David Tanenbaum

David Frederick Tanenbaum ( born September 10, 1956 in New York City ) is an American classical guitarist.

Life

The son of the composer Elias Tanenbaum had 11 -year-old first guitar lessons with Rolando Valdez - Blain. From 1973, he studied with Aaron Shearer, and later at the San Francisco Conservatory with Michael Lorimer. He also took lessons with the pianist Jeanne Stark Iochmans and harpsichordist Laurette Goldberg and attended a 1981 master class by Andrés Segovia.

In 1977 he won the Carmel Classic Guitar Competition, in the following year he received the second prize at the Toronto International Guitar Competition. In the aftermath Tanenbaum toured the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia and the Soviet Union in 1988 and was the first American guitarist, who was invited by the Chinese government to concerts. He joined, among others with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna ORF Orchestra and with conductors such as Esa -Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano and John Adams.

As President of the Second American Classical Guitar Congress in 1989, he shot five commissions, including Henry Brant's Rosewood for large guitar orchestra, which he has since conducted worldwide in numerous performances. He is the head of the guitar department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he received the Outstanding Professor Award in 1995, was Composer in Residence at the Manhattan School of Music and gives master classes worldwide.

Tanenbaum repertoire includes baroque literature as well as works by contemporary composers. He played the premieres of Hans Werner Henze's guitar concerto to an Aeolian harp, which he recorded and conducted by the composer on board, Terry Riley's guitar piece Ascención, four works of Pulitzer Prize winner (1988), Aaron Jay Kernis, of pieces Roberto Sierra and a suite of Lou Harrison.

He took more than two dozen albums, including adaptations of baroque compositions for the guitar and with the Ensemble Modern 's recital El Cimarron by Henze. As a chamber musician, he frequently worked with Steve Reich and Musicians, the Chronos and the Shanghai Quartet, the dancer Tandy Beal and guitarist Manuel Barrueco. As a member of the World Guitar Ensemble he made several tours of Europe.

Discography

  • Estudios, 1990
  • Lute Masterworks, 1987
  • Acoustic Counterpoint, 1991
  • Ensemble Modern, Henze: " At an Aeolian harp ", 1992
  • Great American Guitar Solo, 1993
  • The Perilous Chapel, music for guitar and percussion by Lou Harrison with Willie Winant, 1993
  • Beaming Contrasts by Peter Lewis, 1993
  • El Porteño, The music of Astor Piazzolla, 1994
  • 100 Greatest Dance Hits of Aaron Jay Kernis, 1996
  • The Book of Abbeyozzud, 1999
  • David Tanenbaum, 1997
  • Pavane, 2000
  • Classic / Steel, duos with Peppino D' Agostino, 2000
  • Y Bolan Zero, 2001
  • Naive and Sentimental Music by John Adams, 2002
  • Serenado -Lou Harrison, the entire guitar work of Lou Harrison, Willie Winant, Gyan Riley, Joel Davel and Scott Evans, 2003
  • World Guitar Ensemble Crossing Borders, 2004
  • Waking Dances Guitar Music of Jorge Liderman, 2004
  • Royal Winter Music, cycle of Hans -Werner Henze, 2005
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