Craig First

Craig P. First ( born March 16, 1960 in Harrisburg / Pennsylvania) is an American composer and music educator.

First studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago at Jack C. Goode, Stephen Syverud and Alan Stout and the University of Chicago with Shulamit Ran. A doctoral degree in composition, he graduated from Northwestern University. From 1990 to 1995 he was professor of composition and music theory at Northwestern University and taught at DePaul University, after which he became a teacher of composition at the University of Alabama. Since 1992 he has been artistic director of the Chicago 21st Century Music Ensemble.

Commissions received First of musicians and ensembles such as Dimitris Marinos, Paul Bowman, Raimundas Katilus, the Lark Quartet, the Vienna Saxophone Quartet and the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra. He was winner of the American ISCM National Composers Competition, the Concurso Internacional Composicion de Musical in Spain, the Fourth Annual International Spectri Sonori Competition, the 12th Annual National Association of Composers, USA Competition, and three times (1998, 2000 and 2002 ) of the American Composers Forum Sonic Circuits, and was among others three times with the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Award fifteen years in a row awarded an ASCAP Standard Award and the ASCAP Young Composers Award.

As a student, First dealt intensively with electronic and computer- generated music. He was known primarily as a composer of chamber music, but he also composed on behalf of Charles E. Moore and the ACM Chamber Opera of Chicago's Opera The Soul of Rose Dede.

Works

  • The Soul of Rose Dede, Chamber Opera
  • The Eternal Return music for the film by Matt Marello
  • String Quartet
  • Two by One for Violin or Alto Saxophone
  • Shadow Play for Piano
  • Intimate Voices for Violin, Cello and Piano
  • Black Sun for Violin and Piano
  • Tantrum for amplified violin and tape
  • Mosaics for Saxophone Quartet
  • Flights of Fantasy for chamber orchestra
  • To know what no angel knows for double orchestra and tape
  • Summer Knowledge for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano
  • Drame lyrique for Guitar
  • Contrapuntal Variations I for Mandolin and Tape
  • Contrapuntal Variations II for violin
  • Contrapuntal Variations III for Cello
  • Time's Dedication for soprano, narrator and eight instruments
  • Chimera for viola and harpsichord
  • Scatterbrain for Cello
  • Three Scenes for a Mad Clarinet for Clarinet and Piano
  • Dream Music for Guitar and Cello
  • Lo, the Solace Passed for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Ensemble
  • The Apocryphal, violin duo
  • Jetz for double bass and piano
  • Flights of Fantasy for chamber orchestra
  • Concerto for Chamber Orchestra
  • Sun Devil for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra
  • I ' vidi in terra Angelici for soprano and tape
  • Epiphany for amplified violin, mandolin and tape
  • Fever 103o for tape
  • Invariance for tape

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Swell

  • Vox Novus - CP First
  • The Univerity of Alabame School of Music - Craig P. First
  • Man
  • Born in 1960
  • American composer
  • Music teacher
Harrisburg (Pennsylvania)
157578
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