music, Unit 8399, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, FL 32723, (386) 441-1719, shodkinson@cfl.rr.com • Dr. David Dzubay, Chair, Composition Department Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 1201 E. Third St., Merrill Hall 003, Bloomington, IN 47401, (812) 855-5833, ddzubay@indiana.edu • Michael Gandolfi, Chair, Composition Department New England Conservatory of Music, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, (617) 817-7762, michael.gandolfi@necmusic.edu

Clint Needham , List of Works Orchestra • W e a r e a l l f r o m s o m e w h e r e e l s e (2015) Duration: 12 min.

Commissioned by Albany Symphony To be premiered spring, 2015 at the Albany Symphony American Music Festival • N E W W O R K (2014/15) Duration: 35 min.

Commissioned by Cleveland Chamber Symphony/Verb Ballets To be premiered spring, 2015 at the NEOsonic Festival, Cleveland, OH • N E W W O R K (2014) Duration: 9 min.

Commissioned by Ohio Wesleyan University & the Central Ohio Symphony To be premiered fall, 2014 at Ohio Wesleyan University • S u b u r b a n G r o o v e (2014) Duration: 7 min.

Commissioned by Iowa State University To be premiered spring, 2014 • S p i r e s (2013) Duration: 8 min.

Commissioned by the Idaho Falls Symphony Premiered fall, 2013 • V o i c e s (2012) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 15 min.

Commissioned by the Hawthorne String Quartet (Boston Sym)/Omaha Symphony Premiered by the Omaha Symphony, October 27-28, 2012 • E v e r y d a y L i f e (2012) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 9 min.

Premiered by the Albany Symphony, January 12, 2013 Performed by the NY All State Orchestra, December 8, 2013 • W h e n W e F o r g e t (2011) Duration: 11 min.

Commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Premiered at Carnegie Hall, March 24, 2012 Pre-premiere given at Easton College, PA, March 22, 2012 • U r b a n S p r a w l (2011) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 6 min. 30 sec.

For the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival Premiered July 17, 2011 by Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson, conductor Performed by the Spokane Symphony, January 11, 2013 Performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, summer 2013 • S o u t h e r n A i r (2011) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 8 min.

Commissioned by the Texarkana Symphony Orchestra Premiered by the TSO in the spring of 2011, Marc-Andre Bougie, conductor To be performed by the Space Coast Symphony, 2013-2014 season • D r e a m W i t h i n a D r e a m for chorus and orchestra (2012) Duration: 11 min.

Commissioned by Ohio Wesleyan University

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Premiered spring, 2012 by the OWU Choir and Orchestra I n s i d e & O u t (2010) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 9 min.

Commissioned by the Sioux City Symphony Premiered April 16, 2011 by the SCS, Ryan Haskins, conductor D r i v i n g M u s i c (2010) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 11 min.

Commissioned by the New York Classical Players Premiered September 30, 2010 by the NYCP, Dongmin Kim, conductor t h e B o d y E l e c t r i c (2009) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 9 min.

Premiered August 1, 2009 at the Wellesley College Composers Conference, James Baker, conductor Performed by the Omaha Symphony, June 3, 2010 Performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, October 29, 2010 Performed by the Omaha Symphony, November 1-4, 2010 To be performed by the Albany Symphony, fall, 2014 C h a m b e r S y m p h o n y (2008) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 21 min.

Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) Premiered November 14, 2008 by the ACO at Carnegie Hall, Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor Pre-premiere given at the University of Pennsylvania, November 12, 2008 R a d i a n t N a t i o n (2008) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 6 min. 30 sec.

Premiered July 30, 2008 at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Marin Alsop, director / Evan Rogister, conductor Performed by Symphony in C, January 8, 2009 Performed by the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Orchestra, spring 2013 C r o s s i n g B r o o k l y n F e r r y (2008) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 14 min.

Commissioned by the Indiana University New Music Ensemble (NME) Premiered April 17, 2008 by the Indiana University NME, Alan Pierson, director / Ben Bolter, conductor / Ferris Allen, baritone soloist V i o l i n C o n c e r t i n o (2007) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 11 min.

Commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony (NYYS) Premiered December 9, 2007 by the NYYS at Carnegie Hall, Ryan McAdams, conductor / William Harvey, violin soloist A b o v e t h e T r e e L i n e (2007) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 12 min.

Premiered April 17, 2007 at Indiana University, Charles Latshaw, conductor Performed at Indiana University, November 5, 2009 E a r t h a n d G r e e n (2006) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 14 min.

Officially premiered August 13, 2008 by the Aspen Music Festival Concert Orchestra, Larry Rachleff, conductor Performed at Indiana University, February 9, 2006 L e g a c i e s (2003) Duration: 6 min. 30 sec.

Premiered November 9, 2003 by students at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, Ryan Haskins, conductor Performed by the Central Ohio Symphony, March 4, 2012 Performed by the Lawrence Conservatory Orchestra, fall 2012 Wind Ensemble • N e w W o r k for brass quintet and wind ensemble (2015) Duration: 18 min.

Commissioned by the Mirari Brass Quintet & Ohio State University To be premiered 2015/2016 • C o n c e r t o f o r W i n d E n s e m b l e (2013) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 23 min.

Commissioned by the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music To be premiered March 28, 2014 • S o M a n y T o m o r r o w s (2013) Duration: 8 min.

Commissioned by the Arrowhead Union High School Wind Ensemble To be premiered spring of 2013 • F r a c t u r e d E l e m e n t s trumpet concerto (2011) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 20 min.

Commissioned by the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music Premiered March, 18 2012, Jack Sutte, trumpet soloist • C h a s e t h e M o r n i n g S u n (2010) Duration: 4 min. 30 sec.

Commissioned by the Lyon High School Band Premiered January 2011 • F o l k S o n g s A m e r i c a n a (2010) Duration: 12 min.

Commissioned by the United States Air Force Band of the West Premiered July 25, 2010 by the USAF Band of the West at the Texas Bandmasters Association’s convention in San Antonio.

• M a k e a J o y f u l N o i s e ! (2010) Duration: 4 min. 30 sec.

Commissioned by the Watertown-Mayer High School Band Premiered May 20, 2010 by the WMHS Band, Betsy McCann, director • R a d i a n t N a t i o n (2009) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 6 min. 30 sec.

Premiered July 30, 2008 at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Marin Alsop, director / Evan Rogister, conductor (orchestra version) • I m a g e s o f a H e r o (2005) Duration: 2 min. 30 sec.

Commissioned by the Bloomington, IN Honor Band, Peter Miksza, director Premiered December 9, 2005 by the BIHB, Peter Miksza, conductor • S e c o n d C i t y V i g n e t t e s (2005) Duration: 5 min. 30 sec.

Commissioned by the Wheaton, IL North High School Band, Jon Noworyta, director Premiered October 24, 2005 by the Wheaton NSHB, Jon Noworyta, conductor • L e g a c i e s (2003) – Manhattan Beach Music Duration: 6 min. 30 sec.

Premiered April 30, 2004 by the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Dwight Oltman, director / Clint Needham, conductor Performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, December, 2010 Chamber Music • O n t h e R o a d (2013) – Theodore Presser Company For: clarinet (or violin or viola) and piano Duration: 8 min.

Commissioned by Miles Jacques Premiered spring of 2013 To be performed 2014/2015 tour by Ariel Artist Francesca Anderegg, violin • I m a g i n a r y D a n c e s (2012) – Theodore Presser Company For: Wind Quintet Duration: 15 min.

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for the Imani Winds, Orpheus Winds, and Fifth House Ensemble Premiered spring/summer, 2013 • T h e L a s t Y e a r o n E a r t h (2012) For: fl, clar, vln, vla, vc, piano Duration: 6 min.

Commissioned by Ensemble 20-21 Premiered March 22, 2012 in NYC • C o l o r S t u d y (2011) For: alto sax, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, and double bass Duration: 6 min.

Premiered October 18, 2011 at the SONiC Festival, by Camerata Aberta • D r e a m S e q u e n c e (2010) For: bass trombone and piano Duration: 11 min.

Commissioned by John Rojak Premiered March 19, 2011 at the Eastern Trombone Workshop, John Rojak • A s s o r t e d P r e l u d e s (2010) For: piano Duration: 12 min.

Premiered April 8, 2010 at Indiana University, Kyle Hanson, pianist • A b s t r a c t M o s a i c s (2009) – Theodore Presser Company For: Brass Quintet Duration: 10 min.

Commissioned by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater faculty Brass Quintet Premiered March 10, 2009 at UW-Whitewater by the faculty Brass Quintet Performed by the Bala Brass, summer 2013 • T w o M o v e m e n t s f o r A l t o S a x o p h o n e a n d P i a n o (2008) Duration: 10 min.

Premiered April 16, 2008 at the North American Saxophone Alliance by Jonathan Yanik, saxophone • Five Movements for Wind Quintet (2007) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 7 min.

Premiered August 2007 at the Aspen Music Festival Performed by Quintet Attacca, December 2009

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Performed by the Fifth House Ensemble, spring 2011 Landscape Trio (2006) For: Piano Trio Duration: 16 min.

Premiered July 15, 2006 by the Oberon Trio at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Meadowlark Music Festival Three Miniatures for Trumpet Quartet (2006) – Triplo Press Duration: 5 min.

Commissioned by Bugles Across America Premiered June 2006 at the BAA convention in Chicago String Quartet No. 1 “shades of green” (2006) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 17 min.

Officially premiered April 2007 by the Kuttner Quartet at Indiana University Performed at Indiana University, May 2009 Axioms (2005) – Theodore Presser Company For: fl, cl, perc, piano, vln, vla, vc Duration: 10 min.

Premiered July 14, 2005 by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival, Syd Hodkinson, conductor Performed at Ithaca College, Spring 2009 V i o l a M u s i c (2004) Duration: 8 min.

Premiered March 10, 2005 by Lisa Wiener at Indiana University Performed by Dinosaur Annex, January 30, 2011 T r i o (2004) For: vln, horn, piano Duration: 13 min.

Premiered November 4, 2004 by Veronique Mathieu, violin, John Manganro, horn, and Ji-Hye Chang-Sung, piano at Indiana University C l e v e l a n d S k e t c h e s (2003) – Triplo Press For: Solo Trumpet & Trumpet Ensemble Duration: 8 min. 30 sec.

Officially premiered June 18, 2004 at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Denver, Colorado, Edward Sandor, trumpet soloist W a r S o n g s (2003) For: ob, piano, string quartet, soprano Duration: 17 min. 30 sec.

Premiered November 9, 2003 by students at the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, Ryan Haskins, conductor / Tracy Grady, soprano B r a s s Q u i n t e t N o . 1 “ C i r c u s ” (2003) – Theodore Presser Company Duration: 9 min.

Premiered August 2003 at the Aspen Music Festival Performed numerous times by the American Brass Quintet Performed by the Presidents Own Marine Band Brass Quintet Performed by the Navy Band Brass Quintet Fanfares and Processional (2003) For: Brass Choir Duration: 7 min.

Premiered May 2003 by the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory Brass Choir, Jack Brndiar, director, Dwight Oltman, conductor

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Tribute (2002) – Triplo Press For: Trumpet Ensemble Duration: 5 min. 30 sec.

Premiered September 2002 at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory

Chorus • C r a d l e M y H e a r t for chorus and two guitars or piano (2013) Duration: 7 min. 30 sec.

Commissioned by the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music Premiered spring of 2013 Performed at the Aries Music Festival by the Colorado State Chorus To be performed by the Choral Arts Initiative, summer 2014 • D r e a m W i t h i n a D r e a m for chorus and orchestra (2012) Duration: 11 min.

Commissioned by Ohio Wesleyan University Premiered spring, 2012 by the OWU Choir and Orchestra • f r o m w h e r e t h e r i v e r s c o m e , t h e r e t h e y r e t u r n (2004) Duration: 4 min.

Premiered April 17, 2004 by the Cascadian Chorale in Bellevue, Washington • Psalms 131 & 134 (2002-03) Duration: 7 min.

Premiered October 16, 2003 by the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory Choir in Chicago, IL, Stuart Raleigh, conductor