JUSTIN RALLS PO BOX 82701 Portland, OR 97282 971.678.4753 jsralls@gmail.com www.justinralls.com EDUCATION The Boston Conservatory, B.M. in Composition, Cum Laude (2006-2010) ! Composition Studies: Dalit Warshaw, Andy Vores, Jan Swafford ! Conducting Studies: Dr. John Kiel Richards, Lewis and Clark University ! Yoichi Udagowa, The Boston Conservatory Private composition studies: David Schiff, Reed College (2011-present) San Francisco Conservatory of Music, M.M. in Composition (2012-present) ! Composition Studies: Dan Becker, David Conte Masterclass Participant: John Adams (2013) AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES Special Distinction - 2014 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize / Tree Ride (2014) Winner – James Highsmith Composition Award for Orchestra / Tree Ride (2013) Winner – Third Angle Ensemble New Ideas in Music Award / Anthrophony (2012) Winner – SFCM Art Song Competition / To You (text by Walt Whitman) (2013) Founder/Artistic Director/Performer of CPOP (Contemporary Portland Orchestra Project) a regional ensemble dedicated to performing local composers in unconventional settings: Recent events include collaborations with new music groups Beta Collide, thingny, Fear No Music, Filmusik, and March Music Moderne 2013 and 2014 (2011-present) Filmusik Commission: Composed/conducted original film score for Filmusik’s Gamera vs. Zigra (1970), performed live with voice actors and foley artists, free to the public, for over one thousand people in collaboration with Portland’s Movies in the Parks series (2012) Filmusik Commission: Composed/conducted original film score for Filmusik’s production Turkish Rambo (Vahsi Kan, 1983), performed live with voice actors and foley artists in six performances at Portland’s historic Hollywood Theater (2013) Inaugural Composing in the Wilderness Symposium: Aeolian Music commissioned and performed in collaboration with Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Alaska Geographic, and Denali National Park (featured on National Parks website) (2012) Commission/Co-producer of American Art Song Recital (Produced free to the public at Portland’s historic Old Church) with Portland Opera’s Robert Ainsley, Ashes of Soldiers, commemorating sesquicentennial of American Civil War, text by Walt Whitman (2011) Composer on Cerebral Vortex 48-Hour Opera/Film Project: Seven minute opera/film composed/produced over 48 hour period, collaborating with Opera Theater Oregon, Filmusik and 48-Hour Film Project (2011) Grammy Foundation Workshop: Film scoring fellow, composing/conducting original cue at historic Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox with members of Fox Studio Orchestra (2006) Metropolitan Youth Symphony Commission: Performances of The Monitor for symphonic band conducted by the composer on MYS European Tour at four venues in Italy and Austria (2005)
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