Howard Sandroff

Howard Sandroff (born 28 October 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and music educator.

Sandroff studied at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His composition teachers were Robert Lombardo and Ben Johnston. He has received composition and research fellowships and the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Chicago and the Yamaha Music Foundation. He worked as a conductor and director of Chicago's New Art Ensemble and is a lecturer in music at the University of Chicago and directs the Center for Computer Music. He is also a professor of sound art at Columbia College Chicago.

Among the compositions Sandroffs are works for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles and orchestras, often associated with listening to live or recorded electronic music. They have been performed throughout the world in concerts and festivals like New Music America, the Aspen Music Festival, the New Music Chicago, the International Computer Music Conference, and the World Saxophone Congress. In 2009 he was invited by Pierre Boulez to attend the opening of the new IRCAM at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Alain Damiens aufführte in with the Ensemble Intercontemporain his composition Tephillah for clarinet and computer.

As a live musician Sandroff led to electronic and computer music by composers such as Alvin Lucier, Edwin London, Robert Lombardo, Steve Reich, Barney Childs, Matthew Malsky, Easly Blackwood, Morton Subotnik and Pierre Boulez. With the clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, it forms the duo Double Dialogue.

Works

  • La Joie ( the joy ) for Clarinet Trio, 1996
  • Chant de femme for flute and electronic sounds, 1996
  • Chorale for saxophone quartet, 1994
  • Tephilla for clarinet and computer-controlled audio processor, 1990
  • Eulogy for alto saxophone, 1989
  • Concerto for Electronic Wind Instrument and String Orchestra, 1988
  • The Bride 's Complaint for soprano and computer, 1987
  • Adagio for Piano, 1985
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1983
  • ... there is a lack of enthusiasm DECIDED at my end of the leash. for two pianos and electronic sounds on tape, 1981

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